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Miley Cyrus goes avant-garde
Apr 08, 2025Miley Cyrus just released three singles from her ninth studio album, Something Beautiful. Inspired by Pink Floyd's The Wall—specifically the 1982 feature film based on the album—Cyrus is not just shar...
Chappell Roan is giving country... and hair metal?
Apr 01, 2025Why was Chappell Roan's band dressed like an 80s hair metal act during her Grammy performance? The answer unlocks the surprising secret behind her #1 country hit "The Giver." This musical detective st...
Writing The Who’s ‘My Generation' With Pete Townshend
Mar 25, 2025The Who's "My Generation" wasn't born from inspiration—it was commissioned. In a rare interview, Pete Townshend reveals how six fans at London's Goldhawk Club in 1965 directly asked him to write an an...
Lady Gaga's Monster Return
Mar 18, 2025In 2022, Lady Gaga embarked on The Chromatica Ball – a stadium tour featuring a stage that Gaga herself referred to as her "museum of brutality." Three years later, this idea of a brutalist enshrining...
How Missy Elliott and Timbaland Freaked the World
Mar 11, 2025When the song “Get Ur Freak On” hit radio in 2001, it set the world of popular music on fire. Missy Elliott and Timbaland’s first crossover hit sounded nothing like the chart-topping bluesy rock of Ae...
Playing "Hide and Seek" with Imogen Heap
Mar 04, 2025It may be hard to believe it in this technology-driven day and age, but one of the most pervasive sounds in popular music came about when a computer STOPPED working. In 2005, artist and innovator Imog...
The Umbrella Effect: How Rihanna’s Breakout Hit Changed Pop Music Forever
Feb 25, 2025In 2007, a 19-year-old Barbadian pop singer released the lead single off her third album. By doing so, she didn't just give us a timeless, undeniable banger -- she changed the way pop music is made, a...
Learning to love: Tate McRae
Feb 18, 2025Tate McRae's billions of streams and perfectly crafted hits can feel almost algorithmic, like an AI trained on 20 years of pop music. In anticipation of McRae’s third album So Close to What, out this ...
Does It Trance? The Weeknd & FKA Twigs
Feb 11, 2025In last month's episode predicting the coming year in pop, one of the team's predictions was that trance music – the ethereal, dreamy subgenre of electronic music popular around the turn of the centur...
Liz Pelly's Mood Machine says the playlist isn't the product — you are
Feb 04, 2025Behind Spotify's promise of infinite music lies a carefully engineered system that shapes not just what we hear, but how music itself gets made. Journalist Liz Pelly's explosive new book "Mood Machine...