50 Cent has been relentless in his trolling of Diddy for the entirety of Sean Combs’ federal prostitution case. After Donald Trump revealed to reporters on Monday (Oct. 6) that Diddy’s team had asked him about a potential pardon, 50 looked to remind the president about the disparaging remarks Sean Combs had made about him in the past.
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“Man you can’t get No pardon running ya mouth like that! LOL Get Out of here,” 50 captioned the post on Monday evening (Oct. 6).
The clip in 50’s post featured previous statements from Diddy criticizing Trump following the 2020 election, with the incarcerated mogul saying, “White men like Trump need to be banished … the No. 1 priority is to get Trump out of office.”
Trump spoke toNewsmax in August about how he used to be cool with Diddy, but then the embattled Bad Boy founder became critical of him when Trump entered the political world and ran for president. “I was very friendly with him, I got along with him great and he seemed like a nice guy. I didn’t know him well. But when I ran for office, he was very hostile,” the president said.
Diddy’s trial concluded with his sentencing on Friday (Oct. 3), which saw Combs sentenced to 50 months in prison for violating federal prostitution laws.
While taking questions from reporters at the Oval Office on Monday, Donald Trump confirmed that Combs and his team reached out to ask about a potential pardon. “A lot of people have asked me for pardons. I call him Puff Daddy,” Trump said, referencing Diddy’s nickname. “He has asked me for a pardon.”
Back in May, Trump said he’d “look at the facts” for a potential pardon for Diddy, but also told Newsmax that because of their relationship souring that it would make it “more difficult to do.”
50 Cent trolled Diddy when the 50-month sentencing came down Friday, posting a sketch of Diddy getting teary-eyed in court, which he’s since deleted. “Hey to whoever was booking Diddy for speaking engagements,” he wrote on Instagram. “I heard he won’t be able to make it, I’m available!”
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Mariah Carey’s new studio album Here for It All crowns four Billboard album charts (dated Oct. 11), including Top Album Sales, and gives the diva her 19th top 10 on the overall Billboard 200 as it arrives at No. 7.
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Here for It All launches with nearly 47,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending Oct. 2, according to Luminate, with traditional album sales comprising 39,000 of that sum. In addition to its No. 1 bow on Top Album Sales, the set also leads Top Current Album Sales, Top R&B Albums and Independent Albums. Here for It All is Carey’s first independently released project after a career within the major system. It’s also her 16th studio album and first studio set since 2018’s Caution.
On the Billboard 200, Carey achieves her 19th top 10 as Here for It All enters at No. 7. Carey becomes only the third woman with at least one new top 10-charted album in the 1990s, 2000s, ‘10s and ‘20s, following Madonna and Shania Twain. Carey made her debut in 1990 with her self-titled release, and it was the first of her nine top 10s in the ‘90s. She then logged six top 10s in the 2000s, three in the ‘10s and now Here for It All in the ‘20s.
Here is a recap of all 19 of Carey’s top 10s on the Billboard 200:
Title, Peak Position, Peak Year
Mariah Carey, No. 1 (11 weeks at No. 1), 1991
Emotions, No. 4, 1991
MTV Unplugged EP, No. 3, 1992
Music Box, No. 1 (eight weeks at No. 1), 1993
Merry Christmas, No. 3, 1994
Daydream, No. 1 (six weeks), 1995
Butterfly, No. 1 (one week), 1997
#1’s, No. 4, 1998
Rainbow, No. 2, 1999
Glitter (Soundtrack), No. 7, 2001
Charmbracelet, No. 3, 2002
The Emancipation of Mimi, No. 1 (two weeks), 2005
E=MC², No. 1 (two weeks), 2008
The Ballads, No. 10, 2009
Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, No. 3, 2009
Merry Christmas II You, No. 4, 2010
Me. I Am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse, No. 3, 2014
Caution, No. 5, 2018
Here for It All, No. 7, 2025
Over on the latest Hot R&B Songs tally, three songs from Here for It All dot the ranking: “Play This Song” (featuring Anderson .Paak) debuts at No. 11, “Sugar Sweet” (featuring Shenseea and Kehlani) rises 19-17 and the album’s first single, “Type Dangerous,” reenters at No. 24. Meanwhile, Carey collects her first entry on the Hot Gospel Songs chart, as the Here for It All cut “Jesus I Do” (featuring The Clark Sisters), enters at No. 5.
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Ever wonder what your favorite K-Pop boy groups use to bump to their favorite music?
