Sam Smith is sending flowers to millions of followers — through a new filter set up on their Instagram page.
Sam offered the virtual bouquet in a post from early Tuesday morning. In it, they cue up the new single “Kids Again” and lip-sync along, showering the screen with petals with the wave of a hand. The singer has asked fans to follow suit and post your own flower-enhanced clips featuring songs from the new Love Goes album.
Katy Perry knows we can’t all get together right now in person, but she’s using her new single to push the idea that we can do that in spirit.
The star has partnered with Coca-Cola for a campaign called #OpenToBetter, and she’s created a short film for “Resilient” to remind fans that we really can bounce back from anything — if we lean on each other.
Katy explains the message of the song and video by saying, “To me, this campaign is about growing through challenges. I think the song ‘Resilient’ ties so well into that because being resilient is getting back up after you fall, growing from failure, and getting through that challenge. [It’s about] being resilient as a group. It’s not always just about personal growth, we need to grow together too!”
That “impossibly rare” album Ed Sheeran recorded in his early teens is hitting the auction block yet again — and this time it has company, in the form of a second CD he made around the same time.
Ed said he kept 19 of the 20 copies of Spinning Man, written and recorded when he was a kid. The one stray copy fetched $65,000 at auction back in September, but now a second copy is up for grabs, and the seller is also peddling a copy of a second album from the same era. This one’s called The Orange Room, and it got slightly wider distribution back in 2005. The current owner, who lives in the town where Ed grew up, says she bought the discs from the star’s mom when he pressed it up and completely forgot about it.
Auctioneer Paul Fairweather, who’s hoping to get $35,000 for the pair, said: “Ed’s parents played a large part in his career and it’s fascinating to see that that dedication extended to selling individual copies of their teenage son’s CD.”
The discs go up for grabs on November 24th. (Independent)
