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Jisoo recently announced Amortage, her debut solo EP, and the project marks a turning point, as it’s the Blackpink member’s first solo project since signing with Warner Records just a few days ago. Now, she has unveiled a bit more about the release: its tracklist. Pre-orders are also now open.

Jisoo previously said of the project, “I’m excited about this new era and the continuation of my musical journey. I feel like I’m just getting started, and I’d like to thank the BLINKs for all of their love and support. This is just the beginning, and I’m thrilled to kick off this seismic moment with Warner Records.”

Aaron Bay-Schuck, CEO/co-chairman of Warner Records, also said in a statement, “There is no question that Jisoo is one of the biggest stars in the world, and we have no doubt that her solo career will be even more impactful. The energy, passion, and artistry Jisoo brings to her music is on another level. Her music transcends cultures and Tom Corson and I along with the entire team are thrilled to join forces with Jisoo as she continues to make history and inspire millions around the world.”

Check out the Amortage cover art and tracklist below.

Jisoo’s Amortage Album Cover Artwork

Jisoo’s Amortage Tracklist

1. “Earthquake”
2. “Your Love”
3. “Tears”
4. “Hugs & Kisses”

Amortage is out 2/14 via Warner Records. Find more information here.

As much as award shows like the Grammys are competitions, they are also elaborate parties designed to celebrate and promote camaraderie among the members of the entertainment industry. Case in point: watching Taylor Swift vibing out to “Not Like Us” as Kendrick Lamar won the awards for Song and Record Of The Year, or handing Beyoncé the golden gramophone for Best Country Album. In fact, Ms. Swift seemed to be having herself a ball all night despite not winning anything, even taking home a shiny souvenir of her night that wasn’t a trophy, courtesy of Janelle Monáe.

Monáe had donned a Michael Jackson inspired suit for the Grammys’ Quincy Jones tribute, as she performed the late stars’ chart-topping classic “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough.” Her sequin-studded suit was an homage to Jackson’s ensemble in the music video for the post-disco hit, but midway through her performance, the non-binary star whipped off the jacket and tossed it into the crowd. A close study of the reaction shots from the crowd reveals which of the attending stars caught it; that’s right, Taylor Swift. She can even be seen slipping it on in the background, and in her next close-up, she cheers like a fan who just caught a valuable piece of show merch — which, on some level, she is. After all, anyone who records music for a living is a fan of recorded music, and judging from Taylor’s reaction, getting to keep the Janelle Monáe worn, one-of-a-kind piece was almost just as good as winning an award.

Check out the video below:

the way she caught the jacket and put it on is sending me 😭 #grammys pic.twitter.com/RB2yhcdjVo

— marley (@marleyharper) February 3, 2025

St. Vincent ended up being one of the winningest artists at the 2025 Grammys, coming home with three awards, good enough to tie for third-most overall behind Kendrick Lamar with five and Sierra Ferrell with four. It turns out Annie Clark is winning in more ways than that: She recently got married and had a kid.

While accepting the award for Best Alternative Music Performance during the pre-show, St. Vincent started her speech (here’s a video of it) by thanking her “beautiful family: my beautiful wife Leah and our beautiful daughter.”

That may sound like a typical thing to say after getting a Grammy, but St. Vincent had not previously publicly revealed that she was married or had become a parent.

In the backstage press room later on (video here), a reporter congratulated St. Vincent on the family news and noted he was “totally unaware” of it, and St. Vincent interjected, “Oh, most people were, that’s OK. It was kept… she’s young, we’ve kept it under wraps.” She added, “The child is young, just to be clear: The child is young, not the wife.”

During a 2024 Billboard interview about her album All Born Screaming, St. Vincent explained, “Every record I’ve ever made has been so personal about what’s going on in my life at any given time. I’m queer. I know how to code-switch. The idea of identity as performance has been very clear to me since I was a child. […] I’m queer, I’m living in multitudes, but this record in particular is not about persona or deconstruction.”

Hurry Up Tomorrow is not only Abel Tesfaye’s possibly final album as The Weeknd — it’s also the title of a film he made with director Trey Edward Shults (It Comes At Night). The “Timeless” singer plays a version of himself, a “musician plagued by insomnia [who] gets pulled into an odyssey with a stranger who begins to unravel the very core of his existence,” according to the official synopsis.

