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News18
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- News18
BTS Is Reigning Supreme With The Release Of Permission To Dance Live Album
Last Updated: Permission to Dance On Stage- Live features 22 songs from their sold-out tour by the same name. Within a month of all members completing their mandatory military service, BTS released a new project, titled Permission to Dance On Stage – Live, on July 18. It is their first release in three years, and marks their return as a full unit after a hiatus. Although the album brings back their past hits, their fans were still extremely excited about the comeback of their favourite musicians, and they absolutely loved it. What's the proof? A report by Billboard revealed that music fanatics chose BTS ' Permission to Dance live album over any other artist that week. On July 18, the media outlet published a poll offering choices between BTS, Alex Warren, Nine Inch Nails, Jessie Murph, and Zach Bryan. Among all, the K-pop supergroup's first-ever live album emerged as the favourite release in the past week. Permission to Dance On Stage- Live received 94 per cent votes, whereas Alex Warren, who released You'll Be Alright Kid, could manage only 2.03 per cent of the votes. Jessie Murph for Sex Hysteria, Zach Bryan for Madeline feat. Gabrielle Rose and Nine Inch Nails for As Alive As You Need Me to Be received 0.27 per cent, 0.32 per cent and 0.68 per cent, respectively. BTS' live album, named after their 2021 sold-out tour Permission to Dance, features 22 songs. An hour and 20 minutes long, the album features songs like DNA, Idol, Fake Love, Dynamite and Butter, among others. They also released a digital package called Permission to Dance On Stage – Seoul, which features the live recording og their performance in Seoul as well as some behind-the-scenes photos. The live album came at a time when the septet, comprising RM, Jin, J-Hope, Suga, Jimin, V and Jungkook, had officially reunited to prepare for a brand-new album. During a Weverse live event earlier this month, the group announced not only a new album, slated for release sometime in 2026, but also their highly anticipated world tour. 'We'll be releasing a new BTS album in the spring of next year. Starting in July, all seven of us will begin working closely together on new music. Since it will be a group album, it will reflect each member's thoughts and ideas," they said in a statement. BTS is currently in Los Angeles, preparing for their new album. view comments First Published: July 22, 2025, 14:38 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Express Tribune
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Jessie Murph claps back at ‘1965' backlash, 'Are y'all stupid?'
Jessie Murph is defending her latest single 1965 after fans slammed the lyrics for glorifying an era associated with racism, sexism, and conservative gender roles. The 19-year-old singer responded to the criticism with a TikTok video in which she bluntly stated, 'The entire song is satire. Are y'all stupid?' The video, meant as a defense, only fueled further backlash across platforms. The controversy began shortly after the song dropped, with lyrics that seemed to fantasize about returning to 1965, a year widely associated with systemic inequality. Many listeners didn't find the tone satirical, accusing Murph of romanticizing oppression. Visuals from the music video featuring retro imagery only added fuel to the fire. Some fans believed the entire presentation felt more like nostalgia than critique. Trying to clarify her intent, Murph also commented under the TikTok video, 'for legal reasons this is satire i promise.' But instead of easing the storm, this line led to even more confusion. 'If you have to say it's satire after people are upset, maybe it wasn't clear,' one fan wrote. Another user replied, 'Satire isn't a get-out-of-jail-free card.' The backlash has spilled onto all platforms, with TikTok and X users calling out the inconsistency between the lyrics and Murph's explanation. Some have accused her of scrambling for excuses now that the song isn't being received well. As one top comment reads, 'If the outrage hadn't started, would she have called it satire at all?' Despite the uproar, 1965 remains on streaming platforms, and Murph has not issued a formal apology. Her team has not released any statements either. For now, fans remain divided, but skeptical.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Friday Music Guide: New Music From Alex Warren, Jessie Murph, BTS and More
