The European continent – and Australia, for some reason – are preparing to crown the winner on Saturday of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, a pop song extravaganza invented as an alternative to World War III.
Kaiser Chiefs lead singer Ricky Wilson has been criticised for encouraging fans to cheer for their vaccine brands, with people responding in rapturous cries and arm-waving described as creepy and cult-like.
Singer Erykah Badu isn’t letting the coronavirus pandemic shut down her career. The enterprising pop star recently launched her “Quarantine Concert Series” from the safety of her bedroom, charging $1 for a live stream in which she performs with band members who are wearing face masks.
Pop superstar left-wing activist Taylor Swift has been accused of whipping up her fan base in a calculated way that is endangering the employees of her old recording label, which is currently embroiled in a bitter feud with the singer.
Singer Carly Simon used the lyrics from one her most famous songs to describe President Donald Trump, calling him “so vain” in a new interview, in which she also praised former President Bill Clinton as “a charismatic and brilliant” man.
A boyband called “The Breunion Boys” has launched in the Netherlands in a last-ditch effort to stop Brexit.
Singer and pro-mass migration campaigner Lily Allen has said she does not have enough space in her luxury London flat to take in any asylum seekers despite earlier promises.
TEL AVIV – More than 100 artists penned an open letter published in the UK’s Guardian newspaper Friday in support of New Zealand pop singer Lorde, who succumbed to pressure from anti-Israel activists and cancelled her scheduled performance in the Jewish state.
It’s so sad to see a pop star like Lorde going over to the dark side of bigotry and antisemitism at such a young age.
London’s Jewish Museum has launched a public appeal for funds to help finance a street art trail taking in Amy Winehouse’s former haunts in the capital.
Chrissie Hynde refuses to apologize to feminists over August 30 comments, in which she said women who dress provocatively and then get drunk should take some responsibility if they are sexually assaulted.
The Chinese Ministry of Culture, through state media outlet Xinhua, has published a “blacklist” of 120 songs banned from being played or sold in China for their “obscenity, violence, crime” or potential to “harm social morality.” Anyone caught trafficking in this music will receive “severe punishment,” the government says.
Kurdish pop star Helly Luv tells interviewers of her new single, “Revolution,” that she refused to imitate or fabricate any of the suffering in the war against the Islamic State in Syria. Wanting to depict the realities of the battlefield for the Peshmerga and ISIS refugees, the golden-heel-clad artist filmed her music video less than two miles from the front lines with ISIS.
A British electronica band has teamed up with the archbishop of Iraq to release a song sending a message of hope to persecuted Christians, Yazidis, and other minorities in the crosshairs of the Islamic State–and raising awareness about their suffering and need for support.
Fadel Shaker, a former pop singer that renounced his international fame to become a committed Sunni jihadist, appeared in a new interview on Lebanese television lamenting his turn to radical Islam and hoping to return to a “normal life.”
