Selena Gomez has previously some uncertainty when it comes to her future in music. The immediate future is pretty clear at the moment, though, as she and fiancé Benny Blanco have a new album, I Said I Love You First, on the way.
Before this project, though, Gomez admits she was feeling “very frustrated and kind of confused” about what she should do next musically.
“I was, to be honest, very frustrated and kind of confused on where I wanted to go next musically. And we had been together for a while, and obviously I would confide in him. I couldn’t figure out my sound. It helps that he knows a little bit about music, and it kind of happened organically to where I felt like this process was unlike any other process I’d ever been through.”
Blanco also said of the songwriting and recording process:
“She’d wake up, I’d have a pen out, and I’d write what was on her mind. Then we’d go into the other room and create it, and it became a song. It was such a cathartic and therapeutic experience. All the songwriting, it’s all our friends. There’s no, like, ‘Man, we’re gonna get in with this person for the first time — I wonder how this is gonna go.’ We also kept this one really close to the chest, because I feel like it was so important for it to be written exactly how we wanted it and to feel exactly how we wanted it to feel.”
For his time on stage, Bad Bunny performed the Debí Tirar Más Fotos highlight “Eoo.” He utilized a simple-but-striking stage design featuring an elevated platform and a number of dancers. The dancers did more than just enhance the environment by moving around as Bad Bunny performed, though, as the rapper even crowdsurfed on them at one point.
Bad Bunny was nominated for Latin Pop/Urban Artist Of The Year (which Feid ended up winning) and for Latin Pop/Urban Song Of The Year with his Feid collaboration “Perro Negro” (which won).
This comes weeks after Bad Bunny took an L on Hot Ones, quitting the challenge before the end and after expressing concern by saying things like “I’m worried about my colon” and “I think I will be at the bathroom the whole trip from here to Puerto Rico.”
While accepting the award for Tour Of The Century for The Eras Tour at the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards on Monday night, Taylor Swift wore a snake necklace. Snakes were a major motif in the Reputation era, and this being the Year Of The Snake, Swifties are convinced that this means the Taylor’s Version of the album will be out before the beginning of 2026.
“Taylor Swift is wearing a necklace that looks very similar to the one she wore in the Look What You Made Me Do music video,” a popular fan account noted. Even Public Enemy rapper (and big-time Swiftie) Flavor Flav noticed the jewelry, writing, “That necklace tho. If ya know ya know.”
“The only reason I was able to take on those challenges, among others, the ambition of the production, the length of the show, the amount of shows, all the different countries we played in, that’s all because of the fans,” Swift said in her Tour Of The Century speech. “You made the songs for the last couple decades into what they became so that we could do a three and a half hour setlist. You had the passion and the generosity to care about traveling to see us on tour in all these places all over the world. It blows my mind. I’m never going to stop being grateful for it, and I appreciate this more than you know.”
Steven Knight’s new Hulu gangster series revolves around the intersection of London’s bareknuckled boxing scene and an all-woman gang in the 1880s, which was about four decades before the events of Peaky Blinders.
In A Thousand Blows, we meet the Forty Elephants, led by their “queen,” real-life crime boss Mary Carr (Erin Doherty). She is maneuvering in the same underground world as menacing fighter Sugar Goodson (Stephen Graham), who encounters an opponent like he’s never experienced until now.
We quizzed Knight on what viewers might take from the Elephants’ story in these fraught current times for women’s rights with the writer and producer telling us that he does not “write with the intention of trying to smuggle a message in,” but that “the message is there,” particularly in an overarching story where every character, regardless of race or sex, is working class and struggling to break out. And as with Peaky, this show is a layered snapshot of an era (with fitting storytelling liberties taken) that can be both foreign and familiar to our own.
For more on building the world of A Thousand Blows and the power of a good needle drop, check out the conversation below.
When I heard about A Thousand Blows, I was reminded of how the Shelby women felt like their own gang. You let their voices and struggles and dreams shine, so this new show’s setup feels like a natural progression.
Yeah, I’ve wanted to do this show for a long time, back to when I was doing research into Peaky and discovered the true story, which is remarkable, of the gang who called themselves The Forty Elephants. Their name possibly came from Elephant and Castle, but when they went to Harrod’s and stole so many items of clothing and put them on to steal them, and they walked out, they looked like elephants because they were so big. And the humor of them, the look of them, and the name of them was always very, very beguiling to me.
And then Stephen Graham approached me with this story of Hezekiah Moscow [Malachi Kirby], and again, he’s a true person, someone who arrives in England in the 1880s from Jamaica with a mission to be a lion tamer. This is not stuff you can make up, but instead, he becomes an incredibly successful bareknuckled boxer. And I just thought, that idea was great. The Forty Elephants were in the same city at the same time. Imagine if Mary Carr and Hezekiah Moscow met, and there is no proof that they didn’t, so therefore, it’s possible. That’s what this story is, imagine if that happened.
