It’s Tuesday, April 16th and Courtney Love is dissing Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Lana Del Rey, and more big artists. The Kid LAROI officially confirms his relationship status with Tate McRae, Coi Leray wants to change her stage name and the Department of Justice is putting Live Nation & Ticketmaster in the hot seat. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are about to be busy with Taylor releasing ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ this week, she’s giving her fans all the clues prior to its release. Travis Kelce is officially named the host of ‘Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?,’ what can’t this power duo do? Richy Jackson spills into what it’s like working with Lady Gaga & JoJo Siwa, Dua Lipa explains her creativity behind ‘Illusion’ and more!
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00:00 Courtney Love isn't here for Beyonce, Taylor, or Lana. Travis and Taylor are booked and busy.
00:05 Tate and Leroy are official, Koi wants to lose Larray, and the DOJ is going after Live Nation.
00:11 Choreographer Richie Jackson stops by our studio,
00:14 and Dua Lipa gives us all the details on her new single.
00:17 Welcome back to another episode of Billboard News. I'm Rania
00:23 and if it's Tuesday, April 16th, and we gotta kick off the show with Courtney Love getting
00:28 real about some of your faves. Courtney Love did not hold back when she talked about Beyonce,
00:33 Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, and more. Let's break it down.
00:37 We're going to take a look at some of the women from across the decades
00:41 who've had the most influence on my life and probably should on yours.
00:46 Courtney Love does not shy away from sharing her opinions. While promoting her eight-part
00:51 audio series on the BBC, Courtney Loves Women, the whole frontwoman actually admitted to not
00:56 liking some women's music. She told The Atlantic she likes the idea of Beyonce doing a country
01:01 album because she's a black woman in a commonly white space, but she doesn't like her music.
01:06 Beyonce and Taylor Swift are the biggest women in music at the moment, but Courtney doesn't
01:10 think Taylor's important. Love said she might be a safe space for girls and she's probably
01:15 the Madonna of now, but she's not interesting as an artist. Speaking on Madonna, Courtney simply said,
01:21 "I don't like Madonna and she doesn't like me." She also talked about Lana Del Rey.
01:26 While she loves Lana's previous music, she thinks she should take seven years off,
01:30 saying, "I haven't liked Lana since she covered a John Denver song."
01:34 Well, one thing about Courtney Love, she speaks her mind. What do you think of her opinions? Let
01:38 us know in the comments. You know, we've got a ton of news to get through. Here are three things
01:43 you need to know today. The Kid LAROI makes it official with Tate McRae. The duo have been
01:48 spotted out on dates the past few months and we even nudged Tate about it at the iHeartRadio Awards.
01:53 Would you ever do a song with Kid LAROI? I don't know. I don't know. I feel like you guys
01:59 gotta get in the studio. Do something. It'd be good. Yeah, maybe. He's amazing. But LAROI finally
02:04 confirmed the romance rumors during his Dublin show when he called Tate his girlfriend. Talk
02:09 about a talented power couple. I'm so happy for them. From LAROI to LARAY, Koi LARAY is thinking
02:15 of shortening her name. The singer revealed to fans on Twitter that she wants to remove LARAY
02:20 from her name and just go by Koi. Personally, I think Koi has a nice ring to it. More power to her.
