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.
Beabadoobee – ‘Beatopia review’: lo-fi star paints from a more refined 90s palette
Bea Kristi – AKA Beabadoobee – began her career in her bedroom and via hallucinogens and close introspection, she’s ready to take it back...
10 years of Channel Orange; how Frank unleashed an ocean of quietly tenacious artists
When Frank Ocean’s ‘Channel Orange’ arrived on July 10, 2012, popular culture was in a serious place of flux. We had just waved goodbye...
45s of the week: Biig Piig, Sampa The Great, Alice Longyu Gao and more!
Claire Rosinkranz – 'i’m too pretty for this'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2rnaTYvTCE
With a song title that perfectly embodies our ‘back-to-work-after-Glastonbury’ attitude, Claire Rosinkranz hasn’t got time for any...
How do you solve a problem like racial diversity at Glastonbury?
Before I went to Glastonbury, I insisted that I wasn’t going to become a Glastobore.
I didn’t want to be that person who constantly ranted...
Release the stress! Drake and Beyoncé have declared a house renaissance
As a music journalist with a nerdy penchant for lists, I sometimes like to play a game where I think back on all the...
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...