Taylor Swift will receive the Global Icon award at the 2021 Brit Awards on Tuesday, May 11th.The “Cardigan” singer will be the first female and the first non-English artist to be presented with the BRIT’s “highest accolade” in recognition of her immense impact on music across the world. Elton John, Robbie Williams and David Bowie are the previous winners.
OLIVIA RODRIGO IS TIRED OF HOW FEMALE SONGWRITERS ARE CRITICIZED
Olivia Rodrigo is tired of the sexist criticism that young female songwriters “only write songs about boys.”The “Drivers License” singer told The Guardian that she saw it happened with her favorite songwriter, Taylor Swift and thought it was “just BS.”She explained, “I’m a teenage girl, I write about stuff that I feel really intensely – and I feel heartbreak and longing really intensely – and I think that’s authentic and natural. I don’t really understand what people want me to write about; do you want me to write a song about income taxes? How am I going to write an emotional song about that?”
MADAME TUSSAUDS GETS NEW ARIANA GRANDE FIGURE
Madame Tussauds finally has a wax figure of Ariana Grande that resembles the singer. The museum posted an image of the new display on Instagram Thursday (May 6th) with the caption, “You want it? We got it. Ariana Grande has arrived at Madame Tussauds Hollywood.”One commenter wrote, “finally a great one!!! I thought that it was really her.” The original figure, which debuted in 2019, had the singer’s signature ponytail, but otherwise barely resembled her.
