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Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa Will Perform at 2024 Grammys

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, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa Among Performers – The Hollywood Reporter

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…

Top Asian Pacific Stars Honored for Film Work

Olivia Rodrigo, Charles Melton, and Past Lives star Greta Lee are among the winners honored on the 2024 Gold List, which highlights outstanding work by Asian Pacific creatives in film. Voted on by members of the advocacy groups Gold House and CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment), the fourth-annual Gold List was released Wednesday, with the critically-acclaimed Past Lives leading the pack with four wins, including Best Picture, Best Director for Celine Song, and Best Performance in a Leading Role for…

Olivia Rodrigo Says She Hopes to Return to Acting in the Future

The singer previously starred in two series for Disney Despite her incredible success as a musician, Olivia Rodrigo confirmed she hasn’t lost her desire to act. Speaking to Variety on the red carpet at the Governors Awards in Hollywood last night, the singer said she “would love” to appear onscreen again soon. “I love movies, I love telling stories,” Rodrigo said. “I really want to do a coming-of-age thing maybe before I’m actually of age. Maybe I am of age already.” She added, “I just love

Rob Sheffield’s Top 25 Songs of 2023

Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift, Ice Spice, and other highlights from a vibrant, chaotic, glorious mess of a year How do you say goodbye to a year like 2023? How about, “I wanna meet your mom, just to tell her her year sucks”? But here’s to a vibrant, chaotic, glorious mess of a year for music, a year when you could find brilliant tunes all over the stylistic map. These are my 25 favorite songs of 2023. (Athough many other gems are over on my albums list, to avoid duplicating all

Rob Sheffield’s Top 20 Albums of 2023

From mega-pop sensations to underground gems Nobody likes you when you’re 2023, as Blink 182 warned us. But it’s a fact: years that end in “3” are always great music years, however they might suck for everything else. These were the albums (and songs) that kept me facing forward and moving on up all year. Some of them kept revealing new twists and surprises over time; other settled into a durable pleasure groove. Some are mega-pop sensations; others are underground gems. Pop

Best Music of 2023: Rolling Stone Staff Picks

Ask anyone who works at Rolling Stone what they’ve been listening to lately, and you’re guaranteed to get an interesting answer. In the final weeks of the year, more than 30 colleagues from across the departments that make RS submitted their personal picks for the 10 best albums of 2023. You’ll find practically every sound imaginable represented somewhere on these lists, from the biggest pop hits to the brightest DIY gold and everything in between. Think of this as a fun counterpart to our official list of the year’s…

Olivia Rodrigo Performs Eerie ‘Vampire’ on ‘Colbert’

One week after performing her new The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes ballad “Can’t Catch Me Now” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Olivia Rodrigo returned to the late-night show with her hit single “Vampire.”  The solo performance, which presumably was recorded the same day as her previous one, had Rodrigo in a black off-the-shoulders dress, as she occupied the stage in the midst of mist and tall microphone stands. She was joined by a piano player and four string players for added drama.…

Olivia Rodrigo Performs ‘Can’t Catch Me Now’ on ‘Colbert’

A few days after caking her face on Saturday Night Live, Olivia Rodrigo took a quieter approach to her outing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert with the ballad, “Can’t Catch Me Now” — her contribution to The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.  Rodrigo wore a white slip dress to the occasion, as she sat on a chair surrounded by mist and barren trees. By the time she got to the chorus, four musicians and backup singers were revealed in the shadows, supporting her as she performed the haunting…

Olivia Rodrigo Performs ‘Vampire’ and ‘Guts’ Deep Cuts on NPR Tiny Desk

The Olivia Rodrigo, who just spilled her most embarrassing, jealous, and regretfully heartbreaking secrets in the NPR Tiny Desk office, feels lightyears away from the version of herself who stripped down songs from Sour at the DMV in 2021. The singer and songwriter‘s appearance marks her first proper performance on the concert series without any pandemic restrictions. Rodrigo selected four songs from her recently released sophomore studio album Guts, admitting: “It’s much cooler to be here. I was saying earlier, I’ve…