What You Missed In Music: The Weeknd, Lady Gaga & Kristen Stewart
Catch up on some of the week's best music stories here!
Lady Gaga Played A Special Christmas Gig On A London Rooftop
Lady Gaga does whatever she bloody well wants. This is a fact. A Planet Earth fact. Protest against Donald Trump outside Trump Tower while standing on a sanitation truck? She did it. (Good on her, but we have no idea where she got that sanitation truck.
Tour her new album Joanne across a load of tiny dive bars in the states to approximately 18 people? She did that too.
So it comes as no surprise at all that Gaga played her latest gig – not in a gig venue - but on top of a rooftop in London. 100 lucky fans were in attendance, and they were treated to a series of stripped back, acoustic renditions of ‘Bad Romance’ and new single ‘Million Reasons’.
Pressure's taking its toll
Stuck in the middle zone
I just want you alone
My guessing game is strong
Way too real to be wrong
Caught up in your show
Yeah, at least now I know
It wasn't love, it wasn't love
It was a perfect illusion (Perfect illusion)
Mistaken for love, it wasn't love
It was a perfect illusion (Perfect illusion)
Oh, you were a perfect illusion
I don't need eyes to see
I felt you touching me
High like amphetamine
Maybe you're just a dream
That's what it means to crush
Now that I'm waking up
I still feel the blow
But at least now I know
It wasn't love, it wasn't love
It was a perfect illusion (Perfect illusion)
Mistaken for love, it wasn't love
It was a perfect illusion (perfect illusion)
(Where are you? 'Cause I can't see you)
It was a perfect illusion (But I feel you watching me)
(Dilated, falling free in a modern ecstasy)
(Where are you? 'Cause I can't see you)
It was a perfect illusion (But I feel you watching me)
(But I feel you watching me)
Illusion (But I feel you watching me)
Mistaken for love
(Where are you? 'Cause I can't see you)
(But I feel you watching me)
Mistaken for love (Dilated, falling free)
(In a modern ecstasy) Mistaken for love
(In a modern ecstasy)
(In a modern ecstasy)
I'm over the show
Yeah, at least now I know
It wasn't love, it wasn't love
It was a perfect illusion (Perfect illusion)
Mistaken for love, it wasn't love
It was a perfect illusion (Perfect illusion)
Oh, you were a perfect illusion
Oh, it was a perfect illusion
It was a perfect illusion
Somewhere in all the confusion
It was a perfect illusion, illusion, illusion
It was a perfect illusion
Somewhere in all the confusion
You were so perfect
You were a, you were a perfect illusion
“I love my London and UK fans so much, and performing my new music for them in such an intimate and spectacular location was the perfect way to celebrate the holidays,” Gaga said.
In other Lady Gaga news, the ‘Perfect Illusion’ singer will be performing on The X Factor on Sunday night.
Kristen Stewart Goes Joy Riding In New Rolling Stones Music Video
Do you like The Rolling Stones? Of course you do. Would you like to watch Kristen Stewart look really f*cking cool as she joy rides around the states in an American muscle car for three straight minutes? Of course you do.
The Rolling Stones, one of The Best Bands Of All Time, released Blue & Lonesome, their first album in over a decade, today. It’s streaming everywhere.
Watch The Rolling Stones‘ new video for their Eddie Taylor cover ‘Ride ‘Em On Down’, starring Kristen Stewart, below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEuV82GqQnE
The Weeknd Broke A Spotify Record
The Weeknd released his latest album, Starboy, earlier this month and we haven’t stopped listening to it since. Isn’t ‘I Feel It Coming’ brilliant?
And to make his November that extra special, Abel Tesfaye – better known as The Weeknd - is now officially the artist with the most streams on Spotify in a single day! Congratulations to him.
P1 cleaner than your church shoes, ah
Milli point two just to hurt you, ah
All red Lamb' just to tease you, ah
None of these toys on lease too, ah
Made your whole year in a week too, yeah
Main bitch outta your league too, ah
Side bitch out of your league too, ah
House so empty, need a centerpiece
Twenty racks a table cut from ebony
Cut that ivory into skinny pieces
Then she clean it with her face, man, I love my baby, ah
You talkin' money, need a hearing aid
You talkin' 'bout me, I don't see the shade
Switch up my style, I take any lane
I switch up my cup, I kill any pain
Look what you've done
I'm a motherfuckin' starboy
Look what you've done
I'm a motherfuckin' starboy
Every day a nigga try to test me, ah
Every day a nigga try to end me, ah
Pull off in that Roadster SV, ah
Pockets overweight, gettin' hefty, ah
Coming for the king, that's a far cry, ah
I come alive in the fall time, I
The competition, I don't really listen
I'm in the blue Mulsanne bumping New Edition
House so empty, need a centerpiece
Twenty racks a table cut from ebony
Cut that ivory into skinny pieces
Then she clean it with her face, man, I love my baby, ah
You talkin' money, need a hearing aid
You talkin' 'bout me, I don't see the shade
Switch up my style, I take any lane
I switch up my cup, I kill any pain
Look what you've done
I'm a motherfuckin' starboy
Look what you've done
I'm a motherfuckin' starboy
Let a nigga brag Pitt
Legend of the fall took the year like a bandit
Bought mama a crib and a brand new wagon
Now she hit the grocery shop looking lavish
Star Trek roof in that Wraith of Khan
Girls get loose when they hear this song
A hundred on the dash, get me close to God
We don't pray for love, we just pray for cars
House so empty, need a centerpiece
Twenty racks a table cut from ebony
Cut that ivory into skinny pieces
Then she clean it with her face, man, I love my baby, ah
You talkin' money, need a hearing aid
You talkin' 'bout me, I don't see the shade
Switch up my style, I take any lane
I switch up my cup, I kill any pain
Look what you've done
I'm a motherfuckin' starboy
Look what you've done
I'm a motherfuckin' starboy
Look what you've done
I'm a motherfuckin' starboy
Look what you've done
I'm a motherfuckin' starboy
Monte Lipman, Chairman & Co-Founder, Republic Records said, “Spotify’s continued support of The Weeknd has now reached historic proportions and also reinforces the tremendous growth of global streaming."
Spotify's Global Head of Creator Services, Troy Carter echoed the excitement saying, "we're proud to have partnered with The Weeknd, his management and Republic Records on a phenomenal album. We look forward to breaking even more records together in the near future."
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