John C. Reilly has made us laugh as dopey Dale in Step Brothers, had us believing in the power of true friendship as Cal in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, cured absolutely nobody at all as the no-nothing doc in Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule and melted hearts as the sweet-natured cop hoping he can save his addict neighbor in Magnolia.
But the role he wanted so much he wrote it for himself, apparently, was of electrified, sanctified, possibly totally delusional “Archbishop Harold Holmes,” the hero of the song of the same name from Jack White‘s 2024 No Name album.
In the video for the hoot and holler blues rock track released on Tuesday (June 17) — directed by Gilbert Trejo from a concept written by Reilly — the versatile stage and screen actor slips into his Sunday best pin-striped blue suit for a fire-and-brimstone sermon in which Reilly mouths the lines, “If you’ve bot family trouble/ Man trouble, woman trouble/ No light through the tunnel/ If you’re lookin’ for a true friend, or a true lover/ Or if you’ve been livin’ undercover” in front of a glowing crucifix.
It quickly becomes apparent that this archdiocese bible thumper has more than the good lord’s words backing him up, as electrical sparks buzz from his fingers as he sings, “Well, I’m comin’ to your town/ I’ll break it all down/ And help you with all of this/ I’m lookin’ to help you find bliss/ One day, one way, can’t miss.”
With an old console radio pulpit seemingly powering his holy spirit, Reilly’s Holmes gets the handful of parishioners energized, inspiring them to leap from their seats and shuffle in a circle around him as he chicken struts and shoulder shimmies the good word into their their bodies via blue sparks.
Or, spoiler alert, maybe it was all a dream?
The possibly confused, wound-up Holmes is a world away from Mister Romantic, the long-running alter ego behind Reilly’s new album of romance ballads, What’s Not To Love. On the LP that dropped last week, Reilly melts hearts with covers of such lovelorn classics as “La Vie En Rose,” “You Don’t Know Me,” “Falling in Love Again,” “Picture in a Frame,” “Moonlight Serenade” and more.
“I looked at our weary world a few years ago and tried to think of a way I could spread love and empathy,” Reilly wrote in a statement about the character. “I decided the most fun way to do that was through performing and singing and telling people I love them…so the emotional vaudeville show Mister Romantic was born, out of both hope and despair.” The Mister Romantic tour will hit Chicago’s Steppenwolf theater on Sept. 13-14.
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Forever No. 1 is a Billboard series that pays special tribute to the recently deceased artists who achieved the highest honor our charts have to offer — a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single — by taking an extended look back at the chart-topping songs that made them part of this exclusive club. Here, we honor Brian Wilson, who died on Wednesday (June 11) at age 82, by looking at the second of The Beach Boys’ three Hot 100-toppers: “Help Me, Rhonda,” the final classic of the Beach Boys’ earliest golden age.
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What a difference an “h” makes. When “Help Me, Ronda” was originally featured on The Beach Boys Today! in early 1965, the band didn’t think too much of the shuffling love song with the repetitive hook; you can tell by how little care they took to normalize the volume levels, which inexplicably jump around in the song’s last two choruses. But leader Brian Wilson believed in the song’s potential, and after the band re-recorded it or single release (and for inclusion on the band’s second 1965 album, Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)) as “Help Me, Rhonda,” it became the latest in a stunning streak of smashes for the family-and-friends quintet from Southern California.
In fact, by early 1965, The Beach Boys was one of the only American bands still holding its own against the pop-rock raiders from overseas. The British Invasion was in full swing, and The Beatles alone had topped the Hot 100 six times in 1964. In between No. 1s four and five for the Fab Four that year came the Boys’ eternal teen anthem “I Get Around” and the group had two additional top 10 hits by the end of ’64: the wistful “When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)” (No. 9) and the the ebullient “Dance, Dance, Dance” (No. 8). Both of those were included on The Beach Boys Today! at the top of 1965, and the set also spawned a third single in a cover of Bobby Freeman’s “Do You Wanna Dance?,” which just missed the top 10 (No. 12) that April.
As the Beach Boys were still enjoying their run of fun-and-sun early hits, Brian Wilson was beginning to stretch out both as a songwriter and a producer. “I Get Around” was backed by “Don’t Worry Baby,” Wilson’s first real attempt to outdo his idol Phil Spector, with impossibly dreamy production and harmonies and a gorgeous rising verse melody that somehow elevated into an even-higher-flying chorus. The flip-side to “Dance, Dance, Dance” was “Please Let Me Wonder,” another Spectorian love song with strikingly fragile verses and a near choir-like refrain. And perhaps most notably, Today! included the lovely but disquieting “She Knows Me Too Well,” Wilson’s first real lyrical examination of his own romantic insecurities and failings. All of these would ultimately point the way to the artistic leap forward the band would take on 1966’s Pet Sounds, the band’s intensely personal and overwhelmingly lush masterwork which disappointed commercially, but made them critics’ darlings for the first time.
