Music News for your Weekend

KATY PERRY WANTS TO BE AN ACTRESS: Katy Perry tells Australian radio station Nova 96.9 that once she wraps up her current Witness tour, she’s contemplating getting into acting. “It’s time for me to live my life on my own schedule and terms, so that may look like doing some kind of other class, or like, maybe I’d like to make a film in the future finally, doing a kind of separate thing,” she says. But she’s not looking to be dramatic or even the lead. Katy says she’d much rather be the “comedic timing best friend.” “I would do a comedy,” she says. “But it has to be in the vein of a Kristen Wiig or a Jenny Slate, super dry, a little bit of a dark comedy, like a Bridesmaids girl.” Katy kicked off the Australian leg of her tour on Tuesday in Perth. She wraps those dates up in Auckland, New Zealand on August 21.

DRAKE SHOOTING ‘IN MY FEELINGS’ VIDEO IN NEW ORLEANS WITH LA LA ANTHONY AND PHYLICIA RASHAD: Drake is reportedly shooting his “In My Feelings” video in New Orleans. Power’s La La Anthony and Phylicia Rashad from The Cosby Show are appearing in the video, according to The Source. On Instagram, La La posted a photo of herself outside a movie trailer and commented with the hook from the song, “Heyyy KeKe… Do U love me? #inmyfeelings” “In My Feelings” just set the all-time weekly streaming record with 116 million streams for the week ending July 19th. It broke the record of 103 million set in 2013 by “Harlem Shake” by Bauer.

THE READY SET DEBUTS NEW SONG ‘STITCH’ FROM ‘V2’ EP: The Ready Set, the indie electro-pop project by Jordan Witzigreuter, is back with a brand new track called “Stitch” due out today. Following the release of the V1 EP earlier in 2018, “Stitch” is the lead single from the upcoming V2 EP, out on August 10th. “‘Stitch’ is about facing personal shortcomings. I think a lot of negative perceptions, actions, etc, can sometimes trace back to some unresolved issues in the back of my mind,” Jordan told Just Jared. “‘Stitch’ sort of gets into the idea of searching for, acknowledging, and unpacking those things, and then trying to move forward from there in a positive way.”

BTS’ ‘MIC DROP’ REMIX VIDEO PASSES 300M VIEWS ON YOUTUBE: South Korean boy band BTS had another music video pass 300 million views on YouTube. The K-pop group reached the milestone Thursday with their “Mic Drop” remix video featuring Steve Aoki. The “Mic Drop” remix video debuted in November. The original version of the song appears on the boy band’s EP “Love Yourself: Her,” which was released in September. “Mic Drop” remix is BTS’ fifth music video to pass 300 million views on YouTube. The group previously reached the milestone with its videos for “DNA,” “Fire,” Dope” and “Blood Sweat & Tears.”