Lorde gave Sadie Sink the “Green Light” to absolutely let it rip during the singer’s show at the London O2 Arena on Sunday night (Nov. 16). The Stranger Things star was a surprise special guest during the first of two shows at the arena on Lorde’s ongoing Ultrasound world tour in support of her fourth album, Virgin.

Video of the moment where the two women jam out like everyone is looking — bouncing around and flipping their hair, holding hands and shouting the lyrics to the ebullient lead single from Lorde’s 2017 sophomore album Melodrama — was posted by the NME. As the stage is bathed in, duh, green light, the pair let loose and dance without inhibition, with Lorde shouting “get the f–k up!” at one point as the party rages on, ending with them sharing a sweet hug at the end.

The surprise get together is not completely out of the blue. Sink recently starred in the Tony-nominated Broadway play John Proctor Is the Villain, which NME pointed out prominently features “Green Light.” Speaking to Vogue in June about the song’s use in the play about a group of Appalachian students in Georgia reading Arthur Miller’s The Crucible in the midst of the #MeToo movement, Sink revealed that she’s a Lorde superfan.

“Oh my God, I’m a huge Lorde fan. I’m so excited for the new album,” Sink said at the time. “Solar Power was such an important album for me. To follow an artist through her many different eras…she really was that person for me.” Lorde returned the favor, going to see the show on Broadway in July.

Lorde will play the O2 again on Monday night (Nov. 17), with the European leg of her tour running through a Dec. 9 date in Stockholm before winding down for the year on Dec. 16-17 with a double-down at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. She will pick up again in February with a run of dates in Australia and New Zealand.

In addition, Lorde has just been announced as a headliner for next year’s All Points East festival at London’s Victoria Park on Aug. 22, where she will perform alongside PinkPantheress, Zara Larsson and others.

Just about three years after releasing her “Bikini Bottom” single, Ice Spice is set to make her voice-acting debut in The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants when the sequel hits theaters via Paramount Pictures on Dec. 19.

Billboard obtained an exclusive first look at Ice Spice’s animated character in Bikini Bottom on Monday (Nov. 17), which sports her signature orange hairstyle. “Don’t make me call security,” she says in a Bronx accent.

As a longtime fan of the Nickelodeon series growing up, the 25-year-old believes she “manifested” a role in The SpongeBob Movie, which Ice described as a “challenge” but “really fun.”

“I think I manifested this,” she said in the Derek Drymon-directed film featurette. “It was a challenge, but it was really fun, new and different. I never did anything like this.”

Ice Spice is set to star alongside Regina Hall, Sherry Cola, Arturo Castro and George Lopez in The SpongeBob Movie sequel.

The rapper also contributed an original song to the soundtrack, which arrived last week. Ice teamed up with right-hand producer RIOTUSA for the kid-friendly bop “Big Guy.”

“Being part of the SpongeBob soundtrack is such a full-circle moment for me,” she said in a statement. “It’s crazy to see my music in a movie that’s been part of so many people’s childhoods, including mine.”

Ice is staying busy on the movie side in 2025, as she made her acting debut in Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest alongside Denzel Washington and A$AP Rocky in August.

Watch the Ice Spice SpongeBob Movie featurette below.

As we learned this weekend during his stint hosting Saturday Night Live, The Running Man star Glen Powell contains multitudes. In the promos for Saturday’s (Nov. 15) episode Powell showed off his considerable dancing skills, and during the episode he proved he can handle accents, suit up as a member of the sassy “Bob Army” and do a wicked Sebastian Maniscalco impression.

But one thing he did rocked so hard that Fall Out Boy were inspired to shoot their shot with the actor who is undeniably on a career-high hot streak. During his monologue the actor who got his start way back in 2003 as “long-fingered boy” in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over and has appeared in more than two dozen films since — including Hidden Figures, Top Gun: Maverick and the rom-com Anyone But You — mused on the idea that some people claim he “came out of nowhere.”

“And that’s just not true. I started acting when I was 10 in Austin, Texas,” Powell told the audience. “I did student films, local commercials, internet safety videos… Even when I was a teen I directed some of my own films. They were a little experimental, emotionally nuanced. I was watching a lot of French new wave at the time. I think you’ll see the influence,” he explained.

Powell then proceeded to roll out his own home-brewed, lo-res video for Fall Out Boy’s breakthrough 2005 single, “Sugar, We’re Goin Down,” in which he sprints down a street howling and gets super emo as he sings “is this more than you bargained for” while wearing a sailor hat and staring longingly into the lens in front of a lake.

