The New York Times – Music:
“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” has been a holiday staple for 65 years. But Lee, who recorded it at 13, has never rested on her laurels.
Author: Lindsay Zoladz
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Taylor Swift’s ‘“Slut!”’ and the Evolution of a Pop Star Feminist
The New York Times – Music:
The bonus track from “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” revisits a moment when she was carefully calibrating her public transition into adulthood and superstardom.
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Enough About Gram Parsons’s Death. It’s Time to Celebrate His Music.
The New York Times – Music:
The country-rock pioneer died 50 years ago at age 26 with two