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• Put your headphones on for TikTok's Addison Rae

  Despite TikTok defining this decade's music landscape, the app hasn't spawned a bonafide pop superstar – yet. 24-year-old Addison Rae is trying to be the first. She's already had cosigns from Arca, Charli XCX, and Benny Blanco;...

  1 mei 2025 3302 sec.

• Generation Taylor: Gracie, Maisie, Phoebe (with Jensen McRae)

  Taylor Swift isn't just a world-conquering pop star at the top of her game, her approach to songwriting has also proven massively influential for an up-and-coming generation of singer-songwriters. Gracie Abrams, Maisie Peters, and...

  22 apr 2025 3929 sec.

• Music's New Success Model

  Specialized platforms and social media have empowered musicians to tap into niche audiences, igniting a quiet revolution in the music industry. Despite the dominance of viral hits, a new wave of artists, labels and businesses are...

  15 apr 2025 2817 sec.

• Miley Cyrus goes avant-garde

  Miley 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 sharing new music but a whole visual...

  8 apr 2025 2286 sec.

• Chappell Roan is giving country... and hair metal?

  Why 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 story connects glam rock aesthetics to...

  1 apr 2025 1893 sec.

• Writing The Who’s ‘My Generation' With Pete Townshend

  The 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 anthem for their post-war generation....

  25 mrt 2025 3252 sec.

• Lady Gaga's Monster Return

  In 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 of all things Monster can come to...

  18 mrt 2025 3206 sec.

• How Missy Elliott and Timbaland Freaked the World

  When 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 Aerosmith or Lenny Kravitz, or the...

  11 mrt 2025 2187 sec.

• Playing "Hide and Seek" with Imogen Heap

  It 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 Imogen Heap released "Hide and Seek," a...

  4 mrt 2025 2111 sec.

• The Umbrella Effect: How Rihanna’s Breakout Hit Changed Pop Music Forever

  In 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, and became the global superstar that...

  25 feb 2025 2244 sec.

• Learning to love: Tate McRae

  Tate 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 Friday, we dissect McRae’s...

  18 feb 2025 2759 sec.

• Does It Trance? The Weeknd & FKA Twigs

  In 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 century – would make a comeback on the...

  11 feb 2025 2810 sec.