Arts & Entertainment
Malia Civetz debuts single and video for ‘Broke Boy’

Rising star Malia Civetz has officially become a major label recording star with the release of “Broke Boy,” her debut single from Warner Records.
The track features Civetz’ traffic-stopping voice set against a bold backdrop of piano and hard-hitting handclaps, as she wails out the admission, “I love my broke boy…there’s no credit card that’s gonna buy my heart, cuz I gave it all to a broke boy.”
The song comes with an accompanying video, premiered by Paper Magazine, which vividly brings the song to life with soul and sass as the self-described “self-positive, sex-positive and body-positive” singer cruises in a classic car surrounded by her “broke boys,” taking over downtown Los Angeles in an effort to show that “love doesn’t cost a thing.”
The songstress, who is putting the finishing touches on her debut EP for Warner, initially made wav es on the independent single “Champagne Clouds” after joining up with powerhouse songwriter Ross Golan and producer and songwriter J Kash and onto their label, Friends With Pens. When Ryan Seacrest debuted the track on his KIIS FM show, “On Air With Ryan,” he predicted, “You’re going to hear about Malia—a lot.” It also gained support from pop icon Taylor Swift, who championed the song on her Apple Music and Spotify “Favorite Songs” playlists, helping it generate over 2 million streams. Her follow-up, “Little Victories,” leaped past the 3 million mark as she joined JoJo on the North American “Leaks, Covers, and Mixtapes” tour.
Civetz’ press material calls her, “a confident and charismatic woman” who “struts up to a microphone and brings the house down with an earth-quaking voice, head-turning lyrics and sass and swagger to spare,” and who “pushes buttons by way of powerhouse vocal delivery, sharp songwriting and a thoughtful overarching message,” an “equally ponderous, provocative, passionate and compelling” personality who “asserts herself and presents a new female pop paradigm.”
You can watch the video below.
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Madonna announces release date for new album
‘Confessions II’ marks return to the dance floor
Pop icon Madonna on Wednesday announced that her 15th studio album will be released on July 3.
Titled “Confessions II,” the new album is a sequel to 2005’s “Confessions on a Dance Floor,” an Abba and disco-infused hit.
The new album reunites Madonna with producer Stuart Price, who also helmed the original “Confessions” album. It’s her first album of new material since 2019’s “Madame X.”
“We must dance, celebrate, and pray with our bodies,” Madonna said in a press release. “These are things that we’ve been doing for thousands of years — they really are spiritual practices. After all, the dance floor is a ritualistic space. It’s a place where you connect — with your wounds, with your fragility. To rave is an art. It’s about pushing your limits and connecting to a community of like-minded people,” continued the statement. “Sound, light, and vibration reshape our perceptions. Pulling us into a trance-like state. The repetition of the bass, we don’t just hear it but we feel it. Altering our consciousness and dissolving ego and time.”
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(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)














Arts & Entertainment
In an act of artistic defiance, Baltimore Center Stage stays focused on DEI
‘Maybe it’s a triple-down’
By LESLIE GRAY STREETER | I’m always tickled when people complain about artists “going political.” The inherent nature of art, of creation and free expression, is political. This becomes obvious when entire governments try to threaten it out of existence, like in 2025, when the brand-new presidential administration demanded organizations halt so-called diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programming or risk federal funding.
Baltimore Center Stage’s response? A resounding and hearty “Nah.” A year later, they’re still doubling down on diversity.
“Maybe it’s a triple-down,” said Ken-Matt Martin, the theater’s producing director, chuckling.
The rest of this article can be found on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
