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!! OMG, Spotify strikes back against AI artists with ‘AI Persona’ label !!

Starting in mid-September, any artist profile Spotify flags as a photorealistic AI-generated identity, once it clears a certain audience size, gets the badge slapped on its page, its search listing, and every track row it shows up in.

The music stays up, but it loses its spot in Spotify’s editorial and algorithmic recommendations, so no more free rides onto Discover Weekly unless someone already follows the act. People behind AI artists can get ahead of it by self-disclosing starting today, and anyone flagged by mistake gets to appeal.

So the robots can still release albums on Spotify, they just can’t sneak into your recommendations without a badge announcing what they are!

!! OMG, new music: Grumpy Truck’s ‘UFObaby’ !!

Toronto’s Grumpy Truck is back with a new one called “UFObaby”. Lukas Brull, on what inspired the song:

“UFObaby is a bedroom dance pop song about feeling both cheap and expensive around finance people.”

Hmm – Relatable! Get in the truck. Or the saucer. Whichever one is idling out front first! Stream, like and listen to UFObaby below!

!! OMG, quote of the day: A$AP Rocky reveals Rihanna is working on new music !!

Is R9 finally in motion?

“She in the studio right now. Yeah, I said it. Sorry, babe. Like, bro, she working. She cooking, no funny s–t. Damn, I’ma get in trouble for this.”

A$AP Rocky revealed during an interview on The Jason Lee Show posted Wednesday (Aug. 5) that Rihanna is back in the studio and actively recording.

Do you buy it, OMG!?

!! OMG, Miley Cyrus covers WONDERLAND 2026 !!

Wonderland just handed Miley the cover of their Summer ’26 issue, out yesterday, to help solidify her legendary pop status even further. High concept, slightly unhinged, and a lotta BIG HAIR! She’s never looked better really.

And she’s not just on the cover, she guest-edited the whole thing: a conversation with Daryl Hannah about her two decades in the spotlight, plus unpublished photos from her personal archive.

Check out the full shoot after the jump!

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!! OMG, new music: Orville Peck’s sings of struggles with addiction and near-death overdose on ‘Too Little, Too Late’ !!

Orville Peck is getting painfully honest on his new song “Too Little, Too Late,” confronting overdose, addiction and the hard-won road to sobriety. Beneath the masked cowboy mystique, it’s a raw glimpse at what happens when survival finally forces you to reckon with yourself.

Heavy subject matter, beautiful voice, devastating title. Check out the brand new video above!

!! OMG, Kelly Clarkson thought she had the lettuce parasite: ‘Bridesmaids ain’t got sh*t on what happened’ !!

Is Kelly Clarkson the only daytime host willing to describe her own gastrointestinal apocalypse on network television before noon? Quite possibly. Kelly has never been one to keep her bodily disasters to herself and on her show this week, the singer launched into a full anatomy-of-a-meltdown story about a bad salad, a work trip, and roughly 48 hours she described as “Bridesmaids ain’t got sh*t on what happened.”…

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