Billboard's Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday's most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. This week, Alex Warren is far from 'Ordinary,' Jessie Murph delivers on her promise and BTS bring us back to live. Check out all of this week's picks below: More from Billboard GloRilla Turns Up Indianapolis With Fiery 2025 WNBA All-Star Game Halftime Show Performance Mariah Carey Teases 'Sugar Sweet' Summer Single Billie Eilish and James Cameron 3D Collaboration in the Works Alex Warren, With the success of 'Ordinary' eclipsing even the wildest expectations, Alex Warren now has the opportunity to establish an enduring foothold in popular music — and You'll Be Alright, Kid, a new album that features his No. 1 smash as well as previously released collaborations with Jelly Roll and ROSÉ, fleshes out the boom and gravel of his voice, with opener 'Eternity' in particular operating in the same emotional songwriter register as his breakthrough hit. Jessie Murph, 'Blue Strips' may have been the viral smash-turned-top 20 hit that finally delivered Jessie Murph to the mainstream, but the singer-songwriter has spent years honing her pop persona and hopscotching across genres with ease; Sex Hysteria contains plenty of the earworm hooks that made Murph's voice ubiquitous over the past few months, but more importantly, the new album places her fierce spirit front and center, and gives her the widescreen platform that she deserves. BTS, Although the long-awaited, full-throttle return of BTS is expected for 2026, Permission To Dance On Stage – Live — the group's first live album, which is taken from various performances during their 2021 tour — serves as a timely reminder of their global appeal, from their Hot 100 chart-toppers to their fan-favorite album tracks that still resonate a decade after their release. Zach Bryan feat. Gabriella Rose, 'Madeline' Two weeks after releasing a three-pack of songs, Zach Bryan has quickly returned with 'Madeline,' a heartfelt collaboration with Gabriella Rose that also precedes a newly announced album, With Heaven On Top; Bryan remains as prolific as ever, but none of the recent material feels rushed or tossed-off, and Rose's gentle twang nicely plays off his own delivery here. Alex G, Alex G signing to RCA Records was both a big deal and a natural next step for the indie stalwart: as the singer-songwriter's commercial prospects have steadily grown, new album Headlights contains the potential of a true crossover for his deeply felt, idiosyncratic tone, especially if songs like 'Oranges' and 'Afterlife' find the right rock-leaning audience. Myke Towers, A press release for Myke Towers' Island Boyz describes the project as 'an album that doesn't aim to fit into any mold, but rather to create its own language' — and across its 75-minute run time, Towers centers not just his Puerto Rican roots but the entirety of Caribbean music, reaching a new level as a mainstream artist through synthesis and experimentation. Cam, As a fresh generation of country artists has stepped into the spotlight, Cam has remained among the most consistent in her class, with new album All Things Light reflecting on personal struggles and offering hope to those in desperate need of it; it's a different shade for the singer-songwriter, but the newfound urgency powers this collection. Editor's Pick: Nine Inch Nails, 'As Alive As You Need Me to Be' Nine Inch Nails' studio output has slowed down over the past decade as Trent Reznor has focused on scoring film projects (and become a fixture at the Academy Awards as a result) — and while 'As Alive As You Need Me to Be' is attached to a movie, as the first taste of the upcoming Tron: Ares soundtrack, the single gloriously flexes the band's industrial-dance muscle that recalls the highs of With Teeth, and Reznor spends the track sounding commanding, re-energized back in front of the microphone. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
How Jessie Murph Brought ‘F-ck It and We'll See What Happens Energy' to Her Daring New Album
When Jessie Murph returns home to northern Alabama, she heads to the gas station for an oversize cup of boiled peanuts. It's one of several rituals she now enjoys when she comes back to the region that Murph despised growing up in and fled as a teenager. 'My relationship with home has changed so much since I've left,' says Murph, who grew up in a town called Athens (home to the Alabama Shakes). 'I really remember being 15, 16, even younger, and just knowing that I was not meant to be there. I didn't feel right there. But I go back and I'm so grateful to be there. There's something so sweet, something very nostalgic and beautiful, about the South.' More from Rolling Stone Jessie Murph and Teddy Swims Have No Mercy on Their Exes on 'Dirty' Duet The Only Thing Jessie Murph Cares About Right Now Is Music Jessie Murph and Jelly Roll Bring Their Thing For 'Wild Ones' to Jimmy Kimmel Murph can't find boiled peanuts in Los Angeles, where over the past few years she's launched her career as a fast-rising pop star who's collaborated with Jelly Roll, Diplo and BigXthaPlug. That rise will only accelerate with Sex Hysteria, her bold second album, due later this week. The record hops from Amy Winehouse-inspired classic R&B ('1965,' 'Touch Me Like a Gangster') to pop-rap earworms (the Top 20 hit 'Blue Strips') to downcast balladry that channels one of Murph's heroes, Lana Del Rey ('Heroin'). The album, which she says she boiled down from 100 or so songs she wrote for the record, features two of Murph's favorite artists, Lil Baby and Gucci Mane. Murph hopes that her daring new collection — with its ''fuck it and we'll see what happens' energy,' as she puts it — displays more sides of herself than she's previously shown, including her chops as a songwriter. The past year, she says, has been one of her most creative: She says she both wrote and recorded two of the album's tracks — 'A Little Too Drunk' and 'Blue Strips'— in a half-hour. 