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2025 Grammys nominations live: Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Beyonce and Chappell Roan vying for nods

2025 Grammys nominations live: Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Beyonce and Chappell Roan vying for nods

Highlights from 2024 Grammy Awards Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free The nominations for the 2025 Grammy Awards will be announced today, with several milestones expected to be reached by some of the world’s biggest artists. Taylor Swift is predicted to receive an Album of the Year nod for her latest hit album, The Tortured Poets Department, which would pull her out of a tie with Barbra Streisand and place her as the woman with the most nominations in the category. Other artists vying for Album of the Year nominations include 2024’s breakthrough star Chappell Roan with her debut, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, and Sabrina Carpenter with her sixth record, Short n’ Sweet. Charli XCX is another hopeful thanks to her critically adored, trend-setting album Brat, as is Beyoncé for her country-influenced record, Cowboy Carter. Hip-hop star Kendrick Lamar is likely to …

Chappell Roan mocked in SNL skit about viral pygmy hippo Moo Deng: ‘I need to set some boundaries’

Chappell Roan mocked in SNL skit about viral pygmy hippo Moo Deng: ‘I need to set some boundaries’

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang channelled pop singer Chappell Roan in a skit where he played the internet’s favourite pygmy hippo, Moo Deng. In recent weeks, the animal, who resides at Thailand’s Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi, has become a viral sensation thanks to her grouchy nature and frequently unhinged behaviour. In popular clips, the two-month-old, whose name means “bouncy pork”, can be seen hassling her keepers and her mother by butting them with her head. She famously hates baths. However, the zoo has now been forced to put up warning signs in Thai, English and Chinese asked visitors not to splash water at her or throw objects in order to provoke the behaviour they’ve seen online. In the first episode of SNL’s landmark 50th season, cast member Yang dressed up in an elaborate Moo Deng costume as …

Chappell Roan Reveals Why She Rejected An Offer To Perform At The White House

Chappell Roan Reveals Why She Rejected An Offer To Perform At The White House

Pop star of the moment Chappell Roan has claimed that she recently rejected an invite to perform as part of the White House’s Pride celebrations. The Red Wine Supernova singer was one of the performers at New York City’s Governors Ball festival on Sunday (9 June), during which she emerged dressed as the Statue of Liberty in a spiked crown, covered head-to-toe in green paint. When it came to performing her song My Kink Is Karma, she took the opportunity to issue her reply to the invitation. “As a response to the White House who asked me to perform at Pride: we want liberty, justice and freedom for all,” she shared. “When you do that, that’s when I’ll come.” Elsewhere in her set, the Good Luck, Babe! singer recited a portion of the famous sonnet The New Colossus by poet and activist Emma Lazarus, which is engraved on the pedestal of the iconic New York City statue. Chappell Roan channelling the Statue Of Liberty at the Governors Ball Marleen Moise via Getty Images “I am …

Coachella 2024’s biggest social media moments from No Doubt’s reunion to Chappell Roan’s ascent

Coachella 2024’s biggest social media moments from No Doubt’s reunion to Chappell Roan’s ascent

Every April, hundreds of thousands of people descend on Coachella Valley for two weekends of music, $25 caesar salads, and dust-related health complications. The rest of us experience the festival through our phones, watching it unfold on our social media feeds from the comfort of our couches. The biggest moments from Coachella 2024 range from superstar-making sets to technical difficulties and broken bones, and they all get credit on our list. Chappell Roan ascends If you were plugged into the pop music scene before April 12, you may have been aware of Chappell Roan’s growing popularity. If you weren’t, Roan’s performances at Coachella made her hard to ignore. Posts of her performance on the first weekend and her life-size butterfly outfit on the second boosted her streaming numbers and bumped her latest single “Good Luck, Babe!” to no. 77 on the Billboard 100, her first-ever entry on the chart. Tweet may have been deleted Lana del Rey duets with Billie In her first weekend set, Lana del Rey sang her classics, brought out Billie Eilish …