Carly Rae Jepson’s Party for One, and the growing canon of pop songs about female masturbation
Little Mix, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Cardi B, Lady Gaga and more are getting in on the action.
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The Spice Girls reunion makes me pine for when pop music was dumb, artless and accessible
For me, the Spice Girls represent the last time I actually liked/got pop music.
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War – huh – what is it good for? Well, actually, now you ask…
In his new book Should I Stay or Should I Go, James Ball answers the tricky questions posed by some…
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The cartoon unreality of Bohemian Rhapsody reveals how Queen see themselves
This is a group who wrote their songs not for personal reasons but with tens of thousands of people in…
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When musicians die young today online mourning turns their deaths into a whodunnit
If social media had existed, I’m sure I would have immediately heard conspiracy theories about how Kurt Cobain died.
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alt-J: “More recognition wouldn’t prompt us to start doing cocaine in night club toilets”
The indie oddballs on hip-hop remixes, songs about grandmas and going unrecognised.
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John Grant’s fourth album, Love is Magic, is a work of musical mood swings
Grant represents a very human set of contradictions. In his songs, horrific experiences are set alongside transcendent ones; cynicism alongside…
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The alt-right are devastated that Taylor Swift endorsed a Democrat
“They took her from us and turned her into one of their brain dead zombies.”
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