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This article from Billboard covers two distinct topics: a feature on Drake’s involvement in k-os‘s music and a critique of Tate McRae’s performance at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.
Here is a summary of the main points:
Drake and k-os Collaboration
Financing and Vision: Drake is credited as an executive producer and provided financial backing for k-os‘s new seven-track LP. k-os described wanting an album that “takes big swings and doesn’t pigeonhole itself to one genre or perspective”—a “k-os record.”
Relationship: Drake and k-os have a long-standing friendly relationship. They reconnected in 2021 or 2022 after seeing each other at a club.
Support: k-os noted that Drake’s support allowed him to pursue ambitious production choices (like hiring the Vancouver String Orchestra) that would have been difficult for a new artist to fund in the current music industry landscape.
Tate McRae’s “Housewife” Performance
Criticism: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, formerly married to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, criticized Tate McRae’s debut performance of the song “Housewife” at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show, stating it was “Nothing Empowering Here.”
Song Meaning: Tate McRae described the song as an empowerment anthem about wanting to be her own provider and successful, singing lines like, “I just wanna make a lot of money/ be my own housewife.”
Viral Success: The performance and song achieved massive viral success:
It earned McRae’s largest streaming debut to date with 5.67 million streams in one day.
It landed at No. 1 on the Global Spotify chart.
The single “Housewife” also reached No. 3 on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100.
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