But they weren’t there yet. In mid-’65, they were still fighting to maintain their place in an increasingly crowded pop-rock landscape — and, not having reached the Hot 100’s top five since “I Get Around” nearly a full year earlier, they needed a no-doubter to lead off Summer Days. So Brian Wilson dug back in on the song he’d relegated to deep-cut status on the album before. “Ronda” was much more in line with the group’s earlier, simpler hits than the more lyrically and musically complex fare Wilson was starting to explore, but he was right that the song had real potential: It was a clever number that basically managed to be both a breakup ballad and an upbeat love song at once, with a chorus so relentless that you could hear it once and remember it for the rest of your life. It just needed a little extra maintenance.
In truth, Brian did a lot more on the re-recording of “Help Me, Ronda” than add an “h” to her name and keep his finger steadier on the volume controls. He also clipped the intro, so it began right with its “Well, since she put me down…” intro, dropping you right into the middle of the song’s narrative. He tightened the tempo a little, and added some “bow-bow-bow-bow” backing vocals to tie together the “help-help me, Rhonda” pleas of the chorus. He added some extra piano and guitar to give the song’s instrumental bridge a little extra zip. And perhaps most importantly, he laid an extra falsetto backing “Help me, Rhonda, yeah!” on top of the chorus climax to make it stand out a little better from the rest of the refrain. They’re all small additions, but you don’t realize how much difference they make until you go back to the Today! original and wonder why the whole thing sounds so empty and lifeless by comparison.
But while Brian Wilson allowed the song to soar, “Rhonda” was anchored by a less-celebrated Beach Boy: Al Jardine. A high school friend of Brian’s, Jardine had mostly served as a glue guy in the band to that point and had never sung lead on one of their songs, much less a single A-side. But Brian was intent on giving his buddy a spotlight moment, and decided Jardine would take the reins for “Rhonda.” It was a good match: While the Wilsons’ voices drifted towards the ethereal and sentimental, and Mike Love’s had a more muscular, occasionally snide edge to it, Al Jardine’s voice had both a sturdiness and an unassuming everyman quality to it. He was the Beach Boy best equipped to sell a relatable song like “Rhonda.”
And while “Rhonda” was a less musically and lyrically ambitious song than others Wilson was attempting contemporaneously, there is still a bit of trickiness to it. It’s a lyric that mourns a romantic split with one girl while attempting to simultaneously ask a new girl to ease his pain — and the vocal matches the shift; Jardine’s singing is frenzied and pained and in the first half of his verses and smooth and composed in the second. From a less likable or compelling vocalist, the whole thing could’ve very easily come off like a cheap come-on, like he doesn’t actually give a damn about either girl. But Jardine manages to sound sincere, like he actually is going through it and is genuinely in need of the help that only the titular female can provide. When he begs on the chorus for Rhonda to “get ‘er outta my heart!” — after a couple dozen shorter pleas from the rest of the Boys — you really hope she succeeds in doing so.
With its new arrangement and new title, “Rhonda” did indeed prove the no-doubter that the Beach Boys were hoping for to re-establish their pop supremacy in ’65. The song debuted on the Hot 100 on April 17 at No. 80, and seven weeks later, it replaced — who else — The Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride” to become the band’s second No. 1 hit, lasting two weeks on top before being replaced by the other dominant American pop group of the era: The Supremes, with “Back in My Arms Again.” The Beatles would, of course, be heard from again just a few months later with a “Help!” No. 1 of their own — and in between them in June, the Four Tops reigned with “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch).” (Draw your own conclusions about a generational cry for additional assistance amidst the turmoil of the mid-’60s if you so desire.)
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“Help Me, Rhonda” would mark something of the end of an era for The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson, as it was their last major pop hit before the group started rapidly scaling up its ambitions. Even “California Girls,” the group’s universally accessible No. 3-peaking follow-up to “Rhonda” — which, wouldn’t you know it, got stuck behind The Beatles’ “Help!” on the Hot 100 — came affixed with a cinematic instrumental intro and a vocal outro in-the-round that no other pop group of the time would have dared attempt. By 1966, the group was pushing pop music into the future at a rate that would ultimately prove uncomfortable for both the public and for the Beach Boys themselves — though it would culminate in one more all-time classic pop single before it all fell apart.
