A deluxe edition of Mac Miller‘s posthumous album, Circles, will be released this Friday (March 6.) with the addition of two new songs, “Right” and “Floating.” Miller’s family made the announcement yesterday morning (March 2.) in a press release.
The Circles deluxe edition,will be released on CD this Friday, and will be available for streaming on March 20, and a vinyl edition will be available on April 17.
Miller had just released his album Swimming, a month before he died of a fatal over dose in September 2018. At the time of his death, Miller had been working on the album Circles, which served as a companion album to Swimming. The concept behind the two albums was “Swimming in Circles.”
Miller had been working with producer Jon Brion, who decided to finish Circles based on conversations he had with Miller before his death.
In a post on Miller’s instagram in January, his family said, “This is a complicated process that has no right answer. No clear path. We simply know that it was important to Malcolm for the world to hear it. One of the most difficult decisions in the process is how best to let people know about it– how to communicate meaningfully while keeping sacred what should be kept sacred.” This was the first post on Miller’s instagram since his death.
Post via Mac Miller’s Instagram.
On January 9. his family released a music video for the single “Good News.” The video features archival footage of Miller.
“He (Mac) had this whole aquatic theme that came out of something we’d talked about while working on Swimming,” Brion told The New York Times in an interview. “I’d noticed he mentioned water a few times in the lyrics, and then that grew into all these discussions about water and what it sounds like that became kind of a running joke.”
Brion also revealed that Swimming and Circles were meant to be apart of a trilogy, and explained how they were supposed to roll out. “There were supposed to be three albums: the first, Swimming, was sort of a hybridization of going between hip-hop and song form,” Brion stated. “The second, which he’d already decided would be Circles, would be song-based. And I believe the third one would have been just a pure hip-hop record. I think he wanted to tell people, ‘I still love this, I still do this.'”
Listen to Mac Miller’s Circles here:
Watch Mac Miller’s NPR Tiny Desk segment, which premiered a month before his death.
Justin Timberlake and SZA just released a song that serves as the first single off the upcoming soundtrack for the Trolls World Tour movie. While that may not seem very hype, the single, “The Other Side,” is actually great.
The track is an up-beat and funky one written by Timberlake, and produced by Ludwig Göransson. Timberlake has written and performed the new music on the soundtrack with appearances from artists such as George Clinton, Kelly Clarkson, Mary J. Blige, Anna Kendrick, Anderson .Paak, Haim and more.
The 90s Hip-Hop Hype-Williams inspired video dropped Wednesday and stars JT and SZA. The two sing into a fish-eye lens, while dressed in silver bodysuits in sci-fi industrial rooms, and JT of course performs some of his signature dance moves.
“I was so thrilled to be invited to participate in this project with Justin,” SZA said in a statement. “The Creative Process of working with him and the team was filled with such excitement. It’s an energy you can feel in both the song and music video. I can’t wait for people to check it out.”
Timberlake and Kendrick will reprise their roles, and star in Trolls World Star, which will be out in theaters April 17.
If you use TikTok then there’s no way you haven’t heard Doja Cat‘s single “Say So,” and the dance that accompanies it. Almost every single the singer/rapper has put out has gone viral on the app, making her the queen of TikTok.
On Thursday (Feb. 27) Doja premiered a 70s inspired disco themed music video for the single. Not only is she the queen of TikTok, but she’s now the queen of disco.
The video takes us to sunny 70s L.A. where we find Doja in a glittered mansion filled with vinyls and a gorgeous view of the city. She’s sporting a variety of short glittered backless dresses throughout the music video. We see Doja thirsting over a repair man who has come to fix her record player, and she challenges him to “keep it focused.” The two meet again later that night at a discotheque, where Doja walks in with a tiger on a leash.
The pest part of the video is when we see Doja and her back up dancers, perform the infamous TikTok Dance that made the song go viral. She even invited Haley Sharpe, the TikToker who came up with the dance to perform in the video.
her names haley sharpe!! she’s a very sweet and genuine girl who makes cute dances for anyone to do! please hype her up!! https://t.co/HhMKQ43zq2
The music video came a few hours after Doja appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to perform the single. The performance kept with the throwback disco theme, as the stage was transformed into a hot pink disco club, with disco balls all over the stage. We see Doja dressed in a fluffy hot pink robe accompanied by two back up dancers. She eventually drops the rope to reveal a Swarovski embellished jumpsuit.
“Say So” is the first single off Doja Cat’s 2019 sophomore album Hot Pink, which includes other singles like “Juicy” and “Rules.” She has also just released the dates for her upcoming tour.
It’s been almost four years since Frank Ocean released his album Blonde, and visual album Endless. Since 2016, Frank has released an array of singles, and we may be getting a new one sometime soon.
Last year, Frank launched a preorder for a 7″ vinyl edition of an unreleased Acra remix featuring Skepta, called “Little Demon.” Those who purchased the 7″ received an email from Blonded.co this morning, that “Little Demon” will no longer be on the record. Instead, fans will be receiving another “new, unreleased Frank Ocean song.”
The email didn’t provide any further information as to what the song is, or when the 7″ will be shipped. We can only hope that the song will be released some time soon.
Image via @TeamFrankDaily on Twitter.
The new single will follow a number of singles that Frank released in tandem with his PrEP+ club nights during 2019, including “DHL” and “In my Room.” Frank will be headlining Coachella this April along with Travis Scott and Rage Against the Machine.
SZA has announced that she’s done doing videos, interviews, and photoshoots. She took to Twitter yesterday to express her change of heart, but has yet to give an explanation as to why. She tweeted: “Not doing any videos interviews or photos for the rest of my life lol don’t ask.”
Not doing any videos Interviews or photos for the rest of my life lol don’t ask .👍🏾
The tweet was posted hours after Rolling Stone unveiled the cover for its upcoming second annual Women Shaping the Future issue. The timing between the tweet and the unveiling has fans suspecting there maybe a correlation between the two. The cover also features Megan Thee Stallion and Normani. Normani and Megan have shared the issues on their social medias, but SZA has yet to do so.
The TDE singer quickly assured everyone that her issues had nothing to do with Normani or Megan. In fact, she tweeted about her love and respect for the two women.
S/o Normani and meg tho . My sisters who I love very much and respect deeply . Honored to be apart of ANYTHING w the two of those BLACK QUEENS . 🥺❤️🙏🏾👑
Her next tweet leads us to believe that the singer is dealing with her own personal demons, as she speaks out about mental health and her on-going battle with anxiety. She says her struggles have less to do with outside sources than they do with her own personal thoughts.
My anxiety has .03% to do w outside opinion . I was bullied all through high school I could care less . It’s my OWN THOUGHTS THAT HIT DIFFERENT 🥴
