Doja Cat took a timeout from hosting the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards to perform “Been Like This” and “You Right” at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Floating mid-air in the middle of a neon halo, Doja Cat sang her ethereal pop track “Been Like This” from her debut album Planet Her. …
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John Mayer‘s Sob Rock comes with an old-fashioned price sticker on the cover, as if it’s an LP from the Eighties, and it launched at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart thanks to deluge of old-fashioned sales — more than 56,000 copies, close to 22,000 of …
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On the evening of Tuesday, June 15th, after more than a year of relative isolation, an aspiring singer named Lily Davies entered a recording studio in Toronto for her first post-pandemic writing session with strangers. The 20-year-old had scribbled a slew of lyrics earlier that day after a boozy brunch; …
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Doja Cat donned an alien cyborg outfit for her performance of a remixed “Say So” at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night. Doja Cat and her dancers themed themselves after aliens coming down from another planet, surrounded by blue laser lights. (Doja’s dancers also, appropriately, wore cat ears …
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Early in 2019, a manager for an aspiring rapper named Flo Milli tracked down the TikTok user @nicemichael and offered him $200 to bring more attention to a dance for “Beef Flomix.” The resulting video clip amassed more than 100,000 likes, helping jumpstart “Beef Flomix;” after the song became popular …
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