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When searching for Lady Gaga’s third studio album, ARTPOP online, you’ll come across numerous results, ranging from streaming platforms, Wikipedia pages, and Amazon links, however you’re also likely to stumble across several articles that question whether the album is...
Dua Lipa – ‘Houdini’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suAR1PYFNYA “Come here closer, are you reading my lips?” Dua Lipa asks on ‘Houdini’, her big first preview of DL3. Lean in and focus and what you’ll hear her saying is: make like a cringe Tinder bio...
TW: Disordered Eating, Mental Health Whether you consider yourself a K-Pop fan or not, you’ll likely have heard of FIFTY FIFTY. Shooting to fame earlier this year with the viral single ‘Cupid’, they broke BLACKPINK’s record for the longest-charting song...
There are devil horns atop The Bowl this evening: a frightening addition fitting of this evening's clientele – a skeleton army here to celebrate All Hallows Eve with one of the most talked-about bands on the planet, boygenius. Seven...
The Last Dinner Party - 'On Your Side' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rviP4LEjaZo In attempting to match up to the buzz of their live reputation, a lot of pressure has been placed on the ruffled shoulders of The Last Dinner Party, splitting opinion right down...
If boygenius were releasing their debut album 20 years ago, a litany of high school alt kids would be changing their AIM and MSN Messenger statuses to lyrics from ‘the record’. Technology might have changed, but our urge to...
TAYLOR SWIFT – ‘NOW THAT WE DON’T TALK’ ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ is another triumph in the pop icon’s project to re-record and reclaim control of her back catalogue. Complete with five new Vault tracks, ‘Now That We Don’t Talk’ honours...
Since launching her surreal YouTube channel back in the mid-’10s – a bemusing collection of robot-voiced videos that granted her cult internet status, performed alongside her ‘friends’, a basil plant and a mannequin called Charlotte - Poppy’s career has...
"Let's take a little trip down Memory Lane, London England!" commands Madonna. It's night three of her Celebration Tour at the O2: a worldwide extravaganza which for the first time, will attempt to traverse her 40 year back catalogue,...
Picture Parlour – 'Judgement Day' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGgDvXR0094 Walking a fine line between the nonchalant swagger and poeticism of Alex Turner, and the all-or-nothing urgency and grit that Janis Joplin possessed, ‘Judgement Day’ is a love song of a timeless nature. Vocalist Katherine...