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.
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...
2021 belongs to Self Esteem
Though TikTok might have you believing otherwise, real visionary popstars don’t come around too often. You know the ones; where songs are vessels for...
Leave Lizzo alone
Lizzo doesn’t give a fuck, except when she does. Known for her upbeat persona and impeccable, multi-faceted performance, her rise to pop-cultural omnipresence has...
Beep Beep Let’s Ride: What does Charli XCX’s move to ultra-pop mean for the...
To borrow a phrase from stan Twitter, Charli XCX is an artist who truly loves to make sure that her audience is well fed....
The de-platforming of DaBaby marks an important opportunity for anti-homophobia in rap
It’s been a rough couple of weeks for DaBaby fans, and indeed anybody who prefers to attend rap concerts without a side dose of...
Is there ever a right way to do a posthumous project?
Like most people my age, I can remember exactly where I was when Amy Winehouse passed. I had been out with my school friends,...