The concept of their latest album started during the 2020 lockdown when band’s postponed shows ultimately cancelled in early January 2021. Matt Healy, the lead singer used that opportunity to tease newer music from his band under the previous album name, Drive Like I Do. Unfortunately, the band confirmed that there was no exact day they were going to finish writing, recording and mixing their fifth album.

On February 14 2022, the band had to temporarily deactivate their socials, indicating new material was all set to be released, after a 7 month wait. In terms of musical style, Being Funny In A Foreign Language is a mix of Pop-Rock, Indie Folk, Baroque Pop and Electropop.

Part Of The Band Official Performance @Vevo_UK https://t.co/uXOf6lpwLL #the1975 #bfiafl pic.twitter.com/CBzQJqSt7F

— The 1975 (@the1975) October 19, 2022

The 1975 At Their Very Best UK tour Dates:

08/01/2023- The Brighton Centre- Brighton

09/01- Bournemouth International Centre- Bournemouth

10/01- Westpoint Area- Exeter

12/01 and 13/01- The O2- London

15/01- Resorts World Arena- Birmingham

Tickets are still on sale and can be purchased here.

English Pop singer, Ellie Goulding makes a comeback following the release of her fifth studio album, Higher Than Heaven which will be released on February 3rd 2023. Her album is preceded by three singles: “Easy Lover”, “All By Myself ” and “Let It Die”. Out of all her three singles, the lead single is “Easy Lover” which was released on July 15 2022. The song features American Rapper, Big Sean who is also one of the co-writers of this lead single.

The concept of her album started around the time she performed at Rock in Rio in Lisbon, Portugal in June 2022. She announced in July, she will release new music and temporarily deactivate her socials, just like The 1975 did. On July 4 2022, she announced the release of “Easy Lover”. 3 months later, following the release of  “All By Myself”, on October 7 and “Let It Die” twelve days after the second single. The musical style in Higher Than Heaven is mainly focused on Electropop and Dance-pop elements.

.@elliegoulding says “Easy Lover” has been a long time coming. Watch the English pop singer kick off her new era in music with her @bigsean collaboration.
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— Vevo (@Vevo) July 16, 2022

Following the release of her new single on February 3rd, she will also perform at KOKO in London on February 7 and 8.

On sale tomorrow // After selling out her first show at London's Koko, @elliegoulding has added a second night, set to take place on 7th February 2023.
Click the link below at 10am tomorrow for tickets:https://t.co/a7Bp9IDah5

— Ents24 (@Ents24) December 8, 2022

Tickets will be available here.

The song’s legacy can be traced back through the rapper’s discography, with the most recent, third part coming in 2013. Many fans were whipped into a frenzy by the sing ‘IV’ in the middle of the video, suggesting that the song may indicate the imminent release of the Compton rapper’s fourth LP.

The song features multiple, wild beat changes, and sees K-Dot taking aim at many subjects, labelling American President Donald Trump a ‘chump’ as well as taking a few swipes at fellow rappers. Such confrontation is not something that is new to Kendrick, as he effectively called out his entire generation of rappers on Big Sean’s ‘Control’ in 2013.

The veiled nature of the disses on ‘Part 4′ have caused even more speculation and rumour however, as many think Lamar may be taking aim at Drake himself, or potentially even Big Sean. During the song, Kencrick raps “Tip-toeing around my name, ni**a ya lame / And when I get at you, homie, don’t you tell me you was just playin’.” Clearly targeting the perceived falseness of some modern rappers. Kendrick then does an impression of the fake rapper defending themselves, and it sounds more than a little similar to Big Sean’s voice. Naturally, listeners picked up on the diss, and went wild on Twitter about to whom it was aimed at. 

Drake trying to write a response to Kendrick without his ghost writers at his side https://t.co/2TP2TV7OcX

— Flip Bayless (@LilTerryy) March 24, 2017

Kendrick most recently spoke to the New York Times about his upcoming album, describing it as “urgent”, whilst considering his path, and following a masterpiece in To Pimp A Butterfly. “I think now, how wayward things have gone within the past few months, my focus is ultimately going back to my community and the other communities around the world where they’re doing the groundwork” Lamar said

“To Pimp a Butterfly was addressing the problem,” he continued. “I’m in a space now where I’m not addressing the problem anymore. We’re in a time where we exclude one major component out of this whole thing called life: God. Nobody speaks on it because it’s almost in conflict with what’s going on in the world when you talk about politics and government and the system.”

Unfortunately, K-Dot did not disclose even a hint of a potential release date, but again fans found hope in ‘Part 4”s lyrics, with Kendrick sending a very clear message that “Y’all got till April the 7th to get ya’ll shit together.”