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Lady Gaga Coyly Reveals Her Sixth Album Is On The Way

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The GRAMMY-winning pop star's last studio album was 2016's 'Joanne'
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Mar 13, 2019 - 1:28 pm

Apparently Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's performance of "Shallow" at the 2019 Oscars got fans so hot and bothered they assumed someone had to have gotten pregnant.

Well, surprise! The GRAMMY-winning pop star addressed the rumor mill head on with a tweet last night: "Rumors I'm pregnant? Yeah, I'm pregnant with #LG6."

While the Little Monsters will need to figure out who is actually carrying this immaculate conception baby, we can all rejoice in the fact that Gaga has confirmed her sixth studio album is on the way.

Now that the internet's focus has readjusted to Gaga's music, expert sleuths have traced some possible developments about the newly confirmed album

As BuzzFeed pointed out, Gaga has subsequently followed two new users on Instagram, which, for someone who only follows 40 people, is significant. 

Gaga's 39th and 40th follows are none other than GRAMMY-winning pop and fashion icon Rihanna, along with producer BloodPop aka Michael Tucker, who co-produced her fifth studio album, 2016's Joanne. Tucker also retweeted Gaga's "pregnancy" post and shared a screenshot on IG. 

Last month, Gaga, along with her "A Star Is Born" costar Bradley Cooper, earned an armful of new awards to add to her growing collection. At the 61st GRAMMY Awards the pair earned Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for "Shallow," which she accepted with a tearful speech. She also gave an electrifying solo performance of the hit song and took home a GRAMMY for "Joanne (Where Do You Think You're Goin'?)" for Best Pop Solo Performance.

Later, at the 2019 Oscars, the pair earned another win for "Shallow," for Best Original Song, for which Gaga gave another powerful speech. To cap off the experience, Cooper and Gaga also tenderly sang the song alongside each other. 

Check out the performance above, but be careful: Don't get pregnant!

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Watch: Angela Aguilar Covers Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper's "Shallow" For ReImagined

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The GRAMMY- and Latin GRAMMY-nominated ranchera singer, who typically performs in Spanish, offers a powerful one-woman rendition of Gaga and Bradley Cooper's GRAMMY-winning song from 'A Star Is Born'
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Jul 23, 2019 - 10:25 am

15-year-old ranchera singer Ángela Aguilar grew up in the music industry, coming from a long lineage of powerful performers, including her father Pepe Aguilar. She has already grown into a big name herself, with a massive following (1.5 million followers on Instagram alone) but she's admitted that she'd still be star struck if she met Lady Gaga, of whom she's a big fan.

Now, with the latest episode of ReImagined, which you can watch below, Aguilar pays tribute to the pop queen, offering a moving one-woman cover of Gaga and Bradley Cooper's GRAMMY-winning hit "Shallow," from their Oscar-winning film A Star Is Born.

Jul 23, 2019 – 10:24 am

Angela Aguilar Covers Lady Gaga's "Shallow"

Aguilar may be as just as excited about this video as her many fans are. She first teased the performance last month during a news interview with TV Azteca, where she was very thrilled to have permission to offer her take on the emotional song.

"Shallow," released last fall as part of the A Star Is Born Soundtrack, was written by Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt. The song took home two wins at the 61st GRAMMY Awards earlier this year, for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Song Written For Visual Media. 

Also for the 61st GRAMMYs, Aguilar earned her first nomination, for Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano) for her debut solo album, Primera Soy Mexicana. She also, along with Aida Cuevas and Natalia Lafourcade, stole the show during the GRAMMY Premiere Ceremony, with their rendition of the classic Spanish language song "La Llorna." Aguilar also earned her first Latin GRAMMY nominations in 2018, for Best New Artist and Best Ranchero/Mariachi Album.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel and visit our video page to watch each ReImagined episode, along with other exclusive content, as it's released.

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Lady Gaga at the 2019 GRAMMYs

Lady Gaga at the 2019 GRAMMYs

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Lady Gaga To Perform An Intimate Show At The Apollo Theater In June

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The nine-time GRAMMY winner will play the historic 1,500-capacity venue in Harlem, N.Y. during Pride Month
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
May 22, 2019 - 12:48 pm

Today, SiriusXM announced a special event to celebrate their February merger with Pandora: one night with Lady Gaga at Harlem's historic Apollo Theater on June 24.

"Performing at The Apollo has always been a dream of mine. Thank you to SiriusXM and Pandora for inviting me. I'm excited for my fans to see a special show at this iconic venue," Gaga said in a press release.

Tickets for her performance at the iconic 1,500-capacity venue are by invitation-only for SiriusXM subscribers. The company is also giving away two tickets plus transportation and accommodation for new subscribers since May 5, including those in the trial period; more info here.

"After getting her start in New York City, Lady Gaga went on to conquer the world with her talent. We are thrilled to have Lady Gaga perform this exclusive show at the world famous Apollo Theater in her hometown as we celebrate SiriusXM and Pandora as one company," said Scott Greenstein, President and Chief Content Officer of SiriusXM. 

More: Lady Gaga's 2019 Oscars Acceptance Speech: "If You Have A Dream, Fight For It"

The intimate performance will be Gaga's first in almost two years in her hometown of N.Y.C. (not counting her Met Gala fashion show, of course), and her first-ever at the Apollo.

The theater has been a cornerstone of entertainment and culture in New York since the turn of the 20th century. It has hosted scores of major musicians over the decades, like Aretha Franklin and George Clinton and the Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s. SiriusXM, meanwhile, hosted Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen at the Apollo in 2010 and 2012, respectively.

