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Dangerously in Love” solidified her spot as an R&B icon and the Queen Bey of the music industry.The 41-year-old’s record cover was photographed by Markus Klinko and featured the flawless singer rocking a diamond-covered top and jeans as she posed in front of an icy blue background.However, the “Crazy in Love” songstress initially hated the web-like shirt that was draped over her bare skin, according to Klinko, who noted that the inspiration behind the record’s jacket photo came from a snapshot he captured of model Laetitia Casta, titled “The Web.”That 2000 photo showed the French model lying on a spider web that was crafted from jewels, with Casta sporting a silver, thread-like minidress that wrapped around her body.“She said she really loved that image and if we could do something like that, just smaller, on her. And I didn’t really know how to interpret that,” Klinko recently told Insider of Beyoncé’s interest.

the Sun reported Friday, as a tribute to their late drummer Charlie Watts, who died at 80in Aug. 2021 after a battle with throat cancer. Lead singer Mick Jagger, 79, reportedly invited Wyman to recording sessions in Los Angeles to work on the track.“Bill hasn’t seen the band together for years but always loved Charlie.

nepo babies — the derogatory term for Hollywood offspring who magically wind up following in their celebrity parents’ footsteps.Now, meet the world’s first nepo daddy.As a former advertising copywriter, it’s possible that 69-year-old Rob Grant, piano man and father to Lana Del Rey, might have eventually come up with the term as a way to market himself and his debut album, “Lost at Sea.”But someone on social media beat him to the verbal punch. And he loved it.“I first saw it in my comments, and I thought, ‘Holy smokes, that’s a beautiful brand!’ ” Grant told The Post.“So I went out and registered the domain nepodaddy.com, and then I called the guys at Decca [Records, his label] and said, ‘We’ve got to do merch around this … I love kind of being the first nepo daddy out there.”Grant has his 37-year-old firstborn — whose alt-pop allure has led her to six Grammy nominations, including an Album of the Year nod for 2019’s “Norman F—king Rockwell!” — to thank for his new nepo-daddy notoriety.

“Ooooooohhh … On the TLC Tip” — that went multiplatinum.Then, the iconic girl group’s career nearly went up in flames. In June 1994, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes — the resident rapper of the trio, which also included Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas and Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins — got into a vicious, violent fight with her then-boyfriend, former NFL star Andre Rison, that left her bruised and bloodied.

“Kill Bill” — is feeling no plastic-surgery shame about her booty enhancement. In fact, her plumped-up posterior is her favorite accessory.“I treat my butt like a purse,” SZA, 33, told Elle of her amplified assets that are the result of a Brazilian butt lift.“It’s just there to enhance whatever else.

threaten to be “done” with music if he’s found liable, a disillusioned Ed Sheeran’s much-publicized copyright infringement trial is also taking a toll on his personal life.The trial — in which Sheeran is facing a lawsuit for allegedly ripping off Marvin Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On” — forced the four-time Grammy winner to miss his beloved grandmother’s funeral in Ireland on Wednesday.“I am very sad that our son Edward is unable to be here today,” Sheeran’s father John said in a eulogy for his 98-year-old mother, Anne “Nancy” Sheeran. “He’s so upset that he cannot be present — he has to be thousands of miles away in a court in America defending his integrity.

facing legal woes in a copyright infringement trial over his 2014 hit “Thinking Out Loud.”The 32-year-old, who admitted he would be “done” if the trial doesn’t go his way, has also opened up about a “horrible month” that devastated him in February 2022.While still reeling from his wife Cherry’s cancer diagnosis, he was then shattered by the death of his best friend, British music entrepreneur Jamal Edwards, who helped launch his career.  “I don’t think I’ll ever get to February and be like, ‘This is a great month,’ ” says the “Shape of You” singer-songwriter in “Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All,” a four-part Disney+ docuseries that premieres on Wednesday. “That was a horrible, horrible month.

