MEGAN THEE STALLION – ‘HISS’
Even as one of rap's biggest and boldest personalities, Houston superstar, Megan Thee Stallion, dug deep for the bars to hit back at the haters with her swaggering new single. Directly addressing her rivals, a...
"The LA traffic, my lullaby", sings Swimming Bell's Katie Schottland on album standout, 'Take It Easy', taken from her second LP 'Charlie'. Schottland relocated to California from Brooklyn during the pandemic and 'Charlie' is an amalgamation of tracks recorded...
Gossip – ‘Real Power’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVQjzru4Id8
Dance punk meets at the intersection of Beth Ditto’s riot grrrl lyrics which were inspired by the Black Lives Matter protests, and dynamic electronic beats and a disco bass line. “I want real power / Give...
In yet another feat of reboot culture gone wild, cinema seats are currently filling for the new Gen-Z adaptation of Mean Girls, a musical version of the iconic 2004 flick starring Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried and Rachel McAdams. But...
If we’ve learnt anything from the beloved sitcom of the same name, it’s that friends can come in many different forms but – at their finest – they can occupy the absolute best spaces in our lives. From the...
Ariana Grande – ‘yes, and?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSSUa2qW4tc&pp=ygUVYXJpYW5hIGdyYW5kZSB5ZXMgYW5k
Life is fickle. Sometimes, you’re everybody’s favourite pop star on the planet, and sometimes, you’re pop’s public enemy number one (or, at the very least, in the top 10). It’s a flip that Ariana Grande’s...
Arianators - the wait is over! For just over three patient years, stans have been assembled in hope of a crumb of information on AG7, a sign that their hero would return to her status as one of pop’s...
Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s iconic 2001 release ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’ has always been a certified banger, but since the release of , the Emerald Fennell's raunchy class satire Saltburn, the track has swiftly made its way back into the charts....
Sprints - 'Heavy'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1R7hcVwlQE&t=1s
“Do you ever feel like the room is heavy?” Aiming to capture the itchy, unrelenting vibe of a sudden panic attack, ‘Heavy’ by Sprints is surprisingly cathartic, the mark of a band who know how to find...
There’s an intrinsic irony to the fact that a large portion of the words historically twisted and turned against women – ‘loud’, ‘emotional’, ‘dramatic’ – are the exact qualities that make for a really brilliant pop star. Melodrama, specifically,...