Gaga's performance will fall during World Pride Month, while the 2019 N.Y.C. Pride Parade will take place on June 30 in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.

Feb 14, 2019 – 3:52 pm

Lady Gaga: "Shallow" | 2019 GRAMMYs Performance

Before heading to New York, the Queen of Camp will wrap up a second round of shows (May 30–June 15) for her Las Vegas residency. The shows, which gives fans a choice between a stripped-down "Jazz & Piano" or the cutting-edge technology-supported "Enigma," will pick back up in the fall.

Lady Gaga Coyly Reveals Her Sixth Album Is On The Way

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Taylor Swift performs on GMA

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Taylor Swift To Drop 'Lover' With Collabs From St. Vincent, Dixie Chicks & More

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The GRAMMY-winning pop star teased the new album with a performance of "You Need to Calm Down" and lead single "ME!" on Good Morning America
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Aug 22, 2019 - 1:42 pm

In case you haven't heard, Taylor Swift's seventh studio album, Lover, is dropping tonight at midnight. The newly released tracklist reveals that the pop star collabed with Annie Clark (a.k.a. St. Vincent) the Dixie Chicks, Cautious Clay and more.

To celebrate the 18-track Lover, Swift performed two of its previously released singles, "You Need to Calm Down" and "ME!," along with 1989's "Shake It Off," in Central Park for Good Morning America on Thursday, Aug. 22. On air, she shared this album will be the first of which whose masters she owns outright.

"Something that's very special to me about this album is it's the first one that I will own," Swift said about Lover while sitting down with GMA host Robin Roberts. She also discussed her plan to re-record her first five albums next year, adding, "I think that artists deserve to own their work. I feel very passionately about that."

Watch: Taylor Swift, Katy Perry & More Star In PRIDE-ful "You Need To Calm Down" Video

Earlier this summer, Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings acquired Big Machine, the label Swift had been signed to until late last year. The deal acquired the rights to the masters from all her recordings with the label. Swift's new deal with Universal/Republic allows her to own her masters, and, as she shared on GMA, her prior contract allows her to re-record her first five albums starting November 2020, which will allow her to gain rights for those recordings.

The new album holds several big collaborations, including the just-released "Cruel Summer," which was co-written by Swift, Clark and Bleachers' Jack Antonoff. It is the first time Swift and Clark, two powerhouse women, have worked together in the studio, although they each worked with Antonoff on their last albums, reputation (on "Look What You Made Me Do" and "New Year's Day") and MASSEDUCTION, respectively.

This time around, Antonoff collaborated with Swift on a majority of the album's tracks, including "London Boy" and "Soon You'll Get Better." The former also features co-writes from Cautious Clay and Mark Anthony Spears, while the latter features vocals from country-pop icons the Dixie Chicks, marking their first new music in 13 years.

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Lover will be available on all music major music streaming services at midnight tonight. A deluxe edition CD, including copies of handpicked pages of the pop queen's journals from the past 13 years, will also be available on Aug. 23.

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Taylor Swift Releases Dreamy New 'Lover' Track, "The Archer"

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"There's a lot that's covered emotionally [on 'Lover'], and I really wanted to give you track five before the album came out," the pop heavyweight revealed in an Instagram video
Ana Yglesias
GRAMMYs
Jul 24, 2019 - 12:51 pm

Taylor Swift has released a third song—"The Archer"—from her forthcoming seventh studio album, Lover. Featuring mythical lyrics and a dream-pop vibe, "The Archer" dropped yesterday evening in an Instagram Live video in which Swift revealed that it's the fifth track (out of 18!) on Lover, and not technically a single. It was produced by fellow GRAMMY winner and past collaborator Jack Antonoff of Fun. and Bleachers.

"The Archer" follows the candy-coated, Brandon Urie-assisted "ME!" and the stand-up-to-the-haters-anthem "You Need to Calm Down." 

More: Watch: Taylor Swift, Katy Perry & More Star In PRIDE-ful "You Need To Calm Down" Video

The 10-time GRAMMY winner shared more details about the new album (transcribed by Elle), due out Aug. 23, during her IG video:

"There's a lot that's covered emotionally [on Lover], and I really wanted to give you track five before the album came out. So track five is kind of a tradition that really started with you guys because I didn't realize I was doing this but…instinctually I was putting a very vulnerable, honest, emotional song as track five," Swift said, adding that "The Archer" offers a different side of the sound fans' will hear on Lover.

"'The Archer' is not the next single. It's just a song I love on the album. I haven't made a video for it or anything. This is just sort of a glimpse into another side of the album I wanted to show you."

She also revealed that the new song isn't the only album track she worked on with Antonoff: "There's a vast part of this album that I worked with Jack Antonoff on. He is phenomenal." They paired up on Swift's last album, 2017's reputation, for "Look What You Made Me Do" and "New Year's Day." He has also lent his production skills on Carly Rae Jepsen's recent album Dedicated and both Lorde and St. Vincent's 2017 GRAMMY-nominated albums, Melodrama and MASSEDUCTION, respectively.

Swift also offered the news that she'll include 110 scanned pages of her journals in the deluxe CD editions of Lover, which she's selected from their pages over the last 13 years, since her self-titled debut LP.

Yesterday, MTV revealed the 2019 VMA nominations, of which Swift is tied with Ariana Grande for most nominations, at 10 each. "You Need To Calm Down," whose star-studded video included the cast of "Queer Eye," RuPaul, Hayley Kiyoko and many more, is up for their main Video Of The Year award.

Watch: Angela Aguilar Covers Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper's "Shallow" For ReImagined