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Daily Mirror
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Linkin Park's Emily Armstrong halts festival performance to shave fans' hair
Linkin Park's new lead singer, Emily Armstrong, fulfilled a fan's wish by shaving their hair live on stage during a performance at Rock for People in Czechia Linkin Park's new lead singer, Emily Armstrong, delighted one concert-goer by shaving their hair live on stage during one of the band's performances. The New Divide stars were in Czechia for their headline set at Rock for People this week when one fan begged them to shave their hair. In the crowd, the fan held up a sign which read: "Emily, cut my hair!" and halfway through the show, Emily brought him up on stage and produced clippers out of nowhere to fulfil the fan's wish. Emily, ever the barber, gave him an incredible half-mullet, half-buzzcut and told him: "We gotta leave some at the back for the party, baby!" The fan, who originally had long locks, seemed delighted by the results as he turned around to thank the singer. After cutting his hair, Emily held up the sign that the fan brought with him. READ MORE: 'Brilliant' air cooling fan that keeps homes cool during the heatwave slashed from £150 to £40 Last year, when Linkin Park announced Emily as the new singer, the band received a lot of backlash from fans who claimed they were erasing Chester Bennington's memory. The Papercut rockers announced their return last summer following a seven-year hiatus after Chester took his own life in 2017, but the musician insisted that the band would not be "rewritten" following heavy criticism of the move to put Emily front and centre. Mike Shinoda said to BBC Radio 1's New Music Show: "This is intended to be a new chapter of Linkin Park. The old chapter was a great chapter, and we loved that chapter. "It ran its course and now we were faced with a challenge of: 'Well, OK, if you start from scratch with another voice, what do you do?'" Mike explained that he had been writing music with Dead Sara singer Emily since 2019 and that they never planned to "start the band up again". At the end of this month, Linkin Park will be performing at Wembley Stadium. The group will be supported by two incredible acts, first of which is Spiritbox. The Courtney LaPlante-fronted metalcore outfit will be hitting Wembley Stadium for the first time in their career for this night of entertainment. Secondly, JPEGMAFIA will be supporting Linkin Park. The American rapper is a New York local who will no doubt fit right into Linkin Park's repertoire. After London, the band are heading to Germany, Belgium, Poland and France before heading back to the US for dates in New York, Illinois, Tennessee and more.
BBC News
18-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Doechii: Rapper is 'walking on the ceiling' after Grammy dream
A top 10 single, Grammy award and a breathing exercise that's gone last few weeks for American rapper Doechii have been quite in her words: "It's like now my dreams aren't dreams anymore. They're reality."I just feel like I'm walking on the ceiling right now," she tells Radio 1's New Music Show. The 26-year-old won this year's best rap album Grammy for Alligator Bites Never Heal - only the third female artist to do the infectious "breathin' exercise" outro from her hit single Denial is a River has got millions of people trying to emulate the "Uh-uh-ooh, uh-uh-ah, uh, uh, uh, ah…" all that, you could forgive her for wanting to take a step back and reflect, but she insists that's not her says her first thought when she woke up, post-Grammy win, was that she "wants to work and get in the studio". 'Don't let people stunt your growth' Doechii considers making music like "working a muscle" in the gym."Some days you have days where you hit the gym and you're sore and then you have those days where you're really on fire."That's what art is and that's what pushing the pin is for me," she Florida-born artist rose to prominence with the viral 2021 hit Yucky Blucky Fruitcake, after which she toured with SZA and Doja she says "at the front of everything" is thinking "a song a day"."It doesn't need to be a good song, it just needs to be a song."And eventually, things will come out and I can make a project out of that."She adds taking "small risks" is important."And you try things little by little, and then eventually those risks get bigger and bigger and bigger."And you trust yourself, you build a confidence and that's kind of how you establish who you are," Doechii says. When Doechii does have a block in making music, she says it's because "I'm criticising myself"."I'm critiquing the work. And it's like, don't critique the work. Just get the work done and move on."Dealing with criticism, whether it's from herself or outside, is something she's aware speech after winning her Grammy was recognised for its message to black women."Don't allow anybody to project any stereotypes on you," she told the audience."To tell you that you can't be here, that you're too dark, or that you're not smart enough, or that you're too dramatic, or you're too loud. You are exactly who you need to be, to be right where you are, and I am a testimony right now."Speaking to 1Xtra's Remi Burgz, she adds the intention was to tell people to trust "your inner voice"."And not allowing what other people say… to stunt your growth." While it has been a joyous past few months, there is a focus on the will be an album, Doechii says, but also dreams of a Super Bowl performance "inspired" by Kendrick says his "story and messaging" was on another level and is "in awe of his ability to create a performance that has a story and message"."But it's still digestible for people. He's a master at that and I'm always inspired."But when she thinks back to a year ago and where she was in her career, she recalls the words of American rapper ScHoolboy Q as advice for anyone in a similar position."You'll know an album is done when you have nothing left to say. You've bared everything."And I think that's a powerful message, because you keep writing until you've gotten it all out," she says. Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.
