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.
The last thing Liverpool needs is another Beatles museum
Rampant disbelief at the Conservative government’s response to music industry crisis is nothing new around these parts, but seemingly there are always new lows...
The North Hits Back: Band boycotts over festival misconduct proves that there is an...
What happens when a festival loses 85 percent of its bands? Not because of Covid or awkward travel restrictions, but another kind of malaise:...
Nobody defies trends like Adele
For a popstar to exist on a first-name basis alone, they often need to clue us into what and who they are. With Beyoncé,...
Jesy Nelson’s ‘Boyz’ reminds us why we need Black History Month
Though it was nearly a year ago, Jesy Nelson’s decision to leave Little Mix on the grounds of poor mental health remains nothing short...
Quit whining, Billie Eilish is the perfect Glastonbury headliner
There is usually a bit of ceremony around a Glastonbury Festival headliner announcement, but in one not-so-cryptic Instagram post last week, Billie Eilish marked...
Can Wolverhampton Wanderers’ new record label help unite the tribes?
Throughout the pandemic, it has become painfully apparent that music is in a bad way. With closing venues, artists encouraged to ‘retrain’ and endless...
Nicki Minaj and Kaiser Chiefs: Are musicians right to wade into vaccination discourse?
Did anybody have Nicki Minaj subtweeting Chris Whitty on their 2021 Bingo card? Not I, but if we’ve learnt anything recently about digital-era discourse,...
The alt-glam celebrity coupling is not a glitch in the simulation
The Forty-Five is not in the business of celeb gossip, but we’d be hard-pressed not to notice that most of the talk around this...
The big royalty debate: what does a credit really mean in 2021?
While half of Twitter is busy losing their minds over Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, the other half is obsessed with a different kind...
Music & Motherhood: how easy is it to do both?
Whether it’s the effects of lockdown or simply the realities of entering my late twenties, I cannot move for babies. They’re on my social...