Only two more days to go, MOA! TOMORROW X TOGETHER‘s forthcoming album, The Name Chapter: Temptation, is arriving soon, and with it, the project’s lead single, “Sugar Rush Ride.” To tease its arrival, the song received a new concept teaser on Wednesday (Jan. 25).
The new visual picks up where the previous one leaves off. The first concept teaser saw members Yeonjun, Soobin, Beomgyu, Taehyun and HueningKai all sitting at the base of an aged wisteria tree; now, the guys explore and find themselves in a mystical forest. The K-pop stars perform bits and pieces of the “Sugar Rush Ride” choreography, alternating between the scenes of the forest and the wisteria tree, which is cut with a scene of the group running in the middle of a vast green space.
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The new concept teaser is the last in a schedule of events for TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s The Name Chapter: Temptation. What remains is the release of the album and single “Sugar Rush Ride,” which arrive on Friday, Jan. 27. The following day, the group will perform a special showcase that will likely feature songs from the new album. (“Devil by the Window,” “Happy Fools” featuring Coi Leray, “Tinnitus (Wanna Be a Rock)” and “Farewell, Neverland” are the other four tracks included on Temptation.)
After completing Temptation‘s packed schedule of events, TOMORROW X TOGETHER will prepare for the Act: Sweet Mirage world tour, during which the boy group will perform 21 shows across 13 cities. March and April will consist of concert dates in Asia, starting with Seoul, while May will see them perform in the United States.
Watch the brand new teaser for “Sugar Rush Ride” in the video above.
A man from Springfield has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute Methamphetamine and illegally possessing firearms.
Gregory Robinson admitted he conspired with family members to distribute at least 11 kilos of meth in Southwest Missouri.
At traffic stops in February and March of 2020, Greene County deputies and Springfield Police found meth, guns, and cash in Robinson’s vehicle.
Snow totals across the Ozarks range from two inches to 12 from a winter storm that hit Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, knocking out power to 38-thousand customers in southern Missouri.
As of 6:00 a.m., many highways in southwest Missouri, especially those south of I-44, remain snow covered and hazardous.
Sam Smith is in a good place. And not just because the sun is beating down in Adelaide, Australia where they stopped briefly for a one-off performance at the d’Arenberg Cube winery, and for some introductions to national media.
Speaking with Billboard at the EOS by SkyCity hotel, overlooking the iconic Adelaide Oval, Smith appears as chilled as anyone enjoying a break from the grim British winter.
With Gloria, Smith’s fourth album, ready and set for its Jan. 27 release into the world, and a busy year of touring ahead, the British singer could be excused for feeling anxious.
“It doesn’t feel nerve-racking this time around,” Smith explains. “I made a very conscious decision with this record to not bring anything out until I just loved it, in and out, and didn’t want to be in a position where I was putting something out and was thinking, ‘are people going to like this’? I wanted to be in a position where I put something out and I felt I didn’t care if anyone else liked it, because it’s about whether I like it. Because it’s what I make.”
The early results are in, and there’s a lot of love for the new songs. Gloria release “Unholy” featuring Kim Petras is a stone-cold hit, blasting to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Smith’s first U.S. leader; and it logged multiple weeks atop the Official U.K. Singles Chart and Australia’s ARIA Chart.
More than a decade has passed since Smith’s career took flight, when they contributed those honey-dripped, other-worldly vocals to Disclosure’s 2012 breakthrough track “Latch”. A debut LP, In The Lonely Hour, arrived in 2014 and peaked at No. 1 in the U.K., and No. 2 in the U.S. Its followup from 2017, The Thrill of It All hit the summit on both sides of the Atlantic, confirming Smith’s ascent as a bonafide star.
Awards have rained from the heavens, and include four Grammys, three BRITs, an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
Gloria is the follow-up to 2020’s Love Goes, which peaked at No. 2 on the U.K. tally, and No. 5 in the U.S.
Part of the new album was shaped during the pandemic, with production work from longtime collaborators Jimmy Napes, Stargate and Max Martin stablemate ILYA. The collection “really came about expressing the liberation I’ve been feeling over the last few years, when it comes to my sexuality, my emotions, my spirit,” Smith notes.
From the introspective opening number, the previously-released “Love Me More,” the first song Smith wrote for the album, through to the hymnal title track, Gloria is a signal that its creator is “in a good place.”
Fans got a third bite of the LP on Jan. 11, with the release of “Gimme,” featuring Koffee and Jessie Reyez.
With the benefit of multiple listens, and pulling back, there’s a lot of joy to be found in Gloria. One of the album’s belters is “I’m Not Here To Make friends,” a disco-pop number written with Stargate and Jessie Reyez, and produced by Calvin Harris in Los Angeles.
“I’d written so many heartbreak songs and confessional songs that weren’t just about my heartbreak, but other people’s,” Smith recounts. “I wanted to explore a more confident voice and a voice that was stronger, honestly.”
Ahead of the big day, Smith performed on SNL and visited The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonfor a late-night chat. A major international tour in support of the album will kick off April 12 at the Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield, England, before winding its way across the U.K. and Ireland, Continent Europe, and onto North America for dates in July through October, then return to Australia and New Zealand for a run of shows in the hotter, southern months.