Superstars Enhypen have been longtime Samsung ambassadors and their earbuds of choice are the Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro in “Silver.” While the earbuds normally retail for up to $300, they’re currently on super sale for Amazon Prime Day. Right now, these K-Pop star-approved earbuds are 28% off, dropping the price to just $179. You’ll want to act fast with this one. This deal only lasts until the end of the day on October 8 once Amazon Prime Day concludes.
These aren’t your ordinary earbuds: the Galaxy Buds 3 Pro create an immersive listening experience all packaged in a portable sleek silver case. These buds deliver a high-resolution experience with crystal clear sound that your ears have been craving. Touch controls allow for ease of control so you can pause and replay your favorite tunes intuitively. Battery life on these buds lasts up to six hours.
Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 Pro Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds
One of the buds’ key features is the ultra-innovative adaptive active noise cancellation with Galaxy AI² that automatically adapts to your surroundings so you can tune in and out of the world around you with ease. Additionally, these futuristic buds use Galaxy AI to translate during face-to-face conversations using a real-time interpreter. Pretty snazzy.
What’s even more impressive is the Amazon-exclusive two-year limited Samsung warranty that comes with these buds, meaning if the product is lost or damaged, you’ll be in good hands. The pill-shaped case acts as a charging station for your headphones and comes in an alternative white hue if silver isn’t your thing.
It’s not just Enhypen that love these Samsung Galaxy buds: Amazon says more than 10,000 shoppers have picked up the Buds 3 Pro in the last month alone. Get them for $179.99 — their lowest price of the season — on Amazon.com.
Want more from Enhypen’s Samsung collab? The K-Pop act sat down for an interview with Samsung Galaxy, alongside their producer Armadillo, to share what sound means to them, highlighting their latest earbud obsession.
The video posted to YouTube shows each member popping in the earbuds, playing various instruments or listening to music while backstage. Jay, the main rapper of the group, shared his thoughts on the product, saying, “For me, the sound is inspiration. Because I now take part in producing music, I find myself listening to more genres of music than ever before. The sound of the Galaxy Buds 3 Pro seems to out the colors of each genre very well.”
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When the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inducted seven new members on Monday (Oct. 6), it honored a diverse group that included four artist-writers and three dedicated composers.
That blend is appropriate — in modern-day country, the majority of hits come from getting an artist in a room with people who make a living strictly by writing.
It’s a different world since the turn of the century, when the two worlds combined less often. Songs were primarily developed by professional songwriters, and the artist’s job was often to find the material that best fit their specific voice and beliefs.
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The entrants this year include artists Emmylou Harris, Jim Lauderdale and Brad Paisley, who is receiving his 2024 induction after requesting a deferment. The late J.J. Cale — best known for penning Eric Clapton’s “After Midnight” — is the fourth artist who will be honored, selected as a legacy submission.
The full-time writers include Steve Bogard (“Carrying Your Love With Me,” “Praying for Daylight”), Don Cook (“Brand New Man,” “Lady Lay Down”) and Tony Martin (“Just To See You Smile,” “Baby’s Gotten Good at Goodbye”), who says no matter what artistic talents people bring to the process, everyone is a writer when the words are paired to music.
“Once you’re in the little square room, you’re just trying to come up with the best song,” Martin notes. “Even the artists will become [full-time writers], too.”
Still, artists are more involved than ever in that process. On Billboard’s Country Airplay chart dated Sept. 26, 16 of the top 20 songs featured both an artist and full-time writers among the credits. Three titles were created strictly by writers, and one song, Riley Green’s “Don’t Mind If I Do,” was authored by an artist working alone.
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Those numbers were significantly different 25 years ago. On the chart dated Sept. 30, 2000, artists and full-time writers co-composed just six of the top 20 tracks. Eleven were fashioned exclusively by full-time writers, while three songs — Toby Keith’s “Country Comes to Town,” Travis Tritt’s “Best of Intentions” and Vince Gill’s “Feels Like Love” —were the result of an artist writing in seclusion.
There are several reasons for that change in authorship. The most obvious is financial: Songwriting provides an additional revenue stream for artists, many of whom operate at a loss before they reach headline status. But artists seem to increasingly want their songs to reflect their real lives. Barbara Mandrell and Crystal Gayle — classic country artists who never wrote any of their own hits — were known to tell interviewers that they were simply playing a part when they sang about cheating or heartbreak. Current country artists — who interact more frequently, and less formally, with their fan base through social media — are more intent on releasing music that fits their realities.
