(Republic)After the hard edges of 2017’s Reputation, Swift’s latest album revisits the catchy pop and romantic concerns that made her nameTaylor Swift is more of a lover than a fighter. The singer-songwriter doesn’t say it out loud on her seventh album…
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One to watch: Velvet Negroni
The US singer-songwriter’s free-ranging debut is informed by the constraints of a strict evangelical upbringingArtists such as Velvet Negroni are emblematic of the disintegration of distinct genres in the streaming age. Real name Jeremy Nutzman, under …
Read moreJames Acaster: ‘Adulthood is still a bit daunting’
When the comic’s life fell apart, he sought solace in the music of 2016. He discusses the songs that saved his lifeJames Acaster strongly believes that 2016 was The Greatest Year for Music of All Time. If this sounds random, then know that there’s slig…
Read moreMabel: ‘Boris Johnson? It’s not a world that I want to be a part of’
The pop star talks Grenfell, getting beaten to No 1 by Ed Sheeran and her unconventional childhoodGastroenteritis doesn’t care if you’re a pop star. It’s not bothered if you have to drag yourself out of bed to appear on the Capital Breakfast show at 8….
Read moreTaylor Swift: ‘Pop music can feel like it’s The Hunger Games, and like we’re gladiators’
The singer spills on feuds, fame, failure – and why she’s taking on the presidentTaylor Swift’s Nashville apartment is an Etsy fever dream, a 365-days-a-year Christmas shop, pure teenage girl id. You enter through a vestibule clad in blue velvet and co…
Read more‘Everything I do is about feelings’: Mallrat on making music for forgotten teens
The 20-year-old is selling out shows in Australia and overseas for songs that capture the melodrama of Gen Z life. Her new EP goes deeper“You should write like your parents are dead … or you’re dead … or everyone’s dead,” the author Alice Kim once said…
Read moreTaylor Swift: Trump thinks his presidency is an autocracy
Exclusive: songwriter discusses her political awakening in a Guardian interviewTaylor Swift has spoken of her disillusionment with American values in an exclusive interview with the Guardian.The 29-year-old songwriter said she began feeling conflicted …
Read moreTracks of the week reviewed: Carter Tutti Void, Simply Red, Jimothy
This week we’ve got difficult techno, blue-eyed soul, and a slice of uber-millennial rap Continue reading…
Read moreTropical Fuck Storm: Braindrops review – punchy alt punks in a burning world
This Australian band maps their own music from post punk, rock, funk and noise in songs about mind control and decay (Flightless) A band naming themselves Tropical Fuck Storm aren’t exactly aiming at the Top 5. The Australian group’s 2018 debut, A Laug…
Read moreMiley Cyrus: I was fired from Hotel Transylvania over penis cake photos
Actor-singer says Sony let her go from family animation after seeing images of her licking a phallic gateaux bought for her then-boyfriend Liam HemsworthMiley Cyrus claims she was fired from children’s animation Hotel Transylvania after posing with a p…
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