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.
How Spiritbox won Download Festival
It’s a tale well told at this point that if you were a young woman into alternative rock in the mid-noughties, you often had...
Kate Bush won’t just save us from Vecna; she’ll fling open a whole new...
In season four of Stranger Things, things get pretty heavy in Hawkins. Wracked with various forms of guilt and dark inner-narrative, teenagers from the...
Sky Ferreira proves that absence really does make the heart grow fonder
You don’t see too many pop careers like Sky Ferreira’s. With her grungy aesthetic and a background in modelling, Ferreira was perhaps one of...
Kendrick Lamar can’t please everybody. For better or worse, he isn’t trying to
Lately, I've been thinking a lot about how we equate intelligence with morality. When somebody is wrong – for example, expressing racist or homophobic...
Getting to know Jack Harlow, raps most polarising new star
If you’ve been on social media of late, one face might have stood out to you. He’s got curly hair, a winning smile, and...
Black country, old roads? Morgan Wallen, country music and the opportunity for anti-racist redemption
Trigger warning: Racism
Unless you’re a country music fan, the name Morgan Wallen might be more familiar to you as a modern example of celebrity...
45’s of The Week; Doja Cat, Tirzah, Beckah Amani and more!
Doja Cat – 'Vegas'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKpctBHTOGU
Doja Cat’s contribution to the upcoming Elvis biopic already met the ears of fans at Coachella, but the full studio version...
Back in the business of misery: why we need to cut Hayley Williams some...
Right across the board, artists seemed to step their efforts up for Coachella Weekend Two. Wanting to go bigger and better than the weekend...
If – like me – you’ve been sleeping on Anitta, her Coachella set might...
As a music journalist, there is perhaps no greater shame than an artist getting absolutely bloody massive while you weren’t looking. When I sat...
Francis Bourgeois, Amelia Dimoldenberg and the rise of the awkward superfan
It's not unusual for artists to pull out something special for the London night of their tour. A rarely played song in the encore,...