GloRilla is still reeling in excitement over her incredible opportunity to head out to Washington, D.C., and meet President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House.
The 24-year-old rapper opened up about the experience on a new episode of Tamron Hall, where the host asked how she reacted to the news from her team that she’d be heading to the White House. “I always be thinking they’re lying for some reason. Every time they tell me something good, I’m like, ‘This can’t be real.’ I still haven’t accepted the reality of it,” she shared. “The moment I was walking through security and everything, it was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m here, I’m here, I’m here, I’m here.’ Once I got in, it was a beautiful feeling. I never would have expected to be in the White House.”
In her Instagram post from the White House last month, Glo is seen taking a selfie video with Biden, exclaiming, “Yeah, Joe!” The President then sweetly replies, “Not ‘Yeah, Joe.’ Yeah, you!”
“It was so cool, I was geeked,” the “Tomorrow 2” rapper told CNN after the event. “Everybody don’t get to meet the President and the Vice President. […] I never thought in a million years I’d be in the White House. Then, I was in the White House and got to meet the President and Vice President? I was like, ‘Now, they can’t mess with me!’”
Watch GloRilla’s interview with Tamron Hall below.
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RuPaul’s Drag Race has become a global sensation, with the reality competition series expanding into spinoffs around the world, including in Canada, the U.K. and even Spain. Besides its international companions, the series has even branched out into an arguably just-as-popular spinoff titled RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars. And the devotion for the reality show has helped earn RuPaul an Emmy record as the most-awarded host for a reality competition program.
Watching RuPaul’s Drag Race every week isn’t the only way to profess your love for the reality competition show — the series has spawned a seemingly endless amount of merch, toys and collectibles too.
You don’t have to spend a fortune either — no matter what your budget is, there is a variety of fun merch ranging from games to books and more. And, if you have a squirrel friend out there who is a major fan of the series, finding unique RuPaul’s Drag Race merch will provide a thoughtful gift that won’t have them saying “sashay away.”
What Is the Best RuPaul’s Drag Race Merch?
To help you stock up on a gag-worthy amount of the best RuPaul’s Drag Race merch, Billboard Shopping did the research to find some of the most popular apparel and accessories inspired by the show.
Delve into the story of the legend who created RuPaul’s Drag Race as well as helping to pave the way for drag queens today. RuPaul’s memoir bares it all with the official description describing it to be “his most revealing and personal work to date.” Throughout 256 pages, you’ll learn about his life growing up in San Diego to navigating the punk and drag scenes in Atlanta and New York.
Add some RuPaul to your style with this graphic T-shirt featuring the host and their name. It comes in various colors and is made from a 100% combed, ring-spun cotton for extra coziness. It’s also machine-washable. Plus, did we mention it’s also 20% off right now?
Ditch the classic Monopoly and pick up this Drag Race version that comes with game pieces inspired by the TV show, including a checkered flag, chocolate bar, reading glasses, lipstick, a purse and a roll of duct tape. As you go around the board, you’ll recognize spots taken straight from the show such as the Winners Circle, All Stars Hall of Fame and Judges Panel.
Little People Collector RuPaul Special Edition Figure Set
You’ll want to make sure this Little People’s figure set has a front spot on your display shelf. Not only does it feature a collectable glittering box inspired by the iconic main stage, inside are three different figurines taken after some of RuPaul’s most beloved outfits.
As you watch the latest episode, add a touch of interactiveness to your watch party with this RuPaul’s Drag Race Mad Libs. Each page will feature a different theme, and fill-in-the-blanks that you can have fun writing and reading out loud for some laughable fun. It’s also compact enough to throw in your backpack to take with you on the go for games nights, travel and commutes.
Personalized “Drag Race All Stars”-Inspired Lipstick
Just like the contestants, you can own your own personalized lipstick with your name engraved on it. You’ll be able to choose between three font options and whether you want there to be lip balm inside. Make sure to write your name in the customization box before adding the product to your cart.
You and your friends can enjoy this card game with a drag queen twist. Each player will compete to win different categories using cards in their hand. Whoever has the highest number in a given category wins the round. The person who wins the most rounds will be the ultimate drag queen.
Redbubble’s tote bag comes designed with a collage of Queens considered drag royalty. This will easily become the statement of your outfit as it features vibrant colors and a sturdy yet spacious build for holding your books and small essentials.
Challenge yourself with a RuPaul puzzle that features iconic photos of the host you can build. Once complete, you can take it apart to build again at a later date or keep the 500 pieces together to put on display for all your friends to admire.
Show off your charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent every morning with this simple (and cheeky) mug. It comes decorated with the iconic slogan and is made from a ceramic material that can hold up to 11 ounces of liquid.
You can decorate your laptop and phone case with these Drag Race stickers, which include 100 pieces inspired by quotes and Queens from past seasons. Right now you can score 20% off the sticker pack dropping the price down to only $8.
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It might be time for a tech upgrade. If you’ve been waiting for iPads to go on sale, Amazon has a few iPad deals that you need to know about.
For starters, iPad Pro got a pretty nice price cut, just in time for spring. The ninth generation iPad Pro is on sale for $250 at Amazon, which saves you $80 off the list price ($329).