'I feel very misunderstood sometimes,' says Murph. 'I don't think people have seen the half of what I'm capable of.' Part of that is because, as Murph says herself, she's been reluctant to share all that much about her own life, including an Alabama upbringing that she's alluded to as having been very dark. She's thus far much preferred leaving her most vulnerable moments for her songs. Murph writes about this dynamic in 'Gucci Mane,' the album's opening track. The song alludes to the 'fucked up things' the narrator's father once did. 'I don't want to talk about it,' Murph sings in the chorus. 'I wanna write my way around it.' The most vulnerable moment on the record is 'The Man That Came Back,' a piano ballad addressed to a character who is seemingly a broken father who tries to redeem himself after inflicting pain and violence on his family. In it, Murph sings about a 'daughter who grew up trusting no one' left to deal with 'the bruises on her skin.' Murph wrote the song about three years ago. 'I've refused to put it out because it was too vulnerable, and this is the first time I've had enough balls to put it on a project,' she says. 'It's about things I would otherwise never talk about.' During a recent interview in Rolling Stone, Murph was guarded but self-reflective. But she's learning to take that armor off, at least in her music. 'You do receive pressure from the label and people on your team to be more autobiographical,' she says. 'So I had some talks before this album and that was a concern: 'You don't really talk about yourself.' And I realized they were right. I never really talked about the past, and I've had an interesting upbringing, so that's something I felt pressure to do a little bit on this album. Once I did, I realized it was something I was holding myself back from out of fear.' GROWING UP IN north Alabama, Murph was always finding a bogus rule she needed to break. 'Even when I was very little, in elementary school, I remember always being so pissed off about dress codes,' she says. 'I thought they were so stupid and so catered towards [men.]' She was forced to run laps when she posted songs online with curses. Adults around her policed the clothes she wore to gym as a teenage girl. All her friends around her dreamed of becoming housewives the moment they graduated high school. The Southern, conservative culture she grew up amid was, she felt from an early age, full of hypocrisy and double standards. She bristled against all of it, 'anything that felt like a dress code, is what I'm trying to say.' Murph fled town as a teenager, eventually making her way to Nashville. She'd grown up on Drake and Mac Miller and started incorporating rap and hip-hop into her music. Today, Murph is adjacent to contemporary country music, has collaborated with many of the genre's contemporary hitmakers, and, like Morgan Wallen and Jelly Roll, is a white Southern artist singing music that borrows heavily from Black forms like R&B and sonic innovations like trap drums. But Murph is not a country artist: Though she briefly lived in Nashville, and had quite a bit of fun there, it was not, ultimately, for her. She didn't relate to the industry's standard of going to an office every day to write a new song with an anonymous songwriter, and she found some of those collaborators to be unwelcoming. 'In the bro country scene, sometimes they're a little hectic with women,' she says. 'I've definitely met rude people in sessions, and you can tell they just don't respect women. That's definitely a thing.' Murph is no longer in Nashville, but as she quickly emerges into the public's consciousness ('Blue Strips' is her first solo hit), she's now dealing with a whole new host of dress codes and expectations placed upon her as a young woman in the music industry. 'I started out at 16 or 17, and a big thing has been people being like, 'I miss the old Jessie' or shit like that,' she says. 'Some people want that version of you which is unhealthy and realistic.' 'I was really fucked up when I was 17,' she continues. 'I was very severely depressed, dealing with a lot of shit. I was really struggling and I think people like to have music they can relate to. I'm very grateful for the music I put out during that's just not … ' Murph trails off before collecting her thoughts. 