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When @lilnasx's debut single “Old Town Road” exploded online early this year and began climbing the charts, industry prognosticators anticipated a quick rise and fall. It’s now the longest-running No. 1 song in history, having occupied the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for 19 weeks. It’s been streamed more than a billion times on @spotify alone. All of this has made “Old Town Road” the defining sound of the year, a slurry, genre-busting interpolation of two quintessential American musical genres: #country and hip-hop. Yet even from his perch, writes Andrew R. Chow, Lil Nas is still an outlier. There aren’t many black stars in country #music; there aren’t many queer stars in #hiphop. There aren’t many queer black stars in American culture, point-blank. The fact that Lil Nas has risen so far and so fast testifies not only to his skill, but also to the erosion of the systems that for generations kept #artists like him on the … [Read more...] about “Old Town Road” Rapper Lil Nas X Reveals What Pushed Him to Come Out as Gay

Grande went on to join about a dozen female dancers (also dressed in lingerie) in front of a bedroom set, where she practically matched their sensual choreography move for move. She closed out her performance with her massive hit "Thank U, Next," for which her repeated use of the F-word was censored.  … [Read more...] about Grammys: Ariana Grande Gives Powerful Performance After Skipping Out on Last Year’s Show

Winston's connection with Corden is what first led him into the Grammy orbit. Corden hosted the Grammys in 2017 and 2018, and Winston was credited as consulting producer on the 2017 telecast and producer on last year's installment. (Ehrlich was credited as executive producer both years.) Winston also produced and wrote special material for the 70th annual Tony Awards in 2017, which Corden also hosted. … [Read more...] about Longtime Grammys Producer Ken Ehrlich Exiting After 2020 Telecast

That 1995 Thierry Mugler haute couture dress consisted of a nude sequined body suit, a full-length blush satin-and-black velvet seashell-inspired skirt, pink satin gloves, and pearls from the top of her beehive-styled hair to the center of her navel — straight from the French fashion designer's archives. … [Read more...] about Cardi B Is Fashionably Late to Grammy Awards in Mugler and $5.5 Million of Diamonds

Seven months after it was confirmed in August that Mike Epps is playing comedy legend Richard Pryor in a new biopic, Entertainment Tonight reports that Eddie Murphy is in talks to play the comedian's father Leroy "Buck Carter" Pryor, a former boxer, while Kate Hudson is playing Richard Pryor's wife, Jennifer Pryor. Director Lee Daniels posted a https://instagram.com/p/0JORsNuJBF/|Instagram photo with himself and Eddie Murphy yesterday, which was accompanied by the following caption. … [Read more...] about Richard Pryor Biopic Lands Eddie Murphy and Kate Hudson