Mark Ronson says he’s heard Dua Lipa’s new album and that it’s “incredible”

The New York Times Style Magazine, Lipa engaged in a candid conversation that left fans with tantalizing hints about her upcoming musical project. While the Grammy-winning artist didn’t outright confirm the existence of a new album, her subtle response to a question about an impending release spoke volumes.

Dua Lipa has shared a further update on the release of her third album, which reportedly features Tame Impala‘s Kevin Parker.The singer’s highly anticipated follow-up to 2020’s ‘Future Nostalgia’ has been teased for a few years. In March last year, she told Elton John that the record was “50 per cent done”, before walking the statement back in December.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Greta Gerwig celebrated her 40th birthday just as “Barbie” was getting ready to cross the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office. The feat has made “Barbie” the first movie solo directed by a female filmmaker to cross the box office milestone.

Malia Obama goes grocery shopping in shorts and printed shirtRosalia’s inner circle: Meet Pilar Tobella and Pili Vila, her mother and sisterMalia and Sasha Obama kicked off their summer with a trip to Greece. The two were accompanied by their parents, Barack and Michelle, and were photographed as they took a stroll through the Parthenon, located in Athens. The two were photographed smiling and dressed stylishly, with Malia wearing a matching purple set made out of a top and skirt and Sasha wearing some jeans and a purple top.

Eva Mendes is channeling her inner Barbie. The 49-year-old actress shows off a quick tease of her dance moves in a new video on Instagram, set to Dua Lipa's infectious «Dance the Night» song from the official movie soundtrack.

Dua Lipa is facing another lawsuit over her 2020 track ‘Levitating’.The singer and Warner Music are being sued by producer Bosko Kante who claims he never granted the star permission to use his “talk box” recording in remixed versions.In a lawsuit filed in a federal court on Monday (July 31), Kante said he created a so-called talk box track for use in Lipa’s original version of the song, but that the creators of the track had no right to use it in subsequent remixes.According to Billboard, the producer’s lawyers, wrote: “Plaintiff made numerous attempts to resolve this matter short of litigation, but such efforts were unsuccessful, due to the defendants’ unwillingness to cooperate or accept responsibility for this blatant infringement of plaintiff’s copyrights.”After contributing talk box performances for Kanye West and Big Boi, Kante launched a company called ElectroSpit in 2014 to sell a proprietary digital version of the device.He claims that he was approached in 2014 by Stephen Kozmeniuk, one of producers of ‘Levitating’, about creating a talk box performance that would be incorporated into Lipa’s song.Kante says he later did so, and eventually reached an oral agreement that the track could be used in ‘Levitating’.But Kante argued that the deal expressly didn’t cover any further remixes beyond the original release meaning that Lipa and Warner Music didn’t have the right to use it on remixes by the likes of DaBaby and The Blessed Madonna.“All three remixes sampled and incorporated a greater amount of plaintiff’s work than that used in the original version,” Kante’s lawyers added.

in London over the past couple of weeks.I'm not quite sure what that means, but it might have something to do with recent trip to her homeland. Though she was born in London, Lipa grew up in the country of Kosovo, not far from her parents' native Albania.

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper‘s A Star Is Born duet “Shallow” is a massive hit that fans are unlikely to forget anytime soon.

Greta Gerwig listened to Dua Lipa‘s Barbie song ‘Dance The Night’ “100 times” in one morning, according to Mark Ronson.Ronson produced the soundtrack to the new movie, featuring artists including Lizzo, Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice, Charli XCX, Sam Smith, Billie Eilish, Haim, PinkPantheress, Karol G and FIFTY FIFTY.Speaking to NME in a new feature, Ronson said he was desperate to work on the soundtrack.“The minute I knew Greta was directing the film, that she was writing it with her partner Noah [Baumbach], and that it was Barbie… I signed up. I mean, I did read the script. And the script was incredible.

Tony Bennett‘s son and manager D’Andrea “Danny” Bennett has paid tribute to his “inspirational” late father.The legendary crooner died in New York City last Friday (July 21). He was 96 years old.

Dua Lipa‘s Barbie soundtrack contribution “Dance the Night” is a continuation of the disco anthems that she explored on Future Nostalgia in 2020.

Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s epic yet introspective, all-star cast biopic Oppenheimer spawned the summer’s most unlikely double feature.The teams behind both films were smart enough to catch on to the public’s pitting the world’s most famous doll against the man who birthed the Bomb.And the team behind this dual review, having completed the double feature in Barbie–Oppenheimer order, can report that both films are smart enough to recognize, respectively, the stereotypical girlishness that Barbie represents, and the inarguably patriarchal society that J. Robert Oppenheimer both represented and at times resisted.Barbie, co-written by Ladybird and Little Women Oscar nominee Gerwig and her Oscar-nominated husband Noah Baumbach, actually turns examining the toy’s impact on generations of girls and women into its whole raison d’être.

Dua Lipa delighted fans when she revealed that she would star in the new Barbie movie.The 27-year-old pop star attended the red – and pink – carpets of the new Barbie premieres in both London and Los Angeles after it was announced she had a cameo. However Dua, who plays Mermaid Barbie, is only in the film for a total of 30 seconds of the movie, which runs for 114 minutes. Despite not having many lines – she says just 16 words throughout the whole feature – Dua did write and perform the song Dance The Night for the soundtrack of the movie.

Accomplished music producer Mark Ronson had to take a different approach to “Barbie”.

on Friday, in conjunction with the movie's highly anticipated theatrical release. The album, produced by Mark Ronson, shares two of its credits with the movie's own cast --Dua Lipa, who plays mermaid Barbie, and Ken extraordinaire Ryan Gosling both feature on the film's soundtrack. Warner Bros. first announced plans to release in May, when Dua Lipa released her featured track, «Dance the Night.»The studio has since released six more featured singles: «Barbie World (with Aqua)» by Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice, «WATATI» by Karol G, «Angel» by PinkPantheress, «Speed Drive» by Charli XCX, «Barbie Dreams (feat.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Whether it’s a soundtrack, a score or a song placement, there are countless wrong ways to do music for film and so few ways to make it feel right. There’s very little leeway, which is why it can be so challenging for even the most successful hitmakers to make the transition to film music — especially with a major film event like “Barbie.” With albums and songs by Amy Winehouse, Adele, Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Bruno Mars and many others under his belt, seven-time Grammy-winning producer Mark Ronson is one of the most successful pop songwriter-producers working today, yet his work on the soundtrack to Greta Gerwig’s summer blockbuster “Barbie” film — for which he co-wrote and co-produced five songs, cowrote the score with longtime collaborator Andrew Wyatt, and served as an executive music producer — was a new experience.

Naman Ramachandran Music tourism spending in the U.K. in 2022 was £6.6 billion ($8.6 billion), a report from industry body U.K. Music has revealed. In 2022 – the first full year of post-pandemic festivals, gigs and concerts in the U.K. – music tourists were lured by the return of major events such as Glastonbury, where headliners included Paul McCartney, and U.K. tours by top British artists, including Dua Lipa, Stormzy, Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran and Elton John, the report said. The key findings of U.K. Music’s 2022 “Here, There and Everywhere” report include: total number of music tourists attending live music events across the U.K. in 2022 was 14.4 million; total number of international music tourists in 2022 was 1.1 million; total number of domestic music tourists in 2022 was 13.3 million; and total employment sustained by music tourism in 2022 was 56,000.

Queen guitarist Brian May has said that their former bassist John Deacon is still “very much part of” the band.Deacon joined Queen in 1971 and contributed to all of the band’s albums. The bassist departed the music industry in 1997 after recording the Queen single ‘No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)’.

draws closer, fans are eagerly anticipating getting a look inside Barbie Land — and what happens when the titular doll is forced to venture into the Real World.Not only that, but the film features a star-studded cast, packed with Barbies and Kens beyond just the central couple, played by Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. Just like in the toy stores, there's a Doctor Barbie, a President Barbie, a Mermaid Barbie and many more! (All the Kens are just Kens, though.)From an MCU hero to a star to a world-famous pop icon, fans will have a blast seeing the who's who of pop culture as they frolic through the hot pink world of Barbie in the film, directed by Greta Gerwig and co-written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach.Read on to learn more about all the Barbies, Kens — and a few humans — who will be gracing the big screen when the movie premieres on July 21.

Amongst the sea of pinks and pastels at the Barbie movie world premiere, Dua Lipa stood out from the crowd as she donned a silver crystal covered maxi dress for the event. Rather than opting for a traditional gown, Dua, who plays Mermaid Barbie in the upcoming movie, chose to give a nod to her underwater character in a completely sheer dress, with the diamante embellishments giving it a fresh-out-of-the-water look.