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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 29 april 2019
Taylor Swift to open Billboard Awards with performance

By MESFIN FEKADU ing seventh album — the including top duo/group,
NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor follow-up to 2017's "reputa- top rock artist, top rock
Swift will open next week's tion." song ("High Hopes") and
Billboard Music Awards with In an interview with Robin top rock album ("Pray for
a performance of her new Roberts on Thursday — dur- the Wicked").
single "ME!" ing the 2019 NFL Draft on Swift wrote "ME!" with Urie
Swift released the colorful, ABC — Swift said the song and co-producer Joel
upbeat song Friday morn- is about "embracing your Little, the New Zealander
ing, ending the weekslong individuality and really cel- best known for producing
search the pop star set off ebrating it." Lorde's 2013 debut album,
when she teased fans with "I think that with a pop song "Pure Heroine." He has also
clues about a new project. we have the ability to get worked on hits for Imagine
She will kick off the May 1 melodies stuck in people's Dragons and Khalid.
awards show at the MGM heads and I just want it to Swift dropped clues about
Grand Garden Arena in be one that makes (peo- a new project for several
Las Vegas, where Mariah ple) feel better about weeks on social media,
Carey, Madonna, Maluma, themselves," she said. Taylor Swift attends the Time 100 Gala, celebrating the 100 most and her fanatic fans deci-
influential people in the world, at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at
Kelly Clarkson, Paula Abdul The video for "ME!" starts Lincoln Center on Tuesday, April 23, 2019, in New York. phered them and predict-
and BTS are also perform- with a slithering snake hiss- Associated Press ed Urie would be featured
ing. ing — an ode to Swift's on the song.
Swift, a 23-time Billboard "reputation" campaign downsized over the years, The Grammy-nominated She surprised a few hun-
Award winner, is nomi- — but then explodes into and now includes only Urie Panic! — who had a huge dred of those fans Thursday
nated for top female artist dozens of butterflies. Pas- (a touring band accompa- hit in the last year with "High when she visited a mural
and top touring artist at the tel colors are all over the nies him on the road). Hopes" — will also perform she commissioned in Nash-
show, which will air live on video, which includes Swift Urie will play double duty at the show. Panic! is also ville and thanked them for
NBC. and Urie happily dancing at the Billboard Awards: nominated for four awards, showing up.q
Swift released "ME!" — around.
featuring Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco released
Panic! at the Disco — on its debut album in 2005. It
streaming services and also featured the hit "I Write Sins
dropped its eye-popping Not Tragedies" — a song
music video Friday. It's the Swift said she loved as a
first single from her upcom- teenager. The band has

A young boy points a camera he was playing with towards a
new piece of street art believed to be by street artist Banksy on
a wall where Extinction Rebellion climate protesters had set up
a camp in Marble Arch, London, Friday, April 26, 2019.
Associated Press
Climate mural emerges

after London protests; Is it

Banksy?

Associated Press had an encampment for
LONDON (AP) — Officials 10 days until Thursday and
in London are trying to de- disrupted transportation in
termine if a stenciled mural the British capital with daily,
that appeared at a base targeted non-violent pro-
camp for climate protests tests. The artwork shows a
was created by the street child holding an Extinction
artist Banksy. Rebellion sign beside the
The mural is on a wall at words "From this moment
Marble Arch, where the despair ends and tactics
group Extinction Rebellion begin."q