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I’m sorry if I offend any of his fans here but I think this is rather disrespectful and pretty much disgusting from him. Honestly I haven’t heard even one track from his latest 5 number ones. Here in Eastern Europe he is not very popular Im pretty sure people over 50 have never heard his name. Comparing himself to MJ is laughable, hopefully he knows that back in the day it was much harder to earn a number one.

and he continue to make her looks like a cheater & the media tear her apart after that

So yesterday Hung Up celebrated it’s 18th birthday, and with that came a series of hit tweets celebrating the song. Tweets: This follows several of her songs (Frozen, Material Girl, Back That Up to the Beat) going viral on TikTok. This also follows The Celebration Tour becoming the 11th fastest selling concert tour in history, selling over 600,000 tickets on it’s first day, a much praised feature with The Weeknd, and the tour itself has also opened to massive critical acclaim. For the last several years, Madonna has been something of a punching bag in the media whether it be for her age, appearance, or new music. But with these older songs finding a lot of love from younger audiences, her streaming figures on the rise, and the media using her 40th anniversary as an opportunity to write articles about how much she matters to pop culture history, that seems to be changing. Do you think that Madonna is finally seeing that much needed cultural reevaluation and do you think that it will continue to boost her name and legacy in the eyes of new audiences like some of her peers have experienced?

