Oof. This Las Vegas residency drama continues to be such a bummer.
06.01.2022 - 14:21 / completemusicupdate.com
PinkPantheress has been named the winner of the BBC’s Sound Of 2022 poll. The bedroom producer with songs that average less than two minutes came ahead of Wet Leg, Mimi Webb, Lola Young and Central Cee.“I’m honestly gassed, my dad’s going to be so happy”, says PinkPantheress of her win, speaking to BBC News.
“I had self-belief from the beginning but when other people start telling you stuff like this, it genuinely keeps you going”.The singer and producer, who still keeps her real name under wraps, only began releasing music early last year, after posting snippets of songs to TikTok and finishing the ones that got good responses.Signing to Parlophone, she scored her first top 40 single with ‘Pain’ – which samples Sweet Female Attitude’s UK garage classic ‘Flowers’ – last summer, and her highest chart position to date with ‘Just For Me’ in August.In October she released her debut mixtape, ‘To Hell With It’, which reached number 20 on the UK album chart. Featuring ten tracks, it features collaborations with producers including Mura Masa, Adam F and more.
Thanks to the brevity of her songwriting, the whole thing clocks in at just over eighteen and a half minutes.“I just get really tired of singing the same melody again and again,” she says of the conciseness of her tracks. “By the time I’ve finished one melody, I’m like, ‘OK, I can do better’, so then I move on to another one and another one.
But every time I write a song, I think it’s going to be three minutes – then I see the length and it’s always, like, one minute! So it’s not something I consciously do but it just ends up being the case. I don’t think it necessarily is a bad thing”.New music is on the way this year, and she confirms that she is working on a number of
.Oof. This Las Vegas residency drama continues to be such a bummer.
Sir Paul McCartney once sang, “I’ve just seen a face / I can’t forget the time or place,” and that was a feeling many Beatles fans felt when they saw his son, James McCartney, out and about on Monday (Jan. 24). In the photos taken of him, James, 44, was the spitting image of his famous father. He has the same eyes, forehead, and bushy beard as Paul, 79, during the late 1960s. James wasn’t on his way to play the rooftop of the Apple Corps building in Saville Row. Instead, he was doing a bit of shopping in London. James braved the British winter with a giant green puffer jacket but wore black slacks and a pair of open sandals.
She’s one of Britain’s busiest stars so we may not be surprised to see Sheridan Smith back on our screens, but that doesn’t mean we’re any less excited. Her latest project, The Teacher, sees her take on the role of flawed staff member Jenna. She’s popular with the kids, but as her chaotic private life begins to catch up with her, Jenna’s accused of sleeping with a pupil.
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When Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino reached his milestone 50th birthday, he decided the occasion was ripe with the potential to break away from many of the enduring ways he made distinctive, much lauded projects (including Academy Award winner The Great Beauty, Youth, Il Divo, The Consequences of Love and The Young Pope) and experiment with new cinematic and storytelling techniques. And for his next film, The Hand of God, he decided to plumb the depths of his own past as well.
Paul Pogba has been urged to leave Manchester United to get away from the criticism fired at him by fans and the English media.
BAFTA has unveiled the longlists across all categories for its 2022 Film Awards. See them in full below.