“I’ve written with a couple of artists that really weren’t writers, but I would get their ongoing approval as we went along,” Cook says. “That kind of helped form the song — ‘Yeah, I’ll sing that,’ ‘That sounds like me,’ ‘That doesn’t sound like me.’ That’s, to me, as good as co-writing. I mean, you’re leading me to where you need to go with the song. And that’s fine.”
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The presence of an artist can also shape the musical components of a song. An appointment with Carrie Underwood is more likely to yield a piece with an expansive melodic range that builds to a crescendo during the final 30-60 seconds. A write with Morgan Wallen will probably result in a more linear melody and conversational phrasing.
Full-time writers have their own financial realities in mind as they navigate careers that are unpredictable and insecure — they’re more than happy to follow an artist who’s decisive about their brand.
“After you’ve written a lot of your songs — the songs that you want to write from your heart — then it ends up sometimes you just got a toolbox,” Bogard says, “and you want to make the other person’s songs the best songs they can be: the most commercial, the most heavy, the most heartwarming.”
Some relationships between a writer and a specific artist are crucial. Mike Reid, a 2005 inductee in the Nashville Songwriters Hall, racked up 11 Ronnie Milsap hits during the 1980s, including “Stranger in My House,” “Inside” and “Lost in the Fifties Tonight (In the Still of the Night).” Bob McDill, a 1985 Hall inductee, landed 14 Don Williams hits, exemplified by “It Must Be Love,” “If Hollywood Don’t Need You” and “Good Ole Boys Like Me.” Dean Dillon, who entered the Hall in 2002, has logged 16 George Strait hits.
Cook amassed 10 Brooks & Dunn hits, though he wasn’t simply adapting his skill set to the duo’s brand. The initial writing, he argues, established their sound and identity.
“Brooks & Dunn were not Brooks & Dunn until we wrote eight songs for their first album,” Cook recalls. “And the reason we wrote them is we couldn’t get anybody to play us their best songs because they didn’t know who Brooks & Dunn was. So it was a blessing that we had to sit down and figure it out.”
Artist co-writes tend to be hit-and-miss. If the song is tailored to one particular act who ultimately passes, it may not connect with a different artist. By the same token, fitting a song around an artist’s life gives it a greater chance.
“We had a song with Dierks [Bentley]called ‘Long Trip Alone,’ and it had a line that he knew his wife would go crazy [over], ‘Rest beneath your smile,’ ” Bogard recounts. “So that song was a lock instantly because he said, ‘Cassidy is going to love that line, and we’ve got to finish this song.’ Every day is different.”
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Ultimately, this year’s Songwriters Hall mix of artist-writers and full-time writers reflects a mutual need that’s developed in the creative community. Artists’ schedules are jammed — they can use every bit of help they can get. Writers, in the digital era, need hits more than ever since album cuts don’t generate income. Crafting the song to an artist’s abilities is advantageous.
“You like to think that you’re in the room because they like something that you do,” Martin says. “I’ve written with a lot of really good writers who are great singers but don’t necessarily have record deals, and the artist loves their singing, loves their melodic instincts, and so they’re there for that reason. You’re just looking for those creative wins that bring something new.”
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Zach Bryan fans might be excited for his new music, but certain United States government officials definitely aren’t.
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More specifically, Tricia McLaughlin — the assistant secretary of public affairs to the Department of Homeland Security — isn’t happy with the country singer-songwriter’s lyric about the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a new song teaser he posted recently to Instagram. The line in question finds Bryan lamenting, “And ICE is gonna come bust down your door.”
In response, McLaughlin told TMZon Tuesday (Oct. 7) that Bryan should “stick to ‘Pink Skies,’” referring to the musician’s 2024 top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
Billboard has reached out to Bryan’s rep and the Dept. of Homeland Security for comment.
The DHS official’s comments come four days after the Grammy winner posted the snippet of an unreleased song, which he captioned, “the fading of the red white and blue.”
“I heard the cops came/ Cocky motherf–kers, ain’t they?” Bryan sings on the full verse in question. “And ICE is gonna come bust down your door/ Try to build a house no one builds no more/ But I got a telephone/ Kids are all scared and all alone … The middle finger’s rising, and it won’t stop showing/ Got some bad news/ The fading of the red, white and blue.”
