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Not really sure how I feel with Natalia being snubbed and all
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So here in is an official goodbye from Natalia and VDK Records. We were meant to be done last week but just decided to ya know, do some stuff. However, school starts officially tomorrow.
I'll be back if like any award shows or recognitions or stuff like that comes up!
Bye Bye!!
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KESHA'S NEW SINGLE "SURRENDER" FIGHTS ITS WAY UP THE CHARTS
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The Kesha that we all know and love is definitely back! She may have lost the dollar sign but she hasn't lost the sass. Kesha's new track Surrender is officially out and she's not playing around! The household name announced her long-awaited comeback to the music scene two weeks ago when her pre-release track Twilight leaked online due to premiering on iTunes a week ahead of schedule. After a week of mayhem and cleanup, Kesha officially released the single, only to announce earlier today that it had been scrapped in favour of her newest song Surrender, along with her new label's rebranding as Aurora Records. This potentially messy situation hasn't seemed to have phased Kesha in any way whatsoever though, as she's coming back in full force with her latest sure-fire hit.
The upbeat electropop track, co-written and produced with UK-based DJ Calvin Harris is sure to be a hit both with pop radio and in the clubs. A triumphant Kesha returns to the music scene with her familiar sing-talk rapped pre-choruses, as well as strong and powerful vocals in the chorus. "Kesha sounds like an artist who has finally found her voice, has embraced herself and is making her mark on the music industry in all of the right ways," one popular music blogger noted. The track is definitely a departure from her previous singles about partying and brushing her teeth with a bottle of Jack Daniels, but the song still possesses the catchiness and feel-good vibes that just make you want to dance, as many of her previous singles did.
We spoke to Calvin Harris about the collaboration, "Kesha was so great to work with. She's been a friend of mine for a while now and it's so great to finally have a song out that we're both so proud of." Calvin indicated that this was not the first time the two had worked together, "We recorded some stuff for her second album Warrior, but [Dr. Luke] didn't want any of the songs we did together on the record. They were solid tracks, too. They just weren't what he had in mind [for the album]. There wasn't anything I could really do. Kesha didn't want to sell the tracks and I respected that. Maybe they'll see the light of day eventually. Who knows?" Calvin also indicated that Surrender wouldn't be the last collaboration from the two that we would be hearing, "We may have done another song together for her new album. I'm not sure about whether it will make the final track list though. I don't know that stuff. But we did do two tracks. Surrender is definitely my favourite though, and I'm glad she picked it as her single."
The single has already gone for radio adds globally, and is igniting Australian radio, one of Kesha's main markets. "Australia's always been really good to me, they're so badass," Kesha glowed at the reception the new single has already received, "a lot of songs seem to take off there before they do in the States, so if that's any indication of what's to come, I'm super excited and grateful." Much like her previous song Twilight, Surrender has been taking social media platforms around the globe by storm. Within minutes of its release to iTunes, Surrender was already the #1 trending song on Billboard's Twitter Trending 140 chart. The song has already been streamed on YouTube, Spotify and all other major streaming services over 15 million times in its first day of release, even bigger than the response her previous track Twilight received.
Kesha talked a bit more about how Surrender was decided to be the new lead single after Twilight was scrapped, "It was me who approached the label about changing the lead single, actually. When I heard the song on the radio for the first time, it was bittersweet. Unlike when I heard my collaboration with Pitbull in Alaska for the first time, where I was just so crazy excited, I just had this sinking feeling. I was happy at first, but by the time the chorus hit, it just left me thinking, this doesn't feel right... something's not working. It wasn't connecting in the way that I'd hoped, and if it wasn't even working for me, I didn't even want to imagine what my fans would be thinking. I just feel this massive responsibility to not let them down after such a long wait for new music, and I didn't want this to be just some short-lived flicker that died after a week. That's when I realised that I needed a firestarter track, you know? Twilight was just an ember, it wasn't "big" enough, and certainly not big enough to represent my new double album. I needed Surrender. This is the firestarter. I just feels right. I didn't have the momentum that Twilight needed to carry it as far as it could possibly go, whereas Surrender is the kind of song that once it gets started, there's no putting it out. It'll be stuck on everyone's brains. At least that's the plan!" You go Kesha!
When asked about the other Calvin Harris collaboration, Kesha wasn't willing to give much away, "We did do another song together, yes. How did you find out about that? Did he tell you about that? He's a sneaky one," Kesha smirked, "No, that's okay, we did do another track together. Maybe it's on the new album, maybe it's not. I guess you'll just have to wait until next week," indicating the upcoming release of her self-titled third studio album, 'Kesha Rose'. "It's just such a fun record. This may sound cliché, but the album is really personal to me, as I feel it's my first album where I've been 100% certain about everything. Every track, every melody, every lyric. It's my perfect record, and I just hope it's my fans' as well."
