The singer released her most recent album, Popstar, in September <\/p>\n
\n\tTinashe<\/a> stopped by The Tonight Show<\/a> to perform an impassioned medley of her songs \u201cPopstar\u201d and \u201cMelatonin.\u201d The singer opened the performance with an anthemic rendition of \u201cPopstar\u201d before amping things up with \u201cMelatonin\u201d alongside a group of backup dancers. <\/p>\n \n\tBoth tracks come off Tinashe\u2019s recent LP, Popstar<\/a>, which dropped in September. She initially teased the 16-track album with \u201cToo Easy,\u201d<\/a> which she premiered at Coachella. Popstar follows Tinashe\u2019s album Quantum Baby<\/a>, which dropped in August 2024. Quantum Baby\u00a0marked part of a trilogy of albums that includes\u00a0BB\/Ang3l.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI wanted to create a record that felt very confident and bold in its title, in its taking up space, in its arrival, like announcing that I\u2019m here,\u201d Tinashe told Rolling Stone of Popstar. \u201cCalling the album Popstar, I felt like really claiming a spot for myself. I think that that level of confidence has also created more conversation, perhaps a little more pressure around the whole thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tShe added, \u201cPeople have a very narrow understanding of what pop means nowadays, and it\u2019s very clean, it\u2019s very mainstream, it\u2019s very white, and it\u2019s very contrived. It\u2019s nice to question that. There are so many people outside of that binary that do what I would consider pop, and so I\u2019d like to bring those people into the conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tTinashe will tour in support of the album next spring. The trek kicks off April 14 in Dallas and continues around North America through May 18, concluding with three nights at Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The singer released her most recent album, Popstar, in September Tinashe stopped by The Tonight Show to perform…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":960456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,6517,28684,46535,478540,427],"class_list":["post-960455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-late-night-tv","tag-the-tonight-show","tag-tinashe","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}