The lyrics quickly sparked backlash from supporters of the Donald Trump administration’s forceful crackdowns on immigration by way of mass deportations carried out by ICE raids in different parts of the U.S. On the other hand, Bryan’s song aligns him with numerous other musicians who have spoken up against the country’s treatment of immigrants this past year.
One of those stars is Bad Bunny, who was recently unveiled as the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show performer. The news also got a response from the DHS, with adviser Corey Lewandowski saying that ICE agents will be present for the Puerto Rican rapper’s performance at the big game.
“There is nowhere you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally,” Lewandowski’s said on The Benny Show on Oct. 1. “Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else.”
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On this week’s episode of The Hot 100 Show, Alex Warren opens up about his whirlwind journey to landing a Hot 100 hit and what it means to him. He talks about his relationship with his wife and how she’s contributed to his success, his thoughts on KPop Demon Hunters‘ “Golden,” the lasting influence of his father keeping him grounded as he navigates success, the nerves and excitement of performing in front of his peers and how he stays true to himself.
We also break down the top 10 of the Hot 100 and more!
Tetris Kelly: Hey, what’s up? And welcome to The Hot 100 Show. I’m your host, Tetris Kelly, and we have a crazy show today. Alex Warren is here, and we got a live studio audience. But before we get into all the fun, let’s run it down with your Hot 100 top 10. This is the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 for the week dated Oct. 11. Down to 10 is “Your Idol.”
Jerah Milligan: Have you seen any, or heard any of the songs from KPop Demon Hunters?
Fan 1: I have not. I have a couple. I’ve heard people talk about it. I’m not. I haven’t heard anything from it. I haven’t seen the show or anything like that.
Jerah Milligan: Man, listen, you’re missing joy. Like when you watch it, it’s like they’re eating things. They’re fighting demons. There’s demon boy bands.
Fan 1: I’ll try it out.
Tetris Kelly: “Love Me Not” is steady at nine.
Fan 2: She’s so dope. And, like, I knew the name, and I think I had, like, heard a couple songs, and then I went to go see her. She like, blew me away. I feel like since then, I’ve just been listening to her music a bunch. She’s super talented, and I feel like she’s like, one of those artists that’s like, very like, established right now, but has the potential to, like, pop into like, a really, really big, massive artist.
Tetris Kelly: Morgan returns to the top 10 with “I Got Better.” That was numbers 10 through eight. We’re gonna get to the rest of the chart, but before we do, I got a very special guest to bring out. Ladies and gentlemen, Alex Warren.
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No, the title isn’t clickbait: Labubus are on sale, however they’re not on sale for Amazon Prime day.
It is Amazon Prime Day today, Oct. 7, till Oct. 8th and while you can’t get deals on Labubu’s via Amazon, you can with Walmart. That’s right. The stuffed collectible is currently on supersale with prices starting at 43% off.
Thanks to Walmart’s partnership with online marketplace StockX, the Labubus they have in stock are certified real, and they’re going fast. The trending plushie can be purchased within blind boxes, leaving your purchase up to chance, or solo on Walmart’s website. Created by Hong Kong-born artist Kasing Lung, these little monsters made their first appearance back in 2015.
The figure’s viral moment didn’t happen until way later in April of 2024 when K-Pop star Lisa from the world-renouned girl group BLACKPINK was seen sporting the fluffy figure attached to her Louis Vuitton bag. Since Lisa’s introduction, we’ve seen stars like Rihanna, Dua Lipa, Kim Kardashian, Rosé, David Beckham, Lizzo, Madonna, BTS, Cher and Lady Gaga toting their Labubus with pride, sometimes multiples at once, affixed to bags, keys and even made into birthday cakes.
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Usually, you’ll be getting a plushie figure with colorful faux-fur and vinyl appendages. The Labubu is affixed to a keyring, so you’ll be able to accessorize your bags to your heart’s content. We’ve also found alternative Labubu styles, including phone charms and displayable figures sans the fluff. Pricing on these Labubu’s oftentimes depends on the demand and series they fall under. To break it down even further, a “series” is a theme that the blind box is based on. Sweet treats like macarons are one of the themes, reflected in the Labubu’s coloring, while the “Big Into Energy” series is themed based on emotions and feelings like happiness, hope, luck and love, among others.
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If you didn’t know, blind boxes are a global phenomenon that centers around cute figures and collectibles. These figures are packaged in a box, usually with images on it depicting all the figures you’re able to get from a specific series. You won’t know what you’ll get until you pop open the box. Upon purchasing your blind box, you’ll usually also have the opportunity to get a secret figure not found on the side of the box. The chances of pulling a secret are rare but not impossible. In fact, I’ve seen it happen with my own eyes. It’s pretty magical.
