Jenessa Williams
Jenessa is a freelance music journalist, fandom academic and the writer of Subtweets, our weekly column that dissects the trending topics setting Music Twitter alight. She likes millennial hip-hop, noughties emo and advocating for a new era of diversity and representation in both.
Clairo live at Stanford: Laidback, tipsy magic
Does it get much better than a stadium college show? At the start of a brand new school year at Stanford University, hordes of...
45s of the week: 5 songs you need to hear now
Rachel Chinouriri and Cat Burns - 'Even'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoRzsDjp7MA
It’s been a little while coming, but the collaboration between two of indie-pop’s brightest new lights feels every...
Co-headline tours are the future: here are six fantasy shows we’d love to see
September might be chilling down in the UK, but over in the US, things are getting sweaty.
Roughly halfway through their co-headlining tour, Charli XCX...
P Diddy’s reckoning is a reminder of our genre-based biases
Content Warning: Sexual and Physical Violence
Since November 2023, the rapper, manager and overall music manager known as P Diddy (aka Sean Combs) has been...
Women stay winning at the 2024 VMAS
From mediaeval garb to angelic lingerie, onstage scissoring to impromptu flamenco, 2024’s VMAs ceremony was a long and celebratory affair. But whilst men tried...
45s of the week: 5 new songs you need to hear now
Megan Thee Stallion and RM - 'Neva Play'
https://youtu.be/TpYTyAaTRts?si=TqeijmZm3iR4FRZi
After her ‘Butter’ remix caused such a storm in 2021, it was only a matter of time...
The rise and rise (and rise) of Chappell Roan
At San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival last week, executives estimated that 50,000 of the festival’s 75,000 attendees showed up to watch the same artist....
45s of the week: 5 tracks you need to hear now
Soccer Mommy - 'M'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbS2shn50MY
You can always rely on Soccer Mommy to craft songs of understated beauty, but with the first slice of her forthcoming...
Get to know your 2024 Mercury nominees
The news is out! Chosen by a team of esteemed judges (including one-time Forty-Five legend Sophie Williams), the Mercury Music Prize shortlist for 2024...
Love Tinashe’s ‘Nasty’? There’s more where that came from
Have you been a nasty girl this summer? You might not have had much chance yet, but if you have been stuck indoors and...