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Music recommendations, industry developments, and other music coverage from Vox.

Celebrities can’t stop showing us who they really are

Maren Morris distancing herself from country music underscores its existential crisis

The sincerity and rage of Olivia Rodrigo

TikTok has transformed the concert experience

What’s going on with these viral, right-wing country music hits?

The confusing Scooter Braun exodus, explained

The Montgomery boat brawl and what it really means to “try that in a small town”

Why Taylor Swift is rerecording all her old songs

The allegations against Lizzo, briefly explained

Megan Thee Stallion, Me Too, and hip-hop’s cycle of misogynoir

The internet’s new anthem is a glorious Eurodance parody

How Drake won

Broadway is awash in bad pop musicals pretending to be about feminism

R. Kelly has received his second jail sentence for sex crimes. Here are all the sexual misconduct allegations against him.

The nonchalant spectacle of Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show

The 12 Days of Christmas: The story behind the holiday’s most annoying carol

How disappointed Taylor Swift fans explain Ticketmaster’s monopoly

The soundtrack to the climate crisis is apocalypse pop

Let’s go down the rabbit hole of Taylor Swift conspiracy theories

What are we supposed to do about Kanye now?

Does Taylor Swift want an Oscar? Perhaps (ahem) All Too Well.

How Beyoncé became Beyoncé in 3 not-at-all-easy steps

Bad Bunny threw the party of the year for Puerto Ricans — and didn’t skip the politics

One Good Thing: A new classic of country heartbreak

What we mean when we say Beyoncé is “saving” house music

One Good Thing: Musician Ethel Cain nurses Gen-Z America’s broken heart

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We tracked what happens after TikTok songs go viral

Kendrick Lamar’s Auntie Diaries is a clumsy attempt at trans acceptance

One Good Thing: The messy, glorious music videos of Paul Thomas Anderson

Bipolar disorder is complicated. So is how we talk about Ye.

One Good Thing: Music to dance to as a hurricane bears down

Former evangelicals are putting the American church under a microscope in pop culture

Why Lata Mangeshkar was an Indian music icon

It’s going to take a lot more than Neil Young to change Spotify’s mind about Joe Rogan

How “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” turned Encanto into a sleeper hit

The thirst for Jack Harlow, Gen Z’s breakout white rapper, explained

One Good Thing: The only Christmas music playlist you’ll ever need is (almost) 8 days long

Hanging out with the Beatles in Get Back

Spotify Wrapped, unwrapped

The intertwined legacies of Jonathan Larson and Lin-Manuel Miranda

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