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  • TikTok Improves Privacy Protections For Children

    TikTok Improves Privacy Protections For Children

    TikTok has announced a number of changes aimed at improving privacy protections for children on its platform.

    TikTok has come under widespread criticism for privacy and security violations. Not the least of those has been repeated violations of child privacy. The company’s ongoing security and privacy issues have prompted numerous companies and government agencies to restrict the app from company devices, as well as been a major factor in the US government attempting to ban the app.

    While TikTok’s future remains in question, the company has finally taken definitive steps to protect children using its platform.

    “Starting today, we’re changing the default privacy setting for all registered accounts ages 13-15 to private. With a private TikTok account, only someone who the user approves as a follower can view their videos. We want our younger users to be able to make informed choices about what and with whom they choose to share, which includes whether they want to open their account to public views. By engaging them early in their privacy journey, we can enable them to make more deliberate decisions about their online privacy.”

    The company has included additional changes, such as restricting comments on videos created by younger users, modifying Duet and Stitch settings for these groups, restricting friend suggestions and more. In addition, the company also offers a TikTok for Younger Users, specifically for users in the US under 13 years of age.

    TikTok’s announcement is a welcome improvement. It remains to be seen if it will do anything to help the company’s fight against its ban order.

  • Bryan Adams And Justin Bieber Remake ‘Baby’ In Unlikely Duet

    Justin Bieber’s hit “Baby” is one of his major hits but it is also one of the most disliked video on Youtube, with 5 million dislikes from viewers.

    However, it is still the song that marks Bieber’s beginnings as a music superstar.

    But will listeners still respond negatively to new version featuring Bryan Adams?

    Bryan Adams and Justin Bieber performed a surprise duet of  “Baby” at the Universal Inside 2015 conference in Berlin on September 15. It was like a combination of two genres.

    Unlike Bieber’s version with rapper Ludacris, his acoustic version with Adams is a slower, raw version of the song. It’s not the sweet, young version anymore but a more matured ballad that is far from the versions Bieber did in his past performances.

    Bieber had a lot of hits already, and he also did other renditions of his other hits, but this is the first time he made an acoustic rendition of “Baby” and with Adams joining him, it’s indeed a special one and nothing like any other renditions we’ve heard before.

    Bieber also has an acoustic version of “What Do You Mean” that his fans will get to hear once its original version is streamed enough on Spotify.

    Bryan Adams will be releasing his new album called Get Up this October, and Justin Bieber will also have his upcoming album this November. Both Adams and Bieber were there to promote their music at the conference.

    Could Adams and Bieber do an album or hit together?

  • Britney Spears And Iggy Azalea To Drop Powerhouse Duet — ‘Pretty Girls’

    Pop Superstar Britney Spears is coming out with a new music video in collaboration with Aussie rap sensation Iggy Azalea. “Pretty Girls” will hit the airwaves and tickle fancies sooner than fans had anticipated.

    With brewing energy surrounding the song’s release, Spears told Extra why she worked with the “Fancy” rapper.

    “I saw her song on TV and I was like a kid in a candy store,” she told Extra. “I was like, ‘I love Iggy, I love that video, I want to work with her,’ and it was really weird, because a week after that her manager was like, ‘She’s a huge fan of yours.’ I was like, ‘Let’s do something together,’ so it worked out.”

    Back in December, Azalea revealed to Ryan Seacrest that she has been working with Spears on “Pretty Girls”, which will likely be the lead single off Spears’ upcoming album.

    “It was such a journey, that song. I got asked and it was her song, and then she didn’t think she would have her album done in time, and then I rewrote parts of it and it became my song, and I tried to make it all mine and keep it. Then she said, ‘No, no, I am going to take it, my album is ready,’” Iggy said. “And so I swung it back her way because she’s Britney Spears, you have to do that. She gets whatever she wants.”

    “Pretty Girls” swung back and forth Spears and Azalea’s upcoming albums, and Spears finally got the better end of the deal – a cool powerhouse duet.

    “It’s kind of really evolved into something that I was just featured on originally, into really a true duet, where I’m on the chorus with her. We go back and forth, she has her verses I have my verse, but it’s not just me kind of popping in it. It really is a duet,” Iggy explained. “And I love that. I love a good pop duet where it’s equally powerhouse. Cool,” says Azalea.

  • Miranda Lambert Debuts Duet With Carrie Underwood

    If you didn’t tune in to the 2014 Billboard Music Awards, you definitely missed out, as two of country music’s leading ladies put on quite a show!

    While at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood took the stage to debut their much anticipated duet Somethin’ Bad, and they definitely did not disappoint!

    Before they performed, their good friend and fellow country music star Brad Paisley introduced them. Miranda and Carrie sported matching studded leather jackets and similar hairstyles, and there was no denying the chemistry between the girls both as singers and friends.

    “I’m a huge Carrie Underwood fan,” Lambert said before their performance. “‘Somethin’ Bad’ is a meshing of our styles, and there aren’t many female collaborations in our format, so I’m really excited to be debuting it on the Billboard Awards.”

    Miranda had previously talked to Billboard, and admitted to being intimidated by Carrie. “Singing with Carrie Underwood is very, very intimidating. I’ll be honest. She is an amazing vocalist,” Lambert said. “Asking her to do [the duet] was nerve-wracking.”

    “I sent her an e-mail, a long, blabbing e-mail about if she wanted to sing on the record, it could be cool, but maybe she didn’t want to, and if she liked the song, but she didn’t have to like the song … and when I sent it, I thought, ‘This sounds ridiculous,’” Miranda added.