And “Help Me, Rhonda” stands alone in all of pop history in at least one respect: It remains the lone Billboard Hot 100 representation for all Rhondas worldwide. No other song (or artist) with that name — outside of a No. 22-peaking Johnny Rivers cover of the song in 1975, featuring Brian on backing vocals — has ever reached the chart since its 1958 introduction. (No “Ronda”s either.)
Tomorrow, we look at the final of the Beach Boys’ three Brian Wilson-led No. 1s: the forever singular “Good Vibrations.”
Los Alegres del Barranco could achieve the suspension of the criminal proceedings against its members for alleged advocacy of crime during a concert in Jalisco held in March, following the release of an anti-narcocorrido that the group recorded at the request of the state governor, Pablo Lemus.
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The song, titled “El Consejo” (or “the advice”) and released on Sunday (June 15) on YouTube, is a call to discourage young people from joining the ranks of organized crime and to warn them about the potential consequences of getting involved in criminal activities. “I’m going to give you some good advice/ If you want to grow old/ Don’t get involved with the bad/ Nothing good comes from that/ If you think it’s easy money/ Pay attention to these verses/ There are dreams that come true/ And later turn into nightmares,” the song says in Spanish, set to the rhythm of a traditional accordion.
“This is a step in the right direction to be able to face the legal challenges,” Luis Alvarado, the group’s spokesperson, told Billboard Español on Monday (June 16).
The Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office told Billboard Español on Monday that “the group’s willingness” to send a positive message through a song opens the possibility of reducing some of the restrictions imposed on the four musicians, their representative, and their concert promoter.
The case stems from a performance at an auditorium at the University of Guadalajara on March 29, where the band performed a narcocorrido accompanied by images alluding to the leader of a criminal group. This incident even led the United States to revoke the work and tourist visas of its members.
“If the suspension proceeds, the economic guarantee they deposited with the court could be canceled, and it would also be possible for the precautionary measures to be put on hold,” the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement on Sunday.
The group had 5.8 million pesos (about $302,000) frozen, representing the alleged profits from their concert at the Auditorio Telmex, which led the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office to open a fifth investigation against the group, accusing them of alleged “operations with resources of illicit origin.” However, state authorities clarified that the conditional suspension of the process for alleged advocacy of crime does not extend to the investigation into their possible involvement in the crime of operations with resources of illicit origin, which remains ongoing.
The precautionary measures imposed by a judge on Los Alegres del Barranco, which could potentially be put on hold, include: appearing in court every week, paying a guarantee of 1.8 million pesos (about $92,000), and remaining within Jalisco. The band continues to defend themselves while out of custody, as preventive detention was not ordered.
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However, the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office is “the only entity that can reach an agreement through alternative means to resolve three — out of four — investigations opened against the group for alleged advocacy of crime” during concerts in other municipalities in the state, a spokesperson for the Government of Jalisco told Billboard Español, adding that they are confident an agreement between the parties will be made public this week.
On the social media platform, X, Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus praised the group’s new song. “This new song by Los Alegres del Barranco, titled ‘El Consejo,’ deserves to be listened to closely, especially by young people,” he wrote in a post on Sunday. “Music is essential for connecting with future generations and helping them understand everything that choosing what many portray as the easy path entails.”
Following the ban on narcocorridos imposed by local governments in 10 of Mexico’s 32 states, some corrido artists have announced changes to their music and repertoires. Such is the case of corridos tumbados star Luis R. Conriquez, whose April 12 performance at the Feria de Texcoco in the State of Mexico ended in chaos after he refused to perform war-themed songs in compliance with the new regulations set by authorities.
Grupo Firme has also announced that it has removed the corrido “Se Fue La Pantera” from its repertoire, which allegedly references an operator of the Sinaloa Cartel. Recently, the group, led by vocalist Eduin Caz, canceled their participation in a festival in Napa Valley, California, due to the visas of its members and the team of its promoting company being in “administrative process” by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico.
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Bunnie XO Addresses Haters Calling Her Love for Jelly Roll ‘Fake’ After Brief Red…
In a raw video posted to her Instagram on Monday (June 16), the podcaster tears up while hiding her face in her hands as she talks inaudibly on the phone, seemingly having just received a piece of good news. “When you just got the call you’ve been waiting on for 5 months since this ivf journey started,” she wrote.