The blind box world is borderline addicting, like a more fun and less detrimental version of gambling. It’s all about the heart-pounding thrill of not knowing what you’ll get out of a select few items. Labubus weren’t the first blind box items to go mega viral. You’ve also got Sonny Angel, cherub-like figures invented by Toru Soeya, along with little green figures called Smiski, also created by Soeya. Peach Riot, Calico Critters, CryBaby, Smoko, Hirono and Lulu the Piggy are just a few other hit blind box series you can find on the market right now.
Pop Mart also launched their The Monsters-Cheers! Series, which is a blind box that features a double-walled glass inside. You have the option to pull six different colorful cups featuring a Labubu motif, along with one secret. The innovation is one we haven’t seen from the blind box world until now.
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In his new songs, Tom Morello keeps the rebellious spirit and explosive sound of his former band, Rage Against The Machine, alive. But now, in addition to crafting powerful riffs, the American guitar virtuoso also sings — on a new artistic project that combines rock and activism, alongside his 13-year-old son, Roman Morello.
“From a musical level, I’m very excited about my first-ever solo rock album”, Morello tells Billboard Español about this still-untitled project. He hints that it will honor the riffs and repertoire of the bands that brought him fame, including Audioslave, as well as the acoustic material from his work as The Nightwatchman, and his collaborations with the legendary Bruce Springsteen.
“I really wanted to make… a record that is relentless in its big guitar riffs, relentless in its inventive guitar solos”, he adds in a video call from Los Angeles. “But also a record that invites my young son Roman, who is a tremendous guitar player who we’ve played [with] across the world — [one that] welcomes him and his ideas into it, as a new generation who has this Morello DNA of rock ‘n’ roll power.”
His latest single, “Pretend You Remember Me,” offers a glimpse of what fans can expect in 2026 when the album, set to be released by Mom+Pop Music, drops. Written by Morello, the song features his haunting vocals and signature captivating guitar riffs.
The track was written in solidarity with immigrants in the U.S. who have been affected by deportation campaigns. The accompanying video, directed by Morello himself, features activist and freed political prisoner Leonard Peltier.
“The song is written from an emotional point of view and a reminder that this situation of families being torn apart is not new to the Trump administration,” he explains. “It was there with Biden. It was there with Trump’s first term. It was there with Obama… My heart goes out to all the families throughout all of these years who’ve been torn apart.”
The 61-year-old musician and activist admits that the immigration policies enforced by the Trump administration is “an issue that makes me furious and angry.” In June, he joined several demonstrations against anti-immigrant raids in Los Angeles, where the Mexican flag became a symbol of the protests.
On that occasion, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem accused Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum of “encouraging violent protests” in Los Angeles, following the immigration raids ordered by the Trump administration, a claim the Mexican leader strongly denied in a message on X.
“First of all, let me just say I’m not an expert on Mexican politics — I don’t want to pretend that I am to your readers,” Morello responds when asked for his opinion. “But from what I do know, you have a president who is intelligent. You have a president who does care about human rights and about the people in the country — and not about sort of dividing, but uniting in a way that will uplift its citizens, as opposed to a president that is our president.”
A Grammy winner, Harvard graduate, and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Morello says he has truly been able to write honestly about his view of the world. He shares that “Pretend You Remember Me” and his 2024 single “Soldier in the Army of Love” offer a preview of the lyrical direction his new album will take, adding that “there’s plenty more coming.”
The musician is also planning his return to Latin America in 2026, with his first stop on March 13 at the Lollapalooza Chile festival, followed by another performance at Estéreo Picnic in Colombia on March 21. He hopes to add Mexico to his anticipated tour of the region, where he recorded the live DVD The Battle of Mexico City with Rage Against The Machine in 1999.
“Some of my favorite shows that I’ve ever played were in Mexico,” he recalls. “From the early shows Rage Against the Machine 1992 at Iguana’s in Tijuana to Rage in Mexico City, Audioslave, Prophets of Rage. Some of my favorite shows have been there. I know that the fans in Mexico have been wonderful supporters of all of my work, and I can’t wait to get back there and rock you.”
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In between her furious baking schedule, attending Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco’s wedding last month, releasing half a dozen variations on her The Life of a Showgirl album and, it seems safe to assume, beginning to plan her own wedding to fiancé Travis Kelce, it’s hard to imagine Taylor Swift has a lot of free time.
