FINNEASwill be found on the upcoming Dear Evan Hansen soundtrack.
The “Let’s Fall in Love for the Night” artist is contributing a new version of the song “A Little Closer,” one of two original numbers written exclusively for the film, which is based on the hit Broadway musical.
The songs for both the Dear Evan Hansen musical and movie were written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the Oscar-winning duo behind the music for La La Land and The Greatest Showman.
Dear Evan Hansen hits theaters September 24. Its soundtrack will be released that same day.
FINNEAS, meanwhile, will release his debut album Optimist on October 15. It includes the previously released singles “What They’ll Say About Us” and “A Concert Six Months from Now.”
Drake appears to be giving his Canadian hometown a sneak peak at lyrics from his upcoming album, Certified Lover Boy.
A series of digital ads in popped up in Toronto this week with the CLB logo. They include the phrases “Something other than me has got to give,” “I don’t miss…Let alone miss you” and “Should’ve said you loved me today, because tomorrow is a new day.” Photos of the billboards were posted on the Modern Notoriety Twitter feed.
The Champagne Papi posted images of T-shirts with the same phrases in an Instagram story, according to Complex.
Meanwhile, a video of Drizzy passed out free shirts was posted on the Instagram of his fan site Word on Word. In the clip, a fan tells Drake the album is dropping on his birthday, September 3, to which Drake responds, “Happy birthday,” and tosses him a T-shirt. As the “What’s Next” rapper drives away, he comments, “City’s hot right now. They know what’s up.”
As previously reported, Drake confirmed a September 3 release date for Certified Lover Boy on Monday morning on Instagram. On Friday, he cryptically teased the release of CLB with a handwritten note on ESPN’s Sportscenter.
Certified Lover Boy billboards have gone up in Toronto
CLB x Nike tees are also being handed out tonight in the 6 according to Drake pic.twitter.com/qxr4aP6MyV
Asking Alexandria has released the video for “Alone Again,” the band’s latest single.
The clip includes shadowy performance footage of the U.K. rockers, cut with shots of a majestic owl flying over a snowy landscape as it hunts for prey. You can watch it now streaming on YouTube.
“Alone Again” premiered earlier this month. It’s the first single off Asking Alexandria’s upcoming album See What’s on the Inside, the follow-up to 2020’s Like a House on Fire.
Carrie Underwood and Dan + Shay are lending their voices to the soundtrack for the film, Dear Evan Hansen.
Based on the Tony Award-winning Broadway play of the same name, Dear Evan Hansen follows a high school student named Evan who has social anxiety and writes a letter to himself that is stolen by a classmate named Connor, who later commits suicide, leaving Connor’s family believing that the letter was written by Connor to Evan.
Carrie is teaming up with Dan + Shay on a rendition of the song featured in the original play, “Only Us,” for Dear Evan Hansen: (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Dan + Shay hinted at a collaboration with Carrie on social media hours before it was announced.
The film and soundtrack are set for release on September 24.
Sam Smith, FINNEAS and Tori Kelly are among the artists who’ve recorded fresh takes on songs from the hit Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen and its upcoming movie version, which hits theaters September 24.
Sam has teamed with R&B singer Summer Walker for one of the musical’s signature numbers, “You Will Be Found,” while Tori sings another well-known song, “Waving Through a Window.” Dan + Shay and Carrie Underwood have teamed up to record “Only Us,” which will be released on Friday.
Meanwhile, SZA and FINNEAS have each recorded versions of new songs written exclusively for the film by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the duo behind the music of The Greatest Showman and La La Land.
SZA has recorded a track called “The Anonymous Ones,” while FINNEAS has cut “A Little Closer.”The Dear Evan Hansen motion picture soundtrack featuring all these recordings will be released on September 24. The album is mostly made up of the songs performed by the movie’s stars, including Ben Platt, Julianne Moore, Amandla Stenberg and Amy Adams.
Here’s the Dear Evan Hansen original motion picture soundtrack track listing:
“Waving Through A Window” – Ben Platt & Dear Evan Hansen Choir
“For Forever” – Ben Platt
“Sincerely Me” – Colton Ryan, Ben Platt & Nik Dodani
“Requiem”– Kaitlyn Dever, Danny Pino & Amy Adams
“If I Could Tell Her” – Ben Platt & Kaitlyn Dever
“The Anonymous Ones” – Amandla Stenberg
“You Will Be Found” – Ben Platt, Amandla Stenberg, Liz Kate, DeMarius Copes, Isaac Powell, Hadiya Eshe & Dear Evan Hansen Choir
“Only Us” – Kaitlyn Dever & Ben Platt
“Words Fail” – Ben Platt
“So Big / So Small” – Julianne Moore
“A Little Closer” – Colton Ryan
“You Will Be Found” –Sam Smith feat. Summer Walker
“The Anonymous Ones” –SZA
“Only Us” –Carrie Underwood & Dan + Shay
“A Little Closer” –FINNEAS
“Waving Through A Window” –Tori Kelly
A recent book about The Rolling Stones‘ Charlie Watts has received a big sales boost following the passing of the legendary rock drummer, Billboard reports.
Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters, which originally was published in hardcover and digital editions in November 2019 and was released this past August 1 in paperback, has bounded into the top 10 of Amazon’s latest “Best Sellers in Music History & Criticism” list.