“All the tears, the hopelessness & the struggle, God finally said, ‘Here,’” Bunnie continued, adding in her caption: “Praise Jesus.”
The social media star and country singer have been trying to conceive through IVF for months. In the comments of her post, Bunnie clarified that she’s not pregnant yet — “We won’t announce that,” she asserted — but they are one big step closer to growing their family.
“This is just a huge win for us,” Bunnie noted.
The Dumb Blonde host has been open about her experience with IVF, documenting the ups and downs on social media. In March, she got real on her podcast about how “lonely” the process can be, sharing, “It’s just you and these hormones and the waiting and the egg retrieval … It’s a lot to bear.”
Bunnie also recently clapped back at a troll who implied that she is too old to be trying for a baby. The same commenter also wrote that Jelly Roll — who has been open about his weight-loss journey over the past year — is “so unhealthy looking.”
“Yes, I have decided at the ripe age of 45 that I would love to hear the pitter-patter of little feet with the man that I’ve been with for almost a decade,” said Bunnie, who is a stepmom to Jelly’s two kids from past relationships, 17-year-old Bailee Ann and 7-year-old Noah.
“Not only am I financially in a great place to raise a child, but I’m also spiritually and mentally in a great place because I have been in the darkest places before and I drug myself out from the depths of hell,” she added at the time in a video on her Instagram Story. “Did you know that I was pregnant three times before we decided to do this IVF? I am so thankful that God did not let me have a baby when I was 20 years old because that poor child would have been through so much s–t with me. This is the perfect age.”
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Approved by Y2K baddies and TikTok influencers alike, Lancome’s Juicy Tubes create some of the most kissable pouts around.
The gloss has enjoyed a resurgeance in popularity as of late, likely in part to the revolving door that is the trend cycle. Iconic aesthetics from the 2000s are back in full swing, from clothing to makeup, and Juicy Tubes certainly fit the bill. You can shop the silky gloss everywhere from Lancome’s website to Sephora, Ulta Beauty and even Amazon for just $25.
Dubbed the “original high-shine gloss,” Juicy Tubes were first launched by Lancome in 2000, capitalizing on the frosty and ultra-glossy lip trend of the time. The gloss was so popular that Lancome claims to have sold 20 tubes per minute at the product’s peak.
Juicy Tubes was briefly discontinued in 2018 and made a comeback in 2020. Following its return to the makeup market, Lancome launched a campaign in March titled Lancôme Juicy, bringing together famous faces such as Kelly Rowland, Ed Westwick, Hilary Duff, Gabrielle Union and Chad Michael Murray to discuss their experience with the iconic lip gloss.
Each gloss leaves the lips looking fuller without an overly sticky residue. Juicy Tubes come in three impressive finishes: sparkly, cream and jelly. The lip gloss also comes in a slew of shades — 11 to be exact. The line includes wearable neutrals and vampy browns, allowing for different looks for different skin tones. Some of our favorite shades include 05 Marshmallow Electro, 01 Pure and 20 Lavender Latte.
05 Marshmallow Electro is for our Y2K baddies looking for a high-shine flush to the lips. The gloss is has finely milled gold reflects that work to catch the light, giving the wearer the appearance of a plump pout. 01 Pure is a universal shade with a clear finish that works in tandem with the natural shade of your lips. We’d recommend wearing this gloss with a lip pencil to offer your lips dimension, making the gloss more impactful.
Finally, 20 Lavender Latte is a new shade for Lancome, and a great one at that. The new addition to the Juicy Tubes family boasts a sheer lavender base with finely milled champagne glitter suspended throughout. Much like 05 Marshmallow Electro, this gloss’ sparkling catches the light to help make your lips look fuller. We think this gloss would look great on darker skin.
No matter what shade you choose, Juicy Tubes will give your lips a boost of hydration that’ll take you back to the days when Britney Spears was on the radio and frosted tips were all the rage.
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Looking for a new pair of headphones or earphones on a budget? To make it easier for you, we’ve put together a list of high-quality options available for under $25, featuring everything from classic wired headphones to sleek wireless earphones.
Whether you’re jamming out on a walk or need to focus while tackling schoolwork, having the right pair of headphones or earphones can make a difference. For those who love the simplicity of earphones, we’ve included lightweight and comfortable options that deliver great sound. One standout piece from this list are the JBL wired in-ear headphones — one Amazon customer said, “These earphones are the most comfortable set I own… the noise cancellation is the best I own, and I can wear them for about 2 hours (or more) consecutively without fatigue. The deep bass is impressive.”
