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Doja Cat is opening up about her upcoming album!

The 29-year-old “Agora Hills” rapper and singer spoke to Zane Lowe on Friday (August 22) about her new album.

Doja previously opened up about her next album being more pop-focused and focused on love and romance. In the new interview with Zane, she’s sharing more about what inspired her new album – including the bad behavior of some of her exes!

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“I’m working with Jack Antonoff and working with a person that’s new in my life,” Doja said, referring to the producer who has become known for his collaborations with Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter.

The soundtrack for Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t! is finally here, and the line-up is stacked with some great musical talent. It features Grammy-winning producer Jack Antonoff and three-time Oscar nominee Carter Burwell.

With Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans, and Charlie Day leading the ensemble, you get a dark comedy with Coen’s absurd style and some of the biggest names in the music and film industry. But while the soundtrack seems promising, the movie itself has faced a much harsher reception.

So, let’s look at what you can expect from Honey Don’t in terms of music and whether or not it uplifts the movie.

Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t!

With a dearth of obvious candidates for song of the summer, Doja Cat boldly submits an 11th-hour entry with “Jealous Type,” the lead single from her forthcoming album, Vie, due September 26. Produced by Y2K and Jack Antonoff, the track finds the rapper-singer, in her own words, “trying to tough it out for a party boy,” a lyric she previewed for fans on X last week.

“Jealous Type” is a funk-pop workout that—following 2023’s darker, more hip-hop-centric Scarlet—moves Doja back toward the sunny disco-pop milieu of hits like “Say So” and “Kiss Me More.” Boasting squelchy synth stabs, a rubbery bassline, and copious vocal hooks, the song nods to early-’80s Prince and Madonna.

Doja Cat shared a new single, “Jealous Type.” The ’80s-tinged pop number was produced by Jack Antonoff and Y2K and is accompanied by a Los Angeles-shot music video directed by Boni Mata.

Doja Cat initially teased “Jealous Type” during her Summer ’25 campaign with Marc Jacobs. The song will appear on her upcoming fifth studio album, Vie, out Sept. 26 via Kemosabe Records/ RCA Records.

Along with the single, Doja Cat also announced her first-ever tour in New Zealand, Australia, and Asia. The “Ma Vie World Tour” will launch Nov. 18 in Auckland at Spark Arena,...

Carly Rae Jepsen has announced a 10th anniversary reissue of her beloved 2015 album E•Mo•Tion arriving on October 17th.

The new set features six new bonus tracks, including the previously-unreleased “More,” which is out today. Other unreleased songs completed from the E•Mo•Tion sessions include “Guardian Angel,” “Back Of My Heart,” and “Lost In Devotion.” Jepsen is also adding two remixes of E•Mo•Tion single “Run Away with Me” courtesy of Rostam and Kyle Shearer, and brought in post-e•Mo•Tion single “Cut to the Feeling” to the 10th anniversary edition’s tracklist. Stream the new song “More” below.

E•Mo•Tion (10th Anniversary Edition) will arrive in various exclusive vinyl variants; there’s a 1xLP Blue Swirl Color Vinyl, 1xLP Zoetrope Vinyl, and a 2xLP Magenta Swirl Color Vinyl with a special alternate cover plus an insert of the original cover. The album will also arrive...

Taylor Swift’s Albums Ranked Per Their Metacritic Score ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Taylor Swift, one of the biggest pop sensations in the world, has announced the title of her next studio album, The Life of a Showgirl. Her twelfth studio album will be released on October 3, 2025, with standard and limited-time deluxe editions.

This is Taylor Swift’s first album release since the conclusion of her massively successful Eras tour from 2023 to 2024. This album is the latest in a long line of commercially and critically successful outings by the iconic pop star. Read on to learn more about Taylor Swift’s albums so far, ranked by Metacritic.

11. Taylor Swift Release date: October 24, 2006 Metacritic rating: 67 Producers: Nathan Chapman, Robert Ellis Orrall

Taylor Swift’s debut album, recorded when she was in her teens, stands in contrast to much of her later output by its strong focus on country music. This album spawned...

At long last, Doja Cat’s new album Viewill soon be in our hands.

