Difficulty: Beginner
USA
PopTopic TV: Rihanna is up for an amazing 18 awards this year, including the evening’s coveted Top Artist award. She started things off with her racy ‘S&M’ single, clad in a barely there, white patent leather dominatrix ensemble, slithering across the stage at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday night.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
The flamboyant pop sensation Lady Gaga talks about the creative process behind her single "Applause." She explains how being forced to slow down by a hip injury actually helped her to focus, about working with famous names from the world of art, and exactly how much it means to her to be performing again for her adoring fans.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
British singer Adele won two prizes at the 2009 Grammy Awards, Best Female Pop Performance and Best New Artist and made a triumphant return at the 2012 Grammy Awards with a perfect six-for-six performance. In this clip, she reveals the inspiration, a very personal one, behind her second single, "Chasing Pavements".
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Adele and Graham Norton of the BBC have some fun with Adele impersonators. Adele arrives at the Adele contest disguised as Jenny, a dowdy nanny, with her face rearranged by a skillful makeup artist and with a funny walk. She's just one of many impersonators until she takes the stage and begins singing in her inimitable voice.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Aloe Blacc talks about his musical inspirations, philanthropic ambitions and much more in his EPK.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
This video is a cover by Austin Reed of the breakup song "Call Me," originally by Shinedown. Sometimes, if you can't change or don't want to, the only thing to do is walk away.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA South
In this video, Austin shows budding guitarists an exercise to increase the accuracy and dexterity of their fingers as they move across the guitar frets. The chords appear relatively simple, but Austin assures us that it’s not as easy as he makes it look!
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Grimmy rigged up Harry Styles to a heart monitor to see what images would cause an increased heart rate. Will it be Ryan Gosling, a briefcase full of money, Zayn Malik, or purple shoes?
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
New York-Berlin musician, songwriter, visual and multimedia artist Dana Schechter talks about what inspired her to become a musician.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
Nick Grimshaw takes pop superstar Harry Styles to connect with some people who don't care much about his fame or musical talent.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
The new biopic Bohemian Rhapsody is getting a lot of attention, but exactly how accurate is it? Here is a quick look at some discrepancies between what is shown in the film and the real story of the band Queen.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
The filmmakers made some significant changes to the actual timeline of the band's story. And with all the prosthetics and makeup to make Rami Malek look like Freddie Mercury, one thing stands out as missing entirely.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
Amy Winehouse, the first British singer to win five Grammy Awards in a single night, is interviewed at the BRITs where her powerful vocals won her the title of Best British Female Artist in 2007.
Difficulty: Newbie
United Kingdom
In this video, we can enjoy a performance of the British royal and national anthem "God Save the Queen." Hayley Dee Westenra is a classical crossover singer and songwriter from New Zealand.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
See superstars Christina Aguilera and Cher in their new film called “Burlesque” which is about a small-town girl coming to the big city and fulfilling her dreams by becoming a singer.
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