From Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl to a very unexpected Skrilla performance, this is what The FADER editors are talking about.
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Get well soon, Lola Young
Lola Young pulled all of her upcoming live performances following a troubling appearance at last weekend’s All Things Go festival where she collapsed on stage. The British artist, best known for her single “Messy,” told fans she is “doing O.K.” but that she will be “going away for a while” as she recovers and gains full fitness.
Bad Bunny is the Super Bowl halftime performer
The 2026 Super Bowl will be headlined by Bad Bunny. The performance at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California is likely to be the Puerto Rican artist’s only performance on U..S soil for the forseeable future as he has said he is avoiding the country to protect his fans from ICE. Proving that this stance is, indeed, wise this week was former Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski who called the NFL’s decision to book Bad Bunny “shameful” and reiterated that ICE officials will be monitoring the stadium come Super Bowl weekend.
The lyrics of a showgirl
Taylor Swift’s 12th album The Life Of A Showgirl dropped this week and fans are busy dissecting the lyrics for meanings. One of the more obvious songs to decipher is “Actually Romantic,” which appears to address Charli xcx. The brat singer wrote about Swift on her song “Sympathy Is A Knife” in a nuanced, though not 100% complimentary, way and suggested that she found it difficult to be around her when they were both dating different members of the same band. On “Actually Romantic,” Swift dismisses an unnamed nemesis as being obsessed with her and compares them to a small dog barking in a handbag. The album is packed full of allusions to other people and, in one case her fiancee’s manhood. Decode it all here.
Artists demand free speech protections
Over 550 celebrities, including musicians, actors, and directors put their names to a revival of the Committee For The First Amendment, a free-speech group dating back to the late 1940s. Chief among the list of famous names are Billie Eilish and Gracie Abrams, with Pedro Pascal, Spike Lee, and Jane Fonda also backing the move in the wake of Jimmy Kimmel’s recent suspension.
Skrilla and Natasha Bedingfield come together for 2025’s most unlikely collab
Skrilla was a surprise guest at Natasha Bedingfield’s show in Philly this week, joining her onstage to perform his song “6 7” while Bedingfield served as his hypewoman. Who knows how, or why? Just allow the sheer randomness of it all wash over you and raise a smile.