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Tomorrow, Katy Perry will release her sixth album, Smile, and earlier this week marked a decade since her record-setting Teenage Dream LP smashed its way into the world. It’s been a big few days already. And now, it’s gotten ever bigger. On Thursday (August 27), Perry and her fiancé, Orlando Bloom, announced they’d welcomed their first child, a baby girl adorably named Daisy Dove Bloom. If the name rings a bell, you might recall Perry’s single from earlier this year called “Daisies,” as well as its accompanying video that found Perry showing off her baby bump and being one with nature — flowers included. “We are floating with love and wonder from the safe and healthy arrival of our daughter,” Perry and Bloom told UNICEF, with whom they partne...

By Jaelani Turner-Williams Less than a week after rumors swirled around the July 12 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion following a party in Los Angeles, the rapper briefly took to Instagram to voice her frustrations about discrepancies and hearsay floating around about the incident. “I suffered gunshot wounds as a result of a crime that was committed against me and done with the intention to physically harm me,” she wrote. A month later, after repeated pressure on social media, Megan finally confirmed what had long been rumored: “Yes, this n—a Tory shot me,” she said on Instagram Live, referring to Tory Lanez by name as her attacker. In July, Lanez was arrested and charged with carrying a concealed weapon in the vehicle. Her announcement was a long time coming. Taking to Twitter on July...

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Way back in January 2019, Lana Del Rey alerted her fans that she’d recently “finished a short book of poetry I’ve been writing over the last 13 months that I’ll be putting out later.” In the 18 months since then, we’ve learned the book’s title, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, as well as Lana’s plans to follow it with a new album later in 2020. But today (July 28), Violet is finally here — as an audiobook. It includes 14 poems read by Lana herself and accompanied by music from Jack Antonoff, who produced Lana’s highly acclaimed 2019 album Norman Fucking Rockwell. According to her website, the hardcover copy will be available September 29; she’ll also offer it on CD and vinyl and as an ebook. To celebrate the release, you can ...

Demi Lovato is getting married! The singer shared on Instagram early Thursday (July 23) that her and partner Max Ehrich are now engaged, along with some adorable photos of them embracing on the beach. “When I was a little girl, my birth dad always called me his ‘little partner’ – something that might’ve sounded strange without his southern cowboy like accent,” she wrote in the caption. “To me it made perfect sense. And today that word makes perfect sense again but today I’m officially going to be someone else’s partner.” Lovato spent the rest of the caption detailing her love for Ehrich, including the gem that “I knew I loved you the moment I met you.” And speaking of gems, the third photo is a close-up of the rock she...

It’s been a disturbing few days for Kanye West on social media. After a series of tweet-rants where he alleged that his wife, Kim Kardashian West, and her mother, Kris Jenner, had conspired to commit him and that he’d been trying to obtain a divorce, Kardashian West, today (July 22) stressed, “Those that understand mental illness or even compulsive behavior know that the family is powerless unless the member is a minor,” in a detailed Twitter thread of her own. Earlier this week, as Kanye’s words began to proliferate Twitter — words that, as Kardashian West noted, “[sometimes] do not align with his intentions” — fellow celebs like Questlove and Halsey were quick to remind folks that mental illness is real, and in Halsey’s words, “person...

On Sunday morning (July 12), rapper Tory Lanez was arrested in Los Angeles after police found a gun in his car. As originally reported by outlets like TMZ, police responded to a domestic disturbance call in the Hollywood Hills after witnesses reported an argument inside an SUV that culminated in gunshots and the vehicle leaving. After police tracked down the SUV, Lanez was reportedly charged with a felony count of carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle. Also notable in the situation was the presence of Megan Thee Stallion, who was found in the SUV along with another woman. Meg reportedly had a wounded foot. The event has led to days speculation about her injury, as well as unconfirmed reports of her own arrest — conversations that Meg took to Instagram today (July 15) to clear up. “...

The actress Naya Rivera, who starred in six seasons of Ryan Murphy’s hit musical comedy Glee as the sharp-tongued cheerleader Santana Lopez, has died, according to a statement by a spokesman from Ventura County Sheriff’s Office. She was 33. Her body was recovered on Monday (July 13) from a lake outside of Los Angeles after going missing last week. Rivera was first declared missing on Wednesday (July 8) after going on a boating trip with her four-year-old son, Josey Hollis Dorsey, at Lake Piru. According to multiple reports, the actress had rented a pontoon boat around 1 p.m. Wednesday afternoon. Approximately three hours later, the boat was found by another boater with the young child asleep onboard, alone, wearing a life vest. An adult-sized life vest w...

In the past month, we’ve heard Kanye West on two new songs and seen him donate $2 million to the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. We’ve also seen him announce (again) a 2020 presidential candidacy bid, despite reportedly filing no actual paperwork. But Kanye is Kanye, and with his Travis Scott collaboration “Wash Us in the Blood” also came the announcement of a new album, titled God’s Country, apparently coming soon. You know what this means: Kanye’s in album promo mode. And with that comes a freewheeling new feature in Forbes, out today (July 8) that sees him, among other things, come out as an anti-vaxxer. “When they say the way we’re going to fix [COVID-19] is with a vaccine, I’m extremely cautious,”...

Naya Rivera starred in six seasons of Ryan Murphy’s musical comedy Glee as the witty cheerleader Santana Lopez. On Wednesday (July 8), the 33-year-old actress went missing at Southern California’s Lake Piru while apparently on a boating trip with her 4-year-old son. According to The New York Times, Ventura County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Eric Buschow said in a news conference that Rivera had rented a boat on Wednesday afternoon. Approximately three hours after the two left the dock, another boater found a boat drifting with a child, reportedly Rivera’s son, asleep. CNN reports that the child “said they went swimming but the mother didn’t get back on the boat.” The child was wearing a life vest, while an adult-sized life vest was discove...

By Aaron Cooley When director Joel Schumacher died at the age of 80 last week, the lion’s share of the media attention focused on his iconic four-decade filmography, from St. Elmo’s Fire and The Lost Boys in the 1980s, to two John Grisham adaptations and two Batmans in the ’90s, to Phone Booth and Phantom of the Opera in this century. And of course, his resumé includes his own personal stamp on the music video era of early MTV, with videos for INXS, Seal, U2, and Bush. But left largely anonymous — just the way he wanted it — was the work he actually considered the most important of his life. This was work he also did for MTV, and he did it all for free. When I started working for Joel as his assistant in 2002, there was no better perk of the job than traveling to New York at his side. Joel...