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Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sofia Richie and Elliot Grainge return to luxe wedding venue after blasting cheating claims
Fun in the sun. Sofia Richie and Elliot Grainge returned to their luxe French wedding venue after blasting rumors that the British record producer allegedly cheated on the model. Richie and Grainge, along with their 1-year-old daughter, Eloise, traveled to the Hotel du Cap Eden Roc in Antibes, France — the same location where the couple tied the knot in April 2023. On Wednesday, Richie, 26, posted a carousel of images from their vacation to Instagram. In one photo, the youngest child of music legend Lionel Richie took a selfie as she lounged on a beach chair in a blue bandeau top. In another snap, Sofia posted an image of her mom, Diane Richie, holding Eloise as they looked out at the ocean. The mom of one also shared a photo she took of her husband, who posed on the stairs of the famed hotel. ' ,' Sofia simply captioned the post. The family vacation comes as the couple addressed 'mean' comments about their marriage — including rumors that Grainge, 31, had an affair. In a TikTok video posted on June 5, Sofia recorded her reactions as the CEO of Atlantic Records read off different comments. One remark stated, 'That? Cheating on her?' referring to Grainge, who responded, 'What am I, Shrek?' Another comment read: 'She should divorce him and take his child support money,'' which prompted Sofia to laugh. 'I had to break it to my husband that he's not the peoples princess,' she captioned the post. Sofia and Grainge exchanged vows at the French hotel two years ago in front of celebrity family and friends, including Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton and Cameron Diaz. The bride wore a custom Chanel wedding dress that featured an embellished train with white and iridescent beads, while the groom rocked a classic black tux. Sofia was walked down the aisle by her father, Lionel, 75. The couple welcomed their daughter, Eloise, in May 2024.
Forbes
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Cardi B Is Back ‘Outside' With A New Single
Cardi B In the wake of her split from estranged husband Offset, hit-making rapper Cardi B is ready to show she's 'Outside' for the summer. The Bronx-bred MC is back with her first solo single of 2025 and is setting the stage for her long-awaited sophomore album. 'Outside" is believed to be a direct shot at Offset as Cardi prepares to return to music in full force. She announced earlier this month that she turned in her second album to Atlantic Records, more than seven years after the release of her Grammy-winning debut Invasion of Privacy. 'I'm finally feeling ready,' she said during a recent Instagram Live. 'Y'all waited long enough. It's 'go' time.' 'When I tell you these n***as ain't sh**t, please believe me / They gon' f**k on anything, these n***as way too easy / Good-for-nothing, low-down dirty dogs, I'm convinced / Next time you see your mama, tell her how she raised a b***h,' she raps on the track. Though a large chunk of time has passed since her last LP, Cardi's dominance in hip-hop hasn't faded. She notched back-to-back number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with 'WAP' in 2020 and 'Up' in 2021 and other top-10 hits with last year's 'Enough (Miami)' and her 2022 GloRilla collab 'Tomorrow 2.' Cardi teased the forthcoming album in a Billboard interview in April and promised something unlike anything currently in the zeitgeist. "I almost want to say the name because that's what it'll be about," she said. "I feel like my album is messy. She's a messy queen." "I feel like it's unexpected and I feel like it's something that's not really out right now," she continued. "It's gonna be things that people do expect me and a lot of things people don't expect from me." The rollercoaster of her life over the past year – from filing for divorce a second time last July and having her third child in September to her new relationship with New England Patriots player Stefon Diggs this spring – has played a key role in the upcoming project. "It's a lot of lover girl things, too, on my album. I've been heartbroken and then I'm loving again, and then I'm exploring again," she added, though she noted there'll be music to 'fight' to as well.