On Thursday, Aug. 14, the singer and rapper announced her fifth studio album with a special trailer shared to her Instagram page. In the trailer, the “Paint the Town Red” hitmaker is seen posing for a photoshoot, holding a rose, and dressed in a flashy, metallic garment. In other shots, she is seen in the back of a limousine in a fur coat, and also posing in front of the Eiffell Tower. Throughout the clip, she repeats the phrase “Je sais que tu es ma vie,” which is french for “I know you are my life.”

Toward the end of the promo clip, Doja talks to a director seated across from her. “You’re here?” She says. The camera then pans to the director, who is revealed to be Doja herself, who responds “of course I am.

Taylor Swift unleashed her new era this week when she announced her 12th studio LP, The Life of a Showgirl. Since then, there’s been a dazzling haze where it’s been all Taylor all the time — especially when the superstar was announced as a special guest on Travis and Jason Kelce’s podcast, New Heights, and gave a nearly two-hour interview on the show. In the episode, Swift shared a bevy of details about her new, highly-anticipated release. Here’s everything we know, so far.

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The latest episode of Travis and Jason Kelce’s podcast New Heights exploded in popularity thanks to the duo’s in-depth interview with Taylor Swift. The pop mogul announced her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, and gave what might be her longest and most candid interview ever, clocking in at more than two hours.

Wednesday’s episode (watch it below) has already racked up more than 15 million views on YouTube in less than two days. The episode is already the most popular episode of the podcast ever, surpassing the previous No. 1, which had Jason’s spouse and podcaster Kylie Kelce as the guest. And this doesn’t count all the other ways a fan could consume the podcast. A representative for Spotify said the episode generated a 3,000 percent increase in new listeners for New Heights, and the number of female listeners jumped 618 percent. While...

Lana Del Rey is coming in hot with her new song snippet. The singer teased the unnamed track in an Instagram video where she’s seen listening to it as she drives and delivers pointed lyrics. “Ethel Cain hated my Instagram post / Think it’s cute reenacting my Chicago post,” Del Rey sings, the biting lyrics juxtaposing the soft vocals and keys.

Del Rey simply captioned the video with “Track 13” and tagged Jack Antonoff, who presumably produced the song. But the lyrics and additional social media posts have led the...

Lana Del Rey has shared a preview of a new song called “Track 13” in which she apparently disses Ethel Cain.

The preview arrived on Wednesday night, as Del Rey shared a one-minute teaser of her listening to “Track 13” in a car and tagged producer Jack Antonoff in the post. The first lyric goes, “Ethel Cain hated my Instagram post,” followed by “Think it’s cute reenacting my Chicago pose.” The latter lyric supposedly references a specific photo, in which Cain apparently posted an image of herself with musician Jack Donoghue — Lana Del Rey’s ex-boyfriend, with whom Cain has been linked — seemingly re-creating a shot of Del Rey and Donoghue outside Cook County Prison in California.

She continues in the chorus, repeating “The most famous girl in the Waffle House/ I don’t regret it,” which is a reference to The New York Times’ 2022 profile on Cain, as well as...

Following a world premiere at Cannes, Ethan Coen held the North American premiere for “Honey Don’t!” at Metrograph in Manhattan on Wednesday, August 13. The dark comedy follows Honey, played by Margaret Qualley, who is investigating a local cult. Aubrey Plaza, Charlie Day, and Billy Eichner co-star in the film, co-written with Tricia Cooke.

IndieWire caught up with Plaza on the red carpet, where she detailed getting ready to play Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss, who ran the “world’s largest high-end prostitution ring” and counted actors, politicians, and other leading men among its clients in the ’90s. “I’ve been on this track for a while,” she told IndieWire.

“I got it in my head that I wanted to play her a couple of years ago and I’ve never played a real-life person before. It’s a different kind of scale, challenge, that I’m really excited about, and I...

Taylor Swift’s long-awaited new album, The Life of a Showgirl, is set to drop on October 3rd, and the anticipation has been palpable ever since she broke her silence with a surprise interview on Travis and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast. The Blank Space hitmaker unveiled not only the release date but also tantalizing details about the album’s vibe, collaborators, and the creative whirlwind behind it. Swift told the Kelce brothers:

It was something I was working on while I was in Europe on the Eras tour… I’m so proud of it. And it just comes from like the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life. Yeah. And so that effervescence has come through on this record.