The hardcover, paperback and Kindle editions of the book, which was written by veteran author, editor and musician Mike Edison, currently are at #2, #4 and #8, respectively on the list. The hardback version of the biography also sits at #8 Amazon’s “Best Sellers in Rock Band Biographies” list.
Sympathy for the Drummer follows Watts’ life from his early days playing in London’s jazz and R&B scene to joining The Rolling Stones and accompanying the group as they became the biggest rock band on the planet. The book also examines Charlie’s swinging drum style, his work as a composer and producer, his close camaraderie and long relationship with his Stones band mates.
A description of the biography at BackbeatBooks.com characterizes Watts as “the anti-rock star — an urbane jazz fan with a dry wit and little taste for the limelight — [who] was witness to the most savage years in rock history, and emerged a hero, a warrior poet.”
In addition to the hardcover, paperback and Kindle versions, Sympathy for the Drummer is available as an audio book read by Edison. You can check out a NSFW video featuring the author reading a section of the book on YouTube.
Watts died at a London hospital on August 24 at the age of 80.
Elton John appears to be teasing a collaboration with Eddie Vedder. In his Instagram Stories, the “Tiny Dancer” icon posted the names of a variety of different artists, including the Pearl Jam frontman, superimposed over an image of sparkling rhinestone stars.
Other musicians listed include Gorillaz, Miley Cyrus, Stevie Nicks, Stevie Wonder, Brandi Carlile, Nicki Minaj, Lil Nas X and Dua Lipa. Given that Elton just released a new song with Lipa called “Cold Heart,” it would appear that he’s now teasing a whole collection of duets, akin to his 1993 album, Duets.
John also previously teamed up with Gorillaz for a track off the cartoon band’s 2020 album, Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez, and worked with Cyrus on a star-studded rendition of Metallica‘s “Nothing Else Matters.”
Whatever is happening, it appears we’ll know for sure on Wednesday. In a separate Instagram post, John declared, “Announcement tomorrow,” alongside a rocket emoji.
Do Dan + Shay and Carrie Underwood have a collaboration in the works?
On Tuesday, the Grammy-winning duo posted a video of a live orchestra playing in the studio, and tagged the fellow superstar alongside the raised-eyes emoji. Carrie replied to the video with a winking-face emoji, and the post sent fans into a frenzy speculating what the two acts have up their sleeves.
“I’m not readyyy this is gonna be crazyyyy,” one fan writes in the comments section, while another adds, “the VOCALS are gonna slay so hard I cannot handle this,” and yet another suggests that a collaboration of this caliber has the power to “break the internet.”
Earlier in the day, Dan + Shay incited speculation when they posted a throwback photo on their Instagram Stories of them with Carrie at the 2019 American Music Awards.
News of the possible collaboration comes weeks after Dan + Shay dropped their chart-topping new album, Good Things, which features their hit Grammy-winning collaboration with Justin Bieber, “10,000 Hours.” Meanwhile, Carrie’s latest collaboration with Jason Aldean, “If I Didn’t Love You,” is racing up the country charts.
Billie Eilish‘s Disney+ special Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles debuts on Friday, but we have our first look at it now, with a full-length clip of her performance of “Oxytocin.”
In the clip, an animated Billie peels out in a sleek convertible sports car and speeds through a tunnel as red streaks of light flash by. The video then cuts to real-life Billie onstage at the Hollywood Bowl, bathed in red light, as she sings the track from Happier Than Ever.
As previously reported, the special will feature Billie performing every song from the album in order, joined by her brother FINNEAS and additional musicians, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
The special had its official premiere Monday night at The Grove in L.A. The drive-through experience featured socially distanced photo ops, dinner and a live performance by the L.A. Philharmonic performing five songs from Happier Than Ever. Billie and FINNEAS were both in attendance.
Following his recent homophobic comments, which led to him being banned from several events, it was announced Tuesday that DaBaby met virtually with Black leaders from HIV organizations last week.
During the meeting, HIV facts were discussed by representatives from the Black AIDS Institute, Gilead Sciences COMPASS Initiative Coordinating Centers, GLAAD, National Minority AIDS Council, The Normal Anomaly Initiative, Positive Women’s Network-USA, Prevention Access Campaign, the Southern AIDS Coalition, and the Transinclusive Group.
One hundred twenty-five organizations support an open letter to the “Suge” rapper, which states, “When HIV continues to disproportionately impact Black Americans and queer and transgender people of color, a dialogue is critical. We must address the miseducation about HIV expressed in your comments, and the impact it has on various communities.”
A joint statement added, “We believed that if [DaBaby] connected with Black leaders living with HIV that a space for community building and healing could be created.”
At the Rolling Loud festival last month in Miami, DaBaby said on stage, “If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases that’ll make you die in two or three weeks, put your cellphone light in the air.” During the meeting, DaBaby apologized for his comments.
The leaders said after the meeting, “We wish for him to use his platform to relay that critical information to his fanbase and encourage people to get tested and know their status. During our meeting, DaBaby acknowledged that the HIV facts we presented, many of which he himself was unaware of, are what every American needs to know. HIV is preventable and when treated properly, cannot be passed on.”
They added, “Celebrities and influencers of all backgrounds have the power to defeat the stigma that fuels the epidemic.
