Cosmopolitan USA – June 2017

ON

REVISIT La La

Land in concert

at the Hollywood

Bowl (May 26

and 27, hollywood

bowl.com).

JUNE 2017COSMOPOLITAN 17

HALSEY follows up her breakout debut and blockbuster year with the futuristic Hopeless Fountain Kingdom.

LISTEN

LEA MICHELE

Between starring in Scream Queens and Dimension 404, the multi-

tasker found time for her ultrapersonal sophomore album, Places.

CITY SOUNDTRACKS Take your

ears on a trip through a musi-

cian’s hometown with Google

Play Music’s first podcast.

I CAN’T MAKE THIS UP Comedy

heavyweight Kevin Hart nar-

rates dynamite stories about

fighting his way to the top.

SPOTLIGHT

HOT PODCASTS

MARY J. BLIGE The

R & B queen recruits

Kanye West and

Jazmine Sullivan on

the triumphant

Strength of a Woman.

H A RRY S T Y L E S

The 1D heartthrob

goes solo with a

self-titled debut

straight out of your

fangirl dreams.

FROM THE HEART “I was

most surprised at the

creation of the song

‘Hey You.’ It’s the

second part to ‘If You

Say So,’ a song about

Cory [Monteith] on

my first album. I

initially didn’t want

to write about topics

that I wouldn’t feel

comfortable talking

about publicly. But

this is such a huge

part of who I am now.

‘Hey You’ has a hope-

ful aspect. It turned

out to be one of my

favorite songs.”

ON WRITER’S BLOCK

“I usually step away

from the studio, have

a good meal, listen to

some good music...

and drinking wine

never hurts! I try not

to be too hard on

myself and just come

back when I’m ready

to give it my all.”

SUMMER PLAYLIST

“I’m obsessed with

Sia and Maren Mor-

ris. Maren’s song

‘’80s Mercedes’ has

been my favorite to

blast as loud as I can

while driving with

the windows down.”

—RACHEL MOSELY

MAEVE IN AMERICA Comedian

Maeve Higgins shares some-

times harrowing, always

inspiring immigrant stories.

AUDIOBOOK

LEA STRIPS

DOWN HER

SOUND ON HER

LATEST RECORD.

STREAM empowering

covers of tunes about

women (like “Light My

Fire”) reworked by

women, on the Instant

Love playlist (instant

recordsinc.com).

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: ERIC RAY DAVIDSON; COURTESY PODCASTS (2); COURTESY PUBLISHER; COURTESY INSTANT LOVE; GETTY IMAGES; COURTESY ASTRALWERKS; COURTESY COLUMBIA RECORDS; COURTESY CAPITOL RECORDS.