🎵 Miley Cyrus & Shakira Are Petty Queens

Plus, 2022’s accidental music sensation. Margo Price is a voice for the downtrodden.

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7 min readJan 17, 2023

Last week was a sad week for music. We lost Jeff Beck, Lisa Marie Presley, Robbie Bachman, and Yukihiro Takahashi. Jeff Beck was rock’s quiet guitar god, a member of The Yardbirds, and a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Relive his 1999 performance of What Mama Said on the Late Show here.

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Last month, Lana Del Rey made one billboard, and one billboard only, to promote her upcoming album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, and she posted it in Tulsa Oklahoma, the hometown of her ex-boyfriend. Petty behavior must be in the air because Miley Cyrus and Shakira are now taking digs at their ex’s too.

Miley’s new single, Flowers, her first proper song since 2020, was conveniently dropped on ex-husband Liam Hemsworth’s 33rd birthday. The song addresses the pair’s failed marriage and uses their Malibu home, which burned down in 2018, as a metaphor for their relationship. Flowers interpolates lyrics from Bruno Mars’ 2012 hit When I Was Your Man, but instead of singing “I should’ve bought you…

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