“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...
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...
Good news is in short supply these days – which makes it the perfect title for an album that’s determined to buck the negative mood and confidently own its name. Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘Good News’ is technically her debut...
You definitely know Tayla Parx, even if you don’t think you do. Her fingertips are all over the pop world, writing songs for Ariana Grande, BTS, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, and Alicia Keys, to name but a few. She’s...
Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa – 'Prisoner'
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Do not let Dua Lipa drive your car. In the video for 'Prisoner' – her new duet with Miley Cyrus she commands a truck with the same grace as a two-year-old trying to...
Phoebe Bridgers teased our tear ducts once already this month, covering Goo Goo Dolls ‘Iris’ with Maggie Rogers, a promised prize if Trump lost the election. So to recruit Rob Moose – arranger of all your favourite heartbreakers, from...
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You’re in the back of a car, you’re tipsy, it’s dark, and city lights flicker past the window, bright and brief and fuzzy at the edges. Babeheaven’s debut album sounds a lot like the way this feels: a steady...
The word underrated is often used about Róisín Murphy – she’s not keen on it. Though the Irish singer has a better command of pop absurdity than most actual pop stars right now – and has influenced everyone from...
Over the last twenty years, I have seen Foo Fighters many times: at Reading Festival as a teenager. In a Chicago baseball stadium. At a village hall in Frome when they announced their Glastonbury headline set. Never before though,...
Nobody expected an extended metaphor more blatant than Ariana Grande’s ‘positions’ this year. Then again, nobody expected Michael Jackson’s daughter to go full alt-folk with her debut solo album. To call a break-up record ‘wilted’ is one thing, but...