It’s a love sensation, indeed, with the first-ever collaborative release from pop divas Madonna and Kylie Minogue. The pair on Thursday (Aug. 6) released the “Love Sensation (Afterhours Radio Edit)” and Love Sensation (Afterhours Mix),” two new versions of “Love Sensation” from Madonna’s July album Confessions II.

Helmed by Stuart Price, who also produced the album, the remixes present two different versions of the song, with the “Afterhours Radio Edit” maintaining many elements of the original while adding Minogue’s take on the second verse, for which she perfectly matches and compliments Madonna’s vocal tone. This edit comes in at three minutes and 35 seconds, seven seconds shorter than the original.

The “Afterhours Mix,” meanwhile, is a significant departure from the original, with Price creating a steamy, thumping build before introducing Madonna’s vocals, adding an extended, churning middle section and then layering in vocals from Minogue. The song forays into lush, celestial territory via repeated vocal samples that Price gives heft to by adding increasingly urgent percussion, until the whole thing breaks wide open into pop paradise at the five minute, 15 second mark. This one has a total run time of six minutes and 14 seconds.

Listen to both remixes below.

The project was announced earlier this week after Madonna and Minogue performed together during WorldPride Amsterdam 2026. Here, Madonna performed a 30-minute set at Amsterdam’s AFAS Live that featured a rare live collaboration with the Australian pop superstar.

The collaboration comes after “Love Sensation” reached No.1 on Dance Airplay last week, clocking another victory for the massive album, which debuted at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in July. The achievement made Madonna the first act with a No. 1 album in the 2020s and three other decades.

Kid Cudi wants to give a few fans the chance of a lifetime.

Cudder posted Wednesday about plans to craft a beat from scratch and let potential artists record whatever they deem to be their best work over it, and he would select a handful of the entrants to form a group.

“What if I made a beat, put it on soundcloud, let u guys rap/sing on it and then I choose the illest versions and make a group? Like a boy or girl pop group but hip hop and trippy,” he wrote. “Would yall like this? I’d sign u to my label Mad Solar and f— up the world together. If this gets 100k likes and 20k RT, Ill do it and help somebodies dreams come true. The future is yours.”

Cudi ended up amending his staggering requirement for 100,000 likes on the post to 2,000, which it blazed by and locked in the contest. The beat will be posted Friday and fans will have their chance to enter.

“Beat will be live on my soundcloud Friday by 6pm PST, boom get those night sessions set. When I post, I’ll leave a lil direction,” he added. “Ideas for what u should talk about. I dont want anybody talking about some bullshit. Real talk. Real emotion. Real feeling. I believe in you.”

The Ohio rapper detailed the standard of greatness he’s looking for when it comes to fans’ upcoming entires and Cudi admitted he’s going to be picky.

“Ok!!! Excited for Friday yall. I wanna let yall know, ima be very critical,” he continued. “Theres gonna be a lot of submissions, and im looking for someone who is polished and has a sound and feels original and also has a story and something to say. This will not be easy for u. Plus not many people can rap on my beats, theyre unique and different than what u usually hear in hip hop. So come correct yall. Ull have a week to cook. Then, Ill be checkin out what we got. Im working on a way for u to submit so dont even trip. News coming soon!”

Kid Cudi hit the road earlier this year and wrapped up his Rebel Ragers Tour in June. On the music side, his last album came with Free in 2025, which debuted at No. 192 on the Billboard 200.

Ricky Martin is a proud dad, and his kids are all grown up.

The two-time Grammy winner shared a throwback photo on his Instagram Stories of his twins, Matteo and Valentino Martin, who recently turned 18.

“Celebrating the 18th birthday of the loves of my life all week long. I love you, my children,” said the text in the post, which showed the two boys — who were still children when the photo was taken — jumping into a pool together. Martin soundtracked the photo with his 2011 song “Lo Mejor de Mi Vida Eres Tú,” which translates to “you’re the best thing in my life.”

The father of four welcomed Matteo and Valentino in 2008 via surrogacy. 

In a 2014 interview on the Enrique Santos Show, Martin spoke candidly about the conversations he had with his twins regarding how they were conceived. He said they asked if they were “in your belly,” to which he replied, “You were in my heart and you are still in my heart.”

“So I explained further, because I couldn’t just leave it at that: ‘There was a woman that I adore with all my heart that helped me bring you into this world. She lent me her belly so that you could come, and when you were born she put you in my arms.’ And he said ‘ah, ok’ and he kept playing,” he shared.

Between 2018 and 2019, Martin had two more children with his then-partner, Jwan Yosef. Lucía, 7, and Renn, 6, were born just nine months apart.

During his press tour to promote American Crime Story, in which Martin played Antonio D’Amico, Gianni Versace’s lover, he opened up about being an LGBTQ+ parent. “My kids ask me about having two daddies, and I tell them we are a part of a modern family,” Martin told Out magazine. “This is a beautiful sense of freedom.”

Tyga isn’t denying the AI allegations.

The West Coast rapper talked to VIBE recently about his ’80s-inspired $tarface alter-ego and the self-titled album it spawned, which has been suspected of being produced with the help of artificial intelligence. The speculation is now over, as he’s admitted to utilizing AI music generator Suno for things like “’80s synths” and a “guitar solo.”

“I’ve never spoken on this with anybody because I always felt like it’s similar to a magician explaining how he does his tricks. Like why are people over-explaining how they make sh– that’s good?” he said when asked directly if he used AI music programs like Suno and compared its current controversial usage to that of the use of Auto-Tune during the mid-2000s. “It’s supposed to give you an experience and a feeling. But we definitely used AI as a [tool],” he continued. “And I know people are going to be mad about me saying this, but it’s where technology is going. It’s no different than when Auto-Tune came out. Some people were opposed to it, but real artists took it and used it.”

He added: “But as far as the writing, all the vocals are all me. There’s nothing wrong with using technology as a tool.”

The AI allegations really started earlier this summer after Shoreline Mafia’s Fenix Flexin had everyone talking with his own ’80s-inspired single “RUBBERZ,” and then footage popped up on social media of he and Tyga in the studio recording a song titled “Lavish” that had those very same ’80s-pop-leaning synth elements.

However, according to Tyga, the two just so happened to be “experimenting” with this new sound at the same time. “Nah, we just did the ‘Lavish’ record. But when he came to the studio, I was already deep into working on my ‘80s-sounding music. I had already played him some stuff,” he replied after being asked if he and Fenix planned any of this. “So, when I saw what he was doing, I was like, ‘Oh, this is fire! We should do this record together because I see you on a similar wave. I think it was just cool to do, you know? We’re going to put the video out in a few weeks. The song just didn’t fit the aesthetic of the $tarface project. “