Kesha's third studio album, and first double album, 'Kesha Rose', including the tracks Twilight and Surrender, will be released next week. Until then, you can purchase the single Surrender on iTunes now!
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Taylor coming for 1m+ this week?
how did she do 900k though I mean it just seems so impossible
real life teas
Edit: Kesha is coming for a top 3 too?
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Kesha coming back. Kesha ain't playing. I've got a plan this week and I ain't letting ANYTHING stop me.
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I guess Cara will have to settle with another #3 peak f, it's going to be her third and it's going to be her 5th Top 3, well only if it does peak in the top 3
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I think the best I've done in this game is a #4 single and a #2 EP, iirc. That was last season. So you're already far better than me.
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I think the best I've done in this game is a #4 single and a #2 EP, iirc. That was last season. So you're already far better than me.
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the real huge numbers in terms of peaks etc. are by Justin with Taylor catching up, we can only dream
what was Justin's latest number of consecutive #1s? and didn't all he's singles reach the top 3? that's like 15-20 singles
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Y'all best believe Céline is coming to clock this week. I already got one snow day that came through and possibly another one- as well as midterms ending Thursday. Y'all hold on, Urban-Pop Queen is coming back to collect her coins.
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My new label "Black Rose Records" will sign Artists Mariah Carey And Iggy Azalea
We hope to have a successful run!
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Mariah Carey (ft. Iggy Azalea) - Better Without U
Mariah Carey (ft. Iggy Azalea)
Producers : R.Kelly and Timbaland
Genre : Pop / Rnb
Length : 4:13
Writers : Mariah Carey + R.Kelly
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Ryan Seacrest Interviews Mariah Carey on New Single
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Ryan - Hey Mariah, I'm loving the new single "Better without U", you are probably just dying of excitement that its out, arn't you?
Mariah - You know, I've been working really hard on this new single. I got R.kelly, whom i've been dying to work with on this new single, I think he did great, along with timbaland the other producer on this track.
Ryan - That's just great, and that Iggy Azalea verse too, Phenomenal, how was it like working with Iggy?
Mariah - Well, when Rob and I were writing the song, we were thinking, "who would be a great feature on this single?". And he threw out a couple suggestions like Lil' kim, snoop dog, and rob himself. And then I was like, "well how am I going to say no to rob?"
*both laugh*
Mariah - Then when we were writing his verse, we change out minds, and both instantly thought, "who is new and hot right now?" and we both said at the same time "Iggy Azalea". So we quickly called Iggy on the phone and she was happy to do it, like most things.. No shade.
Ryan - Well the song is already a hit, people love it all across the U.S. just hours after release.
Mariah - Thats really amazing.
Ryan - Now Mariah, there is one thing I have to ask, and I think you knew what it was coming.
Mariah - Do I like French Fried? Well the answer is YES, darling, YES.
Ryan - *Laughs* No, I'm talking about, who is the song directed to, you must have an inspiration
Mariah - Well darling, I'd hate to get into my love life, but I think it's obvious. It's about my ex, Nick Cannon. He was such an evil darling in my life, and I'm just better without him, like the song says.
Ryan - Well thanks for clearing that up, Mariah.
Mariah - No Problem Darling
Ryan - Finally, what can we expect in the future of Mariah music? As a fan myself, hearing this track has gotten me waiting for more! A new Mariah album would be great right now, if you ask me
Mariah - Well Ryan, I can't say a release date or anything, but expect it soon. I'm working with a great team really, and I'm loving the music we are creating. I have not made this great music since the good ol' days of "Dreamlover" and "Honey" if i'm being honest. And I also just signed to a new record label "Black Rose Records" which is very supportive of my new music. I can't spoil too much, but we have some really crazy features on the album, more than just Iggy Azalea. Just expect the unexpected with this album. It truly will be a masterpiece
Ryan - I'm really excited for you and the music, Mariah. Any last words?
Mariah - Thank you for everyone listening to me! I am Mariah Carey the elusive chatenuse, and this is my new song "Better without U" Featuring the one and only Iggy Azalea! Have a good day
*song plays*
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The dollar sign was too iconic to let go
Also, I'm thinking of signing another artist next week - guess who it is
Btw when is the deadline for this week if I may ask?
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Actually, scratch that.
I'm signing Katy Perry bitches, watch out.
Please add her to the OP, Robbie Thanks!
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I'm not ready claws out!
