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Troye Sivan recently released his new album, Something To Give Each Other. In support of it, he did an interview with Billboard’s Pop Shop podcast where he talked about the record — and some of his key influences in music.

“I talk a lot about Janet Jackson because she’s so important to me, but I saw her show at the Hollywood Bowl really early on in the process,” Sivan shared. “And, to me, it took me right back to when was I was like, however old I was, I was probably like 7… hearing ‘Together Again’ for the first time.”

“And that melody and those chords and the warmth that’s in that song literally changed the trajectory of my life,” he added. “The trajectory of my life as a musician and as a songwriter, specifically. And that’s something that I was really really striving for [on the new album]. I wanted something warm.”

Sivan also spoke about the possibility of doing a tour tied to the new album, with his fears tied to it.

“I’m intimidated because… when this tour happens, I want it to be the tour of my life,” he explained. “I really do. And I want to give the big pop show that I think this album is asking for, and these visuals are asking for. And so it’s a big job… So, I’m gonna take a second and regroup and then figure it out. For some reason, I really really really feel the pressure, I really do.”

For now, fans can listen to Sivan’s new record, which is out now.

Taylor Swift is just a few weeks away from dropping her re-recorded version of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) on October 27. For those who might be wondering, the original version of Swift’s 1989 dropped all the way back in 2014, making next year its 10th anniversary.

Specifically, the original release date was released on exactly October 27, 2014, making it almost a full-circle type of deal. Swift’s fifth studio album found her leaning fully into pop music.

The record had three No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, namely “Bad Blood” featuring Kendrick Lamar, “Shake It Off,” and “Blank Space.” Other tracks like “Style” and “Wildest Dreams” made it to the Top 10 following its release.

It also took home Album Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Album at the Grammy Awards. At the time, it made Swift the first female solo artist to win twice for AOTY. (She has since earned a third for her 2020 album, Folklore.)

Shortly after the album’s original release, Swift removed her catalog from Spotify, citing the ways streaming prevented songwriters from getting royalties. While her music is now back on the streamer, this move didn’t affect the massive success of 1989 at all.

When the new version is released, those who might have been too young or not around for the original run get to experience the joys of this era all over again.

1989 (Taylor’s Version) is out 10/27 via Republic Records. Find more information here.

Taylor Swift is just a few weeks away from dropping her re-recorded version of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) on October 27. For those who might be wondering, the original version of Swift’s 1989 dropped all the way back in 2014, making next year its 10th anniversary.

Specifically, the original release date was released on exactly October 27, 2014, making it almost a full-circle type of deal. Swift’s fifth studio album found her leaning fully into pop music.

The record had three No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, namely “Bad Blood” featuring Kendrick Lamar, “Shake It Off,” and “Blank Space.” Other tracks like “Style” and “Wildest Dreams” made it to the Top 10 following its release.

It also took home Album Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Album at the Grammy Awards. At the time, it made Swift the first female solo artist to win twice for AOTY. (She has since earned a third for her 2020 album, Folklore.)

Shortly after the album’s original release, Swift removed her catalog from Spotify, citing the ways streaming prevented songwriters from getting royalties. While her music is now back on the streamer, this move didn’t affect the massive success of 1989 at all.

When the new version is released, those who might have been too young or not around for the original run get to experience the joys of this era all over again.

1989 (Taylor’s Version) is out 10/27 via Republic Records. Find more information here.

Taylor Swift is gearing up to release her next re-recording with 1989 (Taylor’s Version) arriving in just a few days. For those who aren’t already aware of its release dates, it will be out in the world on October 27 — 10 days away as of this writing.

“Surprise!!” Swift wrote in the original announcement. “1989 (Taylor’s Version) is on its way to you [soon]! The 1989 album changed my life in countless ways, and it fills me with such excitement to announce that my version of it will be out October 27th. To be perfectly honest, this is my most FAVORITE re-record I’ve ever done because the 5 From The Vault tracks are so insane. I can’t believe they were ever left behind. But not for long!”

Compared to Swift’s other re-recordings, her new version of 1989 is the first to not include any collaborations. Swift added five new vault tracks of previously unheard songs: “Is It Over Now?,” “Now That We Don’t Talk,” “Say Don’t Go,” “Suburban Legends,” and “Slut!.”

As for the next possible re-recorded Swif album to come after 1989 (Taylor’s Version), there are only two left: her self-titled debut and Reputation. However, many fans have suspected from easter eggs that the latter will be the next in the release sequence.

1989 (Taylor’s Version) is out 10/27 via Republic Records. Find more information here.

A few days ago, Liam Gallagher announced that next year he would be honoring the 30th anniversary of Oasis’ debut album, Definitely Maybe, by embarking on a solo tour. Given that his brother, Noel, was obviously missing from the equation, fans on social media had some questions. And Liam answered.

