Beginning what promises to be an unforgettable summer, Sabrina Carpenter shares a new single entitled “Vicious” today.
Additionally, she reveals the details for the release of her anxiously awaited fifth full-length album and Island Records debut, Emails I Can’t Send, arriving on July 15, 2022. Check out the cover art below! Pre-order / pre-save--HERE. “Vicious” offers a glimpse of the ultra-personal song-writing and passionate, palpable, and powerful performances at the heart of the record. On the track, acoustic guitar underlines her intimate intonation as the beat gives way to an emotionally charged refrain, “Oh, you’re so vicious, love me then pretend you didn’t. Half of me just can’t resist it. Why you gotta be so vicious?” It culminates on a robust guitar lead, while she engages a stream-of-consciousness-style vocal barrage topped off with a scream. “Vicious” channels nineties pop-rock songcraft with an intoxicating dose of 21st century feels. About “Vicious,” she revealed:- “Sonically, you’re able to hear me really closely, and it’s almost like I’m narrating the story to you,” she elaborates. “This song is really narrative and personal. It’s as if I’m having a conversation. We’ve all had experiences with people we love so deeply who turn out to be different than we thought they were. It’s a really painful realization to come to terms with. A lot of times, we focus on the other side of the healing process and fail to own up to uncomfortable feelings like anger and resentment. I don’t touch on that side of myself too often, but it’s a huge part of my story over the past couple of years, so I thought it was important to start there on ‘Vicious’.” It arrives on the heels of her most recent single “Fast Times.” In addition to tallying over 12 million Spotify streams and 5.5 million YouTube views on the music video, it instantly incited tastemaker applause. Rolling Stone hailed it as a “sexy, playful pop song” and one of “The Best Songs of 2022,” and fans voted it Billboard’s “Favorite New Music” upon release. Redbrick promised, “She aims to deliver something deeper and more meaningful on her new album,” and Bustle summed it up best as “boppy.” Recently, she made headlines by starring in EMERGENCY, which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. She appeared as a guest on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to discuss the movie as well as more upcoming music. Watch it HERE. Sabrina closed out 2021 with the single “Skinny Dipping.” Right out of the gate, it earned widespread tastemaker praise. Billboard described it as a “impressive vocal take from Carpenter” and said it’s “a natural fit for her as a singer and storyteller, as she lays down track for an adult music career.” “Skinny Dipping” followed the runaway success of “Skin.” The latter has gathered over 123 million Spotify streams and 26 million YouTube views on the music video to date. Upon arrival, it overtook the internet, trending at #1 on Twitter worldwide. It also marked her first Billboard Hot 100 hit in addition to receiving widespread acclaim. Billboard hailed it as “hitting that sweet spot between raw writing and grandiose production, resulting in an enthralling listen.” Meanwhile, Thomas Bleach applauded it as “an immediately addictive track that will simultaneously get stuck in your head, and have you thinking ‘damn, girl!’.” She also just launched her first fragrance in partnership with Scent Beauty, the world’s first multi-brand e-commerce platform for bespoke fragrances, which offer unique, culturally relevant fragrances to consumers worldwide. Inspired by Sabrina’s love of desserts, “Sweet Tooth” by Sabrina Carpenter Eau de Parfum indulges the sweet tooth with a fragrance good enough to eat. The scent is sweet, yet sophisticated and reminiscent of the irresistible joy of a candy shop, filled with creamy chocolate, pops of colour, swirls, and sweets. The gourmand fragrance, developed in partnership with Firmenich, features notes of chocolate marshmallow, vanilla, Chantilly cream, and sugared musk's. Sweet and petite, the bottle is modelled from the shape of a chocolate bar but reinvented in faceted glass with tones of pink and rose gold. The bottle sparkles with delight and becomes an art piece for all to unwrap and experience. The Discovery Size fragrance is available now at ScentBeauty.com, with the full-size Eau de Parfum to follow in September. Sabrina's Island Records debut album arrives July 15th. Get ready for Emails I Can’t Send now! FOLLOW SABRINA: Instagram | TikTok | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube | Website
