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Swifties are seeing green after a series of alleged Easter eggs of the same color have popped up ... leading them to speculate Taylor Swift may be releasing an album.

Here's the deal ... artwork that appears to be a bright green interlocking "TS" logo was spotted on a black wall in an undisclosed location Thursday ... and then the Empire State Building account shared a photo of the iconic building lit up green.

Not only that, the ESB's caption read ... "WhaTS happening?" -- and Swifties were quick to jump on the superstar's initials being capitalized.

Ariana Grande wants to get the real names of the people she claims have been hacking and leaking her unreleased material ... and she's asking a judge to help her do it.

According to new court docs obtained by TMZ, Ariana wants the court to give her permission to subpoena internet platforms and other third parties she believes have business records that could unmask the alleged hackers.

Ariana says she's spent years trying to ID the people behind the alleged cyber scheme ... but they've hidden behind anonymous accounts and peer-to-peer payment platforms.

Kanye West is losing his head over his latest music video -- literally -- and wife Bianca Censori is the one calling the shots.

Ye dropped the bizarre visual for "OK," his track featuring Don Toliver ... and Bianca planted her husband squarely on a morgue table for the occasion.

The video shows Kanye as a headless corpse while a team of doctors operates on his body ... pulling strange objects from inside his torso. The medical crew eventually attempts to reattach Ye's head ... turning the whole thing into one seriously twisted resurrection.

Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry are proving love can make you do some deeply embarrassing things ... breaking out their cringiest dance moves in the middle of a hardware store.

The former Canadian prime minister and his pop-star girlfriend filmed themselves grooving inside a Montreal Home Hardware when his 18-year-old son Xavier Trudeau, known as Xav, came on the radio with his new song, "DOWNTOWN."

Justin kicks off the cringe-fest holding a plunger and plastic tubs before awkwardly shuffling and mouthing the words ... then Katy flips the camera around and jumps in with a hoedown stomp of her own.

Noah Kahan turned his sold-out Rose Bowl show into an even bigger spectacle Saturday night ... bringing out Chappell Roan for a surprise performance.

The pop stars teamed up to perform Roan's song "California," and the massive Los Angeles crowd a went wild.

Check out the clip ... before the performance, Roan took a moment to shout out Kahan, saying the singer has always stuck up for her.

Madonna just turned 68 ... and she's still lookin' great ... she's been a stunner for decades, turning heads on and off stage.

The pop icon's still strutting her stuff and flaunting her fit figure after all these years ... which is certainly cause for celebration ... birthday or not.

In honor of Madonna's latest trip around the sun, we've gathered some of her hottest shots from her decades-long career.

So get into the groove and send the queen a little bday love by checking out our gallery.

Ne-Yo got down and dirty on stage during his "Nights Like This Tour" Friday night in Las Vegas ... simulating a sex act while floating above the stage with his dancer.

Check out the eye-popping clip -- a dancer in barely-there BDSM-style lingerie walks up to him on stage as he attaches himself to a mechanism to lift him above the stage. She hops on him, and they seductively twirl into the air together, and she eventually does a split across his chest.

08/14/2026 6:29 PM PST -- Slipknot released the deleted statement on their music festival Knotfest's Instagram.

Sid Wilson's officially out of Slipknot ... or at least he was for a hot minute -- before the band deleted their social media post announcing the news.

Here's the deal ... the group's official Instagram account put up a simple black and white post which reads, "Effective immediately, Slipknot will no longer be associated with Sid Wilson. We wish him the best in his future endeavors."

Then, for reasons unknown, the band took the post down a short time later ... so it's unclear where they stand with Sid.

Tyga has a message for everyone calling "$TARFACE" an A.I. album ... learn to read.

The rapper -- dressed in '80s garb with a lit cigarette -- stopped by "TMZ Live" Thursday and said he only used A.I. for some synths and guitar solos ... stressing he spent three months in the studio, wrote every song, and performed every vocal himself.

Tyga blamed the confusion on Gen Z not reading his original comments ... and shrugged off Pitchfork's rare 0/10 rating ... joking, "I don’t really know what Pitchfork is. All I know is the devil uses a pitchfork."

Lionel Richie's roast of Chris Brown didn't make the R&B star "Go Crazy" like some may have thought it would ... Chris took it in stride -- and fired a tongue-in-cheek insult right back.

After Lionel dissed Chris' tour with Usher and his rap sheet, Breezy hopped on the internet to clap back in hilarious fashion ... reminding Lionel he's not the young crooner he used to be.

Chris posted ... "damn unk. We love ya paw paw" ... and he added a few laughing emojis for good measure.

Lionel Richie's mocking Chris Brown and Usher's tour all night long ... claiming the two aren't doing anything groundbreaking on tour ... and bringing up Chris' checkered legal history.

The singer-songwriter -- who is currently touring with Earth, Wind & Fire -- took time out of his performance to comment on Chris and Usher's "The R&B Tour" ... telling his audience The Commodores and Earth, Wind & Fire pulled off a similarly massive tour 4 decades ago.

Lionel take a swipe ... "Only difference is, between then and now, we didn't go to jail!"

Michael Jackson's estate won a huge victory in court against four siblings who claimed the King of Pop raped and molested them as children ... TMZ has learned.

A federal judge in California ruled Wednesday the "horrific" allegations the Cascio siblings -- Edward, Dominic, Marie-Nicole and Aldo -- made against Michael in their bombshell child sex trafficking lawsuit against the MJ estate must be handled in private arbitration, rather than a courtroom.

In the decision, the judge found the 2019 settlement between the two parties -- which clearly stated that all disputes would be resolved in private arbitration -- is enforceable and left the court with no choice but to send the case to arbitration.

Don Toliver's concert in Texas was abruptly cut short Tuesday night -- after cops say a man tried to smuggle a gun inside the arena, TMZ has learned.

The rapper was towards the end of his set at the Toyota Center in Houston when he suddenly walked off the stage.

The Houston Chronicle reports an announcer speaking into a microphone told everyone to stay in their seats because the concert was not over. But, a short time later, the lights were turned on, and the audience was told to leave the venue.

A rep for the Houston Police Department tells TMZ ... a 30-year-old man entered the arena Tuesday night and got flagged by a security guard after he went through a metal detector with a handgun.

Tyga's having a rough rollout for his latest album ... because Pitchfork just gave it an impressively awful 0/10 rating ... and it sounds like robots did him no favors.

Reviewer Drew Millard deemed the record "slop pop," calling it "smug and complacent and depressing."

He continued by delivering a lethal blow ... "Its very existence has made the world a worse place."

Miller slammed the musician for admittingly using A.I. on the project, saying ... "I'm not saying the record is A.I.-generated; all I'm saying is that I was personally able to generate a song that sounded exactly like '$TARFACE,' assuming it had included a song about a critic trying to write a review of a Tyga album."

Ariana Grande was spotted for the first time since she announced she plans to break free from the public eye.

The pop star was seen on her way to an airport in New York on Monday night, where she was all smiles while sporting her album merch.

Ariana announced earlier this month that she plans to "take a step back from visibility" after her "Eternal Sunshine" tour wraps on September 1.

Blueface booked it out of his own home ... after seemingly catching Nevaeh Akira doing "voodoo" in a closet.

In a stream from Monday, the rapper opened the closet door to find Nevaeh on the floor, sitting in front of a small shrine with some lit candles.

She told him she's doing her prayers and even invited him to join ... but Blueface was convinced something else was going on and hightailed it outta there.