Can you add my record label and my 2 artists please? thanks
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Mariah visits Wendy Williams
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Wendy - It's time to introduce our final Guest, please start clapping for the icon, the legend, the pop diva, the one and only MARIAH CAREY!!
*Crowd cheers*
*Mariah Enters and sits down*
Wendy - How you doin' mariah! If i can recall, this is your first visit to the show!
Mariah - How you doin' wendy! I must say, I'm doing decent.. Have you seen the weather outside? It's like an icebox! I could barely get out my apartment in New York City! Not to mention all the snow and how cold it is! AHHH! Am I right, wendy? I know you lived here your whole life, I bet your used it!
And yeah, this is my first time on the show, Isn't that crazy? You talk about me 24/7 on hot topics, it feels like i've been here 50 times at least!
Wendy - I know it's so cold, but I'm happy you could make it. So your new song "Better without U" featuring uh, that girl ,uh IGGY AZALEA! Yeah her. It's hot! I heard it on the way to work today on the radio, such a great beat it got me dancing in this stone cold temperatures!
Mariah - Haha, thanks Wendy Darling. I really love the song too, It was so fun to make, as you know, I hear on the hot topics so I know you know! This song I wanted to make great to silence all the hate and news about my latest travesty. Trying to make light out of this horrid situation. And to you know, get revenge!
Wendy - So we all know, this song is about Nick. How do you think he feels about hearing this song? What is he thinking right now? Hearing such a sick new song being played all over the radio, about HIM.
Mariah - Shamelessly to say, I hope he feels some type of bad. He hurt me so much Wendy, and I usually don't go about spreading my love life in the public, but I feel like it needs to be said. Nick left me and cheating on me when I needed him the most. We just had our kids, they need a father. I don't want out kids to not have a full father figure or full mother figure in their life. It's not fair to me as their mother and it's not fair to them as the children. This goes without saying, I'm happy it's gone, as the song says, I feel better without him. He dragged me down to the lowest lows, and never brought me up to the highest highs. I'm better without him, I don't need an evil energy in my life, ruining it, especially with my new music and kids. And to answer your question, I really hope he feels like a a** right now for what he has done to me, my kids, and my reputation.. He is a cheating jerk, and I hope he's feeling bad right now!
Wendy - Wow, Wow. That is a lot mariah. Well I'm happy you want your revenge, here at hot topics we think what Nick did was awful. And those rude interviews? That's someone who NEEDS to get out your life. So anyways, about a brighter topic, Go sit on the hot seat we have some questions for you!
Mariah - ok wendy! *sits in seat*
Wendy - If you could date any guy in Hollywood right now who would it be?
Mariah - Uh.. bill gates, Girl needs the mula if you know what I mean. We can't make music for free ya' know.
Wendy - Oooh Spicy. What is your favorite song you've ever recorded?
Mariah - Besides the new music I'm working on, which I love, and I think is some of my best work to date, I can't tell you much about it. But for older music, I really like Honey, Fantasy, Dreamlover, and Vision of love. Those always are enjoyable to sing
Wendy - Well thanks so much for coming by Mariah, buy her new single "Better without U" Featuring Iggy Azalea right now!
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I'm not ready claws out!
Can you add my record label and my 2 artists please? thanks
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I'm excited to see what you got in store bb
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Cara Delevingne on David Letterman+Premieres 'Once' and 'Distant Horizon' Music Videos
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To get as much promotion in for her album and her singles, Cara Delevingne visited the Late show with David Letterman for a medley performance of 'Once' and 'Distant Horizon' Cara's current promotional singles along with a performance of 'Fall Out' which features Jay-Z and which is her current single. She also talked about multiple things on the show, including about the new album or more precisely the re-release of the album 'Distant Horizon' under the shape of the Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack. Cara first arrived to the show inside an SUV along with Kendall Jenner, her girlfriend who attended the show. She was wearing an elegant long black see through dress with pink undergarments and signed a few autographs for her fans and took a few pictures with them. After the show, Cara Delevingne premiered the music videos of her singles 'once' and 'Distant Horizon'. She first sat down wearing a dark red elegant long dress created by Versace along with a pair of heels for the interview.
How have you been Cara?
Oh life's just getting better but it's getting more and more exhausting everyday as we approach my album's re-release date.
Yeah speaking of which, you're soon releasing the Fifty Shades of Grey Soundtrack which also is your current album 'Distant Horizon''s re-release, tell us about that.
Well I've been working with a few people for the new tracks including the BEYONCE producer BOOTS, Jason Evirgan and more. There's also a duet. The album re-release is out on February 8th!
