Music

After helping to create the BTS hits “Butter” and “Permission to Dance,” Jenna Andrews and Stephen Kirk were tapped to write songs for KPop Demon Hunters. The two penned and produced two of the more emotional songs in the hit Netflix film: “What It Sounds Like” and “Free.”  And according to Jenna, just because HUNTR/X and Saja Boys technically don’t exist, doesn’t make them any less real.

“They feel very real now … It’s like you forget that they’re animated,” Jenna tells ABC Audio. She laughs, “So like, what makes them less real than BLACKPINK? I mean, besides that they’re not real, but it feels like they’re so real in your brain, y’know?”

Initially, Jenna and Stephen were working on the song that HUNTR/X releases as their new single, but they were reassigned to write the big finale song, which ended up being “What It Sounds Like.” Meanwhile, other writers penned the single, and that ended up being the #1 hit “Golden.” But Jenna and Stephen say they don’t regret being reassigned.

“More than the numbers, it’s about … being a part of something that is influencing culture in a positive way,” Stephen explains. “…There’s so many generations of people who can enjoy this and pull from this. That’s what’s really important.”

Plus, Jenna notes, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack album, which includes their two songs, was also #1.

As for a possible sequel, Jenna and Stephen say they’d both like to see the return of Jinu.

“I don’t believe souls can die, so I hope that Jinu comes back. I think the Saja Boys need to turn good and absolutely help HUNTR/X fight evil,” Stephen says.

“I’m here for it, for 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 — they can make a Star Wars franchise. I’m watching all of them!” 

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Tate McRae has more new music on the way. On Wednesday, she announced, “TIT FOR TAT out Friday…….surpriseeeee.” Tate’s most recent album, So Close to What, came out in February; she also had a song on the soundtrack of F1: The Movie.

If you didn’t get an invite to Charli XCX’s second wedding celebration, you can feel like you were there by checking out her Instagram. She’s uploaded what seems like every photo she took of herself, her husband George and all their pals partying in Sicily. On her last wedding post, she wrote, “k final ones (for now, i’m sorry!) but i’m just obsesssseddd!!!!!”

Want to have coffee and donuts with Joe Jonas? He’s teamed up with Krispy Kreme to promote National Coffee Day, which falls on Sept. 29. From Sept. 27 through the 29th, you can get a dozen doughnuts for $1 if you buy a dozen at regular price, and then on Sept. 29, you can get a free coffee and donut. In a promotional video, Joe balks when he’s told that he’s just promoting coffee, complaining, “You can’t have coffee without a doughnut,” and adding, “If you’re going to use this face, I’m going to give away the doughnut.”

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Rihanna is now a mom of three.

The singer and Fenty Beauty founder has welcomed a baby girl with her longtime partner A$AP Rocky. Rocki Irish Meyers was born on Sept. 13, according to a post Rih shared to Instagram Wednesday.

This is Rihanna and A$AP Rocky’s third child together.

A$AP Rocky confirmed the news of Rihanna’s pregnancy with their third child in May at the 2025 Met Gala.

“It feels amazing, you know,” A$AP Rocky told reporters after they congratulated him following media reports that the couple was expecting their third child, according to The Associated Press. “It’s time that we show the people what we was cooking up, and I’m glad everybody’s happy for us, ’cause we definitely happy, you know?”

Rihanna also stepped out at the Met Gala that night wearing a pin-striped ensemble that showed off her pregnancy.

The duo are also parents to sons Rza and Riot. The couple welcomed Rza in May 2022 and Riot in 2023.

In an interview with Vogue in April, A$AP Rocky said of his son RZA, “The older one, he stays to himself — he likes his books.”

Of his younger son Riot, the rapper added, “He likes to take stuff from his brother so his brother can chase him.”

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Drake wrapped up his $ome $pecial $hows 4 U Tour Tuesday night in Hamburg, Germany. While onstage at the Barclays Arena, Drake told the crowd, “This is the greatest tour I’ve ever been on in my life. I’m so thankful to be here with each and every one of y’all.” The 35-show tour supported Drake and PartyNextDoor‘s album $ome $pecial $ongs 4 U, which came out in February.

D4vd‘s streams have increased following reports of a dead body found in an impounded car that was registered to the singer. Billboard reports his catalog earned 30.3 million on-demand U.S. streams from Sept. 18 to Sept. 22 — a significant jump from the 13.8 million streams acquired between Sept. 12 and Sept. 16, according to Luminate. His song “Romantic Homicide” saw a 224% rise in streams, going from 2.9 million streams (Sept. 12 to Sept. 15) to 9.4 million one week later.