Powered by Apple’s A13 bionic chip and an 8-core CPU and Neural Engine NPU, iPad Pro delivers powerful performance, lightning-fast graphics and all-day battery life, with up to 10 hours of web surfing.
Apple iPad (9th Generation) with A13 Bionic chip, 10.2-inch Retina Display
The iPad Pro also has a 10.9-inch True Tone display, 64GB of storage (up to 256GB), a 12MP ultra-wide front cameras and 8MP back cameras.
Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro became available for iPad Pro last year. The upgrade means that movie and music creatives can finally combine the magic of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro with the portability of an iPad.
“We’re excited to introduce Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, allowing creators to unleash their creativity in new ways and in even more places,” Bob Borchers, Apple’s vice president of worldwide product marketing, said at the time. “With a powerful set of intuitive tools designed for the portability, performance, and touch-first interface of iPad, Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro deliver the ultimate mobile studio.”
Final Cut Pro for iPad features an all-new touch interface, intuitive tools and a jog wheel that, according to Apple, “makes the editing process easier than ever.” Logic Pro for iPad lets users unlock an “all-in-one-professional music creation app” that turns your iPad into a portable recording studio that lets you write record, edit music and more directly from the device.
Both are available in the App Store for $4.99/month or $49 annually.
As if you need another reason to upgrade your iPad, Final Cut Pro is only compatible with the M1 chip iPad and later models, while Logic Pro will be available on A12 Bionic chip iPad models or later. Learn more about Final Cut Pro for iPad and Logic Pro for iPad here.
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The fifth generation iPad Air has an M1 chip, a 10.9-inch Liquid Retina display with True Tone technology, up to 256GB of storage (the discounted option is 64GB); an upgraded 12MP wide camera, 4K video recording capabilities like iPad Pro, plus a faster USB port and 5G connectivity. The iPad Air is equipped with an 8-core CPU, and 8-core GPU that delivers faster performance and up to two times the graphics of its predecessor — and it comes in a bunch of different colors, including blue, pink, purple, space gray and white.
“Whether it’s a college student taking elaborate notes, a content creator working on their latest project, or a gamer playing graphics-intensive titles, users love iPad Air for its amazing performance and versatility in such a portable design,” Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said in 2022. “With the breakthrough M1 chip, Ultra Wide front camera with Center Stage, and ultra-fast 5G, iPad Air is now more powerful, more capable, and simply more fun than ever.”
Apple’s iPad Mini (6th generation) has an 8.3-inch Liquid Retina display, 64GB of storage and 12MP front and back cameras.
The iPad Mini is on sale for $469 (6% off) at Amazon, but you can save $100 off by applying the instant coupon (it’ll be located at the bottom of the listing after you click the buy button).
Apple iPad Mini (6th Generation): with A15 Bionic chip, 8.3-inch Liquid Retina Display, 64GB
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Tate McRae gushes over The Kid LAROI at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. Hunter Schafer revealed to GQ that she dated Rosalía back in 2019. Karina of AESPA and Lee Jae-Wook announce their breakup. Peso Pluma clears up rumors he’s dating Anitta after kissing her onstage at Tecate Pa’l Norte. Our Latin Music Week is set to take place in Miami from October 14th-October 18th. Singer-songwriter Chelsea Cutler stopped by Billboard News and opened up about her album ‘Stellaria,’ her collaborations with Jeremy Zucker and more.
Tetris Kelly Relationship updates on Peso, Tate, Karina and Rosalía, we take you to the iHeartRadio Music Awards. A major Billboard Latin Music Week announcment, Chelsea Cutler stops by our studio and we break down why you should know Tanner Adell. Happy Tuesday April 2nd and welcome to Billboard News. Yesterday I joked about having Beyoncé on the show, but then I got to see her. Like, what? We’re going to show you more from our iHeart coverage in our top story, old flames, new romances, breakups and more. There’s a lot of love going on in the music biz. Let’s dive in. And then you got to tell me this. Would you ever do a song with Kid LAROI?
Tate McRae Ahh I don’t know.
Tetris Kelly Last night at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. I just had to ask Tate McRae if there was a chance of making music with her rumored beau The Kid LAROI. “I feel like you guys gotta get in the studio do something. It’d be good.”
Tate McRae Yeah, maybe. He’s amazing.
Tetris Kelly We agree, he is amazing. And the two of them on one track would sound great.
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As Jay-Z pointed out at the Grammys in February, Beyoncé has been nominated for album of the year four times but has never won — despite the fact that she’s the awards show’s winningest artist of all time, taking home 32 trophies from 88 nominations.
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On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast (listen below), Katie & Keith are talking about whether her brand-new Cowboy Carter album could break that losing streak in the Grammys’ top category. So far, it’s feeling like a critical and commercial success story that has all the makings of a top album of the year contender. But of course, the eligibility year (Sept. 16-Aug. 30) is young. We even still have new project from the reigning album of the year champ, Taylor Swift, coming later this month.
