{"id":76880,"date":"2026-11-11T08:34:36","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/watch-tinashe-showcase-popstar-melatonin-on-fallon\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T08:34:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:34:36","slug":"watch-tinashe-showcase-popstar-melatonin-on-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/watch-tinashe-showcase-popstar-melatonin-on-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Tinashe Showcase &#8216;Popstar,&#8217; &#8216;Melatonin&#8217; on &#8216;Fallon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The singer released her most recent album, <em>Popstar<\/em>, in September <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tinashe\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tinashe\" data-tag=\"tinashe\">Tinashe<\/a> stopped by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-tonight-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-tonight-show\" data-tag=\"the-tonight-show\">The Tonight Show<\/a><\/em> 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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBoth tracks come off Tinashe\u2019s recent LP, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/tinashe-album-popstar-creative-choices-feeling-pressure-1235626810\/\">Popstar<\/a><\/em>, which dropped in September. She initially teased the 16-track album with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tinashe-too-easy-single-1235572865\/\">\u201cToo Easy,\u201d<\/a> which she premiered at Coachella. <em>Popstar<\/em> follows Tinashe\u2019s album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/tinashe-quantum-baby-review-1235080887\/\">Quantum Baby<\/a>, which dropped in August 2024. <em>Quantum Baby<\/em>\u00a0marked part of a trilogy of albums that includes\u00a0<em>BB\/Ang3l<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tinashe: Popstar\/Melatonin | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_yPwx6YZ6yc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\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 <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> of <em>Popstar<\/em>. \u201cCalling the album <em>Popstar<\/em>, 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<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\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<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tinashe-popstar-melatonin-medley-performance-fallon-1235655722\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The singer released her most recent album, Popstar, in September Tinashe stopped by The Tonight Show to perform an impassioned medley of her songs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":76881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}