has been back in full bloom this year with her No. 1 smash “Flowers.”But now fans are convinced that the 30-year-old star has been secretly dropping even more music in 2023.Social media is abuzz with chatter about another Cyrus album being leaked on March 10 — the exact same day that she dropped her last LP, “Endless Summer Vacation,” last month.The album “Down with Me,” released under the name Clara Pierce, features vocals that sound eerily similar to those of the former “Hannah Montana” star.The 12-track LP — featuring tunes such as “I Don’t Wanna Tell You Lies,” “Hands of Time,” “Can’t Live Forever,” “Not My Vibe” and “Right Han Man” — is rumored to be leaked previously unreleased material by Cyrus.“I really need Miley Cyrus to explain why there is an entire album on Spotify called Down with Me under the artist name Clara Pierce that was released on the same day as Endless Summer Vacation that is oh so clearly her voice,” tweeted one fan.“I need you to explain Clara Pierce ma’am,” another fan tweeted to Cyrus.Certainly, breakup songs such as “I’ll Never Get Hurt Again” and “At Least I Can Say That I Tried” could easily be alluding to Cyrus’ much-publicized split with ex-husband Liam Hemsworth.And “Saggittarius” would make sense for the singer, who is indeed a Sagittarius.On the song, Pierce sings, “I told you once before, I’m my mother’s daughter” – and “Mother’s Daughter” just so happens to be the name of a track on Cyrus’s 2019 EP “She Is Coming.”But some are even suggesting that this could be another case of the magic of AI working its wonders.

“Rescued,” the band’s first song since the death of beloved drummer Taylor Hawkins in March 2022.And you can feel the ghost of Hawkins in the haunting chorus: “We’re all free to some degree/To dance under the lights/I’m just waiting to be rescued/Bring me back to life.”Back in ferocious form, you can hear the revived Foos emerging from their mourning after Hawkins died at 50 from a suspected overdose while the group was on tour in South America.“It came in a flash/It came out of nowhere/It happened so fast/And then it was over,” sings frontman Dave Grohl, seemingly referencing Hawkins’ passing at the beginning of the song.Later, Grohl hints at his deep grief: “I fell in a trap/My heart’s getting colder.” Then the singer repeats a plea to “rescue me tonight,” as if he wishes he could have saved Hawkins.“Rescued” dropped Wednesday as the Foo Fighters announced “But Here We Are,” their 11th studio album, due June 2.It’s the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band’s follow-up to 2021’s “Medicine at Midnight,” which arrived just four months before Hawkins’ death.A press release describes “But Here We Are” as “a brutally honest and emotionally raw response to everything Foo Fighters endured over the last year” and “a testament to the healing powers of music.”The release continues, “ ‘But Here We Are’ is the sound of brothers finding refuge in the music that brought them together in the first place 28 years ago, a process that was as therapeutic as it was about a continuation of life.”

Jonas Brothers famously sang about “Burnin’ Up” (for you, baby) on one of their biggest hits in 2008.Fifteen years later, the New Jersey-born siblings — Joe, 33, Nick, 30, and Kevin, 35 — are hotter than ever. The late-aughts icons kicked off a Broadway mini-residency Tuesday night at the Marquis Theatre, as the trio gears up for the release of their sixth studio LP, simply titled “The Album,” on May 12.So what’s the secret to their longevity?“Writing things that we’d want to play in 20 years,” Nick said in front of a largely female — and loudly squealing — audience that significantly lowered the median age on Broadway on the first of five nights.“We never thought we would get here.

to top the iTunes charts with the release of its first album, “Aurora.” The band was brought to life by Riley Keough, Sam Claflin, Suki Waterhouse, Will Harrison, Josh Whitehouse and Sebastian Chacon for the self-titled Amazon Prime Video show, which was adapted from the book of the same name. “Daisy Jones & The Six” was written by Taylor Jenkins Reid and follows the rise and fall of a Fleetwood Mac-esque band as it gets mixed up in sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll in Los Angeles in the ’70s. The novel quickly became a #BookTok sensation — and popular beyond the social media app — after it was released in 2019.