    Somethin’ Bad is featured on Miranda’s latest album Platinum that is due out on June 3. To pre-order Miranda’s album, click here.

    Image via Twitter

  • Lady Antebellum And Stevie Nicks Perform At 2014 ACM Awards

    The 2014 Academy of Country Music Awards yielded some fantastic performances on Sunday from esteemed country artists such as Blake Shelton, Sheryl Crow, and Rascal Flatts. However, it was the duet between country music group Lady Antebellum and legendary vocalist Stevie Nicks that rocked the show.

    The three-time ACM Vocal Group of the Year and “The Reigning Queen of Rock and Roll” performed Lady Antebellum’s current hit song, Golden, followed by the classic Rhiannon by Fleetwood Mac.

    The two artists have performed together in the past; they appeared on the television show CMT Crossroads on Country Music Television or CMT, in which Lady Antebellum and Nicks joined forces on such Fleetwood Mac hits as Landslide, Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around, as well as Lady A’s Love Don’t Live Here Anymore and Need You Now.

    The 65-year-old legend sang Lady Antebellum’s praises earlier this week, saying that Golden is the group’s Landslide because it’s just that spectacular”. Lady A singer Charles Kelley had nothing but good things to say about Nicks as well. In an interview with Yahoo! Music, Kelley said that Nicks is “incredibly humble” and that she patiently rehearsed with them for hours until they “got it just right”.

    Nicks is due to go on a North American tour with Fleetwood Mac that will feature keyboardist Christine McVie, who joined the band in 1970 and retired in 1998. She rejoined the group early this year and also performed on stage with Fleetwood Mac in London’s O2 Arena in September of last year.

    Lady Antebellum is currently on tour around the United States, and has already performed at various cities including San Diego, California, and Phoenix, Arizona. They are scheduled to appear in Evansville, Indiana on April 10 and Atlanta, Georgia on April 11. A complete list of their tour dates can be seen on the official Lady Antebellum website.

    Lady Antebellum Behind the Scenes

    Image via YouTube

  • Katy Perry And John Mayer’s Sexy Cover Photo

    Katy Perry and her boyfriend John Mayer posed together for a sensual black-and-white which will serve as the cover art for their collaboration “Who You Love,” which will be on the song list of Mayer’s album entitled Paradise Valley.

    The photo depicts a more demure John Mayer looking downward (probably to conceal his always-red eyes) and sitting below Perry with his fingers on the guitar strings. Perry’s arm is possessively but gracefully placed on his shoulder as she lies on a couch draped in a dark, velvet gown.

    Hopefully all of the attempted sincerity and successful sex appeal of the photo shoot is good enough to make you wonder what it’s all for, and what the song “Who You Love” is all about.  With all this promo, the song had better be worth the listener’s while.

    According to E! News, Mayer described the song as this:

    “Who You Love” is a sweet melody that tells the story of opening up your heart and allowing yourself to fully love the person in your life—or specifically to ‘love who you love, who you love’”… whatever in the world of tangled-up metaphors that is supposed to mean.

    But you shouldn’t expect much clarity from either of the two songbirds who have heart badges stitched all over their sleeves. Mayer continued to express his excitement about the song in an interview with Jimmy Kimmel:

    “It was a really great experience and the song is one of these like old FM ‘70s and ‘80s sort of like duets. And I listened back to it; it’s, like, really convincing. And I watched it get made and I am still taken aback.”

    So, um, basically all curious fans will just have to listen to the song in order to decipher the deep, heart-felt emotions that these love-struck crooners have poured into their music. If you need to ease your musical curiosity as well as any confusion that John Mayer has caused you, take a listen to “Who You Love” below.

    Image via John Mayer, Facebook

    Video via Youtube

  • Taylor Swift and Jennifer Lopez Join Forces

    Taylor Swift and Jennifer Lopez are teaming up for a new song that will appear on Lopez’ new album that is set to release sometime early next year. This will be Lopez’ eighth album to be released, to date.

    “Both of them are huge fans of each other and excited to work together!” a source tells Us.

    23-year-old Swift and 44-year-old Lopez recently joined together to sing a duet during Swift’s concert at the Los Angeles Staples Center on August 25. They performed Lopez’ hit song, “Jenny From the Block”. After such a successful performance, the two singers decided to collaborate on another song.

    After the performance, Swift and Lopez took to Twitter to share their reaction to the experience of getting to perform together. They both seemed very excited!

    While Swift and Lopez will be continuing to focus on their music, many of you have probably heard that Lopez will be returning as a judge on the upcoming season of “American Idol”. She will be joining former judge Keith Urban and newbie to the judging panel Harry Connick, Jr.

    Swift is always working on new music and writing new songs. She has said that her follow up album to “Red” is going to be different from her other albums that she has released. “But I think it’s about to start to kick into full gear,” Swift said. “I’m about to go into the studio. It’s about to get really intense.”

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • Obama And Al Green Duet?

    Obama And Al Green Duet?

    Ever since President Obama’s famous Al Green vocal snippet, the video of him singing, though very brief, has gone viral receiving millions of hits on YouTube. Since going viral the audio has even become available for download as a ringtone and now American Idol execs are pushing for a duet between The President and Mr. Green.

    http://youtu.be/T-hDt2E8MoE

    According to a source, American Idol top dog Nigel Lythgoe wants Mr. President to come on the show to perform the full song with the original singer, Mr. Al Green.

    Nigel actually recently tweeted about the subject.