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But on Monday night (Oct. 6), during a lightning round of questions on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon asked her to name the last song by any singer (not including herself) that she’s listened to lately and Swift, 35, was right there with the answer. “Oh, Tate McRae has a great new song called ‘Tit For Tat,’ you gotta listen to it,” she said. “Like, full volume, over and over again on repeat. It’s just so good.”
As you might imagine, McRae, 22, had a totally chill, not at all freaking out response to the high praise from the high priestess of pop. “Oh my Godddddddddd [7 eyes welled with tears emoji, six crying emoji] whaaaaaaaaaaat,” McRae wrote on her Instagram Story on Tuesday morning (Oct. 7) over not one, but two different grabs of the video from the Swift shout out.
The song was released last month as a stand-alone single after first being teased on McRae’s Miss Possessive tour. Though McRae has not made any public comment on the title or the lyrics, the loosie single dropped two months after she ended her one-year relationship with singer The Kid LAROI. The latter revealed the split as part of a July post denying rumors that his team had seeded negative posts about McRae online to help promote his then-new single, “Hot Girl Problems.”
LAROI then released “A Cold Play” in early September, a song that appears to reference their breakup with lyrics including, “Who was I to think that I could fix you, baby?/ Who would I be if I didn’t miss you, baby? I hope that you know you were appreciated/ Around my house, I still got up all of our pictures, baby/ ‘Cause I still love you, that’s how I feel at my core/ Flew different states to come see you in between tour/ I gave you everything I had and even more.”
McRae’s “T4T” also seems to address the break on the first verse, where she sings, “The day I met you, boy, I thought it was a blessing/ In the heat of it, I always took your side/ It’s a shame you out here tryna make it messy/ Wow, you’re messy, damn/ We wеre good, I thought we made it through thе ending/ I was hearing s–t I never thought you’d say.”
The pre-chorus gets even spicier, with McRae playfully throwing down the gauntlet in a most Swiftian manner as she challenges, “Let’s go song for song, let’s go back to back/ Let’s go tit for tat, boy, you asked for that/ That’s the best you got, where’s the good one at?/ I was never as far away as you thought.” The song is already shaping up to be one of McRae’s biggest solo hits to date, debuting at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending Saturday (Oct. 11); she hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 in May thanks to her feature on Morgan Wallen’s “What I Want.”
Earlier this week, Swift told SiriusXM’s Morning Mash-Up that McRae was one of the three artists she’s “constantly streaming” at home, also name-dropping Sabrina Carpenter and sombr.
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Luna Stephens is shaping up to be quite the interviewer. Months after helming a Billboard Family Q&A with her famous dad John Legend, the 9-year-old has scored an exciting new gig: talking to Gloria Estefan and Laila Lockhart Kraner about the new Gabby’s Dollhouse movie.
In an adorable video that Billboard Family is exclusively premiering below, the EGOT winner’s eldest daughter with Chrissy Teigen sits between both the stars at the movie premiere. “Hi, my name is Luna, and today I’m interviewing Gigi and Gabby,” Luna tells the camera with a smile, referring to Estefan and Kraner’s characters in the film.
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Luna goes on to ask a number of colorful questions about the characters in the movie, which builds on the interactive Gabby’s Dollhouse children’s series that first premiered on Netflix in 2021. The film is accompanied by the Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie soundtrack, which dropped alongside the film on Sept. 26.
“Do you have a favorite song from the movie that you love to sing?” the young Legend asks her interview subjects.
“I like ‘Gabby’s Dollhouse World,’ I think that’s a catchy one,” replies Kraner, while Estefan says, “For me, I think it’s the ‘pinch me’ song [‘Pinching In’].”
Elsewhere in the interview, Luna adorably challenges the two ladies to make the “silliest meow sound” they can. Both Kraner and Estefan immediately oblige with hilarious yowls, with the iconic Cuban-American entertainer joking, “That’s when they step on the cat’s tail.”
On screen, it’s easy to tell where Luna may have inherited her skills from: Her superstar mom has hosted a number of programs, from Lip Sync Battle to NBC’s New Year’s Eve program in 2018/19.
Late last year, Luna interviewed her dad on camera for Billboard Family. At the time, the two Legends spoke about John’s first kids’ album My Favorite Dream, on which Luna makes a cameo alongside younger brother Miles and Teigen.
Watch Luna’s full interview with the stars of Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie.
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