Los Angeles Times
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Sabrina Claudio wants to evolve. She's starting by letting people in
Sabrina Claudio is not the same person she was a year ago — much less eight years ago when she first introduced herself with a shimmering neo-soul EP, titled 'Confidently Lost.' Now, having amassed millions of fans with sultry, golden-hour slow jams and trips down melancholy lane, she's presenting her most earnest songwriting yet in her newest album, 'Fall In Love With Her,' released June 9 on Atlantic Records. 'I think in the past couple years, people in my life that I love have helped me get out of my shell and shown me how important vulnerability is,' she says. 'Now I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna tell y'all everything, how about that?' For her fifth studio LP, Claudio steered her R&B sound into a less-traveled, alternative direction that showcases her deft pen and ethereal vocals in a novel guise. Her longtime producer, Ajay 'Stint' Bhattacharyya, cited shoegaze bands like Cocteau Twins and Slowdive as influences that came up during recording sessions. For Claudio, wading into those uncharted waters became part of a larger shift in her career. Until recently, the Cuban and Puerto Rican singer-songwriter — who in 2023, earned a Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance as a songwriter on Beyoncé's slick 'Renaissance' cut, 'Plastic Off the Sofa' — preferred to toil in privacy, channeling her expression into songwriting more than social media. But this year, she's inviting the outside world to experience her personality with a new interview series on YouTube titled 'Fall In Love With…' To hear her tell it, she's eager for the effort to help fans and listeners see the person she is behind the music. 'I hope that people can listen to [the album] knowing that, yes, [I'm singing about what] I experienced, but I just pray that they are able to interpret it and relate it to their own life however they possibly can,' she says. Come July, she'll embark on a U.S. tour with rappers Russ and Big Sean; soon after, she'll make her acting debut in a short film directed by filmmaker and best friend Jazmin Garcia-Larracuente, who was inspired by early drafts of songs off 'Fall In Love With Her' to write a script. 'I'm very proud of myself,' Claudio says. 'I think I killed it, and I'm excited for everybody to see it.' In her latest interview with the Times, she speaks of the intimacy required in songwriting with others, the possibility of an all-Spanish EP and her approach to storytelling. This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity. After releasing your last album, 2022's 'Based On A Feeling,' you focused on writing for other artists. Is that usually how it goes between albums for you?Typically [after] I finish an album, I always go through the phase [when] I need to take a break because creatively I'm worn out. I wouldn't do anything, which actually only emphasized the lack of motivation to continue and make more music. But this time around, I wanted to remain creative, and the best way to do that was to get in rooms with other creatives to help them get into their world, rather than always having to focus on mine. I thought it was going to be difficult for me, because I'm not a natural collaborator. Before I was very anti-having songwriters in my room. It was a whole ego thing for me … but I loved it so much that I ended up doing it for much longer than I was anticipating. I find so much inspiration being in rooms with artists for other projects. On this album you worked on some of the tracks with a songwriter, Nasri Atweh. I'm curious if there was hesitation to share your own process with someone else?There was a time in my life when I [felt] obligated to have writers in my room. My guard was up. It's not because I don't think that these songwriters were amazing, because they were. Some of my favorite songs I wrote with another person, like 'Problem With You' off [my album] 'Truth Is.' But for some reason, my brain would say if I didn't do it 100 percent, then it's not mine. And that's so not the reality of making art. With Nasri, he's my manager's brother. I met Nasri 10 years ago. I'm glad that it happened when it did. Being the songwriter in the room for other people put things into perspective, because I realized how important collaboration was. Nasri was able to eject things from me that I didn't even know existed. I'm on a different wavelength now. Working with a songwriter is like an intimate therapy session.I'm an extremely private person. I think the past couple years, people in my life have helped me to get out of my shell and have shown me how important vulnerability is. I didn't even want to expose myself, which is why I tend to write from experiences that I technically didn't experience, or from conversations with others, or movies. It was a protective layer. But now I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna tell y'all everything, how about that? [laughs] And it's worked out! You've said that when it comes to songwriting, you usually let yourself be led by the music, then the lyrics. Can you tell me more about 'One Word' and how that track came to be? It's one of the most powerful songs on the album.I wrote that during a heartbreak. I wanted to talk about an experience I had with a person I felt very deeply for, [who] essentially didn't fight for me to stay. But it was the biggest act of love that he could have done for me. I worked with my producer Stint, [who] I work with all the time, and Heavy Mellow. He was heavy on this project, no pun intended. I was venting,; I was really heartbroken. I was finding comfort in these men that I've known and trying to get their perspective