Yesterday’s tomorrows: Kraftwerk are today less a band than a conceptual art project
Even back in the Seventies, they understood that ours had become a “Computer World”.
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SRSLY #98: Lorde’s Melodrama / Pitch Battle / The Power
On the pop culture podcast this week, we discuss the new Lorde album Melodrama, the BBC singing competition Pitch Battle and Naomi Alderman’s…
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Violence, intimacy and glory: the contradictory cocktail of Lorde’s Melodrama
You don’t name an album Melodrama for its restraint.
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Selena Gomez is the latest pop star to queer the high school music video trope
She plays both a student and her own lesbian teacher crush in this video. (Oh, and her mother. And maybe…
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From Beyoncé to Little Mix (via Kendall Jenner): how protest went pop
Branding, messages of empowerment and fashion trends all converge in female-fronted pop videos, which are increasingly using protest imagery.
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SRSLY #97: Orange is the New Black / SZA’s CTRL / Catastrophe
On the pop culture podcast this week: the fifth series of Orange is the New Black, the debut album from SZA,…
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#Grime4Corbyn is here to stay – and it could be the start of something huge
This shift could open a space for more political lyrical content and imagery for both new and established artists.
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It’s as if I phoned Springsteen and told him just what he could do with himself and his book
I was shocked to find out how vehemently others could disagree with my opinion.
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