It’s a sun-kissed afternoon in late September, and Britney Spears pirouettes in powdery white sands on a beach in Tahiti. Tousled blond hair falls over her shoulders as she goes barefoot at the surf’s edge. The 41-year-old pop icon, capturing photos for the cover of PEOPLE while on a tropical getaway, smooths her Anthropologie sundress, fixes her bangs and moves into the shallows in search of a good shot. Working the camera as only she can, Spears looks up and smiles. Yet, until Nov. 12, 2021 — the day a Los Angeles County judge terminated the conservatorship that had governed Spears’ life for nearly 14 years — she had few respites like this. The legal victory, following fervent testimony in which Spears accused her father Jamie, 71, and others of exploitation and abuse, set the stage for a second act that is both exhilarating and tricky. “Learning this new freedom, I’ll admit, is challenging at times,” she tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview, done via email. There have been setbacks as she’s navigated her new normal, including her split from model-actor Sam Asghari, 29, in August after just 14 months of marriage. She also has a complicated relationship with her family, including her dad, mom Lynne, 68, and sister Jamie Lynn, 32. But there have also been high notes: Her collaboration with Elton John, “Hold Me Closer,” for one, marked her first Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 11 years. Mostly, though, Spears says she finds joy in everyday moments, whether “I’m playing with my dogs ... [or] watching episodes of Friends and belly laughing. I love, love to travel and explore,” she says. “I am a simple girl.” When Spears looks back on the best times of her life, she recalls her earliest days of performing, “trips with my dancers [and] acting silly with my girlfriends.” But she’s proudest of becoming a mother to sons Sean Preston, now 18, and Jayden James, 17, with her ex-husband Kevin Federline. “Starting a family was my dream come true,” she tells PEOPLE of raising her boys, who now live with their dad in Hawaii, but are in contact with Spears. “Being a mom was my dream come true.” Another dream has been to reclaim her voice. “Over the past 15 years or even at the start of my career, I sat back while people spoke about me and told my story for me,” she says. “After getting out of my conservatorship, I was finally free to tell my story without consequences from the people in charge of my life.” The result is a revealing new memoir, The Woman in Me, excerpted below. Sharing often-brutal truths, Spears details her incredible journey from teen superstar to one of the bestselling female artists of all time, her “soul-crushing” conservatorship experience and her past relationships. “It's hard to speak about,” Spears says of recounting her life’s darker moments, including “not getting a moment of peace, the judgments from strangers who don't even know me, having my freedom stripped away from me by my family and the government [and] losing my passion for the things I love.” Now it’s Spears’ time to wrestle back the narrative. “It is finally time for me to raise my voice and speak out, and my fans deserve to hear it directly from me,” she says. “No more conspiracy, no more lies — just me owning my past, present and future.” In turn, Spears would love to empower others to do the same, telling PEOPLE she hopes the overall takeaway is to “speak up. Be loud. Know your worth. Inspire people and most of all, just be kind.” A precocious kid from Kentwood, La., Spears was cast on The Mickey Mouse Club at age 11. Being in the show was boot camp for the entertainment industry: extensive dance rehearsals, singing lessons, acting classes, time in the recording studio, and school in between. The Mouseketeers quickly split into our own cliques, divided by the dressing rooms that we shared: Christina Aguilera and I were the younger kids, and we shared a dressing room. We looked up to the older kids — Keri Russell, Ryan Gosling, and Tony Lucca, who I thought was so handsome. And I quickly connected with a boy named Justin Timberlake. It was honestly a kid’s dream — unbelievably fun, particularly for a kid like me. But it was also exceptionally hard work: we would run choreography thirty times in a day, trying to get every step perfect. [Once] at a sleepover, we played Truth or Dare, and someone dared Justin to kiss me. A Janet Jackson song was playing in the background as he leaned in and kissed me. When the show ended a year and a half later … I decided to go back to Kentwood. Already within me was a push-pull: part of me wanted to keep building toward the dream; the other part wanted me to live a normal life in Louisiana. For a minute, I had to let normalcy win. Back at home, I returned to [high school], settling into normal teenage life — or the closest thing to “normal” that was possible in my family. For fun, starting when I was in eighth grade, my mom and I would make the two-hour drive from Kentwood to Biloxi, Mississippi, and while we were there, we would drink daiquiris. We called our cocktails “toddies.” I loved that I was able to drink with my mom every now and then. The way we drank was nothing like how my father did it. When he drank, he grew more depressed and shut down. We became happier, more alive and adventurous. There was something so beautifully normal about that period of my life: going to homecoming and prom, driving around our little town, going to the movies. But, the truth was, I missed performing. My mom had been in touch with a lawyer she’d met on my audition circuit, a man named Larry Rudolph, who she would call sometimes for business advice. He suggested I record a demo. He had a song that Toni Braxton had recorded for her second album that had ended up on the cutting room floor. This would become the demo that I would use to get in the door at record labels. Larry took me around [New York City], and I went into rooms full of executives and sang Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing.” Gazing out at the rooms full of men in suits looking me up and down in my small dress and high heels, I sang loud. I ended up getting a record deal with Jive Records at the age of fifteen. The label wanted me in a studio immediately. I worked for hours straight. My work ethic was strong. If you knew me then, you wouldn’t hear from me for days. I would stay in the studio as long as I could. If anyone wanted to leave, I’d say, “I wasn’t perfect.” When all the songs were done, someone said, “What else can you do? Do you want to dance now?” I said, “Hell yeah, I do!” ollowing the