“But are you going to give us the surprise that Noel is going to join the DM tour or not, Liam?” one person asked.

“He’s been asked and he’s refused,” Liam responded on Twitter.

Liam first unveiled the news on Instagram, with a list of dates around the UK and Europe.

“I’m bouncing around the house to announce the Definitely Maybe Tour,” he wrote in the caption. “The most important album of the ‘90s bar none. I wouldn’t be anywhere without it and neither would you, so let’s celebrate together LG x.”

View a complete list of the tour dates for Liam Gallagher’s Definitely Maybe anniversary tour below. Find more information on tickets here.

06/01/2024 — Sheffield, UK @ Utilita Arena
06/03/2024 — Cardiff, Wales @ Utilita Arena
06/06/2024 — London, UK @ The O2
06/07/2024 — London, UK @ The O2
06/10/2024 — London, UK @ The O2
06/15/2024 — Manchester, UK @ Co-op Live
06/16/2024 — Manchester, UK @ Co-op Live
06/19/2024 — Glasgow, Scotland @ OVO Hydro
06/20/2024 — Glasgow, Scotland @ OVO Hydro
06/23/2024 — Dublin, Ireland @ 3Arena
06/24/2024 — Dublin, Ireland @ 3Arena
06/27/2024 — Manchester, UK @ Co-op Live

As the star of one of the most absurdly popular movie franchises in movie history, Daniel Radcliffe is used to being the subject of out-there internet speculation. (Unless he hates all of it. Maybe he does.) Here’s one: He got buff so he could take over the role of Wolverine from Hugh Jackman. Is it true? Well, judge for yourself.

The Harry Potter alum (who’s not interested in more of that, thank you very much) sat down for a lie detector test for Vanity Fair, during which he was grilled by his current Merrily We Roll Along castmates Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez. In a bit teased out by Entertainment Weekly, at one point Mendez asked him if he was the one who started said rumor. He denied it, which doubled as him denying he wanted to play the X-Men’s angriest mutant.

“So you just buff for no reason?” Mendez shot back.

“Yes,” Radcliffe replied, laughing. “I got buff because I am obsessive, and I want to… You’ve seen my parents, they’re like insane fitness people. So that’s just been passed on.” He added, “But no Wolverine. Flattered. But no.”

At no point does the test expert chime in to say Radcliffe is lying.

Where did this rumor come from? It began when he showed off some muscles during an underwear scene from Season 4 of his Steve Buscemi show Miracle Workers.

Elsewhere in the interrogation, Radcliffe is asked about the weirdest stories he’s encountered about himself. He has quite the list:

“That I had the [UK Special Air Service] walk my dogs. That I had special beer brewed for myself by monks in a monastery in Belgium. That I used to get my assistant to hold my scripts in the mirror so I could read it while I was having makeup done — even though that doesn’t make f*cking sense because I wouldn’t be able to read mirror writing. There’s a long list.”

You can watch Radcliffe trying not to get caught lying in the video below. The revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along is currently running on Broadway.

(Via Vanity Fair and EW)

Post Malone appeared for a new interview on The Howard Stern Show, during which he reflected on his experience meeting Taylor Swift years ago. The two were backstage at a show, and the pop star revealed she loved his music.

“We were just passing by and she was like, ‘Oh my God! Nice to see you,’” Malone shared. “‘Better Now is f*cking amazing!’”

There was also a video of the supposed moment at the time. “I’m so jealous of that song, that hook,” Swift can be heard saying.

The rapper then shared the rest of what he said to Swift: “I was like, ‘What? That’s f*cking crazy, you’re a great f*cking songwriter! Thank you so very much.’”

Malone also noted that the moment meant a ton to him. “There’s so many beautiful artists in the world and for another artist to acknowledge that is a really, really b*tching thing,” he said. “It’s a really special thing. That was a really cool moment and it was very inspiring.”

Since then, Malone and Swift have hung out again, as he described the pop star as “genuinely one of the most kind and considerate [people]” and “a f*cking hell of a songwriter,” according to Rolling Stone.

There’s a new film by legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki out in December. It’s called The Boy and the Heron, and it’s his once mysterious un-retirement movie. A decade ago he made what was supposed to be his swan song, The Wind Rises, but he eventually realized he was bored not making movies, so here we are. His films tend to be released in America with both its original audio and in star-studded English dubs. But the latter for his latest may be even more star-studded than usual. (Though you should of course seek out the Japanese-language version, but more on that in a bit.)

