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will.i.am doesn’t think true artists should worry about artificial intelligence.“The only thing to be worried about is if you’re making music to chase an algorithm,” he told Fox News Digital. “If you’re making music to trend on TikTok. And to do that, you have to really unlock the codes to that matrix.

Selena Gomez loves Benny Blanco like a love song, baby.And the artist’s new album “I Said I Love You First” — which is also a collaboration with her fiancé — is showcasing just that.Along with their love story, Gomez is giving fans a look at the entirety of her dating life over the years.One song in particular could be a final goodbye to ex Justin Bieber, whom she dated on and off from 2010 to 2018.Her track “How Does It Feel to Be Forgotten” hears Gomez, 32, sing, “’Cause you walked in, big-ass grin / Talkin’ like we’re friends, honey, what were you thinkin’? / He loves me, I love him / Look at you, just look at you now.”Listeners noted that Gomez’s “look at you now” line dates back to her track “Look at Her Now,” off her 2020 album, “Rare.”The tune captured herself finding confidence after her final breakup with Bieber, 31, in 2018.But Gomez shut down all that speculation, telling Spotify, “I would like to say most of this album has nothing to do with what everyone may go to. And I think it’s important for me to say that because I’ve evolved so much, and I have experienced life with new people.

ended at Flushing Meadows Park in his native borough of Queens, Paul Simon is un-retiring from the road at 83.Fresh off of his opening performance of “Homeward Bound” with Sabrina Carpenter at “SNL50: The Anniversary” on Sunday, the music legend announced his “A Quiet Celebration” Tour that will bring an intimate night of music and conversation to theaters this spring and summer.Simon will perform his latest album, “Seven Psalms,” in its entirety, while also doing a selection of his classics — both solo and with Simon & Garfunkel.The tour will also feature Simon’s wife of 33 years, Edie Brickell.While recording 2023’s “Seven Psalms” — with all acoustic instruments primarily played by Simon in a continuous piece of music over seven movements — the two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer was suffering from hearing loss in his left ear that made the idea of extended live performances seem impossible.“It was incredibly frustrating. I was very angry at first that this had happened,” Simon told “CBS Mornings.”But after working with the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss and his own production team, Simon revamped his entire stage setup to make performing viable again.And the intimate venues will provide a better setting acoustically for Simon’s hearing challenges.“I’m going through my repertoire and reducing a lot of the choices that I make to acoustic versions.

Roll out the red carpet — it’s music’s biggest night.The 67th annual Grammy Awards ceremony kicks off at 8 p.m.

Taylor Swift may have turned her pen on him on “The Tortured Poets Department.”But Joe Alwyn — who gets the ex treatment on the pop superstar’s blockbuster 2024 album — still has fond feelings about collaborating with the singer during their six-year relationship.Indeed, the British actor formed a fruitful pandemic partnership with Swift, co-writing songs on her 2020’s “Folklore” (“Exile,” “Betty”) and its sister album “Evermore” (“Champagne Problems,” “Coney Island” and “Evermore”), as well as her 2022’s “Midnights” (“Sweet Nothing”) — all under the pseudonym William Bowery. Alwyn also served as a co-producer on “Folklore,” thus sharing in Swift’s Album of the Year Grammy win for the LP in 2021.“Lockdown was a whole host of surprises and that was pretty special,” Alwyn, 33, told The Guardian about his creative collaboration with Swift.

Clay Aiken was the runner-up during that second season, but the talk show host didn’t remember it that way. “We spent a lot of time,” Clarkson, 42, recalled on Monday’s episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show” while talking to Aiken.

Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish continued their pop-diva domination.Beyoncé — the all-time Grammy winner with 32 gramophones — leads with 11 nominations, while Swift and Eilish picked up 6 and 7 nods, respectively.The three perennial contenders are all up for Album of the Year: Beyoncé for “Cowboy Carter,” Swift for “The Tortured Poets Department” and Eilish for “Hit Me Hard and Soft.”And the much-lauded ladies will also face off for Record and Song of the Year, with Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ’Em,” Swift’s “Fortnight” and Eilish’s “Birds of a Feather.”Last February, Swift became the first artist to win Album of the Year four times for “Midnights,” while Eilish won her second Song of the Year trophy for her “Barbie” ballad “What Was I Made For?” And they both lost to Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” for Record of the Year.Meanwhile, two of 2024’s rising divas — Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan — received 6 nominations each and will battle it out for Best New Artist. Among those announcing the nominees in the livestream event on Grammy.com were 2024 Best New Artist winner Victoria Monét, Kylie Minogue, Ben Platt, Brandy Clark and Paramore’s Hayley Williams.

