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Beyoncé: Banning alcohol, doing #MeToo background checks on people on her tour

Beyoncé wants to make sure her upcoming tour is a safe and friendly work environment. Beyoncé has reportedly asked members of her staff to undergo "MeToo" background checks ahead of the start of her yet-to-be-announced world tour. The dancers, band and staff are to undergo background checks before the start of the tour, in an effort by Beyoncé to "make the tour a safe and friendly working environment" and prevent incidents of sexual harassment, according to the newspaper The Sun. A source also said that Beyoncé will ban alcohol and drugs both in rehearsals and on tour. “Bey knows the new shows will require intense choreography and precision, so everyone......

Golden Globes 2023: Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Lady Gaga nominated for Best Original Song

Three pop giants will face off at the 2023 Golden Globes. Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Lady Gaga will battle it out for Best Original Song at the 2023 Golden Globes. The nominations for the 80th Golden Globe Awards were announced on Monday, December 12. The event's award ceremony will take place in Beverly Hills on January 10, 2023. Taylor Swift is nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song with "Carolina" from "Where The Crawdads Sing." This is Taylor Swift's fourth nomination in this category, following "Safe & Sound" from "The Hunger Games" (2012), "Sweeter Than Fiction" from "One Chance" (2013) and "Beautiful Ghosts" ” from “Cats” (2019). Taylor......

Taylor Swift accidentally got into directing: 'It came out of necessity'

Taylor Swift first dabbled in directing when she couldn't find a freelance female director for the video for 'The Man'. Taylor Swift Says She Never Planned To Be A Filmmaker Last week it was announced that the singer-songwriter will direct her first feature film, which she will also write, for Searchlight Pictures. Taylor Swift is taking the next step as a director after her critically acclaimed Academy Award-eligible short film All Too Well. For Taylor Swift, this was not a direction she initially expected her career to take. "It actually came out of necessity," he told director Martin McDonagh ("The Banshees of Inisherin"), with whom he spoke as part of Variety's "Directors on......

Alicia Keys Remembers Working With Whitney Houston

Alicia Keys is grateful to have been lucky enough to work with Whitney Houston. Alicia Keys discusses her collaboration with the incredible Whitney Houston on her latest album, 2009's 'I Look To You'. "Oh, she's so great," Alicia Keys said of the late singer recently speaking to ET Canada. “She, Prince. I mean, there's been a lot of people, man," he added of the legendary singers he was lucky enough to work with before they passed away. "I'm so grateful," she noted. Alicia Keys co-wrote Whitney Houston's 'I Look To You' album opener 'Million Dollar Bill' and co-produced it with her now-husband Swizz Beatz. A tribute to Whitney Houston, who died aged just......

Billie Eilish: 'I felt hopeless because of my gender'

"I like feeling more masculine than feminine, it just makes me feel better." Billie Eilish admits she struggles with feelings of worthlessness and talks about the struggles she faced growing up in the public eye. The American singer said on the occasion of her appearance on the BBC's "100 Women" list: "It's a very traumatic experience growing up in the public eye. It's really hard to evolve and change for many reasons" "I was just wasting my time trying in vain... I just didn't know what I was doing," he continued. Billie Eilish, who was just 14 when she got her first taste of fame, then shared her insecurities and confessed to feeling unworthy. “I've faced it so many......

TikTok: These are the most popular songs on the app for 2022

Surprise World No. 1 – See full list TikTok has released the list of the most popular songs on its platform for 2022, as part of this year's overall review. Whether it was new songs or returning classics, the songs on For You's feeds had us hitting repeat over and over again. In 2022, the most popular songs on TikTok came from established, up-and-coming, and up-and-coming artists, spanning a spectrum of genres as diverse as the platform's community itself. The most popular song on TikTok worldwide for 2022 is 'Ginseng Strip 2002' by Swedish rapper and singer Yung Lean which was originally released in 2013. The TikTok community created 8.9 million videos using dazy's Nicky......

Apple Music introduces a new built-in karaoke feature

The new feature, called Apple Music Sing, will be available to all Apple Music subscribers worldwide later this month. Apple Music users will soon be able to karaoke their favorite songs from within the app. Apple has announced the launch of a built-in karaoke feature on its streaming service, which will be available to all Apple Music subscribers worldwide later this month. Called Apple Music Sing, the feature will be accessible via iPhone, iPad and the latest Apple TV 4K model, with tens of millions of songs available at launch. The new Apple TV box, now in its third generation, is equipped with the same processor as last year's iPhone 13 – a real extravagance for a player,......

Imagine Dragons for the first time in Greece

Imagine Dragons are adding Greece to the stops on their "Mercury World Tour". Imagine Dragons are coming to Greece for the first time for a spectacular show at OAKA on Wednesday, September 6, 2023. Imagine Dragons, the most "Radioactive" pop-rock band of the 21st century, will visit our country as part of their "Mercury World Tour" to remind us of everything we have loved about them and their discography. The multi-award-winning pop rock band have added 9 new dates across Europe and the Middle East to their 'Mercury World Tour' in partnership with Live Nation. The new leg of Imagine Dragos' 'Mercury – Acts 1 & 2' tour will kick off at Denmark's Smukfest on Wednesday August......

Kim Petras: 'Unholy' success showed 'it doesn't matter what your gender identity is'

Sam Smith and Kim Petras became the first non-binary and transgender artists respectively to reach No. 1 with 'Unholy'. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Kim Petras is still reeling from the fact that her collaboration with Sam Smith on the single 'Unholy' topped the Billboard charts and garnered a Grammy nomination. "I cried a lot," Kim Petras told Variety of how she reacted to the happy news. The singer explained why she was vindicated by the song's success and recalled that before her collaboration with Sam Smith: "Record executives were saying to me: 'You make music for gay clubs, you're in a certain area and we don't know how to promote you.' ». After working with the......

Celine Dion: Her concerts in Greece and Cyprus are permanently canceled

Celine Dion continues treatment for her health problem. The concerts that Celine Dion was scheduled to give in Greece and Cyprus in the summer of 2023 are finally cancelled, after two years of postponements. As Celine Dion continues to recover from the health problem that plagues her, she announces the postponement of the European leg of her "Courage World Tour", which was scheduled to take place from February 24 to April 11, 2023, and the cancellation of eight concerts scheduled for in the summer of 2023. Among these canceled concerts of hers is the concert she was supposed to perform in Greece and at the Olympic Stadium in Athens on June 9, 2023, as well as in Nicosia, Cyprus on June......