“Trustfall,” and the singer says that making the LP helped her cope with own crisis of faith.“In order to be a human being in this world today, it requires a lot of trust, like just to … drop your kids off at school and participate in elections and have an opinion,” Pink said at an album release party held 101 floors up in the sky at the Edge overlooking Manhattan.“ ‘Trustfall’ is sort of [about] two things … I feel like we’re falling backwards, and the ground is uncertain. But it’s also that freedom and letting go, trusting and having faith in the universe that it’s going to take care of you.”And the 43-year-old mother of two — daughter Willow, 11, and son Jameson, 5 — takes comfort in the fact that “I know if my kids had the muscles, they would catch me.”Making “Trustfall” tunes such as first single “Never Gonna Not Dance Again” — which Pink performed on roller skates to open the American Music Awards last November —  helped the artist deal with her issues during the pandemic.“I wrote ‘Never Gonna Not Dance Again’ because I felt like the world was ending,” said Pink, who also performed acoustic renditions of new tunes “When I Get There” and “Trustfall” at the event, where she was interviewed by Peloton star Cody Rigsby.“I’m not wasting any more time.

“Higher Than Heaven,” is slated to drop on March 24, but some details about songs have been leaked.The song “Waiting For It,” The Sun reported Thursday, reportedly includes the lyrics: “We can f–k the world away, I’ve been reconditioned into new positions.”“Pouring you in my cup, let it drip on my fingers / But it’s never enough, I want it again.” The outlet reported that Goulding debuted the song during an intimate set, where she remarked, “You can tell what mood I was in when I wrote this song.” She was quoted saying the new album “is about being passionately in love. But it’s a hyper form of love, almost like a drug-induced feeling.”Goulding previously spoke about the upcoming album and how time during the pandemic helped it come to fruition.“There was definitely a darkness about [the past two years] that was palpable in the studio, with everyone having gone through it differently,” she said.

after her murder. However, some fans aren’t happy with the project and feel that her family is exploiting the Texas-born starlet — who was shot in 1995 by crazed fan Yolanda Saldívar — for profit. Selena’s brother, A.B.

told The Guardian, simultaneously hyping the group’s much-anticipated 40-year reunion, how wonderful making music together again was — and how they plan to never do it again. “It’s got to be, you know.”This second breakup is different than the one the group had in 1982: This one is amicable (the first one came amid group-wide divorce) but final.

Partying with everyone from Lady Gaga, Elton John and Daniel Craig to Kim Kardashian, Vladimir Putin and Queen Elizabeth II, Duran Duran holds the anniversary bash to end all anniversary bashes in celebration of 40 years in music.The festivities go down in the video for the band’s latest single, aptly titled “Anniversary.” But if you’re wondering just how they got the queen to do a group selfie at this shindig, well, it’s because they used celebrity lookalikes in the clip, which was released three days before Duran Duran’s 15th studio album, “Future Past,” arrived on Friday.“We thought it might be interesting, as the song is all about celebration, to have a big party [and] to fill it with famous people,” keyboardist and founding member Nick

announcement that her new single “Easy On Me” will debut on Oct. 15, the 33-year-old British songstress announced Wednesday in a lengthy Instagram post that her highly anticipated upcoming album “30” will be released on Nov.

Rock icon David Bowie’s estate is planning a “comeback” for the late singer to mark what would have been his 75th birthday next year.Executors for the music legend are currently ironing out the details of “Bowie 75,” which will feature a series of projects including archive releases and merchandise to coincide with the milestone in January.Paperwork filed by the estate’s business, the Jones/Tintoretto Entertainment Company, reveals that alongside musical and video releases, the family — including his widow Iman and children Alexandria and Duncan — are exploring the prospect of merchandise and memorabilia.There are plans for collectors’ books and artwork, plus other products including clothing, footwear, ceramics and glassware.A logo

superstar teased with a trailer on Tuesday that announced its Oct. 15 release — she’s asking for a little post-divorce compassion as she re-enters the music world six years after her last album, 2015’s “25.”“It’s not like anyone’s having a go at me, but it’s like, I left the marriage.

who was the naked baby on the iconic cover of Nirvana’s 1991 album “Nevermind” wants to bar the band from using the image on 30th anniversary editions of the classic disc.

Aaliyah left us to step to — after she died in a plane crash 20 years ago on Aug.