Britney Spears walked out of a Los Angeles courtroom this month wearing a red skirt, black T-shirt and no shoes. Moments earlier, in a closed hearing room with paper covering the windows, her parents and their lawyers discussed with a judge the status ...
Canto-pop stalwart George Lam Tse-Cheung’s soundtrack to the 1980 film Disco Bumpkins features one of the singer’s best known compositions, the love song Without the 2 of Us. Vicky Cheng, executive chef of Michelin-starred Central restaurant Vea, which...
On May 4, K-pop sensation BTS kicked off their world tour extension “Love Yourself: Speak Yourself” in Los Angeles clad in custom-made outfits from Dior.This is the first time that Dior has designed stage wear for a pop band, an indication of how K-pop...
The Queen of Pop isn’t ready to dethrone the King of Pop just yet – despite a global backlash caused by a recent documentary that reopened allegations Michael Jackson sexually abused children.In a wide-ranging interview for the June issue of British Vo...
Taylor Swift, a blonde woman who sings songs, opened last week’s Billboard Music awards with a live rendition of her new single ME! It was a very pink, very poppy performance and, in many eyes, it was also very plagiarised.As scores of people on social...
It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly when BTS became a global phenomenon. The boy band are South Korean pop royalty at this point, known to and beloved by fans of the genre for several years.In mid-April, BTS became the first South Korean musical guests ...
A week after delivering a powerful and moving rendition of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9, the strong chemistry between Jaap van Zweden and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and their command of big late Romantic works was again on show in a sumptuo...
3.5/5 starsWith his Apple founder biopic Steve Jobs , his Trainspotting sequel T2 and his Getty family TV drama Trust, director Danny Boyle has been delving into dark territory of late. So it’s heartening to see him back to something lighter.Yesterday ...
Pink’s latest album is a who’s who of pop and rock royalty.The singer recruited a slew of music A-listers as co-writers and featured singers on her eighth album “Hurts 2B Human”, including Beck, Sia, Chris Stapleton, Khalid, Julia Michaels, Max Martin,...
Yuuka Hasumi put high school in Japan on hold and flew to South Korea in February to try her chances at becoming a K-pop star, even if that means long hours of vocal and dance training, no privacy, no boyfriend, and even no phone.Hasumi, 17, joined Aco...