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Last month, Selena Gomez seemed to be teasing some upcoming music. Now, we know that to be true: Today (February 14), she and fiancé Benny Blanco announced a collaborative album, I Said I Love You First, and shared the lead single, “Scared Of Loving You.”

So, the album is officially on the way, but it very easily could have been scrapped.

The two were interviewed together for a new Interview conversation shared today. During the chat, they were asked if there was any hesitation about making an album with each other, and Blanco said, “We said at the beginning, ‘If this ever is weird, we cancel it fucking immediately,’ because we knew what we had was so important.”

Gomez added, “I definitely didn’t feel any sort of pressure. I was maybe just nervous with jitters in the beginning, and then slowly but surely it was happening and it sort of fell into place with a lot of hard work and love.”

Blanco continued, “We also just made it in this house. We weren’t going to a studio every day. I’d be like, ‘Hey, I have this cool chord thing.’ Then she’d come in. We weren’t like, ‘Today’s the studio. We’re going to write this song and that.’ So many times it was so hodgepodge. It was like two hours here, two hours there. I’d never worked that way with someone. Usually I work that way if I’m by myself, but it was so cool to be able to do that with her.”

Read the full interview here.

I Said I Love You First is out 3/21 via SMG Music/Friends Keep Secrets/Interscope Records. Find more information here.

Like the rest of the world last year, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker was addicted to playing Balatro.

He called the poker roguelite the “the most addictive thing ever created,” and predicted that when the video game comes out on mobile devices (which it is now), “humankind’s activity is going to drop about 25 percent.” Hopefully Brooker found enough time away from Balatro — as well as his other recent favorites, open-world adventure game Ghost of Tsushima and deep-sea RPG Dave the Diver — to work on new episodes of Black Mirror.

Here’s everything we know about season 7 of Black Mirror on Netflix.

Plot

Charlie Brooker described Black Mirror season 7 as “a mix of genres and styles. We’ve got six episodes this time, and two of them are basically feature-length. Some of them are deeply unpleasant, some are quite funny, and some are emotional.” He added that the new season is “a little bit OG Black Mirror. It’s back to basics in many ways. They’re all sci-fi stories, but there’s definitely some horrifying things that occur, but maybe not in an overt horror-movie way. There’s definitely some disturbing content in it.”

When asked by Wisconsin Public Radio host Doug Gordon what he can reveal about the season, Brooker replied, “Not much! What can I say? There is a real mix of styles. There are quite a lot of emotional episodes. We’ve got a sequel for the first time. We did an episode called ‘USS Callister,’ which is very heavily influenced by The Twilight Zone.”

The “USS Callister” follow-up has Critics’ Choice award winner Cristin Milioti reprising her role as Nanette Cole, but Jesse Plemons won’t be back considering… I’ll just let Brooker spoil an eight-year-old episode. “Well, Jesse Plemons, his character is dead, unfortunately. So not to spoil the first one! Yeah, he dies at the end of the first one, so he’s gone, but they’ve got to sort of press on,” he teased. “It’s a nearly feature length extravaganza. And we’ve got another feature length episode elsewhere in the series. And like I say, quite a lot of emotion. You know, I just hope, as ever, I hope people like it.”

Based on the response to the first-look image, I think people will.

As for whether this is the final season of Black Mirror, here’s what Brooker had to say:

“I’m in a really, really fortunate position where I get to write this stuff, and it gets made, and I get to work with amazing people who also make me look better. And I love every minute. The editing is my favorite, actually. And there’s so much variety, so it’s in many ways inexhaustible. I’m sure I’ll find out when we’re not doing any more seasons! It will be made apparent to me at some point, I’m sure. But I’m in it for the long haul. I’m not going anywhere.”

Hm, if only there were technology concerns for Black Mirror to cover. Oh well!

Cast

The season 7 cast was revealed in a very Black Mirror-y way: on a flickering computer screen in a video titled “TCKR_Confidential_NotForDistribution.mp4.” The headliners include Awkwafina, Peter Capaldi, Emma Corrin, Paul Giamatti, Rashida Jones, Billy Magnussen, Cristin Milioti, Chris O’Dowd, Issa Rae, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Jimmi Simpson, but if you want to see the full, lengthy list, click here.

Release Date

Black Mirror season 7 will definitely premiere in 2025, as confirmed in the video below, but there’s no exact date yet.

Trailer

There’s also no trailer, but Black Mirror gets a shout out in the streamer’s 2025 sizzle reel.

Today (February 14), lovers around the world are celebrating Valentine’s Day. With that in mind, Emotional Oranges decided to give fans something sweet to vibe out to.

The “Be Somebody” musicians teamed up with Jessie Reyez and Becky G to get their romantic message out there. Together, the entertainers released their collaborative song, “Candy Gum,” co-produced by Chiiild.

In alignment with the record’s title, “Candy Gum” is a sweet and sensual song about a tussle between the sheets.

