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Hypebeast
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
PinkPantheress Announces 2025 North American Tour
Summary British anti-pop starPinkPantheresshas announced nine North American dates for her upcoming residency-style tour, 'An Evening with PinkPantheress.' The announcement follows the success of her latest mixtape Fancy That, which has racked up over 98.7 million Spotify streams and debuted at No. 3 on the UK Official Albums Chart. Known for viral hits like 'Boy's a liar Pt. 2' featuring Ice Spice — a Billboard Global 200 top 3 entry — she continues to ride a wave of momentum with fan favorites like 'Tonight,' 'Illegal,' and 'Stateside.' Recently, she was named Producer of the Year at the Billboard Women in Music Awards and included onForbes' 30 Under 30 list. This marks her first headlining North American tour since 2023's 'Capable of Love', and comes ahead of her Glastonbury debut and two sold-out shows at London's O2 Academy Brixton in September — a continued rise for the artist. Check out the list of dates below. Presale will be available on Wednesday, June 18 at 10 am EDT to Friday, June 20th 9 am EDT Fans can sign up for presale access viathe tour's offcial website. 'An Evening with PinkPantheress' 2025 North America Tour DatesFriday, October 24 – Brooklyn, NY – Kings TheatreSaturday, October 25 – Brooklyn, NY – Kings TheatreMonday, October 27 – Toronto, ONT – Massey HallWednesday, October 29 – Toronto, ONT – Massey HallSaturday, November 1 – Chicago, IL – Byline Bank Aragon BallroomWednesday, November 5 – Los Angeles, CA – The WilternThursday, November 6 – Los Angeles, CA – The WilternWednesday, November 12 – San Francisco, CA – The MasonicThursday, November 13 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
PinkPantheress Responds to Critics & Says She ‘Doesn't Do Music to Perform'
PinkPantheress delivered her acclaimed nine-track Fancy That mixtape this month, and fans are hoping she'll get back on the road soon to tour around the new project. Pink has been critiqued as a performer in the past, and she sat down with Capital Buzz where she agreed that the criticism has been 'fair' and that she doesn't make music for the stage. More from Billboard PinkPantheress Drops 'Fancy That': Stream It Now Kneecap Respond to Terror Offense Charge: 'This is a Carnival of Distraction' BTS' Jin Returns to 'Fallon' With 'Don't Say You Love Me' Performance 'I don't do music to perform, I think is the thing, and that's perfectly fine,' she said around the 23:55 mark of the interview. 'I think that people are probably used to and also expect a singer to be able to perform well. And I don't blame anyone for thinking that. I'm not the best performer. Again, it's one of those things where I'm like 'I'm going to get better.'' PinkPantheress continued: 'But the thing is, no amount of rehearsals can make a difference when you're in front of like 10,000, 50,000, 100,000. No amount of rehearsal you can do, and as somebody that has got very bad stage fright… I think one of the things people say is like, 'Oh, I think her performances are a hindrance to her career.' And I do think there is a level of if you want to make it as like a big, big pop-diva.' The British artist is at peace in more intimate settings and doesn't think the performance aspect is a hindrance to her blossoming career. Pink also caught up with Billboard earlier in May, which saw her reveal that touring with Olivia Rodrigo made her learn that she's 'not an arena artist.' 'Watching her and how she combats an arena and how she actually does the arena made me realize, 'Wow, some people are arena artists and some people are not.' I'm not an arena artist,' she admitted. 'That's something I learned about myself. What I learned from her is there are ways you can approach an arena and interact with people in the up theres or the far backs. She did that and is amazing at it.' PinkPantheress added: 'What happened when I watched her was, I saw my own failing and my own incapabilities, and I was like, 'I'm not an arena artist.' That's not for a lack of trying. It just made me realize there are some things in life as an artist you're told you should try one day — but for me, I think I'm one of those artists where I'm comfortable is where I always strive.' The 24-year-old opened for Rodrigo for six or seven shows before leaving the tour for personal reasons related to her health in 2024. As for Fancy That, Pink heavily tapped into the drum and bass genre and pulled on inspiration from Basement Jaxx and Calvin Harris to complete the cohesive work, which she thinks is her sonic magnum opus. Stream the mixtape below. 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
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Music reviews: Tune-Yards and PinkPantheress
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. ★★★ Though Tune-Yards' sixth album probably won't top any sales charts, "it will definitely make you get up and dance," said Attila Peter in The Line of Best Fit. Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, partners in both music and life, "have always been adventurous and uncompromising, showing an eclecticism that draws from African, folk, electronic, rap, and even classical music." But the result is always a form of pop, easy on the ears even when Garbus is singing, as she does here, about all that's happening in the world that infuriates her. "Full of pulsating beats and hypnotic grooves," this latest album is "bursting with an energy and joy that is impossible to resist." If there's a complaint to be made here, it's that the music "backgrounds the songs' meanings," said Andy Crump in Paste. But "there are worse problems for an album to have," especially when "the music is so catchy that repeat plays are practically inevitable." Eventually, you will realize that Garbus is venting her anger about America's current turn toward corrupt authoritarianism. At that point, it may also strike you that Better Dreaming is one of this band's "all-time great records." ★★★ Four years ago, PinkPantheress's music "felt like a future of pop," said Jem Aswad in Variety. The young British singer-songwriter-producer crafted fleet "microsongs" that packed verses, a chorus, and a bridge into 90 seconds, making them immensely TikTok friendly. Thankfully, her new eight-song mixtape avoids the more conventional sound of 2023's Heaven Knows and recaptures her strengths: "tight hooks, fast tempos, skittering beats, percolating bass," plus "her inimitable, breathy vocals." The songs "blaze by in less than 20 minutes," but "pack a velvet-gloved punch." The music doesn't sound like the future, said Harry Tafoya in Pitchfork. Instead, "Fancy That is a portal into an alternate universe where U.K. garage successfully crossed the Atlantic and fashion froze in 2006." It opens with "Illegal," a song that, like many of this 24-year-old artist's best, is "musically busy" and "charmingly conversational." Nothing that follows slips into the "daydreaming detours" of her 2023 release. PinkPantheress "has never been more ready to dance," making Fancy That her "most exciting and fully realized release yet."