on things. Another song is 'Worse Than Me,' which sounds completely different from the rest of the tracks. It's a little more assertive and seductive, with trip-hop-inspired drums. How did that come to be?Before I discovered the new sound [of] the album, I still was gravitating towards my typical R&B, neo-soul-type vibes. I was just trying to get back in the groove of Sabrina Claudio, quote-unquote, because I was just coming out of writing for everybody else. I was trying to tap back into my own world. And I think I needed one sassy song. [laughs] That's kind of what I'm known for: the sass, the crying, or the sexy. And I just felt like if I didn't have the sexy, I at least needed to have the sassy. This is the first time you've really worked with a more alternative sound — did you find yourself accessing parts of yourself that the traditional R&B sound didn't?Oh, absolutely! I love working with Stint and all of my producers because they have such a wide palette when it comes to music. Genres I never grew up listening to — all these sounds are new. It pulls different things out of me that I wouldn't be able to get if it was my traditional R&B sound. And naturally, I'm always going to do that because that's just how I am, but it was interesting to hear where my R&B and soul brain goes over these more alternative rock/indie vibes. For example, 'Detoxing' — I wrote that song with Nasri, but we didn't have the outro. So I took it to Stint, and he pulled up all these references of bands [like Radiohead], and he was teaching me so much. And then he [said], 'You know what, at the end I want to do something really big and really rock. I want to break it down. But then I want people to be shocked. I want you to belt, and I want you to say something, and I want you to purge, and I want you to take the concept of the song and really just yell it like you're just trying to get rid of something.' I listened back, and I'm even shocked at some of the things that I was able to tap into. I don't belt! [laughs] I didn't even know I could do that! You have the song 'Mi Luz' on the album, which is the first time you've included a Spanish song in an LP. What made you feel this was the right time to finally do that?First of all, I don't understand why I've never added a Spanish record to any of my albums. I listen to a lot of Spanish music in my daily life, a lot of reggaetón. You'd be surprised, my music is so calm and emotional … and then I'm twerking in my car listening to reggaetón. [laughs] So I felt in the sense of wanting to evolve, I feel now's the time. And the process is really interesting, because my brain doesn't actually think in Spanish, especially when it comes to songwriting. Any Spanish record [of mine] you've heard, I've done with Alejandra Alberti, who is also Cuban. She's from Miami, she's a Virgo, so we connected on all those things. I tell her what I want to say, and she just computes it in her brain and she translates it in a way that has taught me. 'Mi Luz' [was] the first time I contributed lyrically in Spanish. And it was always something that I was afraid of doing, because I'm always afraid of sounding dumb. I don't know why, but I have that fear. But I felt very comfortable, very safe with Ale. Would you release an EP of Spanish tracks?I think I would! If I have Ale, I think we could probably knock out an EP very quickly. I'd be down. You said in your recent Genius video that you really want reciprocal love because there's only so much self-love you can give yourself. Is there any difference in your work depending on how your personal life is going, or do you manage to block out the noise?I get very consumed by whatever I'm most passionate about in the moment. When I'm talking to somebody or I'm dating somebody, I do have the tendency to revolve my world around whatever we're building. So when I'm dealing with that, I do find that I put my career second. Because I crave love very badly — which is toxic for me — I'm willing to nurture. I'm pretty confident in my career. It's the one thing I have control over. Everything's amazing, and I get to make music whenever I want. But I don't necessarily have control over the relationship that I'm trying to build, so I get very consumed and I put that first. But I'm hoping that if I get into something else that's much healthier and not destroying our mental health, then I can do both at the same time! I just have to find that person first. You've acknowledged that you're a private artist, but I really like what I've seen so far from your new interview series, 'Fall In Love With…' Can you tell me how the idea of doing that came about?I have to say I was anti-miniseries, but my manager, Alyce, told me in the beginning stages of [making] this album, 'The music, as vulnerable as it is — nobody's going to relate to it or feel the depth of it if they don't know who you are as a human.' She said, 'Nobody knows that you're funny; nobody knows that you're outgoing. You're not this mysterious person that you think you are, and you need to show people that.' So at first, it annoyed me, because I was like, ugh, not me having to do things online. [laughs] I think doing this type of content was uncomfortable for me. I said, 'If you guys want me to do this, I don't want to be doing 20 episodes. I want four episodes, and I want it to be with people I know and I love and I will be comfortable with.' And it turned into 'Fall In Love With…' and I just thought it was special. I love to give credit to the people who have loved me through every stage of my life. And in the midst of it, my fans are able to see who I am as a person and how deeply I love, how loyal I am. And that opened the door to just so many other things. I just became so much more open-minded.