'Thank God I'm past some of that.' Instead, Murph is already looking ahead at the future, at what she hopes will be a long career in which she's allowed to evolve. She wants to one day make a record that belongs alongside her shelf of vinyl albums by her favorites like Alicia Keys, J. Cole, Taylor Swift, SZA, Noah Kahan, and, of course, Amy Winehouse and Lana Del Rey. 'I want to make something that is completely and utterly timeless, like it could have been made 50 years ago,' she says. 'I'm very inspired by Elton John, Don McLean, Adele, stuff like that.' For now, Murph says, 'I'm having fun and experiencing life, but eventually I want to drop a very serious [record]. Not that this new one isn't serious, but I feel like I have a lot to show the world that people haven't seen yet. I think it'll come with time.' Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Friday Music Guide: New Music From Alex Warren, Jessie Murph, BTS and More
Billboard's Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday's most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. This week, Alex Warren is far from 'Ordinary,' Jessie Murph delivers on her promise and BTS bring us back to live. Check out all of this week's picks below: More from Billboard YURIYAN RETRIEVER Talks Debut Solo Single & Ambition to Become a Genre of Her Own Questlove to Be Honored With 'SummerStage Icon Award' at 2025 City Parks Foundation Benefit Scooter Braun Reveals Where He Stands With Former Client Ye Following Rapper's Antisemitism Alex Warren, With the success of 'Ordinary' eclipsing even the wildest expectations, Alex Warren now has the opportunity to establish an enduring foothold in popular music — and You'll Be Alright, Kid, a new album that features his No. 1 smash as well as previously released collaborations with Jelly Roll and ROSÉ, fleshes out the boom and gravel of his voice, with opener 'Eternity' in particular operating in the same emotional songwriter register as his breakthrough hit. Jessie Murph, 'Blue Strips' may have been the viral smash-turned-top 20 hit that finally delivered Jessie Murph to the mainstream, but the singer-songwriter has spent years honing her pop persona and hopscotching across genres with ease; Sex Hysteria contains plenty of the earworm hooks that made Murph's voice ubiquitous over the past few months, but more importantly, the new album places her fierce spirit front and center, and gives her the widescreen platform that she deserves. BTS, Although the long-awaited, full-throttle return of BTS is expected for 2026, Permission To Dance On Stage – Live — the group's first live album, which is taken from various performances during their 2021 tour — serves as a timely reminder of their global appeal, from their Hot 100 chart-toppers to their fan-favorite album tracks that still resonate a decade after their release. Zach Bryan feat. Gabriella Rose, 'Madeline' Two weeks after releasing a three-pack of songs, Zach Bryan has quickly returned with 'Madeline,' a heartfelt collaboration with Gabriella Rose that also precedes a newly announced album, With Heaven On Top; Bryan remains as prolific as ever, but none of the recent material feels rushed or tossed-off, and Rose's gentle twang nicely plays off his own delivery here. Alex G, Alex G signing to RCA Records was both a big deal and a natural next step for the indie stalwart: as the singer-songwriter's commercial prospects have steadily grown, new album Headlights contains the potential of a true crossover for his deeply felt, idiosyncratic tone, especially if songs like 'Oranges' and 'Afterlife' find the right rock-leaning audience. Myke Towers, A press release for Myke Towers' Island Boyz describes the project as 'an album that doesn't aim to fit into any mold, but rather to create its own language' — and across its 75-minute run time, Towers centers not just his Puerto Rican roots but the entirety of Caribbean music, reaching a new level as a mainstream artist through synthesis and experimentation. Cam, As a fresh generation of country artists has stepped into the spotlight, Cam has remained among the most consistent in her class, with new album All Things Light reflecting on personal struggles and offering hope to those in desperate need of it; it's a different shade for the singer-songwriter, but the newfound urgency powers this collection. Editor's Pick: Nine Inch Nails, 'As Alive As You Need Me to Be' Nine Inch Nails' studio output has slowed down over the past decade as Trent Reznor has focused on scoring film projects (and become a fixture at the Academy Awards as a result) — and while 'As Alive As You Need Me to Be' is attached to a movie, as the first taste of the upcoming Tron: Ares soundtrack, the single gloriously flexes the band's industrial-dance muscle that recalls the highs of With Teeth, and Reznor spends the track sounding commanding, re-energized back in front of the microphone. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart Solve the daily Crossword