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GRAMMY Award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, and author LeAnn Rimes drops her collaborative new track ‘The Only’ ft. Ziggy Marley, Ledisi & Ben Harper, taken from her eagerly anticipated new album "God’s Work" - out on EverLe Records via Thirty Tigers / The Orchard on September 16th. ‘The Only’ arrives just in time for summer and is a departure from LeAnn’s traditional sound, giving fans another taste of the many influences featured on the forthcoming new record. Listen HERE & watch the video HERE. It also comes hot off the back of LeeAnn’s season four win of FOX’s The Masked Singer, and most recently, serving as the inspiration judge on the competition series, Meet Your Makers Showdown. “It is an honour to have such a unique and diverse group of artists joining me on this song. Artists of like mind and heart that are also spreading a message of love in the world,” Rimes said. “‘The Only’ really is all about community and connection, so I felt inspired to create the track in community with those I deeply admire and respect.” The 12-track record features an eclectic group of accomplished artists that bring a genre-bending sound to the album, including Mickey Guyton, Ziggy Marley, Aloe Blacc, Ben Harper, Ledisi, Sheila E., Robert Randolph, and more. god’s work is available for pre-order HERE. Written and produced by Rimes and her long time collaborator and close friend / producer / songwriter Darrell Brown, god’s work has been nearly three years in the making and puts Rimes’ breath-taking vocals on full display. The track listing includes a mix of ethereal, rhythmic, and brutally honest songs that take each listener on their own unique journey, exploring the duality of life and recognizing the light and the dark that we all encounter. Rimes made a commitment to highlight females in the creation of the album, from the mixing to the recording and mastering, allowing her to fully immerse herself in the vulnerability of the lyrics and sound. “For me, god’s work was all about a journey of reclamation, where humanity meets spirit,” Rimes said. “The idea was to really dig into the duality of life, and I needed to be at the place I am in my life now in order to release this record whole-heartedly. It’s so empowering that I am finally there.” "God’s Work" track listing:
Instagram @leannrimes https://leannrimes.com/ Pop Icon Charli XCX drops the visuals to her party anthem 'Used To Know Me', directed by Alex Gill. ‘Used To Know Me’ is the catchy story of a post-breakup revival, and borrows from the 1990 house hit “Show Me Love” by Robin S. The video comes in to further extend the impressive visuals that Charli has delivered in this era with cohesion and consistency, under the creative direction of Imogene Strauss and Choreography from Nathan Kim. Pet Shop Boys will release the final set of albums in their definitive ‘Catalogue: 1985-2012’ series of reissues of all their Parlophone studio albums. This fourth batch of releases will see the PSB albums ‘Behaviour’ from 1990, the 1993 album ‘Very’ and the 1996 album ‘Bilingual’ reissued on 31st August 2018. The albums have been remastered and repackaged, and will be accompanied by ‘Further listening’ albums of master quality bonus tracks - including demos, extended mixes and remixes of tracks from the albums and others created in the same period as each record. ‘Behaviour’ was Pet Shop Boys’ fourth studio album, recorded largely in Munich, Germany at co-producer Harold Faltermeyer’s studio. The album was then completed at London’s Sarm West Studios, and was released in October 1990 – hitting number 2 on the UK Album Chart and going on to earn platinum certification. The LP is seen by some as one of Pet Shop Boys’ most contemplative and moving records, and features the singles ‘So hard’, ‘How can you expect to be taken seriously?’ and their classic track ‘Being boring’. This ‘Catalogue’ release of ‘Behaviour’ features Further listening bonus tracks such as an extended mix of ‘Where the streets have no name (I can’t take my eyes off you)’ and an ambient mix of ‘Music for boys’ - both of which are previously unreleased on CD. Behaviour/Further listening 1990-1991: CD 1 1 Being boring 2 This must be the place I waited years to leave 3 To face the truth 4 How can you expect to be taken seriously? 