2 h. ago Lily Allen 'names woman' in David Harbour cheating scandal in diss track from new album

Lilly Allen appears to have named the girl who her husband David Harbour allegedly cheated on her with in a new song from her latest studio album West End Girl

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8 d. ago London Musical Bronco Billy Dates Album Release; Get a 1st Listen to a Track

London Musical Bronco Billy Dates Album Release; Get a 1st Listen to a Track  Playbill

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9 d. ago ‘The architect of Black Gen X sonic feeling and eloquence’: D’Angelo’s 10 greatest tracks

From the divine sensuality of Higher to the scabrous social commentary of The Charade, we explore the highlights of the late neo-soul star’s slim but stunning catalogueD’Angelo burst on to the scene in 1995 with a debut album (Brown Sugar) that effectively reordered our musical palette, awakening memories of our parents’ living rooms where the stereo was always cued up to Stevie, Marvin, Smokey and company. What made Brown Sugar such a seismic jolt in the 1990s R&B landscape though was its smouldering sensuality laced with undercurrents of hip-hop’s don’t-give-a-damnedness; studious, devoted instrumentality; and an infectious commitment to the art of the infinite jam. Lady is the sister, so to speak, to the title track of D’Angelo’s audacious debut album. And whereas the latter introduced listeners to a hood Romeo on the make, Lady revels in the pleasures of a lover who’s already won the chase and whose twinned passion for intimacy and privacy takes the form of a thick, bass hea...

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1 week ago My cultural awakening: ‘Kate Bush helped me come out as a trans woman’

As a not-yet-out trans teen, The Sensual World – the singer’s rejection of masculine influence – felt like an invocation of everything I was feelingIt wasn’t safe for me to discover The Sensual World, the eponymous track on what Kate Bush described as her “most female album”. The song was intended to be a rejection of the masculine influence that had unwittingly shaped the artist’s previous work, and an ode to something taboo within the female experience. Based on Molly Bloom’s soliloquy in James Joyce’s Ulysses – a stream of consciousness in which the character reflects on her experiences of nature, sex and love – Bush wanted to celebrate the experience of life inside a woman’s body, and the ways it gives her spiritual and sexual pleasure. I knew that, for someone like me, who was already being bullied, to openly love a song like this could make me an even more obvious target to those who saw femininity as a sign of weakness. More daunting than that, it might force me to ...

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2 w. ago Blawan: Sick Elixir review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week

(XL Recordings)Jamie Roberts’ unsettling take on bass music is crammed with glitchy rhythms and jolting sounds. It’s as disorienting as it is immersiveSickElixir is not an album much interested in gently easing the listener into its darkly claustrophobic world. The first thing you hear is roughly approximate to the distressing sound of someone alternately gasping for breath and attempting to clear their passages of phlegm. It’s joined by a distorted bass drum overlaid with a metal-on-metal clank in lieu of a snare. There’s a weird noise somewhere between radio interference and the sound of fabric tearing, some incomprehensible, sonically warped and doom-laden guttural chanting, and harsh electronic tones that churn and screech. All this is in the opening minute of the first track: notice is served that Jamie Roberts’ latest album is probably not for everyone.This will hardly come as a shock to anyone with prior knowledge of his oeuvre. From the moment he started releasing music as B...

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2 w. ago Taylor Swift fans spot sign Blake Lively rift is over with The Life of a Showgirl nod

The two are thought to be feuding but eagle-eyed fans have noticed a detail about Taylor Swift's new album that might prove their friendship is back on track

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2 w. ago Taylor Swift’s new album secures biggest opening week of 2025 so far in UK chart

The 35-year-old is on track to secure her 14th number one album in the UK.

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2 w. ago Charli XCX responds to Taylor Swift's 'diss track' by revealing she's back in the recording studio

The former tour mates appear to be at the centre of a growing feud, thanks to her seemingly pointed words about Charli's 'coke habit' in the track which features on Taylor's new album.

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2 w. ago Taylor Swift drops more clues diss track Actually Romantic is about Charli XCX

Taylor Swift has set tongues wagging with her track Actually Romantic from new album The Life of a Showgirl - which is set to be about fellow singer Charli XCX who she met through her ex Matty Healy

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2 w. ago ‘I was called an enemy of the people’: how the US Senate went to war with the biggest rock stars of the 1980s

Forty years ago Prince, Madonna and Judas Priest were among stars dubbed the ‘Filthy Fifteen’ in a high-profile parents’ campaign against ‘objectionable’ music. Some of those artists, and supporters like Alice Cooper, recall a major moral panicPrince’s Purple Rain album had been bought by 11 million Americans by May 1985. One of them was 11-year-old Karenna Gore. Back home, Karenna’s mother was shocked to hear Prince sing, on the album’s fifth track Darling Nikki: “I knew a girl named Nikki / I guess you could say she was a sex fiend / I met her in a hotel lobby/ masturbating with a magazine.”“I couldn’t believe my ears,” said Karenna’s mother, Tipper Gore. “The vulgar lyrics embarrassed both of us. At first, I was stunned – then I got mad!” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Taylor Swift explains Actually Romantic lyrics as fans claim it's a Charli XCX diss track

Taylor Swift fans were adamant her track Actually Romantic from her The Life Of A Showgirl album was a diss track about Charli XCX and now the singer has explained its meaning

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2 w. ago Taylor Swift ROASTED by Charli XCX fans over Actually Romantic diss track after she was seen dancing to her performance at the Grammys

The former tour mates appear to be at the centre of a growing feud, thanks in part to pointed words about Charli's 'coke habit' in the track which features on Taylor's new album, The Life Of A Showgirl.

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2 w. ago The story behind the character who inspired Taylor Swift’s The Fate of Ophelia – and what it really tells us

As a professor of pre-Raphaelite studies, I was excited to see that the track list for Taylor Swift’s 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl includes a song called The Fate of Ophelia. Ahead of the album’s release, fans and art historians speculated that the inspiration could come from John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia (1851-52), one of the most visited paintings at Tate Britain.

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift fans blush over sexual lyrics about Travis Kelce in ‘Wood’

Ninth track on her new album, ‘The Life of a Showgirl,’ is full of sexual innuendos

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift compares herself to Elizabeth Taylor in new song as she berates her exes for not being able to handle fame

The Pennsylvania-born songstress dedicates an entire track of her new album, The Life Of A Showgirl, to the Hollywood starlet - and the lyrics are bursting with hidden meaning.

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift 'mocks Liverpool legend' in lyrics on new album The Life of a Showgirl

Trent Alexander-Arnold's controversial move from Liverpool to Real Madrid was bizarrely caught in the crossfire during one track on Taylor Swift's new album The Life of a Showgirl

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift reveals Travis Kelce’s ‘favourite’ track from new album

The musician made an appearance on The Graham Norton Show where she spoke about The Life Of A Showgirl

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift says Opalite is Travis Kelce’s favourite song from new album

Taylor Swift says Travis Kelce’s favourite track on Life Of A Showgirl also excites her dad

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift references Travis Kelce romance on The Life Of A Showgirl

Swift fans are speculating that one song in particular references Kelce on The Life of a Showgirl

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift says Opalite is Travis Kelce’s ‘favourite’ track from new album

The 35-year-old musician spoke about her 12th studio album, The Life Of A Showgirl, during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show.

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