The cast also includes Jenna Ortega (she’s the “stranger”), who discussed her involvement with Hurry Up Tomorrow in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly.

“I actually didn’t think that I was right for it initially,” the Wednesday star said. “But through conversation and built trust with Trey and Abel, it felt like a team and vision I wanted to work with.” Ortega described Hurry Up Tomorrow as an “experimental telling of what it means to be an artist who is changing, evolving, managing their past while trying not to fear the unknown. What a mental block can do to one’s sense of self.”

As for her character, Anima, Ortega said she’s “a version of Abel. A side of him that the persona The Weeknd doesn’t show as much. There were many iterations of Ani as the new script drafts came in, but I just loved that she consistently took no sh*t and felt everything intensely.”

Hurry Up Tomorrow opens in theaters on May 16.

Doechii was among the biggest winners of yesterday’s (February 2) 2025 Grammys: Aside from her kick-ass performance, Alligator Bites Never Heal won Best Rap Album, making Doechii just the third woman to ever win the award.

In celebration, Doechii shared a new song, “Nosebleeds.”

Lyrically, the track is a pretty direct reaction to her big night at the Grammys, with lyrics that all but mention the awards show by name. She ends the first verse, “I don’t know, is she gonna go crazy? Is she gonna go crazy? / Everyone wanted to know what Doechii would do if she didn’t win / I guess we’ll never…”

Later, she essentially gives a thank-you speech mid-song, saying, “Right now is my time and my moment / Thank you to my swamp and thank you, God, I was broke / I thanks you, God, I thank you to Top God Entertainment / Oop— Top Dawg Entertainment / SZA, Zay, Moosa in the hatin’ ass stands / Mommy, Blake High School, and all the b*tches I surpassed / I knew it / Tonight we poppin’ bottles, f*ckin’ hoes, and forgettin’ our name / To the audience wonderin’ how it feels to be famous? / I guess you’ll never…”

Listen to “Nosebleeds” above.

Find the full list of nominees and winners at the 2025 Grammys here.

Now that Beyoncé has finally (finally!) won the Grammy for Album Of The Year, she’s announce the dates for the Cowboy Carter Tour.

There are multiple ways to get tickets for the tour. The BeyHive presale begins February 11, at 12 p.m. local time. Fans can also sign up for the artist pre-sale here for the U.S. and U.K. shows and here for the Paris shows until February 6 at 8 a.m. ET. Those tickets go on sale on February 13 at 12 p.m. local time. The general on-sale takes place the following day, February 14, at 12 p.m. local time.

But that’s not all: Citi is hosting a pre-sale for card members beginning February 12 at 12 p.m. local time, as is Verizon and, for those in the U.K. and France, Mastercard. You can see more information here.

Check out the complete dates below.

Beyoncé’s 2025 Tour Dates: Cowboy Carter Tour

04/28 – Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium
05/01 – Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium
05/04 – Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium
05/07 – Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium
05/15 – Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field
05/17 – Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field
05/22 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
05/24 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
05/25 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
05/28 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
06/05 – London, UK @ Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
06/07 – London, UK @ Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
06/10 – London, UK @ Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
06/12 – London, UK @ Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
06/19 – Paris, France @ Stade de France
06/21 – Paris, France @ Stade de France
06/28 – Houston, TX @ NRG Stadium
06/29 – Houston, TX @ NRG Stadium
07/04 – Washington, D.C. @ Northwest Stadium
07/07 – Washington, D.C. @ Northwest Stadium
07/10 – Atlanta, GA @ Mercedes Benz Stadium
07/11 – Atlanta, GA @ Mercedes Benz Stadium

As you might imagine, SirDavis is the “official spirit” of the tour.

There are a ton of success stories from the 2025 Grammys that went down last night (February 3), but in hip-hop, perhaps none is bigger than that of Kendrick Lamar’s Drake diss track “Not Like Us.” The No. 1 single was nominated for five awards — Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, and Best Music Video — and it went ahead and won every single one of them.

Given that the track is a scathing attack against Drake, its success had people thinking about the Canadian rapper, so much so that he was the No. 1 trending topic on X (formerly Twitter) the morning after the Grammys.