New York Post
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Sofia Richie and husband Elliot Grainge react to rumors he's cheating
Sofia Richie and Elliot Grainge are laughing off rumors about their marriage. The couple addressed speculation that Grainge, 31, is cheating on Richie, 26, in a TikTok video that the model posted on June 5. In the clip, Richie filmed herself reacting to Grainge lying in bed reading comments about their relationship aloud from his phone. Advertisement 9 Elliot Grainge and Sofia Richie in a TikTok video. Sofia Richie/TikTok 9 Sofia Richie laughs off rumors about her marriage. Sofia Richie/TikTok ''Why wouldn't she want to be single again?' Grainge read as Richie laughed. Advertisement 'They got married? She should divorce him and take his child support money,' another mean comment said. Grainge also read aloud, ''That? Cheating on her?'' 9 Elliot Grainge reads mean comments about his marriage to Sofia Richie. Sofia Richie/TikTok 'That is mean,' the Atlantic Records CEO said in response. Advertisement 'That is mean,' Richie agreed. 'What am I, Shrek?' Grainge added as Richie cracked up in front of the camera. 9 Sofia Richie dismissing rumors that her husband is cheating on her. Sofia Richie/TikTok Richie captioned her TikTok, 'I had to break it to my husband that he's not the people's princess.' Advertisement In the comments, fans stuck up for the couple who tied the knot in the French Riviera in 2023. 'Never doubted this man! He loves her, people are weird,' one person wrote. 9 Elliot Grainge and Sofia Richie in a selfie. Instagram/@sofiarichie 'Best way to silence haters,' another person noted. A third TikToker added, 'This is the best way to deal with gossip that I've ever seen. Perfect no notes.' ''That's really mean' was really heartfelt,' a different fan wrote with a laughing emoji. 'She's so funny for this,' someone else said about Richie. 9 Sofia Richie and Elliot Grainge have been married since April 2023. Sofia Richie/Instagram Advertisement After shutting down the cheating rumors, the couple, who share 1-year-old daughter Eloise, celebrated Father's Day over the weekend. Richie marked the holiday on her Instagram Stories with a picture of Eloise sitting on Grainge's shoulders. 'Happy Father's Day. Our girl is lucky to have you,' she wrote. 9 Elliot Grainge and Sofia Richie. Instagram/@sofiarichie Advertisement 9 Elliot Grainge and Sofia Richie. sofiarichie/Instagram Grainge and Richie said 'I do' during an opulent star-studded ceremony at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in the South of France in April 2023. Richie, daughter of singer Lionel Richie, opened up about her romance with Grainge in an interview with What To Wear a few months after their wedding. 'We started off just as friends. I would always tell him, 'Whoever you end up with is the luckiest girl.' I thought that person is going to be really loved, appreciated, and worshipped,' Richie said, adding, 'And then I realized one day… Why can't that lucky girl be me?' Advertisement 9 Sofia Richie kissing her husband Elliot Grainge. sofiarichie/Instagram She continued, 'When we started being romantic, he just gave me a different feeling. It was a feeling of safety. It was the feeling of really being appreciated.' 'I knew when we started dating that he was my husband,' Richie stated. 'It wasn't a 'Do you think one day he'll propose?' It was like, 'This is my husband—100%.' I felt this love for him that I never felt ever in my life.'
