Florence and the Machine’s season of the witch
Her new album Everybody Scream is shaped by the occult but portrays profoundly human experiences
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Does Taylor Swift really shine on The Life of a Showgirl?
The new album trades her heart-thumping highs for soft-rock meanderings
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Coldplay are finally cool
Chris Martin and his band have at last been vindicated
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The dark heart of KPop Demon Hunters
Netflix’s most popular film conceals an unnerving, dark reality.
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Madonna’s film could kill the celebrity biopic
The pop star will write and direct; Julia Garner will star. It won’t work
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Addison Rae at the end of pop history
Britney, Kylie and Madonna are grist to the new star’s mill.
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Sabrina Carpenter shows us a good time
Her new studio album, Man’s Best Friend, may be muted. But she remains the only popstar with comic talent.
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Dua Lipa, the people’s critic
The popstar is championing literary culture to a generation for whom reading has become passé.
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Lana Del Rey’s Deep South fantasia
At her sold out Wembley show, the American star blended old hits with her new Southern belle persona.
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Addison Rae and the art of AgitPop
Her public persona is one of a starlet propped up by a Warholian cabal.
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Beyoncé brings rodeo to London
The popstar’s country-music transformation is complete.
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The lost futures of Stereolab
In an age of genuine instability, do we still want to get our politics from pop music?
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Lorde’s Brat moment
The pop star is supposed to be above this kind of self-conscious marketing.
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I’m doing what I should have done all along: recuperating
I am struck by how ill-designed bodies seem to be: miraculous in so many ways, but so beset with flaws.
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Capitalism (Taylor’s Version)
Swift is a self-made billionaire and the most profitable live musician in history. What can her ascendance teach us?
By Ben and I are preparing for our first live gig together in 25 years – and I’m terrified
In our basement studio, we’re surrounded by our own history, our own inspirations.
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The rise of Gracie Abrams
That Abrams is not quite ready for and a little startled by her early fame is part of her appeal.
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On Mayhem, Lady Gaga makes a chaotic return to form
The singer’s new album attempts to recapture the intense art-project pop of her early records.
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James Blunt live: a nostalgia karaoke
It is 20 years since Back to Bedlam – and its songs have ascended to anthemic status in the years…
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Remembering the real Marianne Faithfull
The singer who embodied the Swinging Sixties in her youth gained a power in her later years that suited her…
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