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Some people might be obsessed with time, but Mariah Carey thinks the concept is nothing more than a thing of fantasy.
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In a recent interview with Capital FM posted Monday (June 16), the superstar once again stated how she refuses to acknowledge the passage of time. Carey has long said she doesn’t subscribe to the construct of days, weeks and years, and has also asserted that she doesn’t have birthdays — only anniversaries.
“Is it true you don’t acknowledge the passing of time?” one interviewer asked, to which Carey confirmed, “That is true.”
“I just don’t believe in it,” she continued. “No, no, just time. Let it go. I don’t have a birthday, no. Anniversaries, yes.”
Carey’s belief system also means that coordinating a so-called “time” to meet up with someone is not a viable option for her. “Yeah, I would have somebody call you and figure it out,” she calmly replied when asked how she goes about making appointments.
Mimi’s commitment to being free from the constraints of time dates back years. In an old interview reshared by the singer in 2023, a younger Carey explains, “I don’t have birthdays … I decided to do that. And I’ve noticed that people who decide not to have birthdays, they just don’t have them.”
That said, the “anniversary” of Carey’s ethereal existence is on March 27 each year. This year, she marked the occasion by sharing a photo of herself on a jet ski and writing on Instagram, “Thank you lambily for the anniversary wishes and for always making me so happy!!!”
Carey’s interview comes on the heels of her new single, “Type Dangerous,” which marks her first proper release since 2018. The track just debuted at No. 95 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated June 21, 2025 — not that she would recognize such a time stamp — becoming her 50th career entry on the chart.
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There are certain things you never forget: your first kiss, wrecking your dad’s new car, the birth of a child and, definitely, that time you slept with Warren Beatty. Barbra Streisand might have some of those memories, but when it comes to bedding down with Beatty, well, things are a bit fuzzy for the Hollywood legend.
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Speaking to the New Yorker about her upcoming duets album, The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two, the 83-year-old star of stage and screen said she definitely remembered being propositioned by Marlon Brando back in the day, but, as she wrote in her 2023 memoir My Name Is Barbra, she just can’t remember is she and legendarily Casanova Beatty did the deed.
“I know I slept in the bed with him, but I can’t remember if we actually had penetration,” she said in answer to a question — more of a statement, really — about how no one in the “history of sex, or Hollywood, or anything” has ever written that line. “I swear to God, I can’t. There are certain things I block out,” Streisand said.
Respectfully, New Yorker editor David Remnick couldn’t help calling b.s. on Streisand’s memory lapse, even as she doubled-down on saying she has no recollection of sex with Beatty. “But I know we’re still friends. Every year on my birthday, he calls me and we have a wonderful talk about our lives, our children, and so forth,” she said. “So we’re still friends. I met him when I was fifteen years old, and he was twenty-one, I think.”
In the memoir, Streisand first revealed that her memory is foggy about any intimate time with Beatty, who has been married to actress Annette Bening since 1992; Streisand married actor James Brolin in 1998. “Warren and I go back a long way (back to summer stock) and there’s some water under that bridge,” she wrote. “Recently, we were on the phone talking politics and who knows what else when he said, ‘I remember why we broke up.’ I said, ‘When were we together?’ Then I hung up and asked myself, Did I sleep with Warren? I kind of remember. I guess I did. Probably once.”
The book features details on the first time she met Beatty, when he was starring in a production of A Hatful of Rain in Connecticut. “He asked me to cue him on his lines. If that was a come-on, I missed it entirely,” she wrote. “He also played the piano. I was impressed. We used to eat together occasionally and talk about life. He was twenty-one, tall with movie-star looks, and women were already falling at his feet. I was sixteen.”
Streisand also chatted with Remnick about Bob Dylan after the New Yorker editor noted that in 1971 Dylan wrote a letter to one of his friends revealing that he’d written “Lay Lady Lay” about Babs, which was followed in 1978 by a letter/flowers exchange. Now, they are reconnecting on the Partners album, where they trade lines on the 1934 Ray Noble pop standard “The Very Thought of You.”
“The fun thing is that we were both nineteen years old, in Greenwich Village, never met each other. I was at the Bon Soir, and he was playing the guitar somewhere else,” she said. “I remember him sending me flowers and writing me a card in different-color pencils, like a child’s writing: ‘Would you sing with me?’ I thought, What would I sing with him?How could we get together on this? I couldn’t understand it at that time.”