The cover, featuring Swift half-submerged in water, hints at a striking color scheme steeped in mystery and symbolism, further fueling fan theories about its meaning.

A new era of Taylor Swift is upon us.

On Tuesday, Aug. 12, the “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” hitmaker announced her 12th studio album The Life of a Showgirlduring a sneak peek of an episode of the New Heights podcast. On Wednesday, Aug. 13, Swift finally revealed the details of the hotly anticipated album.

Though Swift has been focusing on a more alternative sound in recent years — as evidenced by her Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, and The Tortured Poets Department—fans can look forward to Swift’s return to her pop stylings. With The Life of a Showgirl, Swift is collaborating with some of the producers she’s worked with in the early stages of her career. At the time of writing, only one featured vocalist has been confirmed — a fellow pop star with a hit-packed catalog of her own.

Here’s everything we know about Swift’s upcoming...

Taylor Swift has revealed the release date, cover artwork, and tracklist for her new album, The Life of a Showgirl. Her 12th full-length will be released on Friday, October 3rd.

The cover artwork was photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.

Spanning 12 songs in total, the album includes titles like “The Fate of Ophelia,” “Elizabeth Taylor,” “Ruin the Friendship,” “Wi$h Li$t,” and “Cancelled!”. The album concludes with the title track, which features Sabrina Carpenter.

In a change of pace from her recent string of releases primarily crafted with producers Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner, Swift has reunited with Max Martin and Shellback, who she previously collaborated with on reputation and 1989. Swift recorded the album in Sweden amid the European leg of her recently completed “The Eras Tour.

Swift previewed the album during her appearance on the New Heights podcast on Wednesday: “This album is about what was going...

Taylor Swift is set to bring more glitter-pen songs on The Life of a Showgirl. The superstar shared that Max Martin and Shellback are back as the sole producers, along with Swift, for her 12th studio album.

Swift revealed the news tonight during her episode of the New Heights podcast. On the show, the singer called Martin her “mentor” before describing their work together. “The three of us have made some of my favorite songs that I’ve ever done before,” she said, referring to some of her biggest hits such as “22,” “Shake It Off,...

Taylor Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, is officially coming this fall.

The pop star, announcing the news on boyfriend Travis Kelce’s podcast New Heights Wednesday, said her latest album will be released on Oct. 3 and feature 12 new songs. Swift said the album is about what was going on during her life while she was on the Eras Tour.

“It just comes from the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic place I was in in my life,” Swift told the Kelce brothers on the podcast.

“As you said, bangers,” she joked. Swift also confirmed on the podcast there would be no other songs on the album aside from the 12 announced tracks, referencing her surprise double-album drop of The Tortured Poets Department. “This is the record I’ve been wanting to make for a very long time,” the pop star said.

Swift also released the tracklist for The Life of a Showgirl,...

Margaret Qualley made an appearance on the Today show on Wednesday (August 13) to promote her new movie Honey Don’t.

During the interview, the 30-year-old actress was asked about her husband Jack Antonoff and Taylor Swift.

If you don’t know, Jack and Taylor have frequently worked together on her albums in the past. Margaret and Taylor are also pals. However, her newest album, The Life of a Showgirl, seems to have been produced by Max Martin and Shellback.

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At the end of her Today show interview, co-host Craig Melvin mentioned that Jack “has produced for Taylor for years. Perhaps you’ve heard she’s got an album that’s coming out. Can you tell us about it?”

Margaret responded, “I don’t know anything.” She added, “I’ll be excited to listen to the music.”

Craig then responded, “Okay. Alright,” and then she replied,...

Swifties are done seeing the world of The Tortured Poets Department in black and white. Now, The Life of a Showgirl, the forthcoming 12th studio album from Taylor Swift, has drenched their reality in screaming color — shades of orange and teal, to be exact. The record marks the fifth album from the singer-songwriter in five years — not counting her rerecording series — but her fans never tire of the thrill of vindication. The hints and Easter eggs that could have passed for symptoms of psychosis before might have been real all along.

