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Kim Petras marked her win for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance with Sam Smith by reminding folks how she trailblazed her way to the Grammy stage.
“Sam graciously wanted me to accept this award because I’m the first transgender woman to win this award,” she announced from stage to huge applause and an ovation.
Smith then encouraged folks to keep standing up for his partner on “Unholy.” This is Smith’s first Grammy win as a nonbinary artist (they came out as nonbinary after winning four Grammys in 2015).
“I just want to thank all the incredible trangender legends before me who kicked these doors open for me so I can be here tonight,” Petras said, who went on to remember a deceased friend who predicted she would end up on the Grammys. She also gave a shout-out to Madonna for fighting for LGBTQ rights.
Petras is not the first transgender artist to take home a Grammy. According to Out, electronic music composer Wendy Carlos earned Grammys as a trans woman back in the ’60s. Multiple trans artists have also been nominated over the years.
“I don’t think I could be here without Madonna,” Petras added, who added she grew up next to “a highway in nowhere Germany.” She also thanked her mom, who always treated her like a girl.
“Unholy” was released in September as the second single from Smith’s four studio album Gloria.
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FIFTY FIFTY is back!
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Scarlett Moffatt is expecting her first child with longterm boyfriend Scott Dobinson. The ex-Gogglebox favourite, 32, took to Instagram on Saturday to share the happy news that she and boyfriend Scott, 34, are set to become parents for the first time later this year. Scarlett shared an adorable video of her pet dog Bonnie alongside a photo from a recent ultrasound scan, and said she and Scott are "one cloud nine".
Lizzo has covered Sam Smith and Kim Petras‘ smash hit ‘Unholy’ in BBC’s Radio One Live Lounge – check it out below.As per Live Lounge tradition, where artists perform their own material and then a cover, Lizzo put her own spin on the track in powerful style. She then made the song her own by adding a flute solo to it.Check it out below:Lizzo also performed the title track from her recent album ‘Special’, which you can watch below:Lizzo covered the BTS hit ‘Butter’ and Harry Styles‘ ‘Adore You’ in previous years of the Radio One Live Lounge.The artist also performed at last week’s BRIT Awards, delivering a medley of hits from ‘Special’ including the title track, ‘2 Be Loved’ and ‘About Damn Time’.Smith and Petras also performed ‘Unholy’ on the night, taking to the stage in leather and black outfits in front of a set designed to look like a seedy garage set-up.
their widely-slammed “demonic” Grammy’s performance — with video showing the irate woman screaming that the British singer “belongs in hell.”“Sam Smith belongs in hell!,” the Irish woman screeches at the 30-year-old entertainer in a clip that was posted on social media late Wednesday and has since gone viral. “You demonic, sick, twisted b—–d,” she continues to rant, as the “Stay With Me” singer ignores her and walks towards what appears to be the entrance to the Central Park Zoo.“You sick motherf—-r, Sam Smith! You’re evil!” the unidentified woman screams again, after hurling nasty accusations about Smith being a “pedophile.” Smith, who recently came out as nonbinary and uses the pronouns they/them, looked unperturbed during the entire verbal assault.The woman’s abusive outburst comes after the pop star’s controversial performance of their chart-topping hit “Unholy,” alongside German singer Kim Petras at the 65th Grammy Awards on Feb.
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Taylor Swift has released a special vinyl edition of ‘Lover (Live From Paris)’ to mark this year’s Valentine’s Day – check out a preview below.Read More: Taylor Swift: every single album ranked and ratedThe heart-shaped record – available in either baby blue or pink – captures a 2019 performance in the French capital, where Swift played various songs from her seventh studio album.Featured on the vinyl are the cuts ‘ME!’, ‘The Archer’, ‘Death By A Thousand Cuts’, ‘Cornelia Street’, ‘The Man’, ‘Daylight’, ‘You Need To Calm Down’ and the title track.“My heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue. Now both are on vinyl to end up with you!” an announcement post on the Taylor Nation Twitter account read alongside a preview video.You can purchase any remaining copies of ‘Lover (Live From Paris)’ here (priced at £39.99, limited to two per customer).
MOMOLAND is breaking up, all six members of the group have confirmed.The announcement was made yesterday (February 14), with all six members of the K-pop girl group – Hyebin, Jane, Nayun, JooE, Ahin, and Nancy – taking to their individual Instagram pages to upload identical letters announcing MOMOLAND’s disbandment after seven years together.It comes a little under a month after all six members parted ways with longtime agency MLD Entertainment following the expiration of their contracts.Each letter was handwritten by the respective members in Korean, while some members included English translations of the same letter in the post captions.“First of all, we sincerely apologise to our Merries [MOMOLAND’s fanbase] facing the news through an article. We are truly sorry for the late update. After a long, deep discussion, the six of us members have decided to support for each other to have a great new beginning going forward,” the letter read.
The Lemon Twigs have announced their fourth studio album ‘Everything Harmony’ and shared a new single called ‘Any Time Of Day’ – listen below.The Long Island duo – comprising brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario – are due to release the 13-track follow-up to 2020’s ‘Songs For The General Public’ on May 5 via Captured Tracks (pre-order/pre-save here).Featuring last month’s ‘Corner Of My Eye’, the forthcoming record was written, recorded, produced and engineered entirely by the band between Manhattan, Brooklyn and San Francisco’s Hyde Street Studios.According to a press release, ‘Everything Harmony’ “swings between moments of depression and isolation and episodes of dizzying euphoria”, and was inspired by the likes of Simon & Garfunkel, Arthur Russell and Moondog.Latest single ‘Any Time Of Day’ arrives with an official video directed by Ambar Navarro, who said the clip was “heavily inspired by ’60s television live performances and focusing on the minimal set pieces, referencing The Carpenters, Tom Petty, and especially The Monkees‘ TV Show and absurd/surreal comedy of that era”.Tune in here:As for the song itself, The Lemon Twigs explained: “We were hired to write material and act in an interactive TV show about an imaginary ’70s brother band. We wrote a bunch of KISS type songs for the soundtrack plus this one.“This one wasn’t quite right for the show, so we held it back.
Nova Twins have explained how their remix of Sam Smith and Kim Petras‘ ‘Unholy’ came about. Watch our video interview with the duo above.Speaking to NME on the red carpet of The BRIT Awards 2023 – where they were nominated for Best Group and Alternative/Rock Act – the duo discussed their rocked up version of the track which was released last December.“We got the chance to submit a remix, but when they actually said they loved it we were like ,’No way!’, because you never know if it’ll even fly,” bassist Georgia South explained.Singer and guitarist Amy Love continued: “And we love the song as well, the song is so sexy,”“As soon as we heard it, we were like: ‘This sounds like it needs a heavy riff on it'”, South finished.When asked which of the other attendees they’d like to hop on a remix with, they shouted out BRITS Rising Star Award winners FLO.
Last night, Sam Smith and Kim Petras brought their hit "Unholy" to the Grammy Awards for a performance that has set off evangelicals, right-wingers, and those who believe that Pfizer is somehow connected to Lucifer. It was pretty silly.
Sam Smith has become something of a beacon for controversy in recent weeks, upsetting conservative figures in their home country over a recent music video and doing the same in the U.S. after this weekend's Grammys. The latter was down to a performance of "Unholy," alongside Kim Petras, that upset the likes of Ted Cruz and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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, who was the first nonbinary artist nominated in the category. Although was technically a feature on Smith’s song, she said that the singer graciously wanted her to accept the award due to the importance of the precedent.“I’d just like to thank all the incredible transgender legends before me who kicked these doors open for me so I could be here tonight,” she said.