The set goes dark. The audience hushes but you can still feel the buzz of their excitement. The drummer plays an epic tom fill to start the song…somewhere in the distance there’s a glissando across a set of thousand dollar chimes.
Each season, Bridgerton is effectively connecting genres and generations of timeless art, introducing those who might not have ever listened to classical music to now be adoring fans, all thanks to the hit show. Bridgerton was the most-watched show in English Netflix history, with now over 627 million hours viewed, introducing millions of people to the beauty of classical music.
BTS member Suga invited Halsey on stage for his solo concert at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on Sunday evening in the context of his world tour “Suga Agust D.” On the last day of the three-day concert, Sugar surprised his fans with the appearance of Halsey for the 2020 song ‘Suga’s Interlude,’ from Halsey’s third studio album ‘Manic.’
On Tuesday, a Los Angeles judge denied motion for a new trail from lawyers for rapper Tory Lanez, who was convicted of three felonies in December for shooting and injuring the foot of hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion. A sentencing date has not been set, but Judge David Herriford of the Superior Court of Los Angeles indicated during a hearing on April 17 that Lanez would be sentenced within 30 days of the decision on the motion for a new trial.
Content, engagement, numbers, numbers, numbers. If you’re not engaging on IG or Twitter or doing a dance challenge on TikTok, you’re a nobody, right? Immediately, no.
From BLACKPINK to BTS, it can be difficult for freshly debuted Kpop groups to grow in popularity in their earlier stages. The K-pop industry is known to pump out as many groups as possible which makes it difficult for listeners to tune in to the best groups. Here is the top rookie talent for 2023!
While the 2023 viewership was originally 113.06 million, reports on Monday went over the data again adding another 2 percent to the Super Bowl LVII’s total views. It was said the numbers were warped due to an external encoding issue and a firmware upgrade.
Being an ethical music fan in this age of streaming can feel bewildering. We have almost all of the music ever recorded (though not necessarily the best-sounding versions of it) at our fingertips at any given time. But we have no idea how much clicking “play” will benefit the artists who created it.
We lugged heavy equipment into clubs that required musicians to walk everything up 4 flights of narrow stairs. Then, after playing a show we worked hard to craft, we tore everything down, walked it back down the stairs, received an insulting amount of money, and drove to the next venue hours away. Good.
In hip hop, as is often the case with many topics, there tends to be a glossy and/or rosy eyed view of the past; and an endlessly wagging finger about the present state of the genre.
Music is present in every part of our lives. It is everywhere we go, whether it’s on the radio, in the movies, or even in our heads. It has become such an essential aspect of all human civilizations and has the power to emotionally, morally, and culturally affect us.
We keep hearing the phrase, “Eventually, humans will go extinct,” and immediately blame all the things we have been told are affecting our planet. Lack of recycling, non-eco-friendly cars, continuous contamination, cutting down trees, burning forests, etc. We do this because they are easy things to blame as opposed to the music industry, books, and fast-fashion practitioner companies like Shein, Forever 21, or Zara.
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