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

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

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

By Tanya Pai

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

How Taylor Swift’s 10-minute “All Too Well” surpasses her original

By Constance Grady

Astroworld and the trickiness of tragedy blame games

By Melinda Fakuade

One Good Thing: Kacey Musgraves’s latest album is her messiest — and maybe her best

By Emily St. James

One Good Thing: Lucy Dacus’s latest album is a different kind of ghost story

By Emily St. James

Donda: The hype, the controversy, the music, the Kanye of it all, explained

By Aja Romano

20 years after Aaliyah’s death, her story only feels more tragic

By Constance Grady

Pop music made conspicuous consumption cool

By Ann-Derrick Gaillot

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Why won’t American radio play more K-pop?

BTS was supposed to usher in the K-pop invasion. Where is it?

By Aja Romano

Dear Olivia Rodrigo: Ignore the internet. “Originality” is overrated.

By Emily St. James

Why hit songs suddenly matter more than the stars that sing them

By Charlie Harding

On going back to the movies

By Alissa Wilkinson

Why Britney Spears’s fans are convinced she’s being held captive

By Constance Grady

How In the Heights went from a student musical to one of the summer’s biggest movies

By Constance Grady

Big events are back

By Rani Molla

Japanese Breakfast isn’t the artist she used to be

By Alexa Lee

BTS, the band that changed K-pop, explained

By Aja Romano

Apple’s antitrust problems in Europe just went from bad to worse

By Sara Morrison

One Good Thing: The perfect album for spring 2021

By Emily St. James
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How trucker country music became a ’70s fad

By Estelle Caswell and Antonella Crescimbeni

Taylor Swift’s songs haven’t changed. But she has.

By Emily St. James

How a pop-punk girl group became the most hated band on TikTok

By Rebecca Jennings
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How slow jams took over the radio

By Estelle Caswell

Why Taylor Swift is rerecording all her old songs

By Constance Grady

Lil Nas X’s evil gay Satanic agenda, explained

By Aja Romano

Megan Thee Stallion, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, and H.E.R. win the 2021 Grammys’ top trophies

By Constance Grady and Jen Trolio

10 winners and 1 giant loser from the mostly enjoyable 2021 Grammys

By Constance Grady and Aja Romano

The difference between the Grammys’ Song, Album, and Record of the Year categories, explained

By Kelsey McKinney and Jen Trolio