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

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

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

By Fabiola Cineas

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

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