“Mouth to mouth like you need resuscitation / Ain’t no point in fighting, you know what I came for / I came for loving, came for touching / Came for sugar, came to c*m,” sings Emotional Oranges’ Valentina Porter.

Over on Instagram, the group teased their studio follow-up to 2023’s Still Emo while promoting the track. “It’s been over a year since STILL EMO and we wanted to come with something special for our first single from the album,” wrote the duo. “There’s nothing more iLL than 3 fly women barring out, reminds me of some of the dope posse cuts we grew up with in the early 2000s. been a fan of jessie since she dropped ‘figures’ & it’s an honor to work with becky again, a real LA legend.”

Listen to “Bubble Gum” above

Bon Iver is one of the more accomplished indie artists of the past 20 years. John Wilson created HBO’s equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking How To With John Wilson. Together, they combined forces on the video for “Everything Is Peaceful Love,” the first single from Bon Iver’s new album, SABLE, fABLE.

Vernon said in a statement, “I knew what kind of record I wanted to make the day we made ‘Everything Is Peaceful Love.’ I always knew that would be the feeling I wanted to share first. I wanted the video to just be people smiling uncontainably. Luckily, Eric Timothy Carlson suggested getting in touch with John Wilson from How To with John Wilson.”

The Bon Iver frontman accurately called the HBO series “simply the most poignant and hilarious program in all of television,” continuing, “We were extremely fortunate that John liked the idea. He went out, shot a bunch of fun stuff, and edited it all to the song. It gives me what I want for this album, all in one video. The idea that happiness and joy are the highest form and the true buoyancy of survival, and even taking yourself less seriously could heal the world.”

You can watch the “Everything Is Peaceful Love” video.

SABLE, fABLE is out 4/11 via Jagjaguwar. Find more information here.

When Sydney Sweeney isn’t on a set, she’s frequently demolishing the Internet with her social media thirst traps. How she manages to find the time, who knows? Sweeney recently finished filming the Christy Martin biopic and will return for Euphoria‘s third season sometime this year. At the moment, the Immaculate actress is working on The Housemaid, which will take her back to thrillers while adapting Frieda McFadden’s household-name making beach read novel that sparked sequels.

This movie has the advantage of a built-in audience ready to flock into theaters, so let’s not waste any more build-up on what to expect.

Plot

The Housemaid has sold millions of copies (and counting), leading the audience to tap into McFadden’s 20+ other books, which she has somehow managed to amass despite her “day job” as a physician. Sweeney is also doing just fine in the multitasking department with TMZ reporting that she is being paid $7.5 million for this film. Sequels will be possible as well with The Housemaid’s Secret and The Housemaid Is Watching also ripe for adaptation.

The Lionsgate movie will work from a script from Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Boys) and will follow the book’s setup with Sweeney portraying Millie, whose secret past leads her to accept a live-in position for the troubled Winchester family. The wife, Nina (Seyfried) seems seriously off, and the husband, Andrew (Sklenar), appears on the verge of breaking in half, according to the synopsis:

In the film, Sweeney will play Millie, a struggling woman who is relieved to get a fresh start as a housemaid to Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew, an upscale, wealthy couple. She soon learns that the family’s secrets are far more dangerous than her own.

Obviously, McFadden’s readers will know the twists that are coming, but presumably, they will be invested in watching drama unfold onscreen, much like the millions of people who watch Instagram reel-memes and know what’s coming. Speaking of which, filming began earlier this year in New Jersey with Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar, and director Paul Feig (A Simple Favor, Bridesmaids) whipping out the meme power on social media. The caption reads, “Lights, camera, deception,” and they went in for the meme kill: “It’s the Delulu for me. They are living in this big a** house and they put her in the attic with a cotton itchy blanket, like, red flag.”

That’s The Housemaid in a nutshell, alright.

Cast

Sweeney is throwing herself into the role of Millie with Seyfried as Nina Winchester with Brandon Sklenar (1923) as her husband, Andrew. Michele Morrone, who recently made waves in Subservience on Netflix, has picked up the role of sexy Italian groundskeeper Enzo. Alexandra Seal (A Murder At The End Of The World, Escape At Dannemora) will portray Officer Connors.

Release Date

The Housemaid will deliver beach-read thrills into theaters on Christmas 2025. Talk about counterprogramming.

Trailer

Filming has only just begun, but we can only hope that similar vibes to Sweeney’s Euphoria “Cassie meltdown” will surface at some point. Behold:

Last month, Jason Isbell announced Foxes In The Snow, his first solo album since 2015’s Something More Than Free, as he’s been mostly making material with his band The 400 Unit in recent years. His approach is the exact opposite this time and much simpler, though: A press release notes Isbell recorded the album on the same “all-mahogany 1940 Martin 0-17 acoustic guitar” and over the course of just five days.

The project is set for March 7, but ahead of them, he has unveiled the album’s title track. It’s instrumentally sparse, of course, with just guitar and vocals. But, Isbell’s songwriting and voice make the song feel full.

