PinkNews sent reporter @Shivani Dave to UK Black Pride 2023. Here’s what they got up to

Here are some of our fav moments by icon @ladygaga on Saturday Night Live last night (Saturday 8 March). Did we miss any? #ladygaga #snl #mayhem #killah #abracadabra #saturdaynightlive

Lady Gaga has revealed her alter ego Jo Calderone helped her explore what she was looking for in men… #ladygaga #mayhem #jocalderone #littlemonsters #lgbtqia

All-female country trio Remember Monday will represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with their single, “What The Hell Just Happened?”, the BBC has confirmed. Remember Monday, made up of Charlotte Steele, Lauren Byrne and Holly-Anne Hull, will head to St Jakobshalle arena in Basel, Switzerland for Eurovision this May. The trio, who met at Sixth Form, describe themselves as “pop girlies with a lil bit of yeehaw”, which is very much reflected in their Eurovision entry. BBC Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills played “What The Hell Just Happened?” for the first time this morning (7 March), with initial reactions enjoying the song’s numerous frantic key changes, euphoric pop chorus and amalgamated genres. The track is a classic morning-after-the-night-before banger, with Remember Monday being unable to remember saturday. “Someone lost a shoe, I’m still in last night’s make-up. I’m waking up like, ‘What’s this new tattoo?’, they coo on the opening lines, before belting: “Room is spinning, ears are ringin’… I’m clutching my pearls like, what the hell just happened?” “…No clue, but I liked it.” Speaking to Mills about their participation in the legendary song contest, the girlband said they felt like they were “on another planet”. In a press release, they continued: “When you’re a kid and people ask you what you want to be when you grow up, an absolute classic, ‘I wanna be a pop star’, so the fact that we’re getting the chance to live that dream as three best friends is just wild. “We’re going to be the first girl band to represent the UK since 1999, which feels like such a crazy honour. We’re going to bring loads of fun, energy and hopefully do something that you won’t have seen before on the Eurovision stage. “We honestly can’t wait to experience this with all of the other incredible artists from around the world, and hopefully make everyone back at home feel proud! This is really the music World Cup and we’ll do our best to bring it home!” While Remember Monday don’t have the standing of last year’s entrant Olly Alexander in terms of existing fame, they do have a fairly sizeable following online, with half a million followers on TikTok. Eagle-eyed song contest fans may remember them from their appearance on The Voice UK back in 2019, where they were mentored by Jennifer Hudson. This year’s Eurovision Song Contest begins with the semi-finals on 13 and 15 May and concludes with the final on Saturday 17 May. #eurovision #remembermonday #uk #eurovision2025 #lgbtqia

Pop superstar Lady Gaga has explained why she decided to speak up for the transgender community at the Grammys last month. During a conversation with DJ Zane Lowe for Apple Music ahead of Gaga’s new album Mayhem dropping on Friday (7 March), the queer music icon spoke about why she’s such a vocal trans ally. The conversation began with Gaga and Lowe touching on the horrendous criticism – and particularly, the ageism – women in music face. Though the “Abracadabra” singer is only 38, she spoke about being uncertain about whether she would be “accepted” as she got older. “I ultimately decided that a woman could be powerful at any age,” she told Lowe. Lowe then mentioned Gaga’s decision to voice her support for trans people at the Grammy Awards in February. As she accepted the Best Pop Duo accolade for “Die With A Smile” alongside Bruno Mars, she clutched her golden gramophone and told the crowd: “I just want to say tonight that trans people are not invisible.” She added: “Trans people deserve love. The queer community deserves to be lifted up. Music is love. Thank you.” Reflecting on that moment, Lady Gaga told Lowe that she wanted trans people to know that they should be “protected” in the face of Donald Trump’s attempts to push through a wave of anti-trans orders. “What I would say first and foremost is what trans people are being faced with in this world is completely unfair, wrong, and there’s this violence that’s taking place on a daily basis in their lives,” Gaga explained. “I think that we all need to support trans people and each other to know that they deserve to be supported and loved and protected and lifted up. #ladygaga #transrights #zanelowe #transally #lgbtqia