You performed Nick Jonas' Song 'Chains' with him yesterday live on TV, why?
Well the duet I was talking about just a few minutes ago is actually this one. It's with Nick and it's he's song 'Chains'. I've always loved the song. We gave it a more electronic sound for this version but overall it's very similar to he's original version. My lyrics are brand new ones written for this version.
Why did you choose to reveal the album's cover yesterday?
Well I just wanted something small and nice for the fans to get and start the hype around the album. I want the hype for this re-release to be strong, just like my album's hype was big due to the long wait.
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Fall Out is your brand new single. It features Jay-Z how did you collaborate with him? What made you two work together?
Well it was originally supposed to feature Kanye West who I met at various parties when I was partying around with Drake and Rihanna. We worked a bit together on like a song for him but then he got interested in my own album. He was supposed to work on most of it until he dropped out for he's own personal reasons. But he got me to work with a few people from he's own entourage such as BOOTS and Jay-Z. That's how I met Jay-Z at first and we instantly clicked. We really liked working together. The song was amazing, the fans loved it. It had to become a single.
After the interview Cara performed a medley of 'Distant Horizon' and 'Once' her current promotional ingles. The performance was fast and up-beat and ended up with a transition which introduced 'Fall Out' which was the main part of the performance. Cara had 8 dancers dressed in black dancing around the stage for the performance. The performance mixed the impressive dance moves with the great light effects which created interesting visuals. Cara's voice was also powerful and went well with the song's first live TV performance as a single and not just an album track. After her performance the music videos for the promotional singles 'Once' and 'Distant Horizon' premiered live for everyone to see and they were then uploaded to Cara Delevingne's VEVO account.
The 'Once' video starts off by showing Cara dancing around at a underground club with many neon lights surrounding her. During the whole video, clips of her drinking, dancing around and flirting with people are shown, while she moves in between of all the neons. The same guy constantly comes up to her but she just refuses to talk to him over and over again.
The 'Distant Horizon' music video shows Cara in a desertic setting, a little bit like Selena Gomez in her 'A Year Without Rain' video. Cara is wearing a black lace dress. She sings the medium-up song while walking through the desert looking at the horizon. At the end of the video Cara ends up near a water spot and starts walking into it, as if it wasn't there and the water and she ends up being completely under the water.
Cara Delevingne's single 'Fall Out' is now available along with promotional singles 'Distant Horizon' and 'Once' and so is her platinum certified album 'Distant Horizon'.
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Sky Ferreira releases album tracklist and cover
Sky Ferreira is full of surprises today - the singer revealed the album cover, the album being titled Dreamwalker, and the official tracklist.
Dreamwalker
Sky Ferreira
Genre: Pop, House, Dance, Alternative, Rock
Tracklist
1) I'm Better Than You
Dr. Luke, Max Martin, Cirkut, Savan Kotecha
2) Lonely Ones
Zedd, David Guetta,
3) Dreamwalker
Greg Kurstin, Sia
4) Put Me Out
Alesso, Ayoe
5) Silver Lines
Greg Kurstin, Sia
6) When I See You With Her
Benny Blanco, StarGate, Ester Dean
7) Among Us
Timbaland, Danja
8) Drunk
Timbaland, Danja
9) Your Skin
Bloodshy & Avant, Klas Ahlund
10) Start Of It All
Greg Kurstin
11) I'm With You
Detail, Danja
12) Pretty
Dr. Luke, Calvin Harris
13) Watch Me Do It
Calvin Harris
14) Dysphoria Euphoria
Greg Kurstin
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TMZ leaks Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey's fights leading to the divorce, people giving Mariah Sympathy
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Today, TMZ leaks Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon's marriage issues, resulting in lots of love for Mariah. Truth videos of Nick cheating on Mariah and fighting about the alleged cheat. Now tons of people around the world feel sympathy for Mariah Carey and her life, and want to support her. In this random leakage of videos, it results in Mariah getting PROMO for her new single about the ex called "Better without U" featuring Iggy Azalea. Mariah Sings "Yeah I know your a cheater, feeding me with your lies, like i'm a lie eater, Now I know the truth, I'm better without you" this touchy subject is getting fans and the general public support to Mariah about the cheating of ex hubby Nick Cannon. Sales are scheduled to grow based on this leakage which is like promotion for the new single.
We ask Mariah about this and she has little to say. Mariah says "It was bound to come out at sometime. I'm glad it leaked, If im being honest. People deserved to see the truth and I'm happy it came out. Now people know i'm not the lier and cheater in this relationship. But I don't like talking about this subject anymore, if you want to talk to me, talk about my new music. Which in fact is going to be amazing, I hope you all like the new single with Iggy. Piece darling."
