As Girl In Red journeys closer to indie-pop greatness, it’s difficult not to relish in the artist’s distinguished tone as a breakout aesthete. Following the likes of Billie Eilish and Post Malone, Marie Ulven was plucked from the height...
BILLIE EILISH – ‘YOUR POWER’
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She's back! Taken from Billie Eilish’s forthcoming album, ‘Happier Than Ever’, ‘Your Power’ sees the megastar portray the power dynamics in relationships when the scales are tipped, the visuals for the single seeing Eilish symbolise...
Julia Michaels pulls the strings of pop. Since her teens she’s written songs for a boundless litany of artists: Bieber, Ed Sheeran, Selena Gomez, Dua Lipa, Demi Lovato, even Linkin Park. In 2017, she made the leap from songwriter...
A first for The Unsung, this week’s column features a band that, though no longer still with us, I actually saw play live. I remember the night clearly, down to the shimmery pink, gauzy Miss Selfridge top and the...
In 2012, Tom Jones – one of the elite few who can say they’ve had a drink with Elvis and done an interview on Zoom – covered Leonard Cohen’s ‘Tower Of Song’. The Welsh star did such a good...
“How do you do music?” Porter Robinson asks on ‘Musician’, the latest single to arrive from ‘Nurture’. “Well, it's easy: you just face your fears and you become your heroes.” He’s being deliberately glib. After catapulting to the mainstream...
It’s tricky enough figuring out your true self – let alone when your identity’s been decided for you since birth by way of your surname. Noah Cyrus has tried out all the fits: seguing from acting and horse-riding into...
Little Simz is known for being private – but she's had to battle against an industry that expects artists to be willing to share everything, with little space for those who are not. On her first single, ‘Introvert’, from...
To be a violin virtuoso is an impressive feat, certainly, but violin virtuosos come and go (no offence to all the violin virtuosos reading this). To be the finest Theremin player the world has ever seen is something else...
It's our last edition of 'Dear Boys World...' but fear not! The band have still got plenty more sage advice to share, as we look at learning to love yourself, staying grounded during the pandemic, and how on earth...