Listen to the new podcast below to hear our full conversation about Beyoncé’s early Grammy chances, as well as what song could be the next single following the seven-week Hot Country Songs chart-topper “Texas Hold ‘Em.”
Also on the show, we’ve got chart news on how Future and Metro Boomin debut atop both the Billboard 200 and the Billboard Hot 100 songs charts, how Hozier is suddenly back in the top 10 on the Hot 100 for the first time in nine years with his gone-viral hit “Too Sweet,” and how five songs from Olivia Rodrigo’s new expanded deluxe edition of her Guts album debut on the Hot 100.
The Billboard Pop Shop Podcast is your one-stop shop for all things pop on Billboard‘s weekly charts. You can always count on a lively discussion about the latest pop news, fun chart stats and stories, new music, and guest interviews with music stars and folks from the world of pop. Casual pop fans and chart junkies can hear Billboard‘s executive digital director, West Coast, Katie Atkinson and Billboard’s managing director, charts and data operations, Keith Caulfield every week on the podcast, which can be streamed on Billboard.com or downloaded in Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast provider. (Click here to listen to the previous edition of the show on Billboard.com.)
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Jean-Paul Vignon, the romantic French vocalist and actor who impressed audiences on both sides of the Atlantic during an eight-decade career, died March 22 of liver cancer in Beverly Hills, his family announced. He was 89.
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Performing a repertoire of contemporary pop and American standards, Vignon debuted in the U.S. in 1963 at the famed New York supper club The Blue Angel, where he opened for stand-up comic Woody Allen.
Ed Sullivan would soon showcase him on his Sunday night CBS variety show in eight appearances — including one in which he sang a duet with young Liza Minnelli — and he became a regular guest on Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin’s programs.
Signed to Columbia Records, Vignon released his first U.S. album, Because I Love You, in 1964. Three years later, he had a supporting role opposite William Holden and Cliff Robertson in the World War II film The Devil’s Brigade.
In a 1994 profile in the Los Angeles Times, reporter Robert Koehler noted, “Vignon fulfilled the American image of the romantic, singing Frenchman. Ironically, rather than compare his voice to such renowned Gallic crooners as Maurice Chevalier and Gilbert Bécaud, Vignon says that he has a Bobby Darin kind of voice, able to sing fast and passionate or gentle and slow.”
He continued to play some of the top rooms in New York, Miami, Los Angeles and other major cities into the early 1970s, and in ’74 he recorded a single, “You,” with Farrah Fawcett, then a relatively unknown young actress and model.
Changing audience tastes stalled his career, but he did host a Canadian TV show produced by Dick Clark called The Sensuous Man, which ended each week with him reclining in a bathtub. And for a Playgirl centerfold in 1973, he sported a sweater once worn in a famous photo shoot by Marilyn Monroe and little else.
Born on Jan. 30, 1935, in the port city of Dire-Daou in the colonial territory of French Somaliland (later known as Djibouti), Vignon was schooled in Avignon, France. He briefly studied medicine in Marseille and law at the Sorbonne in Paris but decided to pursue music full time.
He was in his early 20s when, on the recommendation of Belgian singer-actor Jacques Brel, he secured a prestigious cabaret job in Paris that would launch his career.
The baritone debuted in front of the cameras as the star of the 1956 feature Les Promesses Dangereuses, then followed with a performance opposite Francoise Arnoul in the romantic drama Asphalte (1959).
Meanwhile, he had signed as a vocalist with France’s Disques Vogue, which aimed to develop him as an artist along the lines of such balladeers as Charles Trenet (his idol), Yves Montand and Charles Aznavour. His first album was 1957’s autobiographical Djibouti.
His career in France began to lag after he served 17 months of compulsory military service, but after opening for Edith Piaf and performing on board the French liner Liberté before such ocean-going celebrities as Ernie Kovacs, Edie Adams and Carol Burnett, he decided to try his luck in the States.
As he wrote in his 2018 memoir, From Ethiopia to Utopia, “My adventurous spirit was telling me, ‘Marco Polo did not hesitate to go to China, Henry Morton Stanley did not hesitate to presume exploring Central Africa and find Dr. Livingston, Christopher Columbus did not hesitate to sail west to discover America … so it is your turn to discover the United States.’”
After years of career ebbs and flows, he returned to the L.A. cabaret scene in 1993, encouraged by such pop vocalists as Harry Connick Jr., Michael Feinstein and Tony Bennett and the smash success of “Unforgettable,” which paired the late Nat King Cole and his daughter Natalie. He would remain active into his 80s with appearances at Feinstein’s at Vitello’s and the Catalina Jazz Club.
Along the way, he would also appear on such shows as The Rockford Files, Hotel, Falcon Crest, L.A. Law, Columbo, Days of Our Lives and Gilmore Girls; voice one of the Merry Men in Shrek (2001); and narrate the romantic comedy 500 Days of Summer (2009).
Meanwhile, his company, Côte d’Azur Productions, provided French audiences with translations and overdubs of Scarface and other American films.
Survivors include his longtime partner, Suzie Summers; daughters Marguerite Vignon Gaul (from his marriage to late American actress Brigid Bazlen) and Lucy Brank; and granddaughters Leah and Hannah.
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