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ABC/Eric McCandless The search for the next American Idol continued Sunday night, and it was a blast from the past with a lot of the hopefuls drawing inspiration from past contestants.  First up, was 21-year-old Zaréh Turner, whose mother Nadia Turner made it to the Top 8 during the show’s fourth season. She surprised her mother, bringing her to the audition in…

ABC For those keeping up with Ed Sheeran‘s “Shape of You” copyright trial, Friday was all about what two forensic musicologists thought.  BBC says Anthony Ricigliano, who helped Led Zeppelin shake off their own copyright case, said the similarities between “Shape of You” and Sam Chokri‘s “Oh Why” are “overstated” and it is “objectively unlikely” Ed plagiarized because of how “commonplace” the…

Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Billboard Normani bares her soul on her new track, “Fair,” which she says captures a vulnerability never before seen in her music. Speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, the former Fifth Harmony singer explained, “I always told myself that I owed it to me to put out something that I really believe in.”  Citing her start in the…

oe Scarnici/Getty Images for NYFW ShopsLA presented by Afterpay GAYLE dropped her long-awaited EP on Friday and, to celebrate, treated fans to a brand-new music video for the track “luv starved.” The single is the lead track off her new studio effort and the visualizer adopts a flower theme as GAYLE roams around a green house and plays…

ABC/Eric McCandless It’s fun watching Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie on American Idol, but we don’t get to hear them sing very often on the show.  But apparently, that’ll change this Sunday, when the trio participates in “Scaryoke,” in which they spin a wheel and sing the song the wheel stops on. E!…

Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for dcp Post Malone is doing his part to help one of the nation’s most vulnerable communities — abused children. The Cottonwood Heights, Utah, Police Department announced that the “Circles” rapper pitched in to assist in ongoing fundraising efforts to support Camp Hope Utah, an organization benefiting child victims or witnesses of crime. The Grammy nominee is…

ABC/Gavin Bond Katy Perry recently teamed with Alesso for the track “When I’m Gone” and revealed why now is the perfect time to release their intended summer smash. “We both knew we wanted to put out a great dance song and this was the right time,” Katy told People in a new interview. “We had the same goals in mind…

Rich Fury/Getty Images Shortly after making his grand return to social media after a four-month hiatus, Lil Nas X is already teasing his next music chapter.   On TikTok, he shared snippets of several songs that on first listen seem to be more serious than the collection found on his debut album, Montero.  A track titled “LEAN ON ME”…

Amy Sussman/FilmMagic Mariah Carey is the self-proclaimed “Queen of Christmas,” but now she has a new title: queen of accidental texts. Mariah confused Shawn Mendes with her cousin and shared the embarrassing mistake to Twitter.  To be fair, she did say the two have similar names. “My cousin Shawn M and I have this silly joke where we tell each other Happy…

It’s new music Friday, so let’s see who’s out with new tunes. Normani released her sultry new track, “Fair,” to further tease fans about her forthcoming debut project.  The single helps show off the Fifth Harmony singer’s softer vocals as well as her ability to seamlessly roam through the octaves as she wonders out loud, “Is it fair that…