Shortly after Taylor Swift confirmed her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, fans began to spot mysterious billboards in New York City and Nashville. The billboards directed listeners to a brand new Spotify playlist titled “And, baby, that’s show business for you.”

Curated by Swift herself, the playlist features 22 of Swift’s songs from prior releases, opening with “22” and concluding with “Wonderland.” Curiously, all the songs featured were produced by Max Martin and Shellback, who worked on Red, 1989, and Reputation. Although Swift has not confirmed many details about The Life of a Showgirl,...

Taylor Swift sneakily revealed who is going to be producing her new album, The Life of a Showgirl.

The 35-year-old pop star just announced that her 12th studio album is on the way, though we don’t know any details about what to expect just yet.

Even though we haven’t heard anything at this point, we can expect Taylor to be departing from the sounds of her most recent albums, which she worked on with Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner.

Now, Taylor is returning to some of her previous producers!

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Taylor seemingly confirmed through a Spotify playlist that Max Martin and Shellback will be producing The Life of a Showgirl.

Shortly after announcing the album, Taylor launched her “And, baby, that’s show business for you” playlist on Spotify. The playlist features 22 songs that were all produced by Max Martin and Shellback. Taylor...

We’re four years into the Las Culturistas Culture Awards, and TV audiences will finally be able to watch along for the first time. Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers, hosts of the popular comedy podcast “Las Culturistas,” will bring their annual parody awards show back on Tuesday night — this time available on fans’ TV screens.

But where can you watch the LCCAs, and when will they air? Read on to find out.

What time are the Las Culturistas Culture Awards on?

The LCCAs will air Tuesday, Aug. 5, from 9-11 p.m. Et/Pt.

Where can I watch the LCCAs?

The LCCAs will air for the first time on Bravo Tuesday night.

What are the LCCAs?

In 2016, Yang and Rogers launched “Las Culturistas,” a comedy podcast where the hosts and guests discuss impactful moments in culture. The hosts have a number of segments throughout their episodes, such as reciting the “Rules...

Comedians Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers honored the best, brightest, and dumbest (complimentary) in pop culture at the fourth annual Las Culturistas Culture Awards, which made its television debut tonight.

Both a send-up of, and winking tribute to, the splendor and ridiculousness of industry awards shows, Yang and Rogers started the Culture Awards in 2022, spinning off the bit from their hit podcast, Las Culturistas. For the first three years of its existence, the Culture Awards were put on as a live-only show in New York City, mainly featuring Yang and...

Margaret Qualley and Jack Antonoff’s earliest dates included long walks around New York City in places like Washington Square Park and near Electric Lady Studios, where they first met during a rooftop party. But while their romance was rooted in the city, the traditional approach they took to dating highlighted the actress’ North Carolina upbringing.

“Before we were together, at the beginning, I would always follow Southern girl etiquette,” Qualley told Cosmopolitan in a new cover story. Antonoff was the first to say “I love you” and often the...

Margaret Qualley is opening up about her love life.

The 30-year-old The Substance actress got candid on the cover of Cosmopolitan for their Fall 2025 issue, out now and on newsstands nationwide on August 12.

During the conversation, Margaret spoke about how her career started, living alone and moving to New York City at 16, meeting her husband Jack Antonoff, how she knew he was the one, her sex life, mental health, meditation, her relationship with her phone, Demi Moore, and much more.

Click through to find out what she had to say…...

Lollapalooza Day Two wrapped in Chicago’s Grant Park on Thursday with stellar performances from Olivia Rodrigo, who made her Lollapalooza Chicago debut at the top of the lineup; and Korn, who last performed the festival when it was still a touring entity back in 1997. Bleachers, T-Pain, and Djo were also among the highlights.

Olivia Rodrigo Makes Her Lollapalooza Chicago Debut

It may have been Olivia Rodrigo’s Lollapalooza Chicago debut performance, but she could’ve easily topped the bill earlier if she hadn’t already been selling out stadiums on her own Guts tour.

During his highly anticipated new HBO stand-up special, Marc Maron joked that he’s “not afraid to die anymore,” under one condition — a very specific Taylor Swift song has to be playing.

