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The 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards are taking place this Sunday, Jan. 11, and there are some very big names nominated for Best Original Song this year. Here are the five nominees ranked from worst to best. -
Taylor Swift Tweets Out Favorite Cover Version of 'Shake It Off' by Jesse Will: It's a Slow Burner [LISTEN]
Cover songs are tricky animals. Some are done better than the original; others are the same. The best are complete reinventions. Jesse Will pulled off a superb cover of Taylor Swift's pop smash "Shake It Off," turning the upbeat number into a slow-burning epic complete with violin. Even T. Swift loved it."My favorite covers are the ones where the artist has made it their own, changing the way the song makes you feel," she tweeted to her nearly 50 million followers along with a video of the performance. -
Lorde, Diplo, Flume, Alt-J, Skrillex, Ben Folds & Others Attempt To Make The 'Hottest Hit 100 Record', Hilarity Ensues [WATCH]
How many artists does it take to make a hit record? Triple J attempted to find out by getting 40 of the top 100 artists on their top 100 records countdown to come together and make a hit song. Triple J breakfast hosts enlisted 40 of the world's finest musicians to try and make this record from scratch and it didn't go so well. Even after gathering names like Lorde, Diplo, Skrillex, Flight Facilities, Flume, Ben Folds, Reggie Watts, Gotye, Kingswood, Alt-J, Disclosure, The Presets and of course Rick Atsley into one room, the group of artists were unable to get anything going. -
Iggy Azalea, Lorde, Sam Smith Top Google's 'Year in Search' Musical Artists List for 2014
As 2014 comes to a close, it's only proper that the good people at Google let us what's been popular in the world of online searches so that everyone can get on the same page. It turns out that Iggy Azalea was the most-searched musical artist of the year, followed by Lorde and Sam Smith. People also wanted to know about Taylor Swift, Daft Punk and "Weird Al" Yankovic. -
10 Best Cover Songs Of 2014: Lorde, Sam Smith, Miley Cyrus, And More [LISTEN]
Because cover songs don't garner nearly as much traction on the radio or the charts as they once did, artists these days treat them more like fun little experiments, where they can try out things they normally wouldn't on one of their albums or original singles. This has resulted in plenty of inventive and fascinating covers, especially this past year. Here are the year's 10 best cover songs (in no particular order). -
Lorde's Taylor Swift Birthday Message: 'Royals' Singer Gets Sappy in Tumblr Post
This week being Swift's birthday (Dec. 13, to be exact), the support poured in. One of the positive messages came from pop superstar Lorde, who paid homage to Swift in a Tumblr post in "Royals" style. -
Oscar Best Original Song Shortlist: Coldplay, Lorde, Lana Del Rey Included
The Golden Globes listed five nominations for Best Original Song earlier this week, and the Academy Awards have now followed suit with a "short list" of 79 songs up for the same title. The Globe will be decided on the night of Jan. 11, but the Oscars don't take place until Feb. 22, so there's still a full month before that lengthy selection of songs gets pared down to five. -
2015 Golden Globe Nominations: Lorde, Lana Del Rey, John Legend, Common, Among Music Nominees
The 2015 Golden Globe nominations have been revealed. Because no Hollywood film would be complete without its soundtrack, Lorde, Lana Del Rey, John Legend, and Common are among the nominees for Best Original Song. The rest of the nominees in the musical categories are a mix of hit-makers and legends. -
Banks, Caribou and Little Dragon Top Hype Machine's "Most Blogged About" List for 2014 (Full List)
Struggling to find out what's next in music? Well it may be too late now but Hype Machine's annual list of the most blogged-about performers has come out so that you can try to catch up with what's hot. Topping the list for 2014 is electro-pop artist Banks. -
'South Park' Recap: An Army of Holograms, The Largest Christmas Special in History and A Battle of Two Superpowers...'South Park' Gets Epic
Matt Stone and Trey Parker bring the "#Rehash"/"#Happy Holograms" two-episode arc to a crazy conclusion. -
Luke Bryan Top Jukebox Artist of 2014 According to TouchTunes; AC/DC, Eric Church and Lynyrd Skynyrd Right Behind
The bar crowd has spoken: Luke Bryan is the undisputed jukebox champion of 2014. TouchTunes, which supplies establishments with digital music machines, announced its most-played artists and songs recently, and the Crash My Party singer is at the top on the list. As Billboard points out, it makes complete sense with tunes like "Play It Again" and "Drink a Beer." AC/DC, Eric Church and Lynyrd Skynyrd were right behind Bryan. -
Lorde Shares Clip Of Old Song 'Lost Boys' Cut From 'Pure Heroine' [LISTEN]
Lorde is currently hard at work (we hope) on her new album, but today (December 10) the 18-year-old Kiwi pop star shared a clip of a song through her Tumblr that she probably won't be releasing officially any time soon. The song, titled "Lost Boys," was written and recorded in 2013 for her debut album "Pure Heroine," but was ultimately cut from the album because "it was not a good song," at least according to Lorde.
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