Per Variety, GKids, who have been distributing films by Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli in America for years, has tapped some big names. Robert Pattinson plays a mysterious grey heron who lures our 12-year-old hero (voice of You’s Luca Padovan), reeling from the death of his mother in the midst of the Second World War, into a fantastical and trippy alternate world. Christian Bale will play his kindly father, Florence Pugh one of the women he meets there, Mark Hamill his grand-uncle, who disappeared ages ago, and Gemma Chan as his aunt.

Oh, but there’s more. Dave Bautista will voice the “Parakeet King,” who leads a gang of deadly, knife-wielding (yet still cute) parakeets. And Willem Dafoe is typecast as “Noble Pelican.”

That’s a great voice cast and star power will surely lure lots of American moviegoers, and their kids, to see the latest classically hand-drawn, cel-animated Miyazaki wonder. That said, here’s why you should seek out the Japanese-language version: Miyazaki personally and laboriously oversees which Japanese actor voices which characters. He’s adamant about finding the best person to voice his very specific characters. The voice talent is as important to a Miyazaki film as all the mind-melting stuff he conjures onscreen. And that’s on top of seeing a Japanese movie about Japanese characters featuring Japanese vocal talents.

But hey, if you have to see The Boy and the Heron in a subtitle-less dub, you sure could do worse than doing so with Robert Pattinson and Christian Bale and Florence Pugh and freakin’ Willem Dafoe.

The Boy and the Heron will hit American theaters on December 8. You can watch the teaser trailer — with the original Japanese voice actors — in the video above.

(Via Variety)

Love Actually turns 20 this year, which means it’s spent two decades as a Yuletide staple, offering alternately sappy and self-deprecating British vibes. It’s also, like all films from the time, from a very different era. There’s even a reference to 9/11 in the first minute. And there’s one thing its writer-director wishes he could surgically remove: dumb weight jokes.

As per Today, Richard Curtis, who directed the film after a run writing witty Hugh Grant rom-coms like Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones’s Diary made an appearance at the Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival. He was interviewed by his daughter Scarlett, who asked him about those films. Curtis also recalled how five years ago she told him he could never use the word “fat” again.

She could have been referring to Bridget Jones’s Diary, in which its heroine’s weight is a relentless figure of fun. The same goes for Love Actually, in which Martine McCutcheon’s Natalie, a junior member of Hugh Grant’s Prime Minister’s cabinet, is ribbed for her “massive” “tree trunk thighs,” called “plumpy” by her dad, and told that she “weighs a lot” after she jumps into Grant’s arms. Those jokes don’t play now like they did in 2003.

“And wow, you were right,” Richard Curtis told his daughter in front of the crowd. “I think I was behind, you know, behind the curve, and those jokes aren’t any longer funny, so I don’t feel I was malicious at the time, but I think I was unobservant and not as, you know, as clever as I should have been.”

He also reflected on how, well, white the films are, with characters of color usually relegated to the sidelines or small supporting roles, if they’re present at all.

“I came from a very un-diverse school and a bunch of university friends,” Curtis admitted. “[With] Notting Hill, I think that I hung on to the diversity issue, to the feeling that I wouldn’t know how to write those parts. And I think I was just sort of stupid and wrong about that.”

Love Actually’s random weight jokes aren’t the only aspect that’s come under fire. On a far lighter note, Hugh Grant has admitted that he didn’t like shooting that dance scene one bit.

As for Curtis, he hasn’t made one of those Hugh Grant comedies in a while. In fact, his last screen credit was for the Beatles what-if? movie Yesterday, which is a whole other controversy unto itself.

(Via Today)

Last season the Utah Jazz underwent a minimalistic design overhaul with their uniforms that included a Statement edition jersey made by Jordan brand. As part of the overall Nike deal, teams in the league with a Jordan brand jersey will also sell Jordan specific team merchandise that includes the iconic Jumpman logo.

However, for Utah Jazz fans, who lost two heartbreaking Finals series to Michael Jordan in the 90s, that partnership comes with some painful memories attached. Recently, a Jazz fan discovered a Jordan brand t-shirt at the Jazz team store that featured a giant Jumpman logo over the Utah Jazz, making it appear like Jordan was dunking on the Jazz once again. The shirt caused so much commotion among the fanbase that the Jazz removed the shirt from the team store, per Andy Larsen of the Salt Lake Tribune.

This is the proper fan reaction to a man that stood between the Jazz and their two best shots at an NBA championship. It’s been 25 years since those Finals series, but they have some of the most iconic shots and games in NBA history. Jazz fans can’t go very long watching NBA programming without seeing a highlight of Jordan ending their title hopes. For the fans that watched those series, that grudge may never end and they aren’t trying to see merch with Jordan’s logo jumping over their favorite team team. Jazz fans still take it personal, and no one would understand that better than Jordan himself.