Marc Maron: Panicked arrived Friday, and the comedian recounted a self-described “near-death experience” that occurred one day when he was hiking. He explained, “It was a pretty hard hike” with a notably “steep incline for like 150 minutes,” and one day, the worst happened: he passed out after doing a squat stretch.

“For years in the middle of that stretch, I said to myself, ‘It’s amazing I haven’t passed out,’” he said. “But I did pass out on this one particular time.”

Maron explained that during this time in his life, he was grieving the loss of his partner, Lynn Shelton. “The interesting thing about grief is that when you’re in it at the beginning, it’s all-consuming.

Marc Maron paid a pretty penny to use one of Taylor Swift‘s songs!

In a new interview, the 61-year-old comedian and actor revealed how much he paid to include the 35-year-old Grammy winner’s song “Bigger Than the Whole Sky” in his upcoming HBO comedy special Marc Maron: Panicked.

Keep reading to find out more…“I know Jack Antonoff enough to text him — and he’s the co-writer on that song,” Marc explained on the July 25 episode of Vulture’s Good One podcast. “I said, ‘I don’t know what’s proper or how to do this, but we’re running out of money on this thing. It’s probably going to come out of my pocket. Is there anything you can do about this song or talk to Taylor?’”

Jack suggested that Marc reach out to Taylor through official music licensing channels, which worked out and he ended...

Jack Antonoff and Bleachers brought out the guests Friday during their set at the Newport Folk Festival, welcoming the likes of Hayley Williams, Jeff Tweedy, Weyes Blood and more to the stage during what was billed as “The Ally Coalition Talent Show.”

Waxahatchee, Rufus Wainwright, and Dan Reeder also took part on the convivial affair where to singers cycled to and from the microphone to help Bleachers and friends cover artists like Ella Fitzgerald (“Dream a Little Dream of Me”), Roy Orbison (“You Got It”), and Newport legend Bob Dylan...

Marissa Bode had quite the introduction to San Diego Comic-Con Thursday night.

Not only was it the first time the “Wicked” and “Wicked: For Good” star attended the San Diego convention, but she was also a judge at the 11th annual Her Universe Fashion show..

Co-hosted by Her Universe founder Ashley Eckstein and Broadway star Michael James Scott, the show’s theme was “Defying Fashion: Fashion That Defies Expectations” and featured 25 “geek couture” designers pulling inspiration from Universal properties.

The judging panel named Lynleigh Sato winner for her colorful “Trolls”-inspired look while the audience picked Caitlin Beards’ black and gold “The Mummy” gown.

“I had a lot of fun,” Bode, who plays Nessarose in the “Wicked” movies, told me after the winners were announced. “First ever fashion show in the books, first ever Comic-Con in the books. I came in hoping for looks, because I’ve seen Comic-Con pictures...

Jack Antonoff brought his Ally Coalition Talent Show from New York City to Newport Folk Festival on Friday, essentially splitting his headlining set between a Bleachers gig and a guest-heavy superjam. The big “surprise” of the evening was when Paramore’s Hayley Williams came out to give a live debut to her new track “Mirtazapine.”

Previously released only on Nashville Public Radio, this was likely the first time many had even heard the song. For as cut with a ’90s jagged edge as “Mirtazapine” is, it didn’t feel overly anatopic at Newport Folk; perhaps it’s because William’s vocals weren’t as washed in delay, or because Antonoff’s acoustic guitar was more forward. Besides which, at the modern Newport Folk Festival, a little screaming and head-banging isn’t as unfamiliar as it once was.

Williams stayed on to duet with Antonoff on Modern English’s classic “Melt with You,...

Margaret Qualley is used to embodying larger than life characters on screen. Now, she has a musical alter ego in the form of Lace Manhattan. With help from her Grammy-winning producer husband Jack Antonoff as well as Oscar-winning director Ethan Coen, Lace Manhattan will have two new songs featured in the upcoming film Honey Don’t!

Qualley, who stars as private investigator Honey O’Donahue in Honey Don’t!, created this pop persona while on set. Her co-star Talia Ryder has her own musical alter ego, Dixie Normous, who directed the new Lace Manhattan videos.

