B*Witched star details second album pressure and regrets | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV

B*Witched star details second album pressure and regrets | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV

B*Witched’s Lindsay Armaou has opened up about the pressure the band was under to replicate their early success when it came to making their second album. The Irish girlband, comprised of Lindsay and twin sisters Edele and Keavy Lynch and Sinéad O’Carroll, topped the charts with their first four singles and their eponymous debut album … Read more

What Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour says about ‘passion tourism’

What Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour says about ‘passion tourism’

Taylor Swift performs on stage during The Eras Tour on June 28, 2024 in Dublin, Ireland.  Charles Mcquillan/tas24 | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Taylor Swift’s European tour was top of mind for Nikita Rao when planning where to go for her family’s annual summer vacation. Rao, her husband and two kids, who live … Read more

Justin Timberlake arrested: What you need to know about the pop star

Justin Timberlake arrested: What you need to know about the pop star

NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Justin Timberlake was arrested early Tuesday and is accused of driving while intoxicated on New York’s Long Island. He was released and his next court date is scheduled for July 26, according to the Suffolk County district attorney’s office. Timberlake and his representatives have not commented. Here’s what … Read more

Singer Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons

Singer Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons

SAG HARBOR, N.Y. — SAG HARBOR, N.Y. (AP) — Pop star Justin Timberlake was charged early Tuesday with drunken driving in a village in New York’s Hamptons, after police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in the posh seaside summer retreat. The boy band singer-turned-solo star and actor was … Read more

What to stream this week: ‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ chops, PBS hits the disco and Kevin Hart chats

What to stream this week: ‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ chops, PBS hits the disco and Kevin Hart chats

The debut of “Echoes,” a sequel series to “Orphan Black,” and the documentary “Bread & Roses” looking at how Afghan women’s lives were impacted after Kabul fell to the Taliban in 2021 are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your … Read more

A decade after ‘All About That Bass,’ Meghan Trainor aims to make her feel-good songs ‘Timeless’

A decade after ‘All About That Bass,’ Meghan Trainor aims to make her feel-good songs ‘Timeless’

NEW YORK — Ten years ago, Meghan Trainor was a successful songwriter, soon to become a hit pop performer in her own right. “All About That Bass” established the then 20-year-old as a new force channeling old sounds — a combination of doo-wop with contemporary pop hooks in a time dominated by big synths — … Read more

ABBA will get a prestigious Swedish knighthood for their pop career that started at Eurovision

ABBA will get a prestigious Swedish knighthood for their pop career that started at Eurovision

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The four members of the Swedish pop quartet ABBA, who triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song “Waterloo,” are set to receive one of the most prestigious knighthoods in Sweden at a ceremony Friday. The Order of the Vasa will be handed out for the first time … Read more

Music Review: RM of BTS has a new solo album, ‘Right Place, Wrong Person,’ an elastic experiment

Music Review: RM of BTS has a new solo album, ‘Right Place, Wrong Person,’ an elastic experiment

All seven members of BTS are currently serving South Korea’s compulsory enlistment for men of a certain age — and in what should feel like an absence, the K-pop boy band is keeping their fans occupied with a steady release schedule of eclectic solo material. Next up is rapper RM’s second solo full-length album, “Right … Read more

What to stream this week: Willie Nelson, Chip & Joanna Gaines, Jim Henson and Benedict Cumberbatch

What to stream this week: Willie Nelson, Chip & Joanna Gaines, Jim Henson and Benedict Cumberbatch

Willie Nelson’s 152nd album and Benedict Cumberbatch playing a curmudgeon puppeteer in “Eric” on Netflix are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: George Clooney’s sports drama “The Boys in the … Read more

Music Review: Australian EDM twin duo Cosmo’s Midnight want you to ‘Stop Thinking and Start Feeling’

Music Review: Australian EDM twin duo Cosmo’s Midnight want you to ‘Stop Thinking and Start Feeling’

They say nothing good happens after 3 a.m. But something great definitely happens at the stroke of midnight — Australian duo Cosmo’s Midnight’s joyful new album, “Stop Thinking and Start Feeling.” Their third full-length aims to get audiences to turn off their inner self-nag and surrender to the magic of reinvented EDM disco funk. And … Read more