success of her first two record-smashing albums …Baby One More Time (1999) and Oops!...I Did It Again (2000), Spears hit the stage at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards to promote her third album, Britney. The plan was for me to sing “I’m a Slave 4 U,” and we decided I would use a snake as a prop. It’s become an iconic moment in VMAs history, but it was even more terrifying than it appeared. All I knew was to look down, because I felt if I looked up and caught its eye, it would kill me. In my head I was saying, Just perform, just use your legs and perform. But what nobody knows is that as I was singing, the snake brought its head right around to my face, right up to me, and started hissing. I was thinking, Are you f---ing serious right now? The f---ing goddamn snake’s tongue is flicking out at me. Right. Now. Finally, I got to the part where I handed it back, thank God. While recording her album Britney in 2001, Spears also filmed her first movie, 2002’s Crossroads, a coming-of-age tale about teens on a road trip, with Zoe Saldaña and Taryn Manning. The experience wasn’t easy for me. My problem wasn’t with anyone involved in the production but with what acting did to my mind. I think I started Method acting—only I didn’t know how to break out of my character. I really became this other person. Some people do Method acting, but they’re usually aware of the fact that they’re doing it. But I didn’t have any separation at all. I ended up walking differently, carrying myself differently, talking differently. I was someone else for months while I filmed Crossroads. Still to this day, I bet the girls I shot that movie with think, She’s a little…quirky. If they thought that, they were right. That was pretty much the beginning and end of my acting career, and I was relieved. The Notebook casting came down to me and Rachel McAdams, and even though it would have been fun to reconnect with Ryan Gosling after our time on the Mickey Mouse Club, I’m glad I didn’t do it. If I had, instead of working on my album In the Zone I’d have been acting like a 1940s heiress day and night. I imagine there are people in the acting field who have dealt with something like that, where they had trouble separating themselves from a character. I hope I never get close to that occupational hazard again. Living that way, being half yourself and half a fictional character, is messed up. After a while you don’t know what’s real anymore. By 2008, Spears — who had welcomed two sons with her second husband, Kevin Federline — had become a constant paparazzi target and a tabloid fixture. After being placed under psychiatric holds that February, she was put in a court-ordered conservatorship, granting her father and a lawyer control over Spears’ financial and personal affairs for the next 13 years. In that time, she recorded and released four successful albums and headlined her Piece of Me Las Vegas residency that grossed $138 million during its four-year run. But behind the scenes, she says she was unhappy. I’d been eyeballed so much growing up. I’d been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager. Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back. But under the conservatorship I was made to understand that those days were now over. I had to grow my hair out and get back into shape. I had to go to bed early and take whatever medication they told me to take. If I thought getting criticized about my body in the press was bad, it hurt even more from my own father. He repeatedly told me I looked fat and that I was going to have to do something about it. I would do little bits of creative stuff here and there, but my heart wasn’t in it anymore. As far as my passion for singing and dancing, it was almost a joke at that point. Feeling like you’re never good enough is a soul-crushing state of being for a child. He’d drummed that message into me as a girl, and even after I’d accomplished so much, he was continuing to do that to me. I became a robot. But not just a robot — a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself. The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child. I became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me. If they’d let me live my life, I know I would’ve followed my heart and come out of this the right way and worked it out. Thirteen years went by with me feeling like a shadow of myself. I think back now on my father and his associates having control over my body and my money for that long and it makes me feel sick. Think of how many male artists gambled all their money away; how many had substance abuse or mental health issues. No one tried to take away their control over their bodies and money. I didn’t deserve what my family did to me. The thing was: I accomplished a lot during that time when I was supposedly incapable of taking care of myself. I sometimes thought that it was almost funny how I won those awards for the album I made while I was supposedly so incapacitated that I had to be controlled by my family. The truth was, though, when I stopped to think about it for very long, it wasn’t funny at all. This is what’s hard to explain, how quickly I could vacillate between being a little girl and being a teenager and being a woman, because of the way they had robbed me of my freedom. There was no way to behave like an adult, since they wouldn’t treat me like an adult, so I would regress and act like a little girl; but then my adult self would step back in — only my world didn’t allow me to be an adult. The woman in me was pushed down for a long time. They wanted me to be wild onstage, the way they told me to be, and to be a robot the rest of the time. I felt like I was being deprived of those good secrets of life — those fundamental supposed sins of indulgence and adventure that make us human. They wanted to take away that specialness and keep everything as rote as possible. It was death to my creativity as an artist. On June 23, 2021, Spears testified in open court, pleading with the judge to end the conservatorship. Her father was suspended as her conservator in September, and two months later, Spears’ conservatorship was terminated. It took a long time and a lot of work for me to feel ready to tell my story. I hope it inspires people on some level and can touch hearts. Since I’ve been free, I’ve had to construct a whole different identity. I’ve had to say, Wait a second, this is who I was — someone passive and pleasing. A girl. And this is who I am now — someone strong and confident. A woman https://people.com/britney-spears-woman-in-me-memoir-excerpt-exclusive-8362486