Editor’s Note: This story contains spoilers for “Too Much,” now streaming on Netflix.

Lena Dunham is back in the spotlight, and eight years after the conclusion of “Girls,” we missed her. We’ve all known Dunham to be a voice of a generation, and she’s now packing all her years of celebrity into her latest magnum opus: “Too Much.”

Sure, “Too Much” is a critically acclaimed return to smart rom-coms with female audiences in mind. Did we expect anything less from Dunham? No. What is different, though, is the inclusion of nods to her own viral moments. This is Dunham laying bare for audiences once more — and only her true fans, raised being way too online, would get all the references to her lore.

Dunham has promoted “Too Much” as a semi-autobiographical series. “Hacks” breakout star Megan Stalter plays the Dunham-esque Jessica, who relocates from New York to...

Maren Morris has released “Welcome To the End,” as part of All Things Go Music Festival’s upcoming benefit compilation. All proceeds from the song will go to The Ally Coalition, a nonprofit supports Lbgtq+ youth through music.

“Welcome To the End” was produced by Jack Antonoff, who founded The Ally Coalition in 2013 alongside his sister and fashion designer Rachel. The first release of the All Things Go compilation was “Jesus And John Wayne” performed By Googly Eyes, Joy Oladokun, And Allison Ponthier.

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Morris is on “The Dreamsicle Tour” through February 2026. She’ll play shows and festival slots across North America, the UK, Europe, and Oceania. All tickets are available now (get tickets here). Morris released her seventh album, Dreamsicle, this past May.

All Things Go recently announced the first Toronto iteration of their festival, with Reneé Rapp, Remi Wolf, and Kacey Musgraves topping the bill.

The Format, the Phoenix-born indie pop band comprised of Nate Reuss (of fun. fame) and Sam Means, are reuniting for three special shows in Phoenix, New York City, and Los Angeles this fall.

The new concerts serve as the duo’s first shows together since performing a surprise acoustic set in Phoenix in early 2020; the band had originally mapped out a reunion tour set for that year, but it was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Prior to their 2020 reunion, the band had not performed a formal live set since the 2007 tour that preceded their breakup in 2008.

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The first of their reunion shows will take place in Phoenix as part of the Arizona State Fair on September 27th, with support from local artists like Sydney Sprague, Astrologer, Jpw & Dad Weed, and more. They’ll then head to New York City for a show at the...

It’s been seven years since a Lena Dunham show has been on TV, a stretch of time that catches even the “Girls” creator herself off guard, as she ponders the break between her second HBO show, “Camping,” and her new Netflix series, “Too Much.”

But the reprieve in between projects was a necessity for Dunham, who notes she spent the entirety of her 20s crafting TV series, with “Girls” running on HBO from 2012-2017 and “Camping” coming shortly after in 2018. “I felt like I needed to take a little bit of time to reconnect to what I really love about what I do,” Dunham told TheWrap ahead of the debut of “Too Much,” a Netflix comedy loosely inspired by Dunham’s decision to move to the U.K. after a breakup.

After “Camping,” Dunham took her hiatus from creating series to return to filmmaking — where her career first started...

When Anne Hathaway agreed to star in Mother Mary, she knew the role demanded more than vocal range or choreography; it required dismantling her public poise and starting “as a beginner every single morning,” she recalled in a recent cover interview.

Two years of daily dance drills left her body “so locked up” she literally couldn’t draw a full breath until coaches taught her to release tension through movement and sound. That work culminated in an extended barn-set solo that Coel says left crew members silent between takes, a rare pause on a production known for its brisk pace.

The A24-backed feature centers on a fractious reunion between a global pop icon and the fashion designer who once curated her image, unfolding mostly inside a rural workshop rather than on arena stages. Original songs by Jack Antonoff and Charli Xcx were written after principal photography so the filmmakers...

Anne Hathaway opened up in a new Vogue cover story about the making of “Mother Mary,” the upcoming A24 music drama from director David Lowery. Co-starring Michaela Coel, the film stars Hathaway as a pop diva who flees her tour during an existential crisis and seeks out the old friend who helped craft her public persona. Not much else is known about the movie, although Lowery said “it felt like shooting ‘Apocalypse Now.'”