Mint
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
How the F1 soundtrack came together, with a little help from Lewis Hamilton
New York, Jun 12 (AP) The pinnacle of motorsport, Formula One, has its own music. The swift rhythms of a six-cylinder engine reaching 15,000 rpm; the ear-to-ear glissando of a spirited overtake in a DRS zone; the A-list concerts that follow most race weekends. So, when it came to making the summer tentpole 'F1', starring Brad Pitt and Damson Idris, the team behind the film knew its sound had to be massive, too. That comes courtesy a score by the many-time Oscar winner Hans Zimmer and a huge soundtrack releasing as 'F1 The Album' via Atlantic Records — the team behind the award-winning 'Barbie' album — the same day as the movie, June 27. The soundtrack features original music from Chris Stapleton, Myke Towers, Blackpink's Rose, Tate McRae and many more. The creative forces behind it all — film producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Joseph Kosinski and Atlantic Records West Coast President Kevin Weaver — tell The Associated Press how 'F1 The Album' came together. In the years that it took to create 'F1', Kosinski had 'earmarked big music moments' across the movie's narrative, explains Weaver, who oversaw and produced the project. His team at Atlantic Records took those notes and came up with ideas for songs, artists and writers, collaborating with soundtrack executive producers Kosinski and Bruckheimer. They enlisted Atlantic artists, like Ed Sheeran and Rose, but also looked elsewhere. 'It's mostly, if not solely, about what the film needs,' Weaver says. 'It really kind of boils down to whose voice would sound best in these various moments... Who can accomplish what Joe and Jerry needed from a storytelling perspective?' And what they needed were big bespoke songs to meet the film's intensity and match its inclusion of huge classic rock songs, like Queen's 'We Will Rock You'. All the songs featured on 'F1 The Album' are originals, which is why Tate McRae's 'Sports Car,' despite its fitting name, is not on it; instead, she offered 'Just Keep Watching'. Atlantic, usually Weaver, would play the label's song choices against filmed sequences in the editing room, Bruckheimer explains. 'So, if there's a race and we need to end it with a song he'll play, you know, maybe 10 songs against that sequence and it's the best song that wins. It's not usually the song that we think is going to be the biggest hit or features the biggest artists,' Bruckheimer says. 'It's the one that works for a particular sequence.' 'F1 is such a global sport. I wanted the soundtrack of the film to reflect that,' Kosinski says. That meant tapping artists 'from all over the world to give it a feel that the sport really has.' Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton, who consulted on the project, made sure that need for global inclusivity was clear from the start, says Kosinski. 'Sometimes here in Hollywood we can get a little myopic in terms of our cultural focus,' he says. 'And this sport, it is inspiring to me to just see how eclectic it is.' He would send Hamilton demos of the soundtrack and get his opinion: 'I sent him the Burna Boy track,' Kosinski remembers. 'Louis was like, 'This is going to be a giant hit.'' 'We were very intentional about genre and demographic,' Weaver adds. 'We have pop records. We have Afrobeat records. We have electronic records. We have country songs.' The result is a collection of 17 tracks with broad appeal — not unlike the lineup of a major summer music festival. 'It sounds amazing,' Bruckheimer says. 'The soundtrack blends perfectly in with every scene that we put the music against.' Artists on the 'F1' soundtrack found inspiration and participated in different ways. 'Sometimes it was bringing an artist in and showing them a scene, like Rose,' who then created to that, says Kosinski. Chris Stapleton did the same. Other artists were simply given a concept or an idea to inspire them and would record a track that would later be tailored to a specific scene. For Sheeran, Kosinski came up with 10 key phrases as lyrical prompts, words that 'identify Sonny Hayes,' the film's protagonist played by Pitt. Sheeran's song, 'Drive,' was written with John Mayer and Blake Slatkin 'specifically for the end title of the movie,' adds Weaver. 'It's kind of the culmination of the Brad Pitt character.' Other artists have deep ties to Formula One — like the DJ Tiësto, who has regularly performed at F1 grands prix across the globe as part of 'a long-standing relationship' with the motorsport, as he tells the AP. Atlantic Records asked if he'd like to pitch any songs for the movie — and he actually ended up in the film, portraying himself in a big Las Vegas nightclub scene. 'I hope I win an Oscar for this,' he jokes. 'I jumped right on it,' Tiesto says of the opportunity. 'Dance music and racing, there's a connection because they're both high energy. And with F1, it's a perfect combo and it brings people together from all over the world.' That's true for the Dutch DJ especially: His song for the soundtrack, 'OMG!,' features Missouri rapper Sexyy Red. 'She heard the song, and she really loved it and, yeah, she wanted to write lyrics for it,' he says. 'It was a really cool collaboration.' (AP) APA RB RB