Cyndi Lauper was done — or so she thought — with her classic 1983 debut album “She’s So Unusual,” but something was missing to producer Rick Chertoff.“Rick came in one day and said, ‘We could use one more song,’” Rob Hyman, who played keyboards on the LP, told The Post. “And I felt like, ‘One more song?? You gotta be kidding!’ We were really spent.”But after months of working tirelessly on the album that would turn the singer into a pop superstar, Hyman and Lauper came up with “Time After Time,” the bittersweet ballad that would become her first No.

Bruce Springsteen has a hungry heart for the stage.The singer, who turned 75 in September, has been performing sold-out arena around the world for close to half a century. And the 20-time Grammy winner has no plans to stop anytime soon.

multiple reports. Jennings won an Academy Award for Best Original Song along with composer James Horner for the haunting ballad from the 1997 disaster film, which was made legendary by Celine Dion.He also won the coveted award for “Up Where We Belong”from “An Officer and a Gentleman,” and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “People Alone” from “The Competition.” In 2006 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Richard Simmons was famous for revolutionizing the workout world by “Sweatin’ to the Oldies.”And before his death on July 13 — a day after celebrating his 76th birthday — the fitness guru was toning up tunes for a musical about his legendary life with longtime Madonna collaborator Patrick Leonard.“He had sent me some lyrics, and I wrote some melodies to them, and that was the beginning of it,” Leonard, 68, told The Post. “And then he passed … I sent him something the day he passed that he never heard.”Before Simmons’ death, Leonard said, “I think there were eight pieces [done] … These things were very personal, and they were very autobiographical and very time-stamped, you know, at certain times in his life and his career.“There was one about him opening his first place, his first exercise place,” he continued.

The Weeknd up for a Nobel Prize for literature.A new study showing a steep decline in songwriting skills over the last 40 years used folk crooner Bob Dylan’s award from the sainted Swedish institution of an example of how much music has changed. To draw their conclusions, a team of researchers from Europe pored over the words to roughly 12,000 songs in English across a variety of genres from rap to rock to R&B, written between 1980 and 2020, The Guardian reported.Their findings were exactly as anyone over the age of 40 might have suspected — lyrics have become simpler, more repetitive, angrier and more self-obsessed.“What we have also been witnessing in the last 40 years is a drastic change in the music landscape — from how music is sold to how music is produced,” said senior study author Eva Zangerle, recommendations systems expert at the University of Innsbruck.The study declined to name and shame any newer artists, but instead spoke of how lyrics can be a “mirror of society,” reflecting a culture’s shifting values and preoccupations.The study, published in Scientific Reports, concentrated on emotions expressed, repetitiveness and word choice, particularly to see how often difficult or unusual words were used.

“The Sound of Silence” — the chart-topping classic that had Simon & Garfunkel making all kinds of noise after their 1964 debut.“I used to go into the bathroom of my parents’ house. There was tile on the wall, and I’d turn the water on,” recalls Paul Simon — who wrote the duo’s first hit — in the two-part documentary “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon,” which premieres on MGM+ Sunday and continues on March 24.“And the tile made the echo, and the water was like a white noise sound.

“I’m Just Ken” might actually win Best Original Song over “What Was I Made For?” — Billie Eilish’s far superior “Barbie” tune.After all, another Oscar win would make Eilish, 22, and her producer brother, Finneas, 26, the youngest two-time Academy Award winners in history after their victory in 2022 for the Bond theme song “No Time To Die.”Perhaps with some voters thinking “too much, too soon,” an upset seemed to be brewing.But now the siblings are in the history books — as they should be.Sometimes it’s just as simple as real recognizing real — whether it’s at the Oscars or the Grammys.And when Eilish got a standing O from Hollywood’s finest after performing “What Was I Made For?” at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday night, it was an acknowledgement of just how far ahead she was of the other Best Original Song nominees.To be honest, it wasn’t even as hauntingly heartbreaking as her performance of the tune just before it took Song of the Year at the Grammys last month.But it was still real artistry on raw display that was all the chills and feels.“What Was I Made For?” also became only the 10th song in history to win both the Grammy for Song of the Year and the Oscar for Best Original Song.That puts it in some pretty prestigious company, with the likes of “Moon River” (from 1961’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”) “The Way We Were” (from 1973’s “The Way We Were”), “Evergreen” (from 1976’s “A Star Is Born”), “You Light Up My Life” (from 1977’s “You Light Up My Life”), “A Whole New World” (from 1992’s “Aladdin”) and “My Heart Will Go On” (from 1997’s “Titanic”).Bravo, Billie and Finneas.

