Niall Horan

I am sitting on a folding chair in the middle of a football field. A few dozen yards in front of me stand two video…

"Let You Down" begins with plaintive minor-key piano chords and a trembling vocal run through that omnipresent chipmunk effect, the wildly popular pitched-up modulation that…

Eager-to-please British late-night host James Corden may have reached a new apex of jolly starfuckery. On last night's episode of his Late Late Show, Corden…

Ever since he made the leap from golden-throated Disclosure associate to sulking adult-contemporary torch singer extraordinaire, Sam Smith has caught the same comparison over and…

Pink is having the last laugh. This past summer, when MTV awarded its Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award to the singer born Alecia Beth Moore,…

Do you remember "Party In The U.S.A."? Ha ha, funny question, right? How could you forget it? It was everywhere. There was no escaping it.

The year was 2011. Winter was on the verge of melting away, but the sounds emanating from the north were still plenty frigid. From out…

If all songs are mirrors, revealing something about each listener depending on their reaction, "Guys My Age" is particularly reflective. Hearing 19-year-old Rena Lovelis dismiss…

Today, less than two weeks after the suicide bombing that killed 22 people and injured over 100 more outside her concert at Manchester Arena, Ariana…

It's not every day a song sung primarily in Spanish goes to #1 in the US. It's not even every decade. But "Despacito," a collaboration…

Pity the MySpace-era emo fan -- for many reasons, but especially because none of their old heroes are doing it like they used to. Kings…

"Bad And Boujee" was a culmination of sorts, but it was only the beginning. When the song became a viral sensation and then Migos' first…

Pop music is fluid. Like any vibrant creative field, it exists in a constant state of flux. It has to, or else it would cross…