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A day after Universal Music Group threatened to stop licensing its music to TikTok amid a breakdown in deal negotiations, songs from UMG‘s unparalleled stable of artists have started to get removed from the social media platform late Wednesday. The removals started gradually late Wednesday evening; The official versions of UMG-owned recordings like Taylor Swift‘s “Cruel Summer,” Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Get Him Back,” and Lana Del Rey’s “Let the Light In” are no longer appearing in search results, while some videos…

In one of the tightest races for best original song at the 2024 Oscars, Billie Eilish, Jon Batiste, Diane Warren, “I’m Just Ken” and surprise contender “Wahzhazhe” from Killers of the Flower Moon have emerged as the nominees for the prestigious songwriting prize. That means a number of top-notch acts who made the shortlist, including Lenny Kravitz, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, Halle Bailey and more, didn’t make the cut. Eilish, who wrote “What Was I Made For?” with her brother-producer Finneas, is…

Barbenheimer saved the movie industry, so why shouldn’t the most famous portmanteau in film history also be the big story of the Oscar nominations?Universal’s Oppenheimer and Warner Bros.’s Barbie, which together grossed almost one billion dollars at the domestic box office last summer, have now earned a combined 21 Academy Award nominations. Both films made the shortlists for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay, although Barbie’s Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig…

For Issa Rae, music has always been an extra cast member on the call sheet. The nine-time Emmy nominee has used music as a storytelling tool, extending the voices of her complex and comedic characters — from the groundbreaking series Insecure and to her current adventure Rap Sh!t to the web series that launched her career, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. “Music elevates the storytelling of everything. I write to music, you can have a scene that plays out great but music will add that…

Three of the most popular women in music today will be performing at the 2024 Grammy Awards. On Monday night, the Recording Academy revealed the first three performers of this year’s awards show: Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, and Dua Lipa. All three artists are up for major awards this year. Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” is nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Music Video, and Best Song Written for Visual Media. Meanwhile, her song with Labrinth, “Never…

Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa and Olivia Rodrigo are among the musicians set to take the stage at the 2024 Grammys. The artists — all previous winners and current nominees at this year’s show — make up the first wave of performer announcements, with additional acts set to be revealed in the coming weeks. The 66th annual ceremony will once again be hosted by Trevor Noah and will make its return to L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena. Eilish is up for six Grammys, including record of the year and song of the year…

Billie Eilish‘s “Bury A Friend” serves as the title sequence music for True Detective’s fourth season, but as the show’s director and showrunner Issa Lopez explained in a new interview, the pop singer’s influence on the show goes much deeper. “I started writing it during the lockdown, and I was listening day and night to Billie Eilish,” Lopez told Indiewire on Monday following the show’s Sunday premiere. “Billie’s irony and melancholy and poetry informed a lot of what was happening in the series. And then that…

The Golden Globes are dubbed the “party of the year,” and with every great event in Tinseltown, there’s typically a long wind up and a ton of ancillary shindigs. But 2024 is a new year and Hollywood is not the same place it once was. On Friday evening, however, the scene outside Chateau Marmont mirrored pre-pandemic days. A huge crowd of fans packed onto the slim sidewalk above Sunset Boulevard. Paparazzi scrambled to get pics of Margot Robbie, Greta Gerwig, Nicolas Cage and Emma Stone as they exited…

During her acceptance speech for the Chairman’s Award during the annual Palm Springs Film Awards last night, Billie Eilish admitted that she has been through some tough times in recent years. Speaking alongside her brother Finneas, who co-wrote Eilish’s Grammy-nominated Barbie hit “What Was I Made For?,” the singer recalled wanting her life to end. “I would really like to say that this award and any recognition that this song gets, I just want to dedicate to anyone who experiences hopelessness, the feeling of…

The Oscars are a few months away, and it won’t be long before we’re hearing about the nominees for the 2024 ceremony. Earlier in the week, a shortlist for 10 categories were revealed, and while they contained some of 2023's expected hits, other inclusions were interesting surprises.Will We See More of Uhura's Relationship with Spock? | io9 InterviewIn what’s surely a shock, Barbie appeared five times most throughout the 10 categories. The Margot Robbie-led comedy is on the shortlist for original score, sound, and original…