It's gross tbh, and people on here should be ashamed as well for their nasty comments. It clearly comes from a place of hate and phobia and it's not cool.

As if I couldn’t hate him more than what he did to Janet… surprisingly, I can

The tea is hot today…

As much as I love SSOH, it’s still not a Gaga song. She does glorified background vocals, not even a full verse is just her. I’d love for her to do an actual song like that. Or really any type of rock, whether it’s more blues like TRS, hard rock like Metallica, or something soft like Fleetwood Mac.

Meanwhile Millie:

Oh honey, MJ would have tripled your #1s if streaming was a thing at his time

That is so tragic but at the same time doesn't seem like a surprise. I can't believe this info never leaked in 20 years given how the media has been OBSESSED with Britney since her debut. The way they've protected Justin for this and the Janet thing omg and they still had the nerve to make Britney look like it was her fault for everything. Damn.

These modern artists are delusional comparing themselves to the GOAT tho

i suspect the album will be about the joys of monogomy and the importance of loyalty to your partner

Imagine Dragons lead singer Dan Reynolds demonstrated his LGBTQ+ allyship once again by launching the fifth annual LOVELOUD music festival on Tuesday. This year will mark the festival's first time going on the road and expanding to different cities. The first stop will be in Washington on Oct. 17, then Salt Lake City on Nov. 3 and will wrap in Austin, Texas on Nov. 10. "Utah had the highest suicide rate amongst their teenagers. And those who are most at risk are LGBTQ youth. That's why we started in Utah. It was a community I knew that was having real issues. And I think LOVELOUD has made a great impact there. And now we're excited to bring it to other places in the States", Dan Reynolds said Reynolds — who was raised by a Mormon family in Las Vegas — had many friends growing up who felt "conflicted about their sexuality from a young age" because they were taught that their "innate sense of who to love was sinful." "Growing up with friends like that and then getting to a position where I had a voice and have been given a lot of power and privilege... I met Tyler Glenn (Neon Trees bandleader), who I became really close with, who also grew up Mormon and didn't come out until later in his life after serving the Mormon mission." Adding, "We came up with the idea together to start this festival to try to change the culture within Orthodox religions. And to help families know that it's not okay to not celebrate your LGBTQ youth. And in fact, when you're not doing that, you're setting your kid up for a life of just really devastating statistics." "If our youth are not being celebrated in the same way that our heterosexual youth are, we're setting them up for a disastrous life. If they feel that dagger behind the back of, 'I accept you, but I don't agree with...,' whatever it is that's going to come after that, that's what's really hurting our youth. So in my home, I really try to instill upon my kids that in this house we celebrate love, period. Whoever you might love, period. It's not 'we accept it, we tolerate,' it's 'we celebrate it.' And I think that distinction can be the difference between life and death. As extreme as that sounds... it's the difference of I accept you or I tolerate you and I celebrate you." Dan Reynolds has long established himself as an LGBTQ+ ally. In recent times, the 36-year-old singer who once met a GGD icon @Kimmo has become one of the most outspoken and recognisable straight allies in the music industry. He regularly uses his platform to advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, even when it means losing fans or alienating himself from his faith background. He even donated his childhood home worth $1 million to a charity that will use it as a centre for LGBTQ+ youth. source

The year was.. forgettable I would say.. except for some hits here and there that didn't leave the charts because there was a lack of competition.

The tide has been gradually shifting back in her favor for awhile now. She got tons of good exposure by working with The Weeknd, her near death experience not only reminded people that we would really miss her if she was gone and more importantly, it has seemingly grounded her and helped her find herself again. The ongoing celebration tour is continuing this wave of good luck for Madonna, everyone is talking about how good she looks and the quality of the stage, setlist and her performances. I mean, this clip alone screams ICONIC! she looks ****ing stunning. All she needs to do now, is pull off the entire tour without a hitch and drop that killer dance album she said she was wanting to make. BTW, she has been seen with Max Martin in the studio and there are rumors floating around that she might have already started working on the album

The way this happened and he still slut shamed her and bragged about taking her virginity after the break up. He disgusts me. I'm not moaning about the abortion as it appears to be mutually agreed but his actions afterwards were disgusting.

No? Lol people like Taylor bc they *dont* have to think about politics. Notice how she speaks generally avoids things related to it and talks more about personal platitudes and stuff. The one thing that would kill swift imo would be to be more political getting people to sign up to vote is not the same as waging an actual campaign. She’s benefited from a lot of easy press but she’d get flayed by the political establishment

- supercharged clean artistry - 99 people in the room - kindness - bravery - volantis - “now jump!”

UPDATE: they have teased the first single to be released THIS WEEK https://www.instagram.com/p/Cygzbfzy4tJ/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== PRE-SAVE THE NEW ALBUM NOW. No official release date found anywhere yet. https://www.instagram.com/p/CyeNu11SIEF/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=8af630b4-f83f-4edc-bfd0-8cd5105810ae https://bignoise.ffm.to/gothicsummer The Veronicas departed from Sony music last year after releasing 3 studio albums (self titled, Godzilla, and Human) GOTHIC SUMMER will be their first studio album with Big Noise Music Group.

