Inscrutable pop priestess Sia found herself with a juggernaut on her hands last May, when she released the lead, platinum-selling single “Chandelier” from her sixth LP, 1,000 Forms of Fear. Instead of slapping on some makeup and thigh-high boots to star in that song’s video, she let a (literal) kid take the spotlight—in a janky blonde wig and a nude leotard. It was an outfit that launched a thousand parodies and tribute Halloween costumes. Read More...
Things on Tuesday's America's Got Talent were not what they seemed, when a seemingly demure young girl, Maya Neelakantan, broke out into an instrumental version of Papa Roach's banger "Last Resort" in what she explained was her first time on stage. "You know what I love about this audition," judge Simon Cowell said, "you just weren't expecting this. You were so shy, and you're 10! And then you turned into, like, this rock goddess. Read More...
Simon Cowell just gets a feeling. The America's Got Talent judge said that's how he chooses to support an act, such as One Direction, the phenomenally successful boy band that formed out of solo contestants on the British show The X Factor in 2010. Once they were a boy band, the contestants Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, and Louis Tomlinson signed with Cowell's then-record label, Syco Music. " Read More...