“At one point Annie broke down and said, ‘I have to apologize, because I think what’s going to come out of me will hurt you.’ And Michaela took her hands and said, ‘I love you, I trust you,’ ” Lowery remembered about shooting a climactic scene. “We were in various stages of that for about a week, shooting that scene.”

Coel said “David’s writing is so vivid” that “we were forced into an intensity.” The...

New details have emerged about David Lowery’s Mother Mary courtesy of a new Vogue cover story featuring its Oscar winning star Anne Hathaway.

The A24 film casts Hathaway as the title character, a pop star described as a Lady Gaga-meets-Taylor Swift hybrid who flees a tour and winds up seeking out an old friend and fashion designer (Michaela Coel) who helped shape her public persona. Based on interviews Vogue writer Maya Singer included in the piece, Mother Mary sounds like a challenging project for all involved, or at least “intense” per Singer who describes the (nearly) finished product as “a very weird movie.”

Much of the film “turns on the making of a dress, which is spectacular,” and most of the action finds Hathaway and Coel hanging out in a 13th century barn where those involved may have gone “temporarily, mildly insane,” Singer writes. There are “a...

Anne Hathaway had to shed her Oscar-winning musical background for David Lowery’s “Mother Mary.” The indie film, which centers on Hathaway’s pop star character, features original songs written by Charli Xcx and Jack Antonoff. While Hathaway did record the vocals for the tracks, the music was not finalized during the filming of “Mother Mary,” leading Hathaway to ad-lib the onscreen singing scenes.

“It was so confusing. I had to learn,” she told Vogue. “Because if I’d had the music a year before we ever turned a camera on, I would have tattooed every note of it on my soul, and there would have been a whole process, very specific. And that was not available to me. In the end. I am very grateful I could not take control.”

The “Odyssey” actress actually had to tap into relearning certain parts of acting. “I had to submit to being a beginner,...

Four years after her pandemic-induced pivot to sunshine and acoustic guitars on Solar Power, Lorde has returned with her fourth album, Virgin. Behind the scenes, the Kiwi pop star changed up producers, leaving behind recent collaborator Jack Antonoff, but the first reviews for Virgin are heralding the return of the old Lorde.

Vulture's Craig Jenkins frames the album as a response to the release of Solar Power and celebrates its understanding of the singer's audience.

"Everything about Virgin, Lorde's fourth album, feels like a reaction to trials preceding and following Solar Power," he writes. "Virgin is rife with epiphanies earned in tussles with one’s own established persona. But these cerebral dispatches realize their audience often experiences the work communally and tends to enjoy it most when accompanied by flowing synths and insistent drums. Pure Heroine and Melodrama left indelible marks on mainstream music; Lorde is instrumental to the 21st-century whisper-singer epidemic.

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Sabrina Carpenter dropped her last album Short n’ Sweet less than a year ago, but the pop superstar isn’t wasting any time with its follow-up, Man’s Best Friend. Due this August, the singer-songwriter’s forthcoming studio album is now available to order online in a variety of exclusive editions, including on Amazon, Target, and Walmart.

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Sabrina Carpenter 'Man's Best Friend'

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Sabrina Carpenter is open to the possibility of banning phones at her concerts, describing a phone-less night seeing Silk Sonic as the best concert experience she’s ever had.

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the pop singer opened up about the possibility of implementing a phone-locking policy at her shows — a practice already embraced by Madonna, Adele, Paul McCartney, and others. While she’s warming up to the idea, she’s aware it could spark backlash. “This will honestly piss off my fans,” Carpenter admitted.

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She cited a positive experience seeing Silk Sonic as the basis of her argument. “I went to see Silk Sonic in Vegas, and they locked my phone. I’ve never had a better experience at a concert,” she noted. “I genuinely felt like I was back in the ’70s — wasn’t alive. Genuinely felt like I was there.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Sabrina Carpenter is a really good hang. “Most people who are friends with a pop star would be like, ‘People don’t know that she’s so funny,” says her best friend, Paloma Sandoval. “But actually, it’s this incredibly unique situation where everyone knows that. As far as things that people wouldn’t expect, I would say she’s the smartest person [I’ve] ever met. You’ll never have a conversation with her that’s dumb.”

