VMAs performance
Jonas performs Levels at the MTV Video Music Awards. The performance takes place on the red carpet of the VMAs before the award show begins.
Mirrors performance
Timberlake joins Swift, during her LA show at Staples Center, for a performance of Mirrors.
Justin hasn’t performed since he became a dad, so I’m just honored that this is his first performance.
MIND BLOWN!!! @jtimberlake @taylorswift13 #1989TourLA pic.twitter.com/K6M13DdtuH
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Smelly Cat performance
Kudrow sings Smelly Cat with Swift on stage at Staples Center, Los Angeles.
This singer has only ever played in coffee houses before. She never played in a big venue like this. Please make her feel welcome. You guys, her name is Phoebe Buffay.
At one point, Kudrow stops the performance to give Swift advice:
You have to really feel the lyrics, you know
Who doesn't love a little "Smelly Cat"?!?! #1989TourLA #Friends @LisaKudrow @taylorswift13 pic.twitter.com/7m07TAomv6
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Style performance
Swift introduces DeGeneres during her performance of Style, at the Staples Center in LA. DeGeneres dances and sings the song with Swift, in an almost identical sparkly outfit..
Los Angeles, please make some noise for international pop superstar, Ellen DeGeneres.
https://instagram.com/p/6y4ySiN7lL/
You Oughta Know performance
Swift and Morissette perform You Oughta Know at Swift’s concert in the Staples Center in LA. Swift:
She inspired a generation of confessional female singer-songwriters who all of a sudden felt like you could actually say these raw feelings that you had. You could actually sing about your real life, you could put detail to it, you could get really, really made if you wanted to. And I think it’s fair to say that so many of the female singer-songwriters of my generation, including myself, would not write the way that we do without her and her music. And she has written some of the most brilliant music – in particular probably inarguably the greatest breakup song of all-time.
Newday appearance
Rend Collective perform two concerts at the Newday program at Norfolk. They first have an evening of worship and then do a late night show in front of thousands of fans. They also sang songs from their upcoming album As Family We Go.
Blank Space performance
Clarkson sings Swift’s Blank Space at her concert at Toronto’s Molson Canadian Amphitheatre. Swift retweets her performance
https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/625416036003790852
Storms off Pan Am Games closing ceremony
West throws his mic and storms offstage at the Pan Am Games closing ceremony when the audio for the live audience stops working. According to the CBC Olympics official Twitter feed, those enjoying the broadcast version of Kanye’s performance could still hear him but his microphone cut off completely for those watching live from inside Toronto’s Rogers Centre.
Special Olympics opening ceremony performance
Lavigne makes her first concert performance in more than a year at the opening ceremony of the 2015 Special Olympics. She sings Fly.
I just sang FLY on stage for the FIRST time ALL THE WAY THROUGH live tonight in rehearsal. Making what feels like the impossible possible……Fighting through Lyme Disease. “Just Reach Up Don’t Give Up” so happy to be working with the Special Olympics LA 2015. Grateful
First appearance since divorce
Lambert joins Monroe at The Basement in Nashville to celebrate Monroe’s album release.
https://instagram.com/p/5dtpY0kVRz/
Jonas, Swift duet
Jonas posts an Instagram of his duet of Jealous with Swift at Swift’s 1989 concert tour at the MetLife Stadium.
https://instagram.com/p/5BYYFHkVSK/
BBC Radio 1 performance
Cara performs a cover of Taylor Swift’s song Bad Blood on BBC Radio 1. Cara performs the remixed version of the song, originally featuring Kendrick Lamar, acoustically with a piano and guitar arrangement.
Isle of Wight festival
The band perform Plant The Seed on the Jack Rocks This Feeling stage at the Isle of Wight Festival.
Announces surprise Toronto concert
Prince announces a short-notice concert, featuring his band 3rdEyeGirl, scheduled for May 19 at Toronto’s Sony Centre for the Performing Arts. Tickets go on sale at noon Monday through Live Nation. The musician’s HitnRun tour is built around the concept of near-impromptu performances in different cities.
Shares Dance Rally 4 Peace concert
Prince and his band 3rdEyeGirl share a free soundboard-quality recording of his May 2 “Dance Rally 4 Peace” concert via Soundcloud. The concert features some of the artist’s lesser-known hard-rock tracks, such as Dreamer, Guitar and Chaos & Disorder, alongside frequent guitar solos and improvisation. At the end of the recording, Prince speaks directly to the crowd:
Do me a favor and take care of each other, all right? It don’t matter the color; we’re all family.
Performs Baltimore ‘Rally 4 Peace’ concert
Prince performs a live show at the Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, featuring classic hits and his protest song, Baltimore. 3rdEyeGirl backs Prince in front of an audience wearing mostly gray, in honor of Gray. Prince:
You look around, and the system is broken. It’s gonna take the young people to fix it this time. We need new ideas, new life. Most of all, we need new peace. And the kind of peace I’m talking about is spelled p-i-e-c-e. Next time I come to Baltimore, I want to stay in a hotel owned by one of you.
On-stage guests included Doug E. Fresh, Estellem Miguel, and State Attorney Mosby, who was seated on a leather couch on the left side of the stage, and about 20 minutes into the concert she was led to the center by Prince.
Start Again performance
The band perform Start Again, from their album Cavalcade, at the World Book Night in Manchester’s Central Library. Aaron Starkie:
We’ll be the first band to play here. We feel really privileged to be involved.
Worth It performance
Fifth Harmony performs Worth It during the Radio Disney Music Awards show promoting their album Reflection.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=watch%3Fv%3Df5JcQu_Le4U
Scarlett Johansson interview
Johansson appears on the The Late Show to promote her upcoming movie Avengers: Age Of Ultron. She talks about lover for Letterman and her first appearance on his show as a child.
Dave, I have to say, I am so incredibly honored to be on one of your very last shows…The first time I was on this show I was 13-years old, it was 1998 and I was so, so nervous, because for me – and still for me – coming on this show is like you’ve made it when you’re on Dave Letterman. That’s really the truth.
Longest Days performance
Mellencamp performs the song Longest Days from his album Life, Death, Love and Freedo on The Late Show.
