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Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Lady Gaga Says Petition For 'Artpop' Sequel Inspired 'Tremendous Warmth In My Heart'

Lady Gaga has responded to a fan campaign calling for a sequel to her 2013 album Artpop.

Nearly eight years after Artpop's release, a petition from Gaga fans calling for "Act II" to the album collected more than 40,000 signatures.

The hashtag #buyARTPOPoniTunes went viral on Twitter on Tuesday, helping the record hit No. 1 on the iTunes Pop chart in the U.S. and globally.

The pop star reacted on Twitter saying that the petition to #buyARTPOPoniTunes for a volume II has inspired tremendous warmth in her heart.

"Making this album was like heart surgery, I was desperate, in pain, and poured my heart into electronic music that slammed harder than any drug I could find," she added.

Gaga said she fell apart after releasing the album. She thanked the fans for "celebrating something that once felt like destruction."

"We always believed it was ahead of its time. Years later turns out, sometimes, artists know. And so do little monsters. Paws up," the tweet ends.

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Train's 'Hey, Soul Sister' Certified Diamond By RIAA

Train's 2009 hit song "Hey, Soul Sister" has been certified Diamond By the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

"Hey, Soul Sister," which dropped on August 11, 2009, was the rock band's first single from their fifth album, Save Me, San Francisco.

"Got this today in the cybermail. Thank you everyone for this insanely cool honor," Train tweeted on Friday. "Soon we play it in person. Love and miss you all."

The RIAA awards a diamond certification to songs that have moved at least 10 million equivalent units, combining actual sales and equivalent units comprised of streams. According to the RIAA, one equivalent song unit is equal to a single digital song sale or 150 on-demand audio and/or video streams.

"Hey, Soul Sister being the 49th song certified as a diamond record is such a surreal honor," shared Train frontman Pat Monahan. "Thank you to all of you who own a copy. We all love and appreciate you. What a weird trip it's been. Here's to being around each other soon so we can all dance and sing this one loud and together. Love, Pat"

"Hey, Soul Sister" was written by Monahan, Amund Bjørklund, and Espen Lind. The track peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and is Train's highest-charting song to date. It also spent 22 weeks at No. 1 on the Hot Adult Contemporary chart.

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Doja Cat Teams Up With SZA On 'Kiss Me More'

Doja Cat and SZA teamed up for "Kiss Me More," their first-ever collaboration, on Friday (April 9).

Doja Cat and SZA teamed up for "Kiss Me More," their first-ever collaboration, on Friday (April 9). The song is for Doja's upcoming third album, Planet Her, due out this summer via Kemosabe/RCA.

During an interview for V Magazine in March, SZA described "Kiss Me More" as "a different strut" with regard to the song's sound, while Doja said she liked "the house, disco, vintage-y essences."

The Warren Fu-directed video shows an Earthling astronaut portrayed by Grey's Anatomy actor Alex Landi crashlanding in another galaxy where Doja Cat and SZA reside.

"Can you kiss me more?/We're so young, boy/We ain't got nothing to lose," Doja Cat and SZA sing in the flirtatious chorus. "It's just principle/Baby hold me 'cause I like the way you move."

"Boy, you write your name, I can do the same/ Oh, I love the taste, la-la-la-la-la," Doja whispers in the post-chorus and goes on singing, "All on my tongue, I want it!"

SZA croons, "All your ni---s say that you lost without me/ All my bi---es feel like I dodged it, don't need."

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Gwen Stefani Taps Saweetie For High-Energy 'Slow Clap' Remix

Gwen Stefani has teamed up with Saweetie for a high-energy remix of "Slow Clap."

"I finally made it, so make it clap, make it clap," Swaweetie raps in the remix that dropped on Friday, April 9 along with a Sophie Muller-directed video. "Got the laffy taffy, make 'em lean, make 'em snap/ Saweetie got that Bubbalicious, chew it up it so delicious/ Stack, stack, stack, stack, stack/ My favorite position is CEO check the stats."

Stefani had dropped the original "Slow Cap" last month as a follow-up to December's "Let Me Reintroduce Myself."

The song, which will feature on Stefani's upcoming and untitled fifth studio album, was co-written by the singer along with Ross Golan and the song's sole producer Luke Niccoli.

Stefani's last record, You Make It Feel Like Christmas, arrived in October 2017.

(Photo: Meeno Peluce)

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