When I was 14, Topshop was everything. A glossy emblem of all things trendy, I couldn’t afford many of their wares, but it didn't cost anything to stare lovingly at the rails; the bubble hem skirts worn so effortlessly...
It has been a strange old year, 2020, and during an exceedingly bizarre time pop music has consistently delivered the goods. From the utopian Eurotrash of Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’ and Dua Lipa strutting nu-disco right through to the return...
For anyone on the outside of the autistic community, the reaction to the trailer for singer Sia’s new film, Music, might seem a little unfair. The film, which is about a newly sober woman called Zu (Kate Hudson) who...
Arlo Parks – 'Caroline'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4kYkFRYbaU
Like a friend relating an anecdote in the pub, Arlo Parks tells you quietly about the break-up she witnessed one day at a bus-stop. ‘Caroline’, the latest single from her forthcoming album ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’, is...
The Grammy nominations for 2021 have been as divisive as ever. The Weeknd called corruption after being snubbed (despite having the best-selling album in the US). Justin Bieber had a little whinge about being in the wrong category after...
While the rest of us were naively taking up everything from skateboarding to embroidery during lockdown, Taylor Swift took the existential dread that comes hand-in-hand with a global pandemic as an opportunity to write her most accomplished album to...
“I was born to run / I don’t belong to anyone,” Miley Cyrus sings on ‘Midnight Sky’, the first single from her seventh album ‘Plastic Hearts’, turning an extremely Springsteen phrase into an extremely Miley phrase. She stamps herself...
Black Friday – AKA discount day – is upon us and since most of us can't get out to the shops to do our Christmas shopping, it's a good time to buy some bargain Christmas presents, or to cheer...
Marilyn Manson once said that Billy Corgan looks like Charlie Brown. Picture Charlie Brown as a glittery goth lord – if that’s hard to imagine, just watch the video for the Smashing Pumpkins’ single ‘Wyttch’ – and you get...
“I want to quit taking cocaine now,” says Tina, 24. “I decided to stop drugs in the second lockdown to see if I can, which is probably a sign that I should.” Tina was taking “cocaine and sometimes ketamine”...