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UPDATE (7/8/2022, 10:15 a.m. ET): Doja Cat responded on Instagram Live disapproving of Noah Schnapp’s TikTok video of a screenshot of their private Instagram conversation. “The fact that Noah did that and went and posted a private conversation between me and him is so unbelievably socially unaware and wack,” she said.“That’s like borderline shit, that’s like weasel shit.” See below for the original post. ** Stranger Things fans aren’t the only ones crushing on Joseph Quinn — Doja Cat is, too. And she has apparently recruited Quinn’s co-star Noah Schnapp as her wingman. It all started on May 30, three days after the release of the first half of Season 4 of Stranger Things. Doja first openly expressed her attraction toward the British actor. Quinn appeared in the new breakout...

The BET Awards on Sunday night (June 26) were a celebration of the invaluable work of Black artists everywhere, celebrating the likes of Megan Thee Stallion, Latto, and Kendrick Lamar. They also became a platform for those creatives to make their voices heard, as many attendees used the stage to criticize the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion. Lizzo kicked off the show with a performance of her latest single “About Damn Time,” bringing along her flute for a rousing solo, which has become a signature of her live performances. Then, Oscar-nominated actress Taraji P. Henson, who hosted for the second year in a row, praised Black entertainers with her opening speech. She called back to the song’s ...

Did you know Harry Styles’s first-ever recorded song was apparently a cover of Elvis Presley’s version of “The Girl of My Best Friend?” The “Watermelon Sugar” singer grew up listening to The King as a kid, so naturally, he eventually became a frontrunner to play the legend for director Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming Elvis biopic. But alas, it was not meant to be. “Harry is a really talented actor. I would work on something with him [but] the real issue with Harry is, he’s Harry Styles,” Luhrmann said to Australian radio podcast Fitzy & Wippa this week. “He’s already an icon.” But don’t worry, the two have no hard feelings. “Harry and I came to a place, genuinely I mean, he was just desperate to put the suit on and explore,” he said. “He’s such a great spirit and I have nothing but great thing...

Did you know Harry Styles’s first-ever recorded song was apparently a cover of Elvis Presley’s version of “The Girl of My Best Friend?” The “Watermelon Sugar” singer grew up listening to The King as a kid, so naturally, he eventually became a frontrunner to play the legend for director Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming Elvis biopic. But alas, it was not meant to be. “Harry is a really talented actor. I would work on something with him [but] the real issue with Harry is, he’s Harry Styles,” Luhrmann said to Australian radio podcast Fitzy & Wippa this week. “He’s already an icon.” But don’t worry, the two have no hard feelings. “Harry and I came to a place, genuinely I mean, he was just desperate to put the suit on and explore,” he said. “He’s such a great spirit and I have nothing but great thing...

Taylor Swift achieved her “Wildest Dreams” on Wednesday (May 18), receiving an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from New York University and walking onstage in a cap and gown for graduation at Yankee Stadium to deliver an inspiring speech to the Class of 2022. “I’d like to thank NYU for making me technically, on paper at least, a doctor,” she said. “Not the type of doctor you would want around in the case of an emergency, unless your specific emergency was that you desperately needed to hear a song with a catchy hook and an intensely cathartic bridge section.” On her social media, she posted a video of herself getting ready for the commencement. “I’m 90 percent sure the main reason I’m here is because I have a song called ‘22’,” she joked. Quite unfortunately, the speech turned out to extend a...

It might’ve been hard to predict that Rihanna would deliver a baby before she delivered R9, the long-awaited, much-teased possible reggae album she first hyped back in 2018. But this is the world we live in. And that world is unexpected and full of many surprises. One of them is that yes, Rihanna is pregnant! She was spotted out in Harlem over the weekend holding hands with her partner, A$AP Rocky, as she showed off a visible bare baby bump for the cameras. In May 2021, Rocky told GQ that Rih was “the love of my love” and called her “The One.” “She amounts to probably, like, a million of the other ones,” he said in the interview. Notably, he also expressed a willingness for him and Rihanna to become parents: “I would have a very fly child. Ve...

Harry Styles is currently on tour, packing arenas like Madison Square Garden and Chicago’s United Center with characteristic panache and flair and colorful outfits. But this morning (October 19), he’s making headlines for his (rumored) work on the big screen, not the stage. On Monday night, director Chloé Zhao‘s long-anticipated new Marvel film Eternals had its glitzy Los Angeles premiere, and with that came a particularly juicy and spoilerific scoop from critics who screened the film: Styles has apparently joined the MCU in the role of Thanos’s brother Eros, “a fun-loving, carefree womanizer,” as the Marvel fandom entry describes him. Seems right! The implications of sharing this scoop so far ahead of the film’s actual release date (November 5 in ...

Billie Eilish is a headliner. As one of the biggest music artists in the world, when she speaks, she is heard. That typically happens on some of the biggest stages possible, too, and she took full advantage of her platform during her Austin City Limits Music Festival set over the weekend. In front of large projections that read “Bans Off Our Bodies,” Eilish condemned the recently passed law in Texas that makes abortion “functionally illegal,” as The New York Times wrote. “When they made that shit a law, I almost didn’t want to do this show,” Eilish said during her set, as captured by fan videos, “because I wanted to punish this fucking place for allowing that to happen here. But then I remembered that it’s you guys that are th...

The return of live music in 2021 was a cause for celebration, and in the early summer months, artists announced plans for and began embarking on massive tours that felt both like homecomings and long-awaited returns to form for fans across the globe. But the pernicious effects of the coronavirus continue to pose a threat to the live-music industry, causing a lot of these tours to be either amended, shortened, or re-canceled altogether. This furthers the strain on the industry, which began in 2020 as the pandemic set in and has only worsened with time. A lot of people beyond just the artists rely on those shows for their livelihoods, particularly road crews and venue staff. To help ease this strain, Nick Lachey, who has been back touring this summer with his group 98 Degrees, had an idea. &...