02:26 Over on the legal side of things, the U.S. Department of Justice is planning to sue Live
02:30 Nation. According to the Wall Street Journal, a lawsuit will be filed in the next few weeks
02:35 alleging violations of antitrust laws. The DOJ claims that Live Nation leveraged its dominance
02:40 over the live music industry to undermine ticketing competition. Hey, if this gets rid of
02:45 those insane fees, I'm all about it. We'll keep you posted as the story develops. And the news
02:50 doesn't stop there. This one is fresh off the press. Good thing Taylor and Travis lived it up
02:56 at Coachella this weekend because their lives are about to get real busy. Taylor Swift is giving
03:01 fans in LA a pop-up library to enjoy while they wait for the tortured poet's department. Over in
03:06 Chicago, fans have noticed QR codes popping up around the city, which leads to an unlisted
03:11 YouTube short video that reads "Error 321." The album drops this Friday, but the writing credits
03:17 are here. Two tracks are written by Swift alone, while Post Malone and Florence Welsh have credits
03:22 on their tracks. Taylor's also teamed up with longtime collaborators Jack Antonoff and The
03:27 Nationals' Aaron Duesner. And it's not just Taylor who's about to be busy. Travis Kelce will
03:32 officially be the host of "Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity." He told Extra, "I grew up loving
03:37 game shows and I'm excited to be following in the footsteps of so many TV icons by hosting my very
03:42 first one." Maybe he can get Taylor as a guest. We can only hope. We love some iconic choreography
03:48 here at Billboard. It makes or breaks a music video or a live performance. And we had the man
03:54 behind some of the most epic dance moves, Richie Jackson, stop by our studio. So I got the phone
04:00 call saying that, you know, they want to use "Rain On Me" and "Stupid Love's" choreography from the
04:04 video. When I was choreographing those videos for Gaga, in the back of my mind I said, "We're
04:13 gonna have to have our like difficult dance pop parts, but then we're gonna have our like simple
04:18 anyone can learn it parts." And so it's interesting to see that it came around unexpectedly to like,
04:22 basically like, do something that's never been done before, which is using the exact choreography
04:26 from a video in a game like Fortnite. So. And did you face any challenges doing that in
04:31 transition? It's interesting because like AI and where we're at in technology has like progressed
04:35 so much. Like back in the day they would have probably like brought me in, put me in a black
04:39 outfit, put on these like symphony balls, yeah the dots, and I would have to like physically dance it.
04:43 But they were literally able to take it from the video and like shift it into Fortnite. And when
04:49 it got to me, they basically showed me her skins and how she was moving and did it like the segments
04:54 and the sequence of what they took from the choreography from the video. Her, you know,
04:59 adult pop star era that we're about to get into, now it's like the game is open. Now I can,
05:05 we've been laughing because I'm like, "Ah, now we can do this move and do that move." And it's
05:09 more risque. So I'm excited. I'm really excited because she's just one of those artists that I
05:13 feel like is the next generation's big pop star and she just goes for it. And I love that about
05:19 her. And I mean she started to tease the song "Karma." What was your reaction the first time
05:24 you heard it? Okay, I was like, "Okay, the last song that I, that JoJo played for me was like
05:29 her song called D-R-E-A-M. It was very young, very kiddie." So I was like, "Okay, Rich, here we go."
05:35 You know, and once I heard it, I was like, "Yes!" I mean, it was unexpected. I didn't think that
05:42 this would be the song that came from her because it just, it was a first from hearing so many kid
05:46 songs for so many years that to hear this verb, I'm sorry, this vibe on her, I loved it. For the
05:52 full interview, head to Billboard's YouTube page. Before I let you go, if you're like me, you've
05:57 had Dua Lipa's "Illusion" stuck in your head all weekend. Well, we sat down with a pop star to find
06:03 out exactly how it went down. I was in, I guess, the milkshake of singledom. It's just like this
06:11 crazy roller coaster of just funny stories and I think it just makes for really good writing. And
06:19 so I'd go in and I'd sit with Caroline, who I've been working with since my first album. I mean,
06:23 we're so close so I can tell her anything and we were sitting down and talking. It's funny when
06:28 someone thinks that they can trick you or they can be an illusion of some sort and you see right
06:34 through it. But you choose to like play along because it's just more funny, but you, you know,
06:40 all the way through, I guess it's just part of the dating thing where you're kind of just texting at
06:45 this point because you're bored, but you can just see right through the bullshit. And so that's
06:50 really what "Illusion" is about. There's a moment in this song, it's like, you know, I can dance all
06:56 night to this. There's nothing that stops me from being able to see through this illusion. Like,
07:01 I can play you at your own game kind of thing. And so that's where it, that's where it came from.
07:06 You can find the rest of the video over on our YouTube channel. That's it for today. Come back
07:18 tomorrow to get a behind-the-scenes look at our cover with Tyla and Tate McRae breaks down some
07:23 of her most liked photos. I'm Rania Nipdos and this is Billboard News.