The Week In Pop

Sometimes you enter into a pop cultural universe late and have to work backwards to fill in the gaps. Maybe you've decided to binge several…

Who are all these people? This was my first time seeing the 1975, and I was shocked at the sea of humanity in front of…

With all due respect to her formative influences and one-time contemporaries Destiny's Child, Ciara is a survivor.

The name "youngblood" has a rich history in pop music. First there were the Youngbloods, the critically acclaimed folk-rockers best known for their 1967 hit…

Pink has never fit in -- so much so that not fitting in has become part of her personal brand. Despite spending two decades operating…

"HAVE U EVER SEEN A BITCH PLAY FLUTE THEN HIT THE SHOOT?" It was a reasonable question. It was also a relevant question because it…

Let me take you back to a moment in the not-so-distant past, a proudly and obnoxiously loud era in pop music history known as the…

"Rikki Don't Lose That Number," "Hanging On The Telephone," "867-5309/Jenny" -- pop music history is strewn with songs where the drama hinges on a phone…

"I have taken out my Invisalign, and this is the album!" Billie Eilish announces at the outset of her debut album. The 17-year-old singer then…

Many songs on Juice WRLD's Death Race For Love, the reigning #1 album in America, made me laugh out loud. A track called "HeMotions," for…

Tucked near the end of Maren Morris' new album GIRL is a lovely little tune called "The Bones." Like many Morris songs, it's not about…

Sometimes an album title is exactly right.

Benny Blanco's "Eastside" reached #1 on Billboard's Pop Songs chart this week, completing a 31-week voyage to the top. The chart tracks Top 40 radio…

Avril Lavigne is back, and as usual, it's complicated.

It's that time of year again: the time when we as a culture must reckon with the insane/mundane prestige-populist fever dream that is Grammy logic.