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Taylor Swift has returned to Instagram for her first post in over 100 days to pay tribute to her best friend Selena Gomez's new album with fiance ... collaborating on a song with J Balvin and ...

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The video includes some sneak peeks into the making of his new album, featuring snippets of him in the studio recording and assembling the track list for ... two new songs: "I'm a Little Crazy ...

The five-year wait, marked by a jazz project and two failed soundtrack albums ... Lady Gaga. Its psychedelic dance-pop sound and energetic choreography — reminiscent of the "Bad Romance" music ...

That song ended up on this test version of the album, which he released amid a flurry of inflammatory tweets that targeted Jay-Z and Beyoncé and their children. West explained that he released ...