Lady Gaga has released the lyric video for her collaboration with Blackpink titled “Sour Candy.”
The song appears on Gaga’s Chromatica album, which gave the singer her sixth No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart with 274,000 equivalent units in the U.S. for the week ending June 4.
Watch the “Sour Candy” lyric video at the link: here.
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After taking a season off from coaching duties, Gwen Stefani is officially set to return as a coach on The Voice for the show’s upcoming Season 19. Stefani will join Kelly Clarkson, John Legend, and her boyfriend Blake Shelton when the singing competition returns. She will take over the spot from Nick Jonas, who recently joined the show as a coach in Season 18 in Stefani’s absence.
Stefani last appeared on The Voice for Season 17, having also appeared as a coach on Seasons 7, 9 and 12. In addition to her coaching duties, Stefani has been a mentor on the program for Seasons 8 and 10. Stefani has frequently made appearances on the NBC competition over the past several seasons as she has been dating longtime coach Shelton for years. On The Voice‘s Season 18 finale, she performed a duet of “Nobody But You” alongside her boyfriend from Shelton’s Oklahoma ranch, where the couple have been quarantining together.
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On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revoked the emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients, saying the drug carries too many risks without any apparent benefit.
The EUA was first issued in March, and applied to patients hospitalized with the illness and those in clinical trials. In April, the FDA warned doctors against prescribing the drug to COVID-19 patients outside of those settings. Monday’s action will not impact clinical trials, which are expected to continue.
The announcement covers both hydroxychloroquine and a related compound, chloroquine phosphate. These drugs are traditionally used treat malaria and certain autoimmune conditions, including lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, and the FDA’s announcement does not apply to these uses.
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that a landmark civil rights law protects LGBT people from discrimination in employment. The court decided by a 6-3 vote that a key provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as Title VII that bars job discrimination because of sex, among other reasons, encompasses bias against LGBT workers.
“An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the court. Justices Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas dissented.
The ruling protects an estimated 8.1 million LGBT workers across the country, because most states don’t protect them from workplace discrimination. An estimated 11.3 million LGBT people live in the U.S.
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Lil Baby’s My Turn is making its return to the Billboard 200. The album debuted at No. 1 back in March, spending 13 weeks in the top six; and now it’s climbed back to the No. 1 spot once again for the week ending on June 13. It is the longest gap for an album to make its return to No. 1, with the last record being held by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born soundtrack taking a 17-week hiatus.
Lady Gaga’s album Chromatica debuted at No. 1 last week, but has slipped to the No. 2 spot.
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Halsey has released an alternate version of a deep-cut from her latest album ‘Manic’ on social media, which you can check out via her Twitter at the link: here.
‘Wipe Your Tears’ is featured as an exclusive bonus track on the Japanese edition of the album, which dropped earlier this year. “prolly gon get in trouble for this but, happy pride !” Halsey wrote on Twitter. She added, “here’s the full OG version of wipe your tears. my favorite wlw song of mine that ended up on a special release of Manic…if it gets taken down it ain’t my fault.”
‘Manic’ dropped in January of this year, featuring the hit singles “Without Me,” “Graveyard” and “You Should Be Sad.”
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After it was announced that the Coachella and Stagecoach festivals’ October dates were canceled by county health officials, promoter Goldenvoice announced new dates for both festivals in 2021.
Coachella is being planned for April 9-11 and April 16-18, 2021, Stagecoach is scheduled for April 23-25, 2021.
Coachella’s 2020 edition was previously scheduled to take place April 10-12 and April 17-19 with headliners Travis Scott, Frank Ocean and Rage Against the Machine.
“A year without Coachella and Stagecoach is hard for us to comprehend, but we have every intention of returning in 2021,” Goldenvoice said in a statement. “We look forward to sharing our new lineups and more information. We can’t wait to be together in the desert again when it is safe.”
All 2020 passes will be honored in 2021 and pass holders will receive emails with instructions on how to proceed for new tickets or refunds.
On Sunday, authorities in Georgia ruled that the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks was a homicide. Brooks, 27, died after he was shot twice in the back on Friday, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office said in a statement. Brooks was shot after a confrontation with two Atlanta police officers in the parking lot of a Wendy’s fast food restaurant.
Police had been summoned there on a report of a man sleeping in his car in the drive-through. Brooks struggled with the officers after they administered a field sobriety test and tried to take him into custody, and surveillance video appears to show Brooks running away from the officers with a stun gun that he’d taken from one of them While running, Brooks appeared to turn around and point the weapon at police. but according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, “At that point, the Atlanta officer reaches down and retrieves his weapon from his holster, discharges it, strikes Mr. Brooks there on the parking lot, and he goes down.”
Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields resigned over the shooting, saying in a statement that “it is time for the city to move forward and build trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve.” Garrett Rolfe, the officer who shot Brooks, was fired; and a second officer, Devin Brosnan, was placed on administrative duty.
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The apparent hanging death of a black man in the Los Angeles area is being investigated, after demands among residents and celebrities about the initial finding of suicide had been brought into question. The body of 24-year-old Robert Fuller was found near Palmdale City Hall Wednesday afternoon by a passerby, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
“He was hanging from a tree,” said police during a press conference last week. “Personnel from the adjacent fire station responded and determined that he had passed. Although the investigation is ongoing, it appears that Mr. Fuller has tragically died by suicide.” Someone in the audience said, “That’s a lie. That’s a lie.” By Saturday, demonstrators gathered outside City Hall to demand a thorough investigation. Protesters gathered at the tree where Fuller’s body was found, and members of Fuller’s family and a sheriff’s investigator on the case said there was no indication he left a suicide note.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger said she has asked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to conduct an independent investigation. The county coroner’s office said in its own statement that a definitive cause of death has been deferred pending further investigation. Questions about Fuller’s death led demonstrators to gather Friday outside City Hall, and the social media hashtag #JusticeForRobertFuller was being used to bring attention to the case. Kim Kardashian West urged her Twitter followers to endorse a Change.org petition calling for “a thorough and proper investigation.”
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Harry Styles has officially postponed his North American Tour to next summer because of the coronavirus pandemic. The tour was set to kick off on June 26, 2020 at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center.
Styles will now kick off his Love On Tour beginning August 14, 2021 at the Tacoma Dome; all opening acts will remain the same. Along with 39 new dates, Styles will treat his New York-based fans with a special Harryween Fancy Dress Party from Oct. 30-31 in Madison Square Garden featuring Orville Peck and Madison Cunningham.
Styles said on his Instagram: “This summer we were excited to be bringing Love On Tour to North America. However, due to the ongoing threat from Covid-19 we have been forced to reschedule these dates to next summer. The well-being of my crew, and all the fans around the world will always hold top priority. I can’t wait to see you all out on the road, as soon as it’s safe to do so.”
Check out Styles’ official North American tour postponement announcement at the link: here.
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