Well, the band saw what he said and they are down to collab. In a post on Sunday (Nov. 16), FOB shared a clip of Powell’s “Sugar” bit and asked, “want to direct the next fob music video @glenpowell?” Over on X, fans were totally down for that idea as well. “Okay guys now have him upload the full thing!,” wrote one, with another adding, “God Glen Powell f–king rules. I just keep finding reasons to love this dude.” FOB released their eighth studio album, So Much (for) Stardust, in March 2023.

Watch Powell’s FOB video on SNL below.

Rosalía appeared on The Tonight Show on Sunday night (Nov. 16) to deliver a captivating performance of “La Perla,” drawn from her latest album, LUX.

The Spanish superstar stunned as she brought a literal fairytale to life with dreamlike precision. Wearing a shoulderless pearlesque gown — fluffy and ethereal like a ballerina — she commanded the stage with her signature blend of softness and power. Her honeyed yet striking vocals took center stage, weaving through orchestral accompaniment heavy on violins. Her artistry was enhanced by her bold look: bleached hair at the crown subtly evoked the image of a glowing halo, adding a celestial feel to her performance.

As the camera slowly widened its frame, the scene revealed Rosalía perched atop a towering stack of lilac-sheeted mattresses, a nod to the whimsical tale of The Princess and the Pea. The performance reached its crescendo when she descended from the mattresses, carried by two men, and pulled out a monumental pearl.

Her charm extended beyond her show, as Rosalía led an impromptu lesson teaching Fallon how to vocalize and clap flamenco-style during an interview segment. “You have to stand up… your posture is important,” Rosalía explained, before guiding Fallon through body loosening exercises and lip flutters. Fallon struggled, in a playful manner, through the complexities of singing a line from “La Perla” in Spanish, but the Catalonian artist encouraged him warmly while demonstrating her effortless control over melody.

In the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Rosalía earns her first top 10 with the No. 4 debut of LUX.

Below watch the complete interview of Rosalía on The Tonight Show, and her stunning performance of “La Pera” above.

Paul McCartney will contribute a ‘silent’ track to a compilation album that is protesting the U.K. government’s recent changes to copyright law.

The LP Is This What We Want? was first released digitally in February and was co-signed by over a thousand U.K. artists. The LP runs for 47 minutes, and features the silence of an empty recording studio in order to highlight the need for human musicians in the age of artificial intelligence. The album’s track listing spells out the message: “The British government must not legalize music theft to benefit AI companies.” 

Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Damon Albarn, Billy Ocean, Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien, and more were all credited as ‘co-writers’ of the LP. Upon release, it reached No. 38 on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart.

McCartney’s contribution will appear as a bonus track to the physical edition of the LP, which will be released on Dec. 8 via record label The state51 Conspiracy. The vinyl is available for pre-order here, with all profits from sales to be donated to the musicians’ charity Help Musicians. 

It’s not the first time that McCartney has protested against the U.K. government’s controversial approach to copyright law in the era of artificial intelligence. In May, McCartney was among 400 British musicians alongside Elton John, Dua Lipa, and Coldplay, to sign an open letter calling on U.K. prime minister Sir Keir Starmer to update copyright laws to protect their work from AI training models. They were backed by industry heavyweights Sir Lucian Grainge (Universal Music Group CEO), Jason Iley MBE (Sony Music UK CEO), and Dickon Stainer (Universal Music UK CEO) who also signed the letter.

The U.K. government proposed an ‘opt out’ approach for rightsholders in relation to their work being used to train artificial intelligence models. Critics say that the burden should not fall on artists to approve or deny tech companies the use their material, and that ‘opt out’ models are unenforceable.

During the summer, the U.K. government was involved in a ‘ping pong’ debacle whereby amendments to the Data (Use and Access) Bill proposed by the House of Lords were rejected five times. The amendments would have given rightsholders visibility over when their work was being used against their wishes by AI companies. The bill eventually passed and received Royal Assent in late June, and is expected to be be phased into law by mid-2026.

Ed Newton-Rex, the organizer of the album, said: “The government must commit to not handing the life’s work of the country’s musicians to AI companies for free. Doing so would be hugely damaging to our world-leading creative industries, and is totally unnecessary, only benefiting overseas tech giants. It should listen to Paul McCartney and the 1,000 other musicians who took part in this album, and resist calls to legalize music theft from the big tech lobby.”