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Justin Bieber's gooey love song, and 3 more songs you need to hear this week
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After surprise releasing Swag II, the followup to July's Swag, Justin Bieber serves up gooey goodness on standout track Eye Candy, a bright, piano-driven love song. It's mostly polished pop, and yet, there are still traces of the lo-fi sound that permeated Swag with the soft piano keys and mechanical drums that appear at the beginning. Bieber pours his heart out, singing about how an addictive infatuation is sweeping him away: "And if you look too close, you'll lose your mind." On the chorus, he dials up the sultriness and gives listeners a glimpse into the bedroom, singing, "Just a little bit closer and a little bit longer?/ I'm looking at you, eye candy, eye candy."
Eye Candy sounds and feels like the sweet, less sexy version of Bieber's 2020 single Yummy — not to say that it isn't still sensual, but the focus here is how Biebs paints himself as an eager and appreciative observer. It's also a glorious vocal showcase for the singer who, at times on Swag, shrouded his voice with distortive effects. But with Eye Candy, the smooth, unadorned runs are back, and so is his gleaming falsetto. — Natalie Harmsen
Veteran actor's directorial debut is having its world premiere at TIFF
Veteran actor's directorial debut is having its world premiere at TIFF
Actor James McAvoy was punched by a man at a downtown Toronto bar, apparently unprovoked, late on Monday evening.
A source connected to the actor confirmed to CBC News that, as was first reported by People magazine, a man punched McAvoy without warning while being escorted out of Charlotte's Room, a bar just a few blocks from the headquarters of the Toronto International Film Festival.
The actor is understood to be OK. The incident was not reported to Toronto police.
Charlotte's Room did not immediately respond to calls for comment from CBC News.
McAvoy is attending the festival for the world premiere of California Schemin', the first film he has directed.
TIFF did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
McAvoy has appeared in dozens of movies, including Atonement, The Last King of Scotland, the film adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Filth and the M. Night Shyamalan movies Split and Glass.
The veteran actor also portrayed Prof. Charles Xavier in several entries in the X-Men movie franchise.
How Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol staged a wild stunt to skydive off the CN Tower into the SkyDome
The co-creators of Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie sit down with Q’s Tom Power to talk about the film
When it comes to outlandish stunts, director Matt Johnson wants you to know that nothing you see in Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie is fake. The buzzy new film, which recently had its Canadian premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, is an adaptation of his and Jay McCarrol's hit mockumentary series Nirvanna the Band the Show, which itself is an adaptation of a cult web series they made from 2007 to 2009.
Continuing a joke they started nearly two decades ago, the movie follows Johnson and McCarrol playing fictionalized versions of themselves as a musical duo ("Nirvanna the Band") that's desperately trying to draw attention to themselves so they can book a gig at the Rivoli in Toronto. The movie opens with them attempting to carry out their wildest scheme yet: sneak wire cutters and parachutes into the CN Tower, snip the safety cables on the observation deck of the EdgeWalk and jump into the SkyDome (also begrudgingly known as the Rogers Centre) in the middle of a Blue Jays game.