Shakira. The Latin Grammys love women. Female artists (and Bizarrap) won all four of the major awards at the November 16 ceremony in Seville, Spain, per Billboard. Album of the Year went to Karol G for her album Mañana Será Bonita, and Natalia Lafourcade, who is already the most awarded artist in Latin Grammys history, added to her total with a Record of the Year award for “De Todas Las Flores. Read More...
Nicki Minaj onstage at the 2018 BET Awards in Los Angeles, California. If you’re a rapper who woke up this morning assuming you and Nicki Minaj were on good terms, check again. This afternoon Minaj released her long-delayed, mired in utter confusion, fourth album Queen. It’s a mostly innocuous effort, save for the stray potshot here and there, with the extreme exception of third track “Barbie Dreams.” It’s a song that takes its aim before a single bullet rolls off the barrel of Nicki’s tongue: Its inspiration comes from Biggie’s “Just Playing (Dreams),” which famously listed off all the women in R&B of that era he wished to have sex with, and was then famously flipped by Lil’ Kim for her own song, “Dreams,” where she fantasized about all the R&B men she’d have sex with. Read More...
The Pillars of Creation are arguably the most iconic image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Here's what they look like — in images captured in 1995 and 2014.
The European Southern Observatory says its astronomers, using the MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile, have now produced the first 3-D view of the famous pillars. You can watch it here:
Among their major observations: the pillars will no longer exist in another 3 million years; and a previously unseen jet from a young star. Read More...
