Chris Willman

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Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic at Variety

Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic at @Variety

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J Balvin, Doja Cat and Tems to Play First Halftime Show for FIFA Club World Cup Final in July

2 weeks ago | variety.com | Chris Willman

J Balvin, Doja Cat and Tems have been booked to perform at the first-ever halftime show for the FIFA Club World Cup Final, set to be broadcast around the globe July 13 from MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, it was announced Monday morning. The halftime extravaganza is being produced by Global Citizen and curated by a longtime advisor for that advocacy group, Coildplay’s Chris Martin. The show will be broadcast for free globally via DAZN.com.
J Balvin, Doja Cat and Tems to Play First Halftime Show for FIFA Club World Cup Final in July

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Chris Willman

Generate Key TakeawaysJ Balvin, Doja Cat and Tems have been booked to perform at the first-ever halftime show for the FIFA Club World Cup Final, set to be broadcast around the globe July 13 from MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, it was announced Monday morning. The halftime extravaganza is being produced by Global Citizen and curated by a longtime advisor for that advocacy group, Coildplay’s Chris Martin. The show will be broadcast for free globally via DAZN.com.
Halsey Offers a Peek Behind the ‘For My Last Trick’ Tour Curtain: How a Team That Includes Top Broadway Veterans Came Together to Create One of the Year’s Most Ambitious Pop Shows

2 weeks ago | aol.com | Chris Willman

Never ask Halsey to be just one thing at a time, whether it’s on record or in person. The singer’s current outing, dubbed the “For My Last Trick” Tour, is one of this year’s most impressive pop road shows — a must-see for veteran tour-watchers, even if you don’t think you care about Halsey (although you should), just for its high level of creative ambition and innovation. But ask any two fans what the overriding nature of the show is, and you might get two distinctly different answers.
Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’ Reenters Top 5 of Billboard Album Chart After She Buys Rights to Original Albums

2 weeks ago | variety.com | Chris Willman

To listen to “Reputation” or not to listen to “Reputation”? For years, that has been the question for Taylor Swift fans, who have largely considered that album one of their top favorites yet felt conflicted about consuming it, since it remained one of the records that she had not yet re-recorded after her contentious split with her original label and the succession of companies that purchased her catalog.
Cynthia Erivo Proves She’s a Threat as a Singer-Songwriter, Too, With Subtle but Powerful ‘I Forgive You’: Album Review

3 weeks ago | variety.com | Chris Willman

The queen of “Defying Gravity” engages in a high level of expectation defiance on “I Forgive You,” her exemplary second album as a singer-songwriter and first release since “Wicked” firmly established her as a universal household name. For those who weren’t keeping track when she released her first solo effort, 2021’s “Ch. 1 Vs. 1,” there will be some surprises in how she veers off anything like a beaten path when it comes to putative crossover.
Sabrina Carpenter Releases ‘Manchild,’ Courting Song of the Summer Status With a Knock on No-Good Guys: ‘Half Your Brain Ain’t There… I Like My Men All Incompetent’

3 weeks ago | variety.com | Chris Willman

The music video will have to wait till Friday morning, but Sabrina Carpenter dropped the audio version of her new single, “Manchild,” Thursday evening, and initial responses were strong, with some fans confidently predicting the upbeat number is strong enough to contend in the Song of the Summer race. Even if not every guy will necessarily be singing along. VIDEO Carpenter talked about the creation of the song in an Instagram post.
Sabrina Carpenter Releases ‘Manchild,’ Courting Song of the Summer Status With a Knock on No-Good Guys: ‘Half Your Brain Ain’t There… I Like My Men All Incompetent’ | Flipboard

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Chris Willman

1 day agoJudge Arun Subramanian warned the defense that Sean “Diddy” Combs could be excluded from the courtroom if he continues to attempt to interact with the jury. The judge said he saw Combs on two different occasions during Bryana Bongolan’s testimony, looking at the jury and “nodding vigorously." …
Saoirse Ronan Goes Feral in Talking Heads’ ‘Psycho Killer’ Video: Director Mike Mills Says ‘I Don’t Know How She Didn’t Just Shrivel Up at the End’

3 weeks ago | variety.com | Chris Willman

On the 50th anniversary of Talking Heads‘ first live gig, a music video for “Psycho Killer” has finally been released … and if you know that Saoirse Ronan is starring, and that the prestige helmer is Oscar-nominated director Mike Mills (“C’mon C’mon”), you can probably guess that neither psychosis nor killing will be the actual theme of the visualization.
Saoirse Ronan Goes Feral in Talking Heads’ ‘Psycho Killer’ Video: Director Mike Mills Says ‘I Don’t Know How She Didn’t Just Shrivel Up at the End’

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Chris Willman

1 day agoCNN — President Donald Trump first focused on Joe Biden’s use of the autopen in March, leaning into the idea that the former president’s use of the tool to sign documents showed that he wasn’t in charge while in the White House and that his actions were “null and void.” At the time, conservative …
Reimagining ‘Hamlet’ as a Lynchian L.A. Story: Director Robert O’Hara on Doing Shakespeare With a Noir/’Mulholland Drive’ Twist at the Mark Taper

3 weeks ago | variety.com | Chris Willman

This will not be your father’s “Hamlet” — or even your dead-king father’s “Hamlet” — when writer-director Robert O’Hara’s reinterpretation of the Shakespeare perennial opens at the Mark Taper Forum this week. O’Hara, who was Tony-nominated for directing “Slave Play” (which he also brought out to L.A. at the Mark Taper), says he is thrilled to be getting a too-rare chance to direct a work from the classical theater canon, but no one will mistake this for a traditional rendering.

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I'm more impressed with @halsey all the time, so was glad to extensively report this tour story... Halsey Offers a Peek Behind the Tour Curtain: How a Team That Includes Top Broadway Veterans Created One of the Year’s Most Ambitious Pop Shows https://t.co/0kKvmxRJVk via @variety

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Articles

J Balvin, Doja Cat and Tems to Play First Halftime Show for FIFA Club World Cup Final in July

J Balvin, Doja Cat and Tems to Play First Halftime Show for FIFA Club World Cup Final in July

Halsey Offers a Peek Behind the ‘For My Last Trick’ Tour Curtain: How a Team That Includes Top Broadway Veterans Came Together to Create One of the Year’s Most Ambitious Pop Shows

Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’ Reenters Top 5 of Billboard Album Chart After She Buys Rights to Original Albums

Cynthia Erivo Proves She’s a Threat as a Singer-Songwriter, Too, With Subtle but Powerful ‘I Forgive You’: Album Review

Sabrina Carpenter Releases ‘Manchild,’ Courting Song of the Summer Status With a Knock on No-Good Guys: ‘Half Your Brain Ain’t There… I Like My Men All Incompetent’

Sabrina Carpenter Releases ‘Manchild,’ Courting Song of the Summer Status With a Knock on No-Good Guys: ‘Half Your Brain Ain’t There… I Like My Men All Incompetent’ | Flipboard

Saoirse Ronan Goes Feral in Talking Heads’ ‘Psycho Killer’ Video: Director Mike Mills Says ‘I Don’t Know How She Didn’t Just Shrivel Up at the End’

Saoirse Ronan Goes Feral in Talking Heads’ ‘Psycho Killer’ Video: Director Mike Mills Says ‘I Don’t Know How She Didn’t Just Shrivel Up at the End’

Reimagining ‘Hamlet’ as a Lynchian L.A. Story: Director Robert O’Hara on Doing Shakespeare With a Noir/’Mulholland Drive’ Twist at the Mark Taper

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