Paul McCartney still longs for “Yesterday.”Indeed, Macca remains haunted by a regretful remark he made to his late mother Mary — a lament that lives on in a legendary line from The Beatles’ 1965 No. 1 single.While “Yesterday” — which was ostensibly a McCartney solo song, with the singer strumming acoustic guitar over a sorrowful string arrangement — has always been considered a breakup ballad, the classic lyric “I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday” is actually a mea culpa to his mother.It was inspired by “feeling very embarrassed because I’d embarrassed my mom,” the 81-year-old Beatle reveals in the latest episode of his songwriter podcast “McCartney: A Life in Lyrics.”That embarrassment goes back to Macca’s mother having what he describes as a very “posh” accent.“She was of Irish origin and she was a nurse, so she was above street level,” he explains about his mom, who died from breast-cancer complications in 1956 — when the Beatle was just 14.

and so are we — but Mitski sure isn’t.Fans of the wistful indie icon will be pleased to hear that she’s added 15 August and September shows featuring special guests Laufey, Lamp, Alvvays, Arlo Parks, Ethel Cain and Wyatt Flores on select dates to her 2024 ‘The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We Tour.’On the first leg of the tour, Tamino, Sunny War, Julia Jacklin and Sarah Kinsley will serve as Mitski’s support acts.With the addition of the second North American leg of the tour, the 33-year-old singer-songwriter now has 51 U.S. concerts lined up this year; that includes seven consecutive New York City and Brooklyn gigs at the Beacon and Kings Theatre this February.“In our efforts to make the show experience extra special, we found beautiful, seated theaters to play over multiple nights, rather than one giant venue per city, in the hopes of offering a more intimate experience to the audience,” Mitski shared on Instagram.And if you’d like to hear her 2023 album “The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We” as well as favorites like “Nobody,” “Washing Machine Heart” and more in intimate settings live, you can grab tickets for all 50+ Mitski shows as soon as today.Although inventory isn’t available for the newly announced August and September concerts on Ticketmaster until Friday, Jan.

Taylor Swift had on “1989” — including “Shake It Off,” “Blank Space,” “Style,” “Bad Blood” and “Wildest Dreams” — it’s tough to see how she could have any good stuff left over from that era.But with Friday’s release of “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” — her re-recording of her fifth studio LP, which won the Album of the Year Grammy in 2016 — Swift is the gift that keeps on giving with bonus material from the “1989” sessions.Here, we rank the five previously unreleased vault tracks, from worst to best.With her eternally girlish persona, Swift has never really given us a grown-and-sexy vibe. And wholesomeness is her whole brand.

she would be inducted in the performer category alongside Kate Bush, Missy Elliott, George Michael, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine and the Spinners.As a girl growing up in Kennett, Mo., with singer-songwriter dreams, Crow was inspired by Bush and her alt-pop artistry. “The two albums of hers that I had, I wore out,” she recalls.

The Julia Show that she fought to keep the pivotal phrase “fame f—er” in the chorus of her new hit single “Vampire,” while co-writer Dan Nigro pushed her to take it out. “Some people said, ‘It kind of isolates you from people, you can’t really say things like that in song, it’s not relatable’ —yada, yada, yada,” Rodrigo revealed.However, the “Drivers License” singer took the wheel in the end.The song, which took a bite out of the Billboard Hot 100 after being released on June 30, centers around an ex-boyfriend bleeding Rodrigo dry of her star status and using the relationship to their advantage.

statement to TMZ. “My mother, Cynthia Weil, was the greatest mother, grandmother and wife our family could ever ask for,” she wrote.

Queen’s famous 1975 hit, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” was almost named “Mongolian Rhapsody” when frontman Freddie Mercury first wrote it.The inside intel comes from a new auction exhibition at Sotheby’s Auction House in London, “Freddie Mercury: A World of His Own,” which shows some of his private collection and belongings.Some of Mercury’s songwriting drafts will be on display, including a draft of “Bohemian Rhapsody” scribbled on a piece of stationery from the now-defunct airline, British Midland Airways.The draft spans 15 pages and appears that he crossed out the word “Mongolian” and replaced it with the lyrics “Bohemian Rhapsody,” written in black and blue ballpoint pen and pencil.On the pieces of paper, it also shows that he changed the lyrics of the nearly six-minute-long song’s famous second verse – initially reading, “Mama, there’s a war began, I’ve got to leave tonight.”The final version of the song’s lyrics read, “Mama, just killed a man.”The Post reached out to Sotheby’s for further comment.The manuscript of “Bohemian Rhapsody” is estimated to be auctioned between $100,000 and $150,000,000.Mercury was the lead singer in the popular band “Queen,” and was also their songwriter.He wrote and composed many hits, including “Love of My Life,” “Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon” and “Seaside Rendezvous.”The talented artist died on November 24, 1991, after a battle with AIDS – just one day after he announced his diagnosis publicly, according to the band’s website.The song “Bohemian Rhapsody” was a clear chart-topper, and has been sold or streamed more than 10 million times in the United States, according to People.During a rare 1982 interview with Entertainment Tonight, Mercury spoke more about his musical process and artistic