Aaliyah has earned her first #1 on Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart thanks to her posthumous single with Tank, “Gone.” It’s the most-played song of the Sept. 12-18 tracking week, jumping up from the #2 position with a 23% increase in weekly plays, according to Luminate. The feat gives Tank his 10th #1 on the chart.

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Mariah Carey‘s kids, Moroccan Cannon and Monroe Cannon, enjoy their mom’s music, but Mariah says that doesn’t necessarily mean she wants their opinions on it — at least not while she’s in the process of creating it.

Asked by GQ if she ever “run[s] musical ideas by them or make[s] them listen to songs and see what they think,” Mariah replied, “Sometimes, I run musical ideas by them, but not really. I don’t care what they think.”

“No, I’m only kidding,” she laughed. “I do care what they think, but I barely run songs by them, because I’d rather wait until the song is completely done, the album’s completely done, because that way they won’t be like, ‘Mom, why’d you do this? Why’d you do that?'”

But Mariah did say that her son’s love for the duo Silk Sonic inspired her to reach out to Anderson .Paak, who ended up working with her on her new album, Here For It All.

“Actually my son … was obsessed with them,” she says of the Grammy-winning duo, made up of Paak and Bruno Mars. “And he would listen all the time, he wore the shirt — it was a whole thing.” Mariah notes that she and Paak had “great musical chemistry.”

But Mariah remains coy about whether or not she and Paak are dating: They’ve been seen in public holding hands. Asked about their relationship on CBS Mornings, Mariah told Gayle King, “He just likes to hold my hand. He just grabs my hand. I don’t know what he’s doing.”

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Cardi B‘s relationship with Offset may not have gone like she wanted, but she says it wasn’t a waste of time. Speaking with Alex Cooper on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Cardi says her marriage was one of the many experiences life has brought her way.

“Even in the long marriage that I was in, there’s a lot of things that I regret and there’s a lot of things that people are gonna be like, ‘You see, you wasted your time,’ but I don’t feel like it was a waste of time,” she says. “I actually see what comes with being a wife, being a mom, so I experienced that. It’s like, I have to experience pain. I have to experience good times. I have to experience what it was like to have a family, to be a wife.”

Cardi married Offset in 2017 and filed for divorce in 2024; their divorce is not yet finalized. Cardi tells Cooper she spent months separated from Offset before she decided to call it quits.

“There has been moments that is like, I wouldn’t see a motherf***** for two, three months. We’re not in the same house,” she says. “But if you’re not ready to leave, you’re just not ready to leave.”

She is now pregnant with her first child with her boyfriend, NFL player Stefon Diggs, who she says would  contact her “at the right time.”

“He almost hit me up at the times that I felt uneasy,” Cardi says. “I’d be like, ‘I don’t know if I should deal with this person ’cause I know this person, he’s a little hot, but I’m gonna talk,’ and then we had really good conversations. … Even when we wasn’t talking, I was like, ‘I need to talk to this person. I’m talking to this person every day.'”

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Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford got married to his longtime partner, Thomas Pence, in 2024, and in a new interview he shares that it’s something he’s been wanting to do for years.

During part two of Halford’s appearance on Jake Shear’s Queer the Music podcast, Halford reveals that he would often ask Thomas to get married but would always get turned down. It wasn’t until Thomas asked that they finally wed.

“I stopped asking … just sort of, ‘Let’s get married.’ ‘No, I don’t wanna get married.’ ‘Oh, let’s just get married. We’ve been together forever.’ ‘No, I don’t wanna get married,'” Halford says of his proposals. “And then suddenly on one of our night walks, he goes, ‘I think we should get married.'” Halford says after that he went “straight home” and called a pastor.

As for the wedding itself, Halford says, “It was obviously me and him and an officiant, as they call them, who are legalized to marry people,” noting they were also joined by their friend Jim Silvia, who is Judas Priest’s tour manager, and his wife.

“There was just four of us around the pool, around the cactus, the heavy metal cactus,” he says. “And it was over in an instant. But it was just a beautiful, simple ceremony.”

Halford says it’s up to people to decide for themselves whether marriage is important, but for him and his husband, it’s “just a nice thing.”

“It seems like you’ve completed something in your relationship, more than anything else,” he says. “The commitment goes to another level when you get married. It’s a great thing to do. And if it doesn’t work, that’s life. But I think after being together for 35 years, it’s working.”

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