We also attempted to talk to Nick, but we only got his maneger. His manager explains "We are not too happy about the leak. We are trying the best to take it down, as it's hurting Nick's reputation. He may he even lose a couple roles in tv shows if it gets too mad. And I know mariah wouldn't even want that, especially for the father of her own children."
For more Nick and Mariah news follow us on twitter and you can buy Mariah's new single "Better without U" on itunes now.
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Zendaya for VOGUE
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VOGUE has been getting a lot of great responses and feedback for their interesting and one of a kind videos 73 Questions with, which they shoot and upload every single week. However this week VOGUE uploaded two type of videos onto their official YouTube channel and their official website - 73 Questions with and an acoustic performance. This week VOGUE picked R&B singer Zendaya Coleman, who is known for her first name in the music and movie industry. The 73 Questions with Zendaya video was shot in Zendaya's brand new flat in New York, where Zendaya has been living for the past few weeks now after various celebrity outlets reported about Zendaya finally getting herself an apartament in the city, where she has been spending most of her time recently and where she is planning to stay for a longer time. She was asked about various and random things including things like what are her favorite things, what would she choose between two things for example two cities or two different dishes as well as what would she choose between two different dresses for a certain event. It was a really entertaining video as it seemed to be not rehearsed or anything and done randomly without going through with questions before the filming on that video. It was nice to see how Zendaya managed to quickly answer all of the questions that she was asked although they were pretty simple, which weren't that hard to answer to be honest. Zendaya's seemed to be confident as she never lost her words when she was asked various things even though some questions seemed to be really tricky and difficult, which would logically require some more time to think the answer up.
Along with the 73 Questions with Zendaya video VOGUE also posted a video of Zendaya performing her brand new single Broke a Heart or Two, which by the way went number one last week and sold 561,000 during its first week. It is a huge achievement for Zendaya, her whole team and her record label because her single broke the record of selling the biggest amount of copies in its first week this year. One of those 73 Questions that Zendaya was asked was about how she celebrated when she had found out that yet another single from her upcoming sophomore album Reckless Heart went number one and debuted with such huge numbers on the charts. Not every single artist these days can get at least two number ones from one album and during one era but Zendaya managed to do that. When Zendaya wants to achieve something she certainly will because she is truly a perfectionist, who never gives up on whatever she is doing at the moment. And it looks like Zendaya is trying to get her single certified as Platinum as she is continuing her promotional tour this week as well with her performances for different shows and websites like VOGUE, which recently uploaded a video of Zendaya performing her single Broke a Heart or Two. The performance was probably filmed at Zendaya flat on her balcony with a beautiful, spectacular and breathtaking view of New York behind Zendaya. On the balcony, Zendaya was joined by her guitarist, who has been playing for Zendaya for a long time now and has appeared with Zendaya on various shows throughout this week when Zendaya felt like performing Broke a Heart or Two acoustically. The performance that she and her guitarist did for VOGUE was really nice and it's simplicity was beautiful. That kind of simplicity perfectly showcased Zendaya's pretty voice, which is really smooth and sweet, but can become more raw and strong if needed. However during this performance Zendaya didn't use the more harsher voice as she focused more on the sweeter voice, which perfectly fit guitarist's accords.
What did you have for breakfast today?
Starbucks.
When did you found out that your single went number one?
Right after the charts were published.
And how did you celebrate?
I danced, I laughed and I jumped around my room.
Black or white?
Both.
What is your favorite color?
It's either black or pink, can't decide.
What is your least favorite color?
I like all of the colors.
What was your favorite subject in school?
Either English or maths.
R&B or Pop?
R&B.
iPhone or Android?
iPhone.
Facebook or Twitter?
Definitely Twitter.
Instagram or Vine?
Instagram.
Long hair or short hair?
Both. It depends.
Do you enjoy cooking?
Yes.
Is Beyonce your number one inspiration?
No, Aaliyah is my number one, then Michael Jackson, then Beyonce.
Can you choose between those three?
Oh, definitely no. That would be a sin.
Is is true that your next single is called Wicked Vixen?
Where did you get this type of information though? It might be, it might be not. Who knows?
I'm here to ask questions, not you. Dogs or cats?
Dogs.
Would you ever consider using Aaliyah's unreleased demos and meshing them with one of your songs to create an official song for yourself?
Probably not. That is disrespecting in a way.
Watch the rest of VOGUE's 73 Questions with Zendaya to hear her answer the rest of these questions on VOGUE's official YouTube channel as well as on its website.
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