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You just mentioned a “what if” type scenario, but in general, when you choose to take liberties with history, how do you decide what is worth tweaking for the sake of the story?
I always think that what really happened is so remarkable that it almost dwarfs anything that you make up, but when you tell a story with lots of moving parts and lots of characters, sometimes reality takes a turn that isn’t going to work somehow. So I feel fine, as long as the characters are true to who they really were, then I think you can introduce into fiction things that either may not have happened or didn’t happen. And just see how that takes the story. And it’s not really, to be honest, a logical thing that I do, where I sit and think, “Wouldn’t it be interesting if this happened?”
I tend to be led by my fingers when I’m writing, so that when I’m actually writing something, I sometimes look back and realize what it’s about because this stuff has just come when I was writing. And I think that happens when you’re confident that the characters are correct. You sort of feel a bit of freedom to let them talk to each other.
Mary Carr is a closed book for most of this season. When did you decide it was time for that emotional outpouring?
I always think when various characters that one creates, especially when they’ve had incredibly difficult lives, that Mary Carr did have. Her life, in reality, was brutal from the moment she was born. And I think that in my opinion, when someone is in that situation, then the likelihood is, and from whatever records of who Mary Carr was and what she did, that she closed down any sort of trust in other people. And if you show emotion, you’re sort of trusting people to be delicate with you. And to be okay with you. So therefore, I imagine from quotes from her and court cases where she gave evidence, here’s someone who was quite tough, very hard.
And people like that are a bit like Tommy Shelby. There’s a locked door, you can’t get in. And I think that whenever people come across a locked door, they wanna know what’s on the other side. Or a locked box, they want to know what’s inside the box. And where you get given a character like this, who is so closed off and doesn’t let anybody in, I think what you can do then is just choose your moment to open the box a little bit. And it has such an effect when you see someone who gives nothing suddenly give something, it’s like a bomb going off. So I think that’s always a gift when you’re writing something.
The music of A Thousand Blows takes a very different approach than Peaky, which had a lot of needle drops from pop culture, but here, you go with a more score-based approach.
Having a show that’s set in the same world [Birmingham with Peaky], but you have contemporary music, that’s one way of going down that road. With this, we felt that the score could do the same job, but it could feel very contemporary. And I believe that music in film and television is such a powerful thing that people don’t really think about. In other words, if you strip it all back, when you’re watching something, and it feels absolutely realistic, you’re watching it if that’s really happening, but there’s this music, though, with no explanation of where it’s coming from.
We’re just so used to having a score, we’re used to having a piece of music that compliments what you’re seeing. And it’s so powerful, and I believe that when you are writing a scene, and hopefully, you’re creating a particular emotion, it’s only when the music comes in at a certain point that you get permission to cry, for example. That’s what makes you cry is when the music comes in, and it sort of almost overloads the emotion. So I think that it’s an incredibly important secret weapon in the creation of a TV series or a film, which everybody knows about, and we all get it, but it doesn’t get analyzed, I don’t think. Even though it’s quite odd that it’s there at all.
That reminds me: I’ve got a Peaky needle drops list that I’m planning to publish closer to the movie’s release. Do you have a favorite of all time?
Oh, Ane Bruin, “It Don’t Matter Where You Bury Me” [All My Tears].
And here I am being more obvious by elevating Radiohead and Black Sabbath and Nick Cave and Bowie.
Oh listen, they’re all so beautiful, but that particular song shouldn’t have worked, and it really works in the moment that it’s in. And it’s a good example of Peaky music, where it’s not the track that you think is gonna happen, but I find that song so haunting.
‘A Thousand Blows’ is currently streaming on Hulu and Disney+.
Celine Song directed one of the best movies of the decade so far in Past Lives. Now she’s back with her new film, Materialists.
The A24 romantic-comedy (emphasis on the romance) stars Dakota Johnson as Lucy, a young, ambitious New York City matchmaker who finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex, played by Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans, respectively. It’s nice to see Johnson and Evans out of the Marvel system, although hopefully they passed along advice to Pascal.
The trailer, which you can watch above, includes an original song from Japanese Breakfast (who releases her own album, Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), later this month).
When Pascal was asked by GQ why he wanted to work with Song, he replied, “Past Lives is one of the best movies I’ve seen in years, number one. There’s that simple answer. I met Celine and we became fast friends before the idea of ever working together. It really came down to it being, anything that she may or may not want me to do, I’d be willing to do it as an artist and as a friend. Working with that caliber of talent is the goal ultimately, and so I’m the lucky one.” Johnson also sung Song’s praises calling her a “masterful filmmaker.”
The 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards went down last night (March 17), and aside from some trophies being handed out, it was also a big night for performances. Among the artists taking the stage was Billie Eilish (along with Finneas), for a rendition of “Wildflower.”
Eilish was a leading nominee at this year’s show, with five nods. She only walked away with one win, but it was a big one: Album Of The Year.
