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Music

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

Celebrities can’t stop showing us who they really are

By Aja Romano

Maren Morris distancing herself from country music underscores its existential crisis

By Li Zhou

The sincerity and rage of Olivia Rodrigo

By Constance Grady

TikTok has transformed the concert experience

By Aja Romano

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

By Aja Romano

The confusing Scooter Braun exodus, explained

By Aja Romano

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

By Aja Romano

Why Taylor Swift is rerecording all her old songs

By Constance Grady

The allegations against Lizzo, briefly explained

By Li Zhou

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

By Fabiola Cineas

The internet’s new anthem is a glorious Eurodance parody

By Rebecca Jennings

How Drake won

By Bianca Betancourt

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

By Constance Grady

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

By Constance Grady

The nonchalant spectacle of Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show

By Alex Abad-Santos

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

By Tanya Pai

How disappointed Taylor Swift fans explain Ticketmaster’s monopoly

By Alex Abad-Santos

The soundtrack to the climate crisis is apocalypse pop

By Taylor Behnke

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

By Constance Grady

What are we supposed to do about Kanye now?

By Constance Grady

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

By Emily St. James

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

By Constance Grady

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

By Izzie Ramirez

One Good Thing: A new classic of country heartbreak

By Emily St. James

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

By Alex Abad-Santos

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

By Emily St. James
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We tracked what happens after TikTok songs go viral

By Estelle Caswell

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

By Daric L. Cottingham

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

By Alissa Wilkinson

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

By Kiana Fitzgerald

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

By Emily St. James

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

By Emily St. James

Why Lata Mangeshkar was an Indian music icon

By Lavanya Ramanathan

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

By Peter Kafka

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

By Aja Romano

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

By Terry Nguyen

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

By Emily St. James

Hanging out with the Beatles in Get Back

By Alissa Wilkinson

Spotify Wrapped, unwrapped

By Kelly Pau

The intertwined legacies of Jonathan Larson and Lin-Manuel Miranda

By Constance Grady

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