Katy Perry urged a teenage singer to throw her microphone and make that stage your b ! on Monday s All-Star Duets and Solos episode of American Idol.
The 36-year-old pop star was blown away by Casey Bishop, 16, who rocked out on Paramore s Decode before belting Incubus Wish You Were Here with Brandon Boyd, 45.
The Estero, Florida, high schooler had fearsome pipes, and Katy wanted her to take her whole performance full throttle to show off the star she really was.
Stage advice: Katy Perry urged a teenage singer to throw her microphone and make that stage your b ! on Monday s All-Star Duets and Solos episode of American Idol
Women had a stellar year at the Grammys. Female artists won for album of the year (Taylor Swift), record of the year (Billie Eilish) and best new artist (Megan Thee Stallion). In addition, two of the three writers of the song of the year winner, “I Can’t Breathe,” are women.
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Folklore won album of the year. It’s her third win in the category. She’s just the fourth artist in the Grammy history – and the first woman – to win album of the year three times. She follows Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon (counting a Simon & Garfunkel album) and Stevie Wonder.
Both Sides Now was more homage than any attempt by Deans to emulate her Canadian inspiration. There was no overthinking here. No attempt to impersonate her predecessor. No on-stage chain smoking. While the music was Mitchell’s, the show was all the New Zealander’s, and all New Zealand, right down to the quartet of taciturn blokes in black T-shirts – including the perpetually cool Paul McLaney (Gramsci) on guitar – behind her on the stage. And from Deans herself there was a minimum of onstage banter or biography to distract people. It was all about the music. Hers is a powerful voice, arguably richer and more nuanced, definitely more powerful than Mitchell’s own. The Canadian is an incredible songwriter, her music full of thoughtful introspection, whimsy, lament, hope and despair – as heard in
It is one of a swathe of shows that should draw big crowds to the gardens and some associated venues on Wednesday night. Another is
Dakota of the White Flats, a work of theatre for young people and adults that begins a three-night, three-matinee run at the Meteor Theatre. Adapted from the novel by Philip Ridley, it tells the story of a fearless 14-year-old who lives in a bleak housing complex on the edge of a polluted canal that is filled with monstrous mutated eels. Lovers of dance have a potentially thrilling experience in store for them in the form of Hurihuri, a work that has been constructed around the movement of the wheel, and fuses hip-hop and contemporary movement with traditional kapa haka.