Following a difficult spell that played out quite publicly, Ciara is on quite the winning streak.
Professionally, she’s more omnipresent than ever and the positive vibrations have carried over into her personal life. Indeed, as widely reported, the Grammy winner recently hit announced her engagement to Seahawks football star Russell Wilson.
Celebrating her current season of success, the R&B star beams a-front of ESSENCE magazine’s May 2016 issue.
Apt, given that she’s a headliner at the hotly anticipated ESSENCEMusic Festival in June, the feature sees the stunner wax honest about her break-up with rapper Future as well as the love she has in her life now.
Tidal is giving away tickets to the “Needed Me” singer’s “Anti” world tour. Always wanted to see “Work” live? Itching to sing along to “Kiss It Better”? Well now’s your chance!
Jhene Aiko has thrown her support behind the politician Bernie Sanders as he makes a bid for the White House.
Doing so after Beyonce is said to have made sizeable donations to Hillary Clinton‘s campaign, Aiko made her way to Sanders’ “Community Conversation” event at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem to encourage her fans to support him on the latest chapter of his political journey.
Though the past few years have brought testing times for Robin Thicke – both personally and professionally, there’s no denying that he’s all sorts of gifted.
This week, From The Vault reacquaints with the crooner’s breakthrough single ‘Lost Without U.’
Serviced as the second single from the star’s 2006 sophomore set ‘The Evolution Of Robin Thicke’, the love-lorn song was written at a time when Robin felt insecure following the underperformance of his debut LP and its singles. Thankfully, history had not repeated itself with this single as it was a sleeper hit in the US peaking at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Hip Hop/R&B tally – which had not happened for a White artist since George Michael almost twenty years prior. The cut also reached the 11th spot of the UK Singles Charts.
Because he thought it could be his last video if the song tanked, Thicke chose to cast his then-wife Paula Patton as his love interest in the track’s Benny Boom lensed visual.
Needless to say, the chemistry displayed throughout the sensual video veered off the Richter scale. Bittersweet, somewhat, given the eventual fate for the much-loved (and “in love”) couple.
With ‘Blurred Lines’, Robin Thicke managed to gain a new audience. Yet, as many loyalists would agree, he (in the process) also lost that particular qualitative aura that was omnipresent on previous projects. We hope next go around he manages to mix and match the playful Pop elements of the ‘Lines’ album with some heartfelt and vulnerable moments akin to his first few bodies of work.
Sure, he’s already had a few missteps on that path, but songs like this remind us why we’ll willingly wait.
The live fun continues on Mariah Carey‘s ‘Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour’ this week!
Celebrated for being one of the entertainer’s more entertaining live shows the tour reached new heights recently when she delivered a moving performance of her 1997 number ‘My All’ in Finland.
Supported by well-placed pre-recorded vocals the singer soared through the number as she hopes to do just as well with the new album the tour was created to support.
Here at TGJ we’re always keen to find out how you, our faithful reader, feels about matters which often spark “intense” conversations in the Popsphere.
Only right then, as the world prepares itself for the release of a new Beyonce album, that we ask you the question many can’t wait to find the answer to.
Fans of ‘Runaway’ singer Janet Jackson accused the pop icon of living up to the song title (with their coins in purse) after she announced the postponement of her critically acclaimed ‘Unbreakable World Tour’ to start a family.
However, quick to put out the fire, Live Nation issued a statement clearing up any confusion on the length of the Grammy winner/mom-to-be’s hiatus from the road.
Music lovers who thought Kanye West‘s latest album, ‘The Life of Pablo,’ was dead on arrival after a mucky mess of a rollout will be stunned to know the album has been given a major lifeline.
For, after weeks of only being available via Tidal stream and his official web site, the Grammy winning rapper finally made the project accessible to Spotify, Pandora, and other major streaming vendors.
The result?
The streams alone will see him shoot to #1, as predicted, on next week’s refreshed Billboard 200! Kanye isn’t exactly known for flashing an award-winning smile, but the news below just may give him new reason to today:
