The Week In Pop - Page 2

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Have you acclimated to the new normal yet? Have you come to accept it, made peace with it? Oh! No, no, no -- not the…

Montevallo was prophetic. On a macro level, Sam Hunt's 2014 debut album altered the sound of modern country music, incorporating hip-hop influences with a nuance…

Future Nostalgia was meant for the club. This much is clear. Even before she released lead single "Don't Start Now" last fall, Dua Lipa was…

Let me explain what's happening in that blessed image up top. The men dressed up like life-size cartoon characters are J Balvin and Bad Bunny,…

*NSYNC didn't just break the first-week sales record, they obliterated it. When the superstar boy band's second album No Strings Attached dropped on March 21,…

Boy bands break up because the boys in them grow up. Other reasons surely factor in sometimes, like conflict and exhaustion and breakout stars going…

"Let's break the internet," Doja Cat sings on the first song from her recent album Hot Pink. It's a cyber sex reference (the song is…

Acronyms are flexible little phrases. Just ask the good people at World Taekwondo.

It's physics: For every "Hot Girl Summer" there is an equal and opposite "Hot Girl Bummer." I don't make the rules. Take it up with…

Since parting ways, the members of One Direction have all carved out their own place in the pop music firmament. Zayn Malik split before the…

How do you move on? This is the defining question on High Road, Kesha Rose Sebert's fourth album and second since the public drama that…

PROGRAMMING NOTE: The Week In Pop is moving to Mondays! Today's installment will be the final Thursday column. Look for the first Monday column just…

From the Beatles to Bowie to Madonna, metamorphosis has been an assumed component of pop stardom for decades, and the ability to transcend easy categorization…

Rare is an accurate title for a Selena Gomez album. Gomez, the former Disney Channel teen actress turned pop superstar and tabloid fixation, is part…