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Billy Porter To Release New Music On The Heels Of Hosting 'Dick Clark’s New Year's Rockin’ Eve'

In an interview with BET.com, the co-host of the legendary event shared the details on his new single and his favorite NYE memory of all time!

Billy Porter fans, are you ready for Dick Clark’s New Year's Rockin’ Eve on Dec. 31? The Hollywood entertainer, who is co-hosting the event with Ciara, DJ D-Nice, Jessie James Decker, and Roselyn Sanchez, shared with BET.com that he is ready for the new year because he has new music on the way!

“I’m excited to debut a new single that is coming out in February. It’s called “Baby Was A Dancer” he teased talking about the track that will appear on his upcoming album, Black Mona Lisa. “[The vibe of the track is] if disco and house music had a baby. There’s this return to joy, return to community, return to the celebration of life. Music has always been the celebration of humanity, that celebration of what connects us.”

No features will be on the project but Porter says that the album will take listeners on a journey from start to finish.

“It's a put-on-track one and listen to it all the way through it. It's one of those albums that we used to do, the old-school way,” he continues. “There are lots of singles on it and everything stands alone. But you're gonna want to listen to this album from beginning to end straight through in the order that I put it in. Because it is a very emotional journey.”

And when it comes to co-hosting the New Year’s Eve Celebration on ABC, Porter is ecstatic!

“This is the original. This is the OG. This is the goat show. I am honored and humbled to be counted in this number. This is my fourth year and you know it's always so fun,” he notes.

Although Porter doesn’t believe in New Year’s Resolutions, he did share with us his favorite New Year’s Eve memory and took us down memory lane.

“I proposed to my husband in 2016 around the holidays around Christmas, New Year's Eve. That would be the best memory, the best one.”

Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2023 airs live Saturday, Dec. 31, beginning at 8/7c on ABC.

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