The 2023 version of Smith is wiser, happier, self-assured.
“I really do feel like I’m in that place. Of course I want people to like (Gloria), but I’m on my fourth album now. I don’t feel like I have to prove so much, I just want to enjoy what I make and enjoy my job.”
Also in the hunt are longplays by 1300, Body Type, Camp Cope, Laura Jean and Party Dozen.
The ultimate winner will be revealed March 1 in Sydney, when the champ will be presented with a A$30,000 ($21,000) bounty, courtesy of major sponsor Soundmerch.
Sales and chart positions have no bearing on the result. It’s the artistry of the entry that counts.
“Yet again we have a very strong list,” comments AMP founder and prize director Scott B. Murphy. “It’s incredibly diverse and truly captures another year of the world’s best music. I sincerely thank the Soundmerch AMP team of judges – their donation of time and passion is much greater than what most people would think.”
Sampa The Great has form with the AMP.
The Zambian-born, Botswana-raised, Melbourne-based hip-hop artist bagged the prestigious prize in 2017 for the mixtape Birds And The BEE9, and again in 2020 with The Return, to become the first and only artist to win the prestigious award twice. Sampa had another world-first in 2020, when she was named as the first-ever BET Amplified global artist.
The AMP is modeled on Britain’s Mercury Music Prize and Canada’s Polaris Prize, the goal of which is to identify and reward the outstanding creative Australian album of the past year.
The nine shortlisted recordings are drawn from a longlist of 490 eligible Australian albums released in 2022, all of which were individually reviewed by a panel of music experts.
This year, the domestic affiliates of EMI, Virgin and Island are on board to sponsor the shortlist by each contributing A$3,000 ($2,100) for a funding pool, which shortlisted artists can drawn on to ensure they can attend the winner announcement event.
Genesis Owusu’s lauded collection Smiling With No Teeth won the prize last time, beating out recordings by Nick Cave, Hiatus Kaiyote and others.
The shortlist of the 18th Soundmerch AMP: 1300 – Foreign Language Body Type – Everything Is Dangerous But Nothing’s Surprising Camp Cope – Running With The Hurricane Julia Jacklin – Pre Pleasure King Stingray – King Stingray Laura Jean – Amateurs Party Dozen – The Real Work Sampa The Great – As Above, So Below Tasman Keith – A Colour Undone
Diane Warren achieved something remarkable on Tuesday (Jan. 24): She was nominated for an Oscar in the same awards year that she received an honorary Oscar.
The reason that’s so significant is that every member of the music branch of the Academy – whose votes determined the nominations – knew that Warren just collected an honorary Oscar at a ritzy event in Century City, Calif., on Nov. 19. There was no pressing reason to recognize her again so soon.
So the fact that she was nominated for her song “Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman says a lot about the depth of support for Warren in the Academy.
We already knew about that support. This was her 14th nomination for best original song – a total matched by only seven other songwriters in Oscar history. And this is the sixth year in a row she has been nominated, the longest continuous streak of nominations in that category since Alan Bergman and his late wife Marilyn Bergman were nominated six years running from 1968-73.
Those are impressive statistics. Here’s another one: Warren is just the fifth person in Oscar history to receive a competitive Oscar nod in the same awards year that he or she received an honorary Oscar. Warren is the only person from the world of music to do this. Two of the previous double recipients you probably know. The two others you may not, but we’ll fill you in.
First, let’s clarify something: Warren’s latest Oscar nomination was announced in 2023, and if she wins, she’ll receive the award in 2023, but the award is for the 2022 awards year. That’s how it’s listed in official Academy records. That’s also how her honorary Oscar is listed. So it all lines up.
Here’s a list of all five people who received a competitive Oscar nod in the same awards year that he or she received an honorary Oscar.
Camilo and Camila Cabello unveiled a music video for their first collaborative effort “Ambulancia” on Tuesday (Jan. 24).
Directed by Camilo’s wife and singer/actress Evaluna Montaner, the VHS-inspired clip finds Camilo and Camila riding on top of an ambulance, where they are sitting on a mattress filled with sunflowers. In the background, a green screen shows trippy visuals such as the starry galaxy, a busy highway and crashing ocean waves, to name a few.
The clip comes more than four months after the single dropped Sept. 6, part of Camilo’s De Adentro Pa Afuera album, which debuted at No. 8 on the Latin Pop Albums chart dated Sept. 17.
“I love the song so much,” Cabello told Camilo during an Instagram Live chat Tuesday afternoon. “I’ve always wanted to do a song with you. Being on set with you, Evaluna, and Indi (the couple’s baby), and then performing it live together in Los Angeles, for me, was a dream come true.”
The Colombian artist agreed: “I wanted to thank you for opening the door of your heart to do music together and also your fans for allowing me to be a part of their playlist.”
“Ambulancia” is a flirty slow-tempo bachata that narrates the story of a connection that cannot be explained, the one that is pure magic and magnetic. Moreover, it perfectly combines Camilo’s melodic vocals with Camila’s raspy voice. “I had turned off my heart, but when he saw you alone, he decided to turn back on,” she sings in a verse.
Watch the music video below:
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