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BTS' Big Week: The K-Pop Kings Unveil New Album, Video Feat. Halsey & More

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Everyone loves BTS: Halsey and Emma Stone showed love to the K-pop sensations, who, just this week, released new music and are set to perform on 'Saturday Night Live' on April 13
Jennifer Velez
GRAMMYs
Apr 12, 2019 - 11:47 am

BTS, arguably the most talked-about boy band of 2019, have dropped their latest album, Map Of The Soul: Persona, and they've done it with a bang. The K-pop kings have released the long-awaited album along with a music video to their single "Boy With Luv" featuring GRAMMY-nominated singer Halsey, a collaboration which continues their mark on U.S. pop culture. 

A bilingual song about infatuation, "Boy With Luv" now has more than 30 million views. The video features J-Hope, Jin, V, Jungkook, Jimin, Suga and RM dressed in different shades of pink showing off their latest dance moves along with a pink-haired Halsey, who tweeted about her positive experience on set.

Watch the video here:

"I wasn’t nervous about that! I was nervous cause I’ve never done choreo in a video before! But they were so awesome haha they made me so comfy and gassed me up," she tweeted. Halsey has been a friend of the group since they met in 2017. "We have been friends for almost 2 years! I am so lucky to know them and they inspire me so much. your boys are A+," she posted on Twitter in 2018. 

The song was recorded in Seoul, the band's hometown in South Korea, they told Spotify. The release comes one day before the superstars are set to appear as the musical guests on "Saturday Night Live." Emma Stone, host of the April 13 episode, is another BTS fan. 

"I just saw their soundcheck today and I involuntarily screamed," she said on the The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday. "I'm actually not kidding ... It was like 'AAAHHH!!!' It was like a chemical reaction that happens. They're incredible."

But it was the BTS Army that showed the most love to the group with a #PERSONAWelcomeParty hashtag trending on Twitter.

Watch BTS perform live on "SNL" on Saturday, April 13.

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BTS Taking An Official Break After Breaking Records & Offering Epic Performances

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Over the past 2 years alone, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook have broken several major records, made epic performances, and an album of theirs received a GRAMMY nomination. Now it's time for a break, their management said
Jennifer Velez
GRAMMYs
Aug 12, 2019 - 12:30 pm

K-pop superstars BTS are taking a break for the first time since their 2013 debut, their management team at Big Hit Entertainment announced on Sunday, Aug. 11.

"BTS will be going on an official and extended period of rest and relaxation," the South Korean entertainment company said in a statement on Twitter. "During this time, the members will rest and recharge in their own personal ways."

The announcement comes after an impressive run the past two years alone, in which Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook have broken records, including being the first K-pop band with a No. 1 album in the U.S. and made epic performances like the Beatles-inspired appearance on the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. In addition to other accolades for the group, their 2018 album, Love Yorself: Tear, earned a GRAMMY nomination for Best Recording Packaging at the 61st GRAMMY Awards in February, bringing them to their first-ever GRAMMY show. 

Big Hit Entertainment asked fans to show the group "consideration for their need to rest and enjoy" their vacation, if they were to spot them during their time off. The vacation time will be a chance for the members to "recharge and prepare" for the next phases of their careers as well as be a "chance to enjoy the ordinary lives of young people in their 20s," Big Hit added.

The post did not specfically call out how long the time off for the group would last, yet the BTS Army has generally responded positvely to the news.

BTS released their latest studio album, Map Of The Soul: Persona, featuring "Boy With Luv" with Halsey in April, six years after they debuted with the single "No More Dream" from their album 2 Cool 4 Skool in 2013. 

Another noteworthy moment BTS has had with the Recording Academy this year was with GRAMMY U college students in Chicago for the May edition of our SoundCheck series. 

Thanks for all the music so far, BTS. We'll see you again soon. 

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Blink-182 Want "Happy Days" In Latest Single From Upcoming Album

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The band dropped their latest single on the 182nd day of the year
Jennifer Velez
GRAMMYs
Jul 1, 2019 - 11:28 am

Blink-182 continue to tease their upcoming eighth studio album with yet another single release—this time an uplifting track called "Happy Days," released on the 182nd day of the year, which the band has dubbed "Blink-182 Day."

"It’s the 182nd day of the year which means it’s blink-182 day! To celebrate, here is our new song “Happy Days.” Consume it where you usually consume music," the band tweeted. 

In the past, the GRAMMY-nominated Southern California pop-punk band has dropped their usual humor for tougher subjects— songs like "Stay Together For The Kids" hit on pain and grief. "Happy Days" has the group adding a light at the end of the tunnel to similar feelings.

"Hey kid, don't quit your daydream yet/ I know you feel locked out in the cold," lead vocalist Mark Hoppus sings in the third single from the forthcoming album. "Seems like you’re lost and alone/ Hey kid, don't listen to your head/ It only fills you with dread and with doubt."

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He continues in the chorus: "I wanna feel happy days, happy days/ Happy days, happy days/ Walls of isolation inside of my pain/ And I don't know if I'm ready to change."

While the band has yet to announce an album release date, they've been dropping singles; They released the 50-second fast punk "Generational Divide" late June.

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Fitz And The Tantrums Give "All The Feels" In Forthcoming Album, Title Track Video

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"'All The Feels' has all the emotions," vocalist Michael Fitzpatrick said about the connection-seeking song
Jennifer Velez
GRAMMYs
Jun 28, 2019 - 4:39 pm

Neo-soul pop band Fitz And The Tantrums have announced that their forthcoming fourth album, All The Feels, is arriving on Sept. 20. The infectuous music-makers dropped the news along with the video for the album's title track. 

"All The Feels' has all the emotions," vocalist Michael Fitzpatrick said about the connection-seeking song. "Wanna live, just a little/ Just a little, just a little/ Wanna feel, just a little/ Just a little, a little bit more," he sings as he gets pushed through an emergency room on a hospital bed in the video.

"So many highs and lows this last year but we’ll make it through together," the group said about the 17-track album on Twitter. "We hope you love it as much as we do."

In May, the group were among the performers at the 2019 MusiCares Concert For Recovery, which honored Macklemore with the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award. 

Pre-order the album here. 

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H.E.R. & YBN Cordae Team Up On Smooth New Track "Racks"

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The GRAMMY-winning songstress and the emerging rapper get together on a song that hits on materialism
Jennifer Velez
GRAMMYs
Jun 26, 2019 - 12:22 pm

GRAMMY-winning singer/songwriter H.E.R. has teamed up with rising rapper YBN Cordae on an R&B-infused song about one of the things money can't buy: love. 

"It's hard to trust the things that we lust/ No fallin’ in love, we so out of touch/ When no one's around, who's holdin' you down?/ All of your racks and things/ They don't relax your pain," she sings with her famously smooth vocals.

YBN Cordae hits on his infatuation with material success: "Tryna find love, so I'm navigatin'/ Shower you with gifts, over saturation/ But I can't seem to find love without the ratchet sh**/ This gold dream of mine, why am I attached to this?"         

H.E.R. won GRAMMYs for Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Album at the 61st GRAMMY Awards. Check out the new track above.

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