Vogue
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
PinkPantheress Won't Be Boxed In
'My name is Pink, and I'm really glad to meet you.' Those are the first words you hear on PinkPantheress's new mixtape, Fancy That—though you'd be forgiven for thinking you'd been introduced already. Since bursting onto the internet with her UK garage and jungle-infused SoundCloud tracks back in 2021, the 24-year-old has blossomed from a faceless bedroom producer to one of Britain's most exciting next-gen pop stars. Her breakout hit, 2022's cheeky kiss-off 'Boy's a Liar,' shot to number three on the Billboard Hot 100, while her accomplished 2023 debut album, Heaven Knows, served as a genre-bending rollercoaster ride through various genres of dance music, artfully paired with the musician's candyfloss vocals and lyrics that charted the emotional topography of young love—with a dash of winking British humor. Except, as PinkPantheress explains over Zoom from New York a few days before the mixtape's release, she's never really seen herself as a pop star. 'I'm not looking for stardom,' she says, her long French-tipped nails flicking back her fringe. 'I don't think that I fit that role, and I also don't think I can handle it.' Last year, as her stratospheric rise to popularity was peaking—she'd just won the Billboard Women in Music award for producer of the year, and been announced as a tour opener for both Olivia Rodrigo and Coldplay—she made the difficult decision to reel things back. 'I needed just to remedy myself a bit, and help myself feel better,' she says of pulling out of the tour dates and stepping away from the spotlight. It didn't take long, however, for the urge to make music to return. 'I ended up taking that break to home in on a specific sound,' she says. 'That's why I'm more excited, I'd say, about this release—because it's way more specific and way more in tune with what I wanted for myself.' So, on Fancy That, PinkPantheress is reintroducing herself. Not as an entirely different musician, exactly, but as PinkPantheress 2.0—a little more refined, and a lot more certain of herself. And it's certainly an impressive leveling up from her (already excellent) debut album. Over the course of the mixtape's nine tracks, PinkPantheress cycles through a head-spinning grab bag of references mined from the '90s and 2000s: the Underworld-sampling opener 'Illegal,' whose saucy double entendres could either refer to a secret romance or a beloved new drug dealer; the eerie 'Nice to Know You,' which samples William Orbit to create a deliciously strange hybrid of Burial and the Sugababes; or the superb album closer 'Romeo,' on which trip-hop rhythms are paired with exhilarating orchestral strings straight out of a Basement Jaxx house banger. (It turns out the duo behind Basement Jaxx spent a couple of sessions in the studio with PinkPantheress, and she also samples their track 'Romeo' on 'Girl Like Me.')
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Statik Selektah Claps Back at DDG's Claim of Being First to Livestream the Making of an Album
Veteran hip-hop producer Statik Selektah is upset about DDG claiming he was the first person to livestream the making of an album in regards to his recent project Blame the Chat, which he put together live on Twitch. The New England beatmaker took to Instagram to post a clip of DDG making the claim to TMZ and attached a caption laying out his own receipts. More from Billboard DDG Offers IShowSpeed $2 Million for a 'Quick Little Cameo' in His Music Video PinkPantheress Drops 'Fancy That': Stream It Now 'It's a Happy Time': Counting Crows Return With 'The Complete Sweets!' 'This is some bullsh–,' Statik wrote. 'We got receipts. 2010 me and Termanology made an EP live on livestream. Action Bronson first feature to hit the blogs. 2010 me and Freeway did the same. Young Mac Miller in the building. 2011 me and Freddie Gibbs did the same. Rip Fred the Godson was there amongst many others. 2019 me & Bun B do the first Trillstatik with Fat Joe, Method Man, Westside Gunn, Millyz, Nems, Benny [the Butcher], Boldy James etc. etc. We've done three more since. Stop it with the [cap].' He added: 'The fans know. The industry does too. DDG, no ideas original.' A few days ago, TMZ caught up with streamer and rapper DDG and talked about his new album. 'We changing the music industry forever,' he said. 'First to ever make an album live on Twitch. Revolutionary. The music industry getting boring, I had to spice it up. I don't really like how mysterious the music industry is, for real. I feel like it's better when artists connect closer with the fans so they can feel like they're more of a part of the process rather than just being surprised.' Last week, DDG was on his stream when he offered fellow streamer IShowSpeed $2 million to make a cameo in one of the music videos he had planned for the project. 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
