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, we expect high-octane dance performances, songs of empowering energy and Black-excellence polish. With Rihanna, we...
Reflecting on the process of writing her masterpiece, ‘Blue’, Joni Mitchell once confessed that she spent that period of her life “dripping in earnestness and sincerity”. Earnestness doesn’t always look how you expect it to. For Self Esteem aka...
For the French amongst us (bonjour et merci d'avoir lu ceci), the name Dalida is every bit as legendary as fellow mononymous pop queens Madonna or Beyoncé. With her own square in Paris complete with a bronze bust boasting...
“She’s indecisive, she can’t decide”, Sean Kingston once sang. No, he wasn’t a Libra himself, but he may well have been singing about one.
Represented by the scales, the Libra is concerned with balance, which means they’re great at spinning...
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 of revolutionary. A rare move of open no-nonsense autonomy in pop, she cemented the notion...
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 the latest in the important trajectory of both the festival and her own career. At...
As the year draws to a close and we start to look back on our favourite records, let’s take a second to talk about the major albums still to come.
With the promise of actually being able to tour on...
Throughout the pandemic, it has become painfully apparent that music is in a bad way. With closing venues, artists encouraged to ‘retrain’ and endless woes over the pittance of streaming revenues, it’s been tough to know exactly how we...
Wet Leg - ‘Wet Dream’
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If there’s one thing we like more than a boundlessly exciting, ever-so-slightly Elastica-y track with a giddy, chant-along chorus, it’s said track amped up with a healthy dose of eyebrow-curling sass. “What makes you think...
We’ve come a long way since Poppy – aka Nashville-raised singer Moriah Rose Pereira – first emerged in 2014, claiming to be some kind of sentient AI being. Over the years, she’s slowly shed that façade, replacing it with something more...