He sings on the track’s opening verse, “I love my love / I love her mouth / I love the way she turns the lights off in her house / And I love my love / And her velvet bed / Where she’s heard me sing the words that can’t be said / And all the dreams that die unseen / All the Diphenhydramine / It took to put my soul to sleep / Now it’s easy.”

Meanwhile, Isbell previously announced tour dates and his US solo tour kicks off tomorrow, February 14.

Listen to “Foxes In The Snow” above.

Foxes In The Snow is out 3/7 via Southeastern Records. Find more information here.

Chappell Roan’s record-setting music festival performance is going international. The “Good Luck, Babe!” singer was announced as one of the headliners for Rock En Seine 2025, which takes place from August 20 to 24 at the Domaine National de Saint-Cloud, near Paris, France. The lineup also includes ASAP Rocky, London Grammer, Vampire Weekend, recent Grammy winner Doechii, Anyma, Justice, Jamie xx, Queens Of The Stone Age, Fontaines DC, Mk.gee, and Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory.

Pre-sale tickets for Rock En Seine 2025 will be available beginning Friday, February 14, at 2 p.m. CET with preferential prices exclusively for Revolut customers (there’s a €10 discount — roughly 10 bucks in American dollars — on tickets or packages when using Revolut Pay until Monday, February 17). Meanwhile, the general sale starts on Monday, February 17, at 10 a.m. CET. You can find more information here.

Check out the festival’s full lineup below.

Rock En Seine 2025 Lineup For Wednesday, August 20

Chappell Roan
London Grammar
Luvcat
Suki Waterhouse

Rock En Seine 2025 Lineup For Thursday, August 21

ASAP Rocky
Vampire Weekend
Doechii
Khruangbin
Barry Can’t Swim
Mk.gee
Montell Fish
Alemeda

Rock En Seine 2025 Lineup For Friday, August 22

Anyma
Aurora
Caribou
Empire Of The Sun
Marc Rebillet
Good Neighbours

Rock En Seine 2025 Lineup For Saturday, August 23

Justice
Jamie xx
Jorja Smith
Artemas
Dabeull
Luidji

Rock En Seine 2025 Lineup For Sunday, August 24

Queens Of The Stone Age
Fontaines DC
Last Train
Stereophonics
Wallows
Kneecap
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

After releasing two albums — – (Subtract) and Autumn Variations — in 2023, Ed Sheeran mostly laid low in 2024 (aside from, you know, a giant concert tour). But, in terms of new music, it looks like he may be more active this year. In fact, he has seemingly indicated what his next album will be titled.

A social media post shared by Memezar (as Pubity notes) noted that Sheeran recently changed his profile picture and asked, “What math is he gonna do next?” Sheeran himself commented on the post, “Irony is if you ask me anything maths related I would fail the question, I never finished high school. Play coming soon though,” apparently confirming the album will be called Play.

Sheeran previously hinted at the title being Play: In a social media post shared towards the end of 2023, he wrote, “See you sometime next year when we press Play again on pop, and have a good holiday season.”

Meanwhile, Sheeran was recently performing on the street in India, but police opted to shut him down. He later explained, “We had permission to busk btw, hence us playing in that exact spot, was planned out before, it wasn’t just us randomly turning up. All good though. See ya at the show tonight x.”

Steven and Ian begin this week by discussing their Valentine’s Day plans and plotting a potential Love Is Blind-cast. Then Steven formally congratulates Ian on the Philadelphia Eagles’ beatdown of the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl, and sort of makes amends for all of his Nick Sirianni slander. From there they break down the Super Bowl Halftime Show, and discuss the polarized reactions to Kendrick Lamar’s performance. In the Fantasy Albums Draft update, they discuss new albums from Bartees Strange and Horsegirl. Finally, they wrap with an overview of the 2025 slate of Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame nominees.

In Recommendation Corner, Ian shouts out the Australian Skeleten and Steven stumps for a benefit EP from Big Thief.

New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 226 here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.

Offset continues to seemingly shade his ex Cardi B through his new music, following December’s boastful “Swing My Way” with a vindictive new single, “Ten.” This time around, Offset insists on his own memorability, predicting that “You gon’ have to f*ck ’bout ten more n****s to get over me.”

He also takes a “sorry, not sorry” stance toward all the rumors of his infidelity, sneering, “It’s a big difference / I was just f*cking the b*tches you was nitpicking / Watching me splurging on b*tches and it hit different / Calling me and asking me questions, mind your business.”

Yeesh.

It certainly sounds like Offset is doing his best to earn Cardi’s ire, which she last unleashed back in October, declaring in a since-deleted string of tweets, “Bro I wish the worst on this man…I never hated somebody so much and these b*tches be so thirsty to have him please take this man off my hands this garbage bag is too heavy!!” Although she deleted the posts, it doesn’t sound like he’s on her list of favorite people.

Meanwhile, Offset’s prediction doesn’t seem like it’ll be coming true anytime soon after Cardi asserted in November, “I’m telling you…the dating pool got piss in it .”

You can listen to Offset’s new single “Ten” above.