One tweet summarized the overarching sentiment of the reactions well: “Imagine being drake and a song that calls you out by name for being a pedophile wins a Grammy for record of the year and the entire crowd is singing along as he walks up to accept the award.”

In reference to Drake’s “Family Matters” lyric “Kendrick just opened his mouth, someone go hand him a Grammy right now,” another user wrote, “this Drake line aged the worst as Kendrick Lamar proceeded to be the most awarded artist at this year’s Grammys.”

Others referenced Lamar’s upcoming Super Bowl Halftime Show, like one user who wrote, “Drake is about to get called a pedophile by millions of people at the Superbowl, it ain’t even over yet.”

Check out some more tweets here.

Ever since the release of Kendrick Lamar’s surprise album, GNX, fans just can’t get enough of his ad-lib from “TV Off.” His battle cry of “MUSTAAAARD!” launched a thousand memes and much like the condiment from which the producer of the track got his moniker, it’s the perfect way to season up just about any social event.

Including, it turns out, the Grammy Awards, where Kendrick and Mustard’s other collab, “Not Like Us,” did a clean sweep, scooping up the awards for Best Rap Song, Record Of The Year, and Song Of The Year. The sauce on top? Heinz, the condiment conglomerate, used the “MUSTAAAARD!” ad-lib in its new commercial for the product, just moments after Kendrick accepted his big awards on national television (the ad also features the Etta James classic “At Last,” so multiple bags were secured on the way to air).

It might seem like a silly moment, but it truly does highlight the massive cultural impact of Kendrick’s latest efforts — especially as the rollout for GNX was unofficially kicked off by a testy feud between Kendrick and his longtime rival Drake, the highlight of which was “Not Like Us,” which has now become just the second rap song in history to earn Record or Song Of The Year (is it pettiness that prompted him to don a Canadian tuxedo to accept his awards?). Now, Kendrick is inextricably linked with beloved American traditions like dressing a hot dog at a barbecue or ballgame. If that ain’t winning, we don’t know what is.

Check out the commercial above.

Beyoncé has racked up an astounding 99 career Grammy nominations, yet somehow, despite so many beloved projects under her belt, there’s one award that has notably eluded her: Album Of The Year. Finally, though, at the 2025 Grammys, that changed, as Cowboy Carter has taken the title and given Beyoncé her first win in the category.

Beyoncé gave a brief acceptance speech (here’s a video): After acknowledging the Los Angeles firefighters who presented the award, she continued, “I just feel very full and very honored. It’s been many, many years [laughs],” then went into her thank-you’s. She concluded, “I hope we just keep pushing forward, opening doors. God bless y’all, thank you so much.”

The album emerged on top in a stacked category, as it was nominated against André 3000’s New Blue Sun, Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard And Soft, Chappell Roan’s The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess, Charli XCX’s Brat, Jacob Collier’s Djesse Vol. 4, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short N’ Sweet, and Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department.

This of course wasn’t the only major moment of the evening for Beyoncé, as earlier in the show, Cowboy Carter became the first album by a Black artist to win Best Country Album.

Find the full list of nominees and winners at the 2025 Grammys here.

There’s an argument to be made that Charli XCX was the defining artist of 2024 thanks to Brat. It was her biggest mainstream moment yet, so of course she’s involved with the 2025 Grammys. Not only is she nominated, but she is also one of the evening’s performers.

She started by emerging from a black van as she sang “Von Dutch” and strutted into the venue. Once she finally made it to the stage, she transitioned into “Guess” (without Billie Eilish, although she was seen enjoying the performance from the audience), featuring a bunch of party people dancing and making out surrounded by underwear.

Watch the performance here.

Charli, unsurprisingly given how big a year she had thanks to Brat, was one of this year’s leading nominees. Beyoncé leads the pack with 11 nods, but then Charli isn’t far behind with 9: Record Of The Year, Best Music Video (both for “360”), Album Of The Year, Best Dance/Electronic Music Album, Best Recording Package (all for Brat), Best Pop Solo Performance (“Apple”), Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (her and Billie Eilish’s “Guess”), Best Dance Pop Recording (“Von Dutch”), and Best Remixed Recording (“Von Dutch A. G. Cook Remix Feat. Addison Rae”).

Find the full list of nominees and winners at the 2025 Grammys here.