Definitely a Cultural Reset for Mr Reynolds… I remember like if it was just yesterday, he pushed his kids and ex wife (seen on the back) away just to get a snap with my clown ghey ass

“Trump v Swift is totally occurring in a parallel universe rn”….. Yes the one in your head!! Lol

Long overdue. She is a living legend and if she had died you know the media and the world would be celebrating her legacy. So glad she is alive to see this happen instead.

So she makes music for young white females, what a surprise!

The audio is from her documentary ‘For The Record’, in which she said back in 2008 during the beginning of her conservatorship that she’d have a good mysterious book one day. I can’t believe that day is actually coming next week

I created a Fame-era Gaga AI, and this is a sample of the sound! Let me know what you think! https://on.soundcloud.com/4DSsa https://on.soundcloud.com/aXVkH

Let me try with Taylor's new boyfriend...

SPOTIFY ACHIEVEMENTS YESTERDAY (for 15.10.23) : Shallow crosses 2.229b streams (2,229,333,833) ARUTW crosses 1.086b streams (1,086,176,335) Rain On Me crosses 988m streams (988,207,773) Just Dance crosses 879m streams (879,227,260) Telephone crosses 603m streams (603,035,668) Judas crosses 378m streams (378,308,449) Hold My Hand crosses 262m streams (262,106,878) Speechless crosses 64m streams (64,007,118)

I love that she was in charge of the photos and did the interview on her own terms and how she felt most comfortable I’m so proud of her!

These records mean abolsutely NOTHING with the streaming services. Do new track records since the streaming started and leave alone untouchable legends.

This tbh. I've been here long enough to not get hyped anymore. Nothing is ever delivered whether it's teased or not. Bloodpop giving us blue balls over and over was it for me. There will only be simple pop eras from here forward. Just albums and (maybe) a music video or two. The only content we will receive anymore is Haus Labs TikToks every other day...

Daniel Dae Kim as Fire Lord Ozai Dallas James Liu as Prince Zuko Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as General Iroh Elizabeth Yu as Princess Azula Ken Leung as Commander Zhao Look promising!

@COOOK

I don’t think SSOH is indicative of what Gaga’s own rock infused album could sound like, since it’s a Rolling Stones song on a Rolling Stones album. she has zero songwriting/production credits. Only served background vocals. i think a Gaga rock album could sound like a mix of BTW and Joanne.

It will be the perfect deception when she unveils to the republicans after her fanbase wins her the election that she is in fact not a republican.

That's because hes put out so many songs fishing for a #1 that it's hard to keep track

For some reason she has been forgotten as a legend the past 10 years! She really needs to take this opportunity to focus on the next album. She should stop the experimental thing with her image and music for a while.

One leg up on the piano was iconic, but she rarely does this anymore.

Paws up + This face

That was my nickname is high school

Especially when you become a global superstar at the age of 17. That's a lot for anyone to process. No wonder she had a meltdown in 2007. It was just too much for her.

At least once a day. I don't love it but it's a really nice song, just a bit long and that's ok. One thing I've realized is that fans keep asking Gaga to do something "experimental" and a rock album but the moment she does something like Joanne or Sweet Sounds of Heaven they flip. Some fans are just not ready for Gaga to do something different to The Fame or Born This Way.

People are always about the strike stuff but this show has been filmed in September 2022. You don't need +1 year to edit a live show, like seriously. This CBT event should have been released far sooner before this strike happened in July 2023. Like late 2022 / early 2023 at the latest. Same old issue with Lady Gaga, everything linked to music stuff takes ages and ages to be released until something happens and makes everything delayed forever / cancelled. Same is 100% happening with this. I personnally moved on from this and Chromatica.

I don't think this has anything to do with it. Eras Tour and Renaissance are theatrical releases. Chromatica Ball is more than likely not getting a theatrical release but will instead go to streaming. Streaming is sort of the whole point of contention right now, so there's no way SAG-AFTRA would approve an interim deal. Simple as that What we really should be talking about is how Taylor and Beyonce managed to make high quality films ready for a theatrical release in just a few months but Gaga was mysteriously unable to.

My AOTY idc