5 Only the wind 6 My October symphony 7 So hard 8 Nervously 9 The end of the world 10 Jealousy CD 2 1 It must be obvious 2 So hard (extended dance mix) 3 Miserablism 4 Being boring (extended mix) 5 Bet she’s not your girlfriend 6 We all feel better in the dark (extended mix) 7 Where the streets have no name (I can’t take my eyes off you) (extended mix) 8 Jealousy (extended version) 9 Generic jingle • 10 DJ culture (extended mix) 11 Was it worth it? (twelve-inch mix) 12 Music for boys (ambient mix) 13 DJ culture (seven-inch mix) • Previously unreleased The 1993 album ‘Very’ was a number one record for Pet Shop Boys in the UK, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland, and has to date sold in excess of five million copies worldwide. It contains 5 singles, including their cover of ‘Go West’ – a number 2 hit for PSB – and lead single ‘Can you forgive her?’. Stylistically, ‘Very’ could be said to serve as an antithesis to ‘Behaviour’, insofar as the production and lyrical themes are generally more upbeat and positive than those of the previous album. Visually, too, PSB reinvented their image to incorporate more vivid colours and brightness, including Very’s now-iconic “Lego” album cover. The album is also the first to be produced almost entirely by Pet Shop Boys themselves - with additional programming and production courtesy of Pete Gleadall and Stephen Hague. This ‘Catalogue’ issue of ‘Very’ includes a Further listening disc of bonus material, such as the previously-unreleased tracks ‘Falling’ (a demo for Kylie Minogue), and a 1992 twelve-inch mix of ‘Go West’. Very/Further listening 1992–1994: CD 1 1 Can you forgive her? 2 I wouldn’t normally do this kind of thing 3 Liberation 4 A different point of view 5 Dreaming of the Queen 6 Yesterday, when I was mad 7 The theatre 8 One and one make five 9 To speak is a sin 10 Young offender 11 One in a million 12 Go West CD 2 1 Go West (1992 twelve-inch mix) 2 Forever in love 3 Confidential (demo for Tina) 4 Hey, headmaster 5 Shameless 6 Too many people 7 I wouldn’t normally do this kind of thing (seven-inch version) 8 Violence (Haçienda version) 9 Falling (demo for Kylie) 10 Decadence 11 If love were all 12 Absolutely fabulous (single version) 13 Euroboy 14 Some speculation 15 Yesterday, when I was mad (single version) 16 Girls and boys (live in Rio) Released in September 1996, ‘Bilingual’ was the sixth studio album to be released by Pet Shop Boys. It was a UK top 5 record upon release and included 5 singles, all of which were UK top 20 singles. As is often the case with PSB records, ‘Bilingual’ comprises many influences, including those of the music of Latin America, due partly to the Spanish and Latin music Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe had been listening to prior to recording the album. The album was recorded by PSB with Danny Tenaglia and Chris Porter, and has since gained platinum certification in Spain, and Gold in the UK. This ‘Catalogue’ release of ‘Bilingual’ includes a Further listening CD of bonus tracks, with previously-unreleased new versions of ‘Discoteca’ and ‘A red letter day’. Bilingual/Further listening: 1995-1997: CD 1 1 Discoteca 2 Single 3 Metamorphosis 4 Electricity 5 Se a vida é (That’s the way life is) 6 It always comes as a surprise 7 A red letter day 8 Up against it 9 The survivors 10 Before 11 To step aside 12 Saturday night forever CD 2 1 Paninaro ’95 2 In the night (1995) 3 The truck-driver and his mate 4 Hit and miss 5 How I learned to hate rock ’n’ roll 6 Betrayed 7 Delusions of grandeur 8 Discoteca (single version) • 9 The calm before the storm 10 Discoteca (new version) 11 The boy who couldn’t keep his clothes on 12 A red letter day (expanded single version) 13 The view from your balcony 14 Disco potential 15 Somewhere (extended mix) • Previously unreleased The ‘Catalogue: 1985-2012’ reissues of ‘Behaviour’, ‘Very’ and Bilingual’ will go on sale 31st August 2018. The three albums will be packaged with an extensive booklet in which Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe discuss each song, illustrated with many archive photographs. The entire project is designed by Farrow. To pre-order the albums, please follow the links below: ‘Behaviour’ – https://lnk.to/PSBBehaviourMP ‘Very’ - https://lnk.to/PSBVeryMP ‘Bilingual’ – https://lnk.to/PSBBilingualMP The ‘Catalogue: 1985-2012’ reissue series began last year with the release of ‘Nightlife’, ‘Release’ and ‘Fundamental’ which all entered the Top 40 album charts, followed by re-issues of ‘Yes’ and ‘Elysium’, and later ‘Please’, ‘Actually’ and ‘Introspective’. The reissues of ‘Please’, ‘Actually’, ‘Introspective’, ‘Behaviour’, ‘Very’ and ‘Bilingual’ were originally released with bonus Further listening albums in 2001 and are being newly remastered with their original track-listings for this project. http://www.petshopboys.co.uk |
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