Month: July 2020

Lana Del Rey has released the audiobook version of her new poetry collection Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass. Read by Del Rey, the project also features music from her frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff. It’s out now via Interscope and available for purchase. Check out the sample track “LA Who Am I To Love You” below. The singer announced Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass in December. The hardcover and ebook versions will come out September 29, with CDs and LPs arriving a few days later on October 2. It’s the first of two new poetry projects that Del Rey has shared plans for this year. The other, titled behind the iron gates - insights from an institution, does not yet have a confirmed release date. Del Rey shared a selection titled “patent leather do-over” from that collection i...

Taylor Swift tells the story of "The Last Great American Dynasty" in her Folklore track about one of the wealthiest women in America, Rebekah West Harkness. Billboard found out more information about the 20th-century socialite and how she compares to the Grammy award-winning singer. Harkness acquired an enormous amount of wealth after her second marriage to William Hale Harkness. The St. Louis-born patron of the arts has many more titles to her name than "middle-class divorcée," which Swift calls her in the first verse. That's how she was commonly regarded before marrying William Hale Harkness, the heir to the Standard Oil fortune. With Standard Oil being the largest oil refiner in the world as well as the world's first and largest multinational company in the late 1800s and...

Kim Kardashian West reunited with her husband Kanye West on Monday, after flying into Wyoming where she was pictured sobbing during an intense conversation with the troubled rapper. The 39-year-old reality star appeared distressed and cried as she talked to Kanye, 43, in a vehicle, following his political campaign rally and Twitter meltdown last week, where he discussed how they once considered having an abortion and hinted she had an affair with rapper Meek Mill, which Kanye has since publicly apologized for.  It is the first time that the married couple has been pictured together since before his disastrous first campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina, after announcing his unlikely bid for presidency.  Crisis talks: Kim Kardashian West reunited with her ...

Alf Clausen in 2016Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez for ASCAP (Getty Images) Former Simpsons composer Alf Clausen’s lawsuit against Gracie Films, 20th Century Fox, and the show’s new owners at Disney continues to be unsurprisingly bitter, with Clausen’s attorneys now releasing a statement (via Deadline) that accuses the defendants of using “lies and deceit” to cover up the real reason for why Clausen was fired from the show in 2017. Even when that news initially broke, there were conflicting theories about why Clausen was given the boot: Insiders said that Simpsons producer Richard Sakai wanted a “different kind of music” for the show (after nearly 30 years of the same kind of music), while Variety guessed that it was actually about money (as Clausen’s orchestra would apparently cost millio...

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