Meanwhile, Eilish recently said of her plans for the next 12 months, “Definitely getting back into the studio and doing stuff. Next 12 months, I want to… I definitely have more tour, lots of tour to do, and probably more than I’m even scheduled for that’s gonna come, which I’m excited about. I feel like [touring], I’ve really made it into something really fun and enjoyable where it’s not always been that way. I’ve really suffered on tour and I feel like it’s gotten to be really, really enjoyable, so I’m excited for that.”
Check out Eilish’s performance above, and find the full list of 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards winners here.
Yesterday (March 17) Mariah Carey unintentional created the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards‘ most viral moment (viewable here). While the “Always Be My Baby” singer did not appear to be impressed with her special live tribute featuring Muni Long and Tori Kelly, Carey was over the moon as she accepted the evening’s Icon Award.
Mariah Carey’s speech for the evening’s coveted award was indeed iconic. Before delivering her thank yous, Carey had to ensure everything was up to her standards. “Is the lighting ok cause I don’t like bad lighting,” Carey asked the crowd.
She then showed off her humorous side by explaining the music industry before the digital boom. “As a kid I used to listen to my favorite artists on the radio and dream of being on the airwaves myself,” said she. “Now, for those of you who may not know what airwaves are, think of it as the non-WiFi of streaming.”
Carey reeled things in with a dose of humility, saying: “Even now I still get excited when I hear one of my songs playing on the radio. It never stops being magical.”
Shortly after that, Carey delivered a dig at her ex-husband, Tommy Mottola. “He was my first manager,” she said referring to the president of iHeartRadio John Sykes. “Some people think it was this other guy, but it wasn’t him. It was John.”
She closed with an emotional tribute to her late mother and former opera singer Patricia Carey for “gifting her the gift of music,” her devoted super fans (the Lambs) for their unwavering support and every one who has played a part in her massive success on radio (all the way down to station interns).
With her son Moroccan, daughter Monroe, and rumored boyfriend Anderson .Paak looking up for the audience it is safe to say Carey was filled with emotions.
Watch Mariah Carey’s full acceptance speech during the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards above. Check out Muni Long and Tori Kelly’s tribute performance to Mariah Carey during the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards below.
But yesterday (March 17), during the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards, the “Abracadabra” singer’s career stride thus far were acknowledged when Lady Gaga was bestowed with the Innovator Award.
During her acceptance speech, Lady Gaga used the time on stage to slam ageism across the music industry–especially in pop. “Winning an award honoring my entire career at 38 years old is a hard thing to get my head around,” she said. “On the one hand, I feel like I’ve been doing this forever, and on the other hand, I know I’m just getting started. So even though the world might consider a woman in her late 30s old for a pop star, which is insane, I promise that I’m just getting warmed up.”
Lady Gaga also took a moment to share her take on the award’s meaning, saying: “Innovation isn’t about breaking rules. It’s about writing your own and convincing the world they were theirs all along.”
She even gave a kind nod to Doechii who presented her with the Innovator Award as one herself.
Later in the evening Lady Gaga took home Best Collaboration for her song with Bruno Mars (“Die With a Smile”).
Watch Lady Gaga’s full acceptance speech during the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Awards above.
Yesterday (March 17), Calvin Klein unveiled their latest underwear campaign starring Bad Bunny. The multiple Grammy Award-winning recording artist is no stranger to sharing thirst traps online. Still, his Calvin Klein unlocked an entirely new level of lust among his fan base.
In the comment section of the photo collage (viewable here), users penned their raunchiest responses.
“Something wet just rolled down my ankles,” wrote one user.
In a statement, Bad Bunny celebrated his sensual photo spread (photographed by Mario Sorrenti) saying: “This has been in the works for some time now; seeing it finally come to life has been gratifying. I’m excited and grateful for the opportunity to be part of this brand’s iconic campaign, and getting to shoot it in Puerto Rico made it that much more special and genuine.”
With Bad Bunny on the dating scene, he just launch one hell of a billboard to find his next boo.
Following a recent interview with the New Yorker, fans are under the impressive Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker are more than musical collaborators. Continue below for more information.
Are Lucy Dacus And Julien Baker Dating?
According to the newly published sit-down with Lucy Dacus, she and Boygenius member Julien Baker are indeed in a romantic relationship. As Dacus discussed the group’s hiatus, she confirmed that she and Baker were an item.
In fact, Dacus’ forthcoming album, Forever Is a Feeling, will give listeners a look at how their romance has aided in her growth as a person. On the upcoming project’s title track Dacus says she sings about the ways in which the relationship “forced her to reckon with the unknown.”
Overall, Dacus says Forever Is a Feeling is more so about “coming to terms with change—of knowing that things aren’t forever.”
Dacus also revealed that Bridgers is in full support of the budding relationship, having gifted the couple a membership to their favorite spot–The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.
Boygenius are currently focusing on their solo pursuits but in more ways than one, their love remains.
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