We spoke to @msrebeccablack about surviving 'Friday', her new project 'Salvation' and her thoughts on being labelled 'underrated'. Now, after another month-long delay owing this time to the recent LA wildfires, Black is dropping Salvation, a seven-track “project” which careers between sugary Y2K hyperpop (“Sugar Water Cyanide”), broody, industrial-strength EDM (“Do You Even Think About Me?”) and spooky horror-pop (“Twist The Knife”). On the title track, the project’s strongest out-and-out pop number, Black belts: “I don’t need you to save me, I already saved myself”. Yet her journey to salvation has been hard won, after years spent, in her words, “learning who she is kind of backwards”. The bite-sized Rebecca Black origin story is this: in 2010, aged just 13, she was introduced to the now-defunct production company ARK Music Factory, after expressing an interest in making music. For $4000, the company wrote and produced the song “Friday”, which was released in February 2011 to very little fanfare (it received approximately 1000 views in its first month). Shortly after, it blew up to astronomical levels. In weeks, the music video received 30 million views, becoming at the time YouTube’s most disliked video, and Black herself garnered an inexorable level of press and online attention. In that nascent age of social media virality, the response to “Friday” – dubbed by one publication as “the worst song ever” – was unprecedented. As she’s grown through her teens and into her twenties, the now 27-year-old has had to untangle herself from the caricature the world painted her to be. Her relationship with the song has ebbed and flowed; in 2020, on its ninth anniversary, she reflected on being “terribly ashamed of herself and afraid of the world” following the fusillade of abuse she received. Just a year later, on the 10th anniversary, she shattered the song’s legacy by dropping a brain-melting, pitched to high-heaven hyperpop remix featuring Big Freedia, 3OH!3, and her friend and “guiding light”, Dorian Electra. This month, she marked the song’s anniversary with the air of someone who has finally broken free of its shackles, pointing out that the song itself is older now than she was when she released it. “Old hag!” she wrote on X. “I do really feel like the version of myself I am today is the closest to the version of myself I was when I was that age,” Black reflects now of her ascent since the “Friday” era. “In the sense that, maybe we’ve gotten a few more miles in our tool belt together and I’ve had a little bit more runs around the playground and know how this s**t works. But I think in the ways that I approach what I make, how I make it, what inspires me – I am playing so much more than I ever was post “Friday”.” It’s true: in the wake of her derided debut, she dropped a string of soggy ballads, a few Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry covers, and her first attempt at reclaiming her narrative, 2013’s “Saturday”. Yet her 2021 EP Rebecca Black Was Here and ensuing debut album – 2023’s half sparky, half sultry Let Her Burn – indicated that Black was an artist with a seriously well-tuned pop inclination, and the nerve to experiment. “I have so much further to go and I have so much to learn, and there’s definitely a lot of still untapped fear I have, but I think I’ve come as close to as I ever have been to that girl who was just so willing to put herself out there and try and learn and create,” Black says, her doe-eyes lined by her now-signature black bangs, “and that feels really good.” Rebecca Black in the music video for ‘TRUST’. (Finn Sanders) Not that you’d know it watching the “TRUST” music video – which features that bedazzled chainsaw and a choreographed court room scene that Britney wouldn’t sniff at – but Salvation was born of Black’s lack of self-confidence. “I have struggled greatly over the years to have the confidence to be exactly the version of myself I know exists in my head,” she confides.

The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood has revealed that she was meant to be a judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, but was forced to turn the opportunity down. In what was a pretty sublime move from the Drag Race UK producers, the former S3x Education star and Drag Race megafan was approached to be a guest judge in 2023. Devastatingly for all people who love camp TV, Wood had to turn down the opportunity as she was entering into rehearsals for the eight-time Tony Award-winning musical, Cabaret. Wood didn’t reveal which season she was supposed to appear as a guest judge on, but as she was rehearsing for Cabaret in early 2023, it likely would have been either Drag Race UK season five, or RuPaul’s Drag Race UK vs The World season two. It’s not the first time Aimee Lou Wood has expressed her desire to appear on Drag Race, with the 30-year-old star previously telling The Guardian in 2023 that being a guest judge is one of her greatest aspirations. “I’m an Aquarius, I don’t set goals in my life. I just go with it. But the only two things I’ve ever said I wanted were to be a guest judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race and play Sally Bowles in Cabaret,” she shared. #aimeelouwood #whitelotus #dragrace #cabaret #lgbtqia

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CELEBRITY DOPPELGANGERS, AT SOME POINT IT CANT BE A COINCIDENCE. FALLEN ANGELS. #fallenangels #CELEBRITIES #redpilltiktok #OCCULT #THEGODS

YALL ARE SO MAD FOR WHATT 😂 #fyp #fypシ #kanyewest #kanye

the whole house looks like a hurricane hit it so let's clean it together. #cleaning #clean #cleanwithme #cleaningmotivation #itsfine #housecleaning #homecleaning #kitchenclean #vacuum #cleantok #cleaningtiktok

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He was okay! (via melina_shah06/IG) #fail #spiderman

We’ve been married for 23 years! He knew his dad was my husband but didn’t know we were married 🤣 @SamuelParker70 #funnyvideo #kidscomedy #kidssaythedarnestthings #kidconvos #kidhumor #marriedlifehumor #momhumor