But now that they’ve recorded “The Very Thought of You” she is delighted by the song choice that they both love. “He’s very shy, like I am. But he was wonderful to work with. I was told that he didn’t want any direction,” she recalled. “But when I talked to him about things that I suggested, he was so pliable — he was so open to suggestions. Everything I heard about him just went out the window. He stood on his feet for three hours with me.”
Also, for the record, when asked if she would ever tour or perform live on stage again after battling stage fright for much of her career, Streisand gave a clear answer: “Oh, my God! No!” The singer said that aside from when she was a teenager on her way up, she never really enjoyed live performance.
“I never wanted to be a singer; I wanted to be an actress. So I looked for material that I could act from Broadway plays — to be silly, you know, singing ‘Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?,’” she said. “I was open to the audience, and talking to them. Whatever I was doing was just about being in the moment, things that I was experiencing in acting class. It was never to be a singer; it was to be an actress.” That, and the fact that she’s had a lifelong battle with a bad back. “I’ve always had a bad back. So it’s not just age,” she said.
The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two is due out on June 27 and features a duet with Sir Paul McCartney on “My Valentine,” as well as guest spots from Hozier (the previously released “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”), James Taylor (“Secret O’ Life”), Tim McGraw (“I Love Us”) and Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande (“One Heart, One Voice”).
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Karol G has teamed up with five telenovela giants for a new promotion clip of her forthcoming album, Tropicoqueta.
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Inspired by ‘90s Latin soap operas, the Colombian singer released a nearly two-minute Spanish-language video starring herself alongside actresses Anahí, Itatí Cantoral, Gaby Spanic, Ninel Conde and Azela Robinson.
In true telenovela fashion, Karol and Anahí are in love with the same man — who is revealed via photo to be a long-haired Ricky Martin from the ‘90s — and later confront each other in a heated fight. Cantoral rushes in with her iconic Soraya Montenegro phrase from Maria la del Barrio, and screams, “What are you doing? Don’t mess with my daughter, maldita lisiada!” To which Conde then breaks up the argument by responding to Cantoral, “Mamacita, you’re still doing this? It’s been so many years, please get over it!”
Toward the end of the skit, Spanic and Robinson drive up in a red van listening to an upcoming track from the album. “The woman is iconic/ she has dreams/ she has goals,” the lyrics go.
In an Instagram post with photos from the shoot, Karol revealed that she first called Anahí for the project, and then everything else fell in place. “How crazy!!! Nothing like having the opportunity to make a dream come true!!!” she captioned the post. “You touched our lives with each of your roles. What energy on set, what laughter, the most fun shoot ever!!!! What an incredible time we had!! Thank you, queens, for saying yes! It’s an honor to be in the same room with you!”
Tropicoqueta, Karol’s fifth studio album, will drop Friday, June 20. It’s set to be a nostalgic and personal project on which La Bichota says she’s “going back to the roots, to the songs I grew up listening to, to the sounds that made me fall in love with music.”
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After making history with 111XPANTIA — which become the highest charting Spanish-language album by a duo or group ever on the Billboard 200 when it debuted at No. 2 in May — the band from San Bernardino, Calif., is set to perform back-to-back shows at the Madison Square Garden and Hollywood Bowl. Taking place June 20 and June 21, respectively, frontman Jesús Ortiz Paz says with a smirk, “Hollywood Bowl is iconic, Madison Square Garden is iconic, so we’re iconic.”
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In a candid interview with Billboard, Fuerza Regida also talks about the importance of making history with its latest LP — which also scored the largest week for a regional Mexican album on the Billboard 200 — in a political climate that seems to be anti-Mexican. “We came here to show our roots and make sure that everyone knows that Mexicans can go No. 1 in the U.S.,” Paz adds categorically.
During the chat, with delicious hibachi on the menu for lunch, Paz and band members José García, Moisés López, Khrystian Ramos and Samuel Jáimez spoke about finding the perfect synergy that would lead to their success, how manifestation has always been a big part of their ethos and why giving back to the community is important for the band. In fact, right after lunch, the band sent the hibachi food truck out to the San Bernardino area to feed more than 100 locals.
Fuerza is part of the new generation of regional Mexican hitmakers who have globalized the genre over the past few years. 111XPANTIA marked Fuerza Regida’s sixth No. 1 overall on Top Regional Mexican Albums. The group’s No. 1 run began in July 2019, when Del Barrio Hasta Aquí debuted at the summit, becoming its longest-leading set to date, with an 18-week domination.
Check out Billboard‘s interview with Fuerza Regida above.
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