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Taylor Swift used to try to hide her ambition. In Life of a Showgirl, she’s done with that.
Best wishes to the happy cultural phenomenon!
From Alex Warren to Jelly Roll, a new wave of faith-adjacent pop is finding God in laundromats and dive bars.
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Now that’s what I call economic downturn!
What is “coercive control”?
Your favorite artist — plus 80,000 other people.
How hip-hop’s Dionysus rose to power, decade after decade.
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The Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar feud, explained.
We can’t just blame Ticketmaster and scalpers.
MAGA still hated the Pulitzer Prize winner’s performance.
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The end of one wildly popular platform is a chance to overhaul the broken social media industry.
Vox’s cultural obsessions of 2024.
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For music lovers, streaming has never felt more stale.
How entertainment, from Morgan Wallen to Twisters, predicted the MAGA pivot.
Why do we care so much about campaign songs?
Everything we (actually) know about Liam Payne’s death.
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Why the new luxury is flip phones and vinyl LPs
The CMA snub just proves what Beyoncé was trying to tell us all along.
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Our society demands Black women be “twice as good.” Beyoncé has found a solution that Harris seems keen to copy.
Music production is getting easier. Does that make it better?