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If you thought Sabrina Carpenter was slowing down anytime soon, Manchild just proved otherwise and it’s already making waves. Her latest single from her upcoming album is a deliciously petty, glitter-dipped takedown of immaturity, delivered with all the charm and cheek we’ve come to expect. It’s got disco-pop vibes, synthy hooks, and lyrics that feel like they were written during a group chat rant and polished into pure pop gold. Think convertible-down, sunglasses-on, yelling-the-chorus-with-your-besties level energy.

And sure, fans immediately started playing detective, trying to connect the dots to past romances, but Sabrina’s made it clear: this one’s not about just one man, it’s a vibe, an experience, a universal truth. She’s singing for everyone who’s ever rolled their eyes at someone stuck in boyhood while calling themselves a man. Manchild isn’t just a song, it’s a whole summer mood,...

On Aug. 29, Sabrina Carpenter will release her seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend. It arrives exactly 359 days after her last record, the massive Short n’ Sweet.

That’s an unusual move these days, when stars typically wait longer between releases. Plus, Carpenter is still touring behind Short n’ Sweet, hitting the festival circuit this summer before launching another North American leg in the fall. In her new Rolling Stone cover story, she explained why she’s moving fast.

“If I really wanted to, I could have stretched out Short n’ Sweet much,...

Put your arms in and get your chest below the water … just breathe in and out, super slowly.… You’re doing great. Like, damn … we’ve got 20 seconds left. Want to keep going?

I’m in the private suite of a swanky spa in Central London one morning in early March, and one of the world’s biggest pop stars is guiding me through a cold plunge. Across from me, Sabrina Carpenter is shoulders-deep in a cylindrical wooden ice bath of her own, braving four degrees Celsius in a baby-blue lace bikini.

Sabrina Carpenter has just announced her new album, Man’s Best Friend, and fans are already excited. The pop star shared the news herself on social media with a bold cover picture, showing her kneeling in a black dress.

This album follows her hit single Espresso and is expected to showcase a more fun side of the singer. With catchy lyrics and playful energy, Man’s Best Friend could be her biggest release yet. Moreover, she has also revealed the album’s release date and how many tracks it will have. Let’s dive deeper!

Sabrina Carpenter unleashes a brand-new era with Man’s Best Friend Sabrina Carpenter in a still from the music video of Espresso | Credits: Sabrina Carpenter/YouTube

Pop star Sabrina Carpenter is back, and this time she’s bolder than ever. She recently announced her upcoming album Man’s Best Friend on June 11 with a dramatic Instagram reveal.

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Sabrina Carpenter is preparing to release her seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend, her label announced Wednesday morning.

The 26-year-old teased the new album, out this August, on her Instagram, adding, “I can’t wait for it to be yours x.” The news comes on the heels of the pop star’s latest single, “Manchild,” which was released last week and will serve as the lead single of Man’s Best Friend. She co-wrote the song with frequent collaborators Amy Allen and Jack Antonoff.

In a cinematic video for “Manchild,” Carpenter hitchhikes across a desert landscape in everything from pickup trucks to station wagons to a grocery cart sidecar beside a motorcycle, all the while accompanied by the very men she’s singing about. The single — which the 26-year-old teased on X (formerly Twitter) by saying “this one’s about you!!” — was released exactly one year after her 2024 single “Please Please Please,...

Sabrina Carpenter has announced a brand new album called Man’s Best Friend. It’s set for release on August 29th via Island Records.

“Manchild,” which Carpenter released last week, serves as the album’s lead single. The new album follows her 2024 breakout LP, Short n’ Sweet, which spawned the hit singles “Espresso,” “Please Please Please,” and “Taste.” Short n’ Sweet’s success helped boost Carpenter to headliner status, closing out festivals like Outside Lands and last weekend’s Primavera Sound; she also released a deluxe version of the album in February, and released a rework of “Please Please Please” with Dolly Parton.

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Now, almost exactly a year after that Short n’ Sweet’s August 23rd release, Carpenter will unveil her seventh studio album. She announced the news with by revealing the album’s artwork, as well as a photo of a dog wearing a collar that reads “Man’s Best Friend.