The 2024 Lovers & Friends Festival has sadly been cancelled mere hours before it was supposed to commence.
Late Friday evening (May 3), organizers for the nostalgia-inducing festival, which was supposed to take place in Las Vegas, took to social media to announce that the event was no longer taking place the next day.
According to The Hill, 102 people wrote to the Federal Communications Commission to complain about the “Disturbia” icon’s set during the Halftime Show.
Complaints highlighted things like “inappropriate touching and dance moves,” “perpetual air humping and glorifying being a stripper” and “genital grabbing.”
It was even referred to as “pornographic content,” according to TMZ.
Rihanna is hardly the first artist to take spark complaints to the FCC after performing at the Super Bowl Halftime Show. In fact, it’s fairly common that at least a couple issues pop up every year, even when you might think a performance is fairly tame.
How does the number of complaints compare to previous Halftime Show performances? We did some digging to put it in perspective.
Scroll through to see how many FCC complaints previous Super Bowl Halftime Shows received in recent years…
M.I.A. claimed that an unexpected statement led to “the biggest backlash[sic] in my career.”
The 47-year-old “Paper Planes” hitmaker took to social media to complain about being censored on social media earlier this week. She claimed that opening up about faith led to problems for her.
More specifically, she cited one statement as the cause of her problems.
Click inside to see what M.I.A. blames…More Here! »
Candice Swanepoel and Joan Smalls walk down the runway while appearing in the Off-White fashion show held during Paris Fashion Week on Sunday (July 4) in Paris, France.
Travis Scott has dropped his new song “Franchise” and he’s also opening up about why the song wasn’t called “White Tee.”
The 29-year-old singer teamed up with Young Thug and M.I.A. for the new song, which was first teased in a commercial to promote his McDonald’s collaboration.
“Franchise” pays homage to the song “White Tee” by Dem Franchize Boyz and Travis told Apple Music that he originally planned on keeping the name.
He said, “We just naturally, it was just always just calling it ‘WHITE TEE.’ Just, just like, I think I was like the first bar made and we was making a song. It was just like hard and just you peep with me and him and we talk about it. I just, we still call it like ‘WHITE TEE’ and sh-t like that. ‘Franchise’ is always like the name, I think we have on the board for it and it was just fire. We had like a couple circled names we always thought was dope. So, you know, we just went with them, you know. So now you know, it’s just like names is always…so that’s the joint though, man. I f-k with it heavy.”
The music video for “Franchise” was debuted in select IMAX theaters tonight ahead of showings of Tenet.
You can download the song now on iTunes or stream it below via the music video below.
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Orlando Bloom shows off his new blonde hair has he arrives at Stella McCartney’s Fashion Presentation on Thursday night (November 10) at Abbey Road Studios in London, England.