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Post by Admin on Jul 23, 2020 4:43:03 GMT
Live shows aren't even happening this year, but the world's biggest dance music festival, Tomorrowland, is still vying to be the most massive event of the season. Happening this weekend (July 25-26), the Tomorrowland Around the World livestream is hosting a lineup including Martin Garrix, Steve Aoki, David Guetta, Nervo, Afrojack, festival residents Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Oliver Heldens and other dance music titans performing from a virtual fantasyland. Katy Perry will also be making a special appearance. In a press conference held earlier today (July 22), Perry joined Aoki, the Nervo sisters, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, festival founder Michiel Beers and Guetta (who Zoomed in from a boat in France, naturally), to share her thoughts on the event. "Well, it's very cool, and I always want to be cool," the pregnant pop star joked of her decision to play the event. "But really truly, I thought it was so innovative of a festival to say 'Okay, know what? F--k it. We're just going to pivot, and we're going to bring something really technically advanced and difficult, but we're going to create something beautiful out of this mess. So I really admire and respect how the festival went and did it. "And basically some of my other pop friends like miss Dua [Lipa] and so forth have done the festival," Perry continued, "so I felt really in sync with the roster of old and am happy to be invited and included in this new way of doing it. Perry also said that she tailored her festival set list for the Tomorrowland crowd, promising to play EDM-ified versions of her recently released songs "Smile "and "Daisies" and that she'll be also "leaning in" to the festival's fashion with her orange hair Participating artists recorded their sets in front of green screens in studios set up in Belgium, São Paulo and Los Angeles, with the festival sharing a sneak preview of Martin Garrix's truly bananas looking performance on Instagram earlier today. See renderings of four of the eight festival stages, along with this weekend's set times, below. "It doesn't matter that it was only ten people," Guetta said of recording his set in the studio with the festival team. "I was using them to imagine the 100,000 people of Tomorrowland." Guetta went on to say that the livestream is "the only festival that has the guts to not only try a new creative model in terms of artistry, but also an economic model, because we have no idea how it's going to to, but I respect that you're willing to take the risk and doing something innovative and that's how we created that scene altogether, by doing things that have never been done before." Single day passes for the event are $13, with two-day pass going for $22. The two-day price including a week of video-on-demand content from the event. The event will broadcast from 9 a.m – 7 p.m ET, with "time-zone-friendly" options for people tuning in from North or South American and Asia.
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Post by Admin on Jul 24, 2020 0:40:01 GMT
Tomorrowland Around the World – Countdown Show One World Radio Presents: the Official Countdown to Tomorrowland 2020. Adam K and Nervo talking with Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, David Guetta, Afrojack, Claptone, Paul Kalkbrenner, Bassjackers, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano about their performances at Tomorrowland Around the World, the digital festival. Get your tickets for Tomorrowland 2020 now at Tomorrowland.com Tomorrowland Around the World, The Digital Festival - 25 & 26 July
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Post by Admin on Jul 26, 2020 5:46:44 GMT
Katy Perry graced the big, virtual Tomorrowland stage with a big top-inspired show ahead of the release of her upcoming album, Smile. The pregnant pop star, rocking bold, orange hair and a bright, polka dot dress, teased her set on social media Saturday afternoon (July 25). http://instagram.com/p/CDEi0ADHYdF "Orange you glad TODAYS THE DAY!" she quipped on the caption for some snapshots showing off her Tomorrowland costume. "Hope you enjoy my (big) top tier performance at @tomorrowland Around the World." Perry popped in following Afrojack at the live streaming dance festival, hosting a lineup including Martin Garrix, Steve Aoki, David Guetta and more this weekend. Backed by an elaborate virtual set, she performed a feel-good medley that kicked off with "Smile" from a clown face hot air balloon. "Hello Tomorrowland! I'm Katy Perry and I hope you can smile with me tonight," she called out to the crowd at home. The performance continued with bits of hits like "Teenage Dream," "California Gurls," "Dark Horse" and "Roar," all on the virtual fantasyland stage with her band covered in Mad Hatter-like top hats. Perry brought to life her "Daisies (Can't Cancel Pride)" remix accompanied by a giant virtual daisy that danced and smiled. The mix works in pieces of Perry's back catalog, including "I Kissed a Girl" and "I'm Walking on Air." She wrapped things with "Firework" as circus-ready balloons were suspended in the air above the virtual crowd, and virtual fireworks filled the sky
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Post by Admin on Jul 27, 2020 19:19:05 GMT
Katy Perry spilled some major tea during the Tomorrowland press conference on Thursday (July 23), revealing that she once turned down the chance to be featured on David Guetta's smash 2011 single "Titanium."
"Do you remember when, like almost 10 years ago, you sent me 'Titanium'?" the pop star asked, leading Guetta to respond, "Oh my god! Did you turn down the record?"
"So you sent me the song, right?" Perry continued. "And this is when you had Sia, obviously from Zero 7, you know, who had already had the coolest success -- she had demo'd that record. And you'd sent it to me and I remember specifically listening to it on the plane, I was like, 'Oh my god, this song is so good. Who is the person on the record? They should stay on the freakin' record. This is a hit record; don't put me on the record! Keep Sia on this record!' 'Cause I was already such a huge fan of Zero 7, and so I wrote you back an email...and I just said, 'You're crazy. I don't need to be on this record. Keep Sia on the record.' And there is 'Titanium.'"
While Sia had been releasing music for more than a decade -- both with British electronic soul collective Zero 7 and as a solo artist -- Perry passing on the record gave the Australian singer the highest-charting hit of her career at the time. ("Titanium" peaked at No. 5 on the Hot 100, but was quickly surpassed by "Wild Ones," Sia's other 2011 collaboration with Flo Rida, hitting No. 1.)
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