Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Adele, Sam Smith, Kim Petras

 That's Adele performing "I Drink Wine" live at the start of this year.  Tomorrow, she's releasing a video for the song.  An official video.  Seems a bit overdue.  It's one of the best tracks on her album 30 and it should have been released a long time ago.


In other music news, NPR reports:

Sam Smith and Kim Petras became the first openly non-binary solo artist and first openly transgender solo artist, respectively, to ascend to No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 song chart.

Their song "Unholy" debuted at No. 3 on Oct. 8 and spent two weeks at No. 2 before surpassing Steve Lacy's "Bad Habit" on Monday. The song earned both artists their first No. 1 spot on the Hot 100, with Smith's "Stay with Me" reaching No. 2 in 2014.

"I just really don't want to be the last," Petras told Billboard last week about her then-No. 2 spot on the Hot 100 chart. "There's always been incredible and talented trans artists."

She pointed to trans artist SOPHIE, who helped usher in a new era of electronic pop music, and others such as Amanda Lear and Ayesha Erotica who she looked up to.  






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