Demi Lovato is about to make an already steamy summer even hotter. After wiping her Instagram feed last week and hinting that something new was on the horizon, the singer dropped a preview of her dance floor-ready new single, “Fast,” on Tuesday (July 15).

“Cuz baby honestly/ I just wanna feel your hands all over me (over and over)/ Right where they wanna be/ Even if it’s only for tonight,” she sings over the song’s insistent, house-like beat on a song that seems primed for high-energy remixes. In the accompanying video sneak peek, Lovato spins and seduces the camera by swiping her hands over her chest as she walks down a moonlit cityscape.

In the Instagram reboot that began last week, Lovato kicked things off with a sultry image of her laying on the floor in a backless back dress and red-bottom shoes gazing over her shoulder with the caption, “I’m not so sure, I’ve ever felt like this before.” She followed up with a video in which she sings those lyrics over a bubbling electronic background and a slide of her wearing an oversized grey suit jacket top in what looks like a photo shoot captioned with another lyric, “I can’t deny, it feels so right.”

At press time a spokesperson for Lovato had not responded to Billboard‘s request for additional information on the single.

In September, Lovato confirmed to Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon that she was “working on new music” and said she was “kind of figuring out my sound right now.” At the time she said she wasn’t sure when it would be released, but promised that she was working on “love songs and sexy songs,” which made sense since she was gearing up to marry fiancé Jordan “Jutes” Lutes at the time; the couple tied the knot in May in California.

Jutes co-wrote three songs on Lovato’s most recent album, 2022’s hard-hitting Holy Fvck, which hit No. 7 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

Listen to the preview of Lovato’s “Fast” below.

The surprise appearance of The Cure’s Robert Smith during Olivia Rodrigo’s Glastonbury 2025 set has been widely celebrated by fans and critics alike, but few were as overcome with emotion as Rodrigo’s own guitarist, Arianna Powell.

In a new interview with Guitar World, Powell recalled the moment she first found out Smith would be joining them onstage for duets of The Cure’s “Friday I’m in Love” and “Just Like Heaven” at Worthy Farm last month.

“We found out in Nashville when we were rehearsing for Bonnaroo, which ended up getting cancelled,” Powell said. “Stacy [Jones], our music director, came and told us, and was like, ‘This is very secret – you cannot tell anyone, but he’s going to be joining us.’ And I swear to God, I started crying. Like, I started tearing up.”

Powell, a longtime fan of The Cure, said the news hit her particularly hard because of her deep admiration for Smith’s guitar work. “I’m a huge fan, especially those guitar parts,” she shared. “I love, love, love the guitar parts, specifically in those songs, especially ‘Friday I’m in Love’. So I was just so stoked to get to actually play that with the artist.”

Beyond the onstage collaboration, Powell spoke about Smith’s generosity and warmth backstage. “He was so cool. He was leaving his dressing room door open for us to hang out. He wanted to talk and be social,” she said.

“Through conversations with him, he was just saying, ‘It’s just another show.’ And he was talking about how much he enjoys performing, and he loves it every time. That really inspired me and my energy for that night. Like, ‘Yeah, it’s just another show – and I love doing this.’ The collective energy of the band that day was really infectious.”

The performance also marked a milestone for Rodrigo, who has spent 2025 on a global tour supporting her sophomore album GUTS. The LP, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2023, has seen a resurgence in streams following her Glastonbury appearance, with “vampire” and “bad idea right?” climbing back into the upper reaches of the Billboard Global 200.

Benson Boone has offered up a cover of Sam Fender’s “Seventeen Going Under” at Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival after the U.K. artist was forced to pull out of the event.

Fender had been scheduled to headline the July 15 edition of the event, performing on a bill that also included Boone and Mark Ambor. However, he announced earlier this month (July 4) that he would be unable to perform after being diagnosed with a “haemorrhage on one of [his] vocal cords” and advised to rest for two weeks.

“This is incredibly frustrating as I have been so careful with my vocal health and this year so far has been the best of my career,” he wrote. “If I were to play at these next shows I would risk causing lasting damage to my vocal cords.”

While no replacement act stepped in to fill Fender’s shoes, Boone instead was ultimately relegated to headliner status. “He’s an artist that I look up to and an artist I think is incredibly talented, but did anyone come here to see Sam Fender today?” he asked the crowd.

As Boone continued, he explained that he was “terrified” of the prospect of taking over Fender’s slot, and had been “expecting a bunch of angry people” instead of adoring fans.

However, to appease those who had anticipated Fender’s presence, Boone paid tribute to the absent artist by offering up a rendition of the 2021 single “Seventeen Going Under.”

“I really hope that the people who came to see Sam today can get just five per cent out of this song,” he explained. “It’s a beautiful song.”

Fender’s most recent album, People Watching, was released in February and served as the follow-up to Seventeen Going Under. However, its release was also marred by a hemorrhaging of his vocal cord, which had caused Fender to cancel a handful of shows months earlier.

“I’ve had two separate ENT doctors say if I perform tonight I’m risking lasting damage to my voice and I have been advised to be on vocal rest and not use my voice for a prolonged length of time until it heals,” Fender told fans on Dec. 17.

Fender is currently scheduled to return to the stage on Aug. 8, with a headline performance at Denmark’s Syd For Solen festival.

Welsh indie rock outfit Los Campesinos! have detailed how they turned down a lucrative payday from Airbnb in order to maintain their support of pro-Palestinian causes.

The group – who have released seven albums across their 19-year history – took to social media on Tuesday to explain the reasoning behind their decision.

“In April we declined an offer of $60,000 to license a song of ours to an Airbnb commercial,” they wrote. “Airbnb continues to make money from stolen Palestinian land and contributes to the housing crisis worldwide. We do not wish to promote or profit from this.

“Free Palestine. Eat the Rich.”

The group’s accusations toward Airbnb follow on from reporting by The Guardian in February which claimed that both Airbnb and Booking.com had advertised more than 700 rooms in illegal Israeli settlements – with 350 of them available on Airbnb.

“We’re sharing this because we have found similar acts of solidarity and protest by our peers to be inspiring,” Los Campesinos! added in a follow-up post. “Every time an artist takes a principled stance it makes it easier for the next artist to do the same ✊🏻.”

The pro-Palestinian stance taken by Los Campesinos! echoes high-profile protests by artists such as Kneecap and Bob Vylan in recent months, which have both generated massive amounts of support and backlash.

In April, Kneecap made global headlines following their appearance at the Coachella festival where they projected strong anti-Israel sentiments during their set – sentiments which they had claimed were censored during their first weekend appearance.

“Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” the projected messages read. “It is being enabled by the U.S. government who arm and fund Israel despite their war crimes. F–k Israel; free Palestine.”

In late June, Kneecap also performed at England’s Glastonbury Festival, sharing a bill with Bob Vylan – which comprises Bobby Vylan and Bobbie Vylan.

Bobby sparked outrage during the show as he led the audience in a chant of “death, death to the IDF (Israeli Defence Forces).” He also called for a “free Palestine” and said that “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

Kneecap, meanwhile, led a “F— Keir Starmer chant,” after the U.K. prime minister said it was “not appropriate” to be playing the festival amidst Mo Chara’s ongoing terror case.

Reports followed that Avon and Somerset Police had launched a criminal investigation into the sets of both artists following public backlash and political scrutiny over remarks made during their respective performances.

“[Bob Vylan’s] chants very much crossed a line and we are urgently reminding everyone involved in the production of the Festival that there is no place at Glastonbury for antisemitism, hate speech or incitement to violence,” a spokesperson for the festival later noted.

“Regardless of how it was said, calling for an end to the slaughter of innocents is never wrong,” Bobby Vylan said in his own video statement, “This anger is not directed at [Israeli] civilians.”

UPDATE (July 15): An arrest has been made in the murders of Robin Kaye — who worked as a music supervisor on American Idol for 15 seasons — and her husband, Thomas Deluca, who were found dead in their Encino, Calif., home on Monday (July 14), according to reports from Deadline and TMZ.

A representative for the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to Billboard that Raymond Boodarian, 22, had been arrested for a double murder. Like the victims, he lived in Encino, a suburb of Los Angeles.

PREVIOUSLY: Robin Kaye, who worked as a music supervisor on American Idol for 15 seasons, and her husband Thomas Deluca were found dead in their Los Angeles home on Monday (July 14), according to reports from Deadline and TMZ.

Kaye and Deluca, both 70, were reportedly found dead in separate rooms of their home from apparent gunshot wounds. The reports state that authorities discovered the bodies while doing a welfare check on the household Monday.

TMZ also claims that police entered Kaye’s house by smashing a window after spotting blood at the entrance. Four days prior, police had been called to the same residence to check out reports of an unidentified suspect that neighbors had seen trying to gain entry, according to the outlet.

Boodarian was arrested without incident, according to the Los Angeles Times. So far, there does not seem to be any connection between the victims and the suspect and KABC reported it as a random murder that happened July 10 when the victims returned home as the alleged suspect was robbing the home.

In a statement shared with Billboard, an American Idol spokesperson said, “We are devastated to hear of Robin and her dear husband, Tom’s, passing.”

“Robin has been a cornerstone of the Idol family since 2009 and was truly loved and respected by all who came in contact with her,” the statement continued. “Robin will remain in our hearts forever and we share our deepest sympathy with her family and friends during this difficult time.”

According to her IMDb page, Kaye had experience in multiple areas of the music industry before she made the leap to music supervision. After working for Waylon Jennings in Nashville and joining MTM Records as vp of artist development and broadcast media, she spent some time in Chicago before moving to L.A.

Kaye also worked in the film and TV licensing department at MCA-Universal Records and oversaw music licensing for PolyGram Records. In 2000, she founded her own company, SyncroniCity, which handles music supervision for shows such as Idol. The other programs on Kaye’s resume are Lip Sync Battle, Hollywood Game Night, NAACP Image Awards, The Singing Bee, Miss USA, Miss Universe, American Inventor, Q’Viva , The Dance Scene, Dance Your Ass Off, Your Chance To Dance, Adventures of Power and Crashed.

Featuring judges Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood and Lionel Richie, Idol wrapped its 23rd season in May. The show first premiered in 2002, running for 15 seasons before it went on hiatus in 2016.

The series was resurrected in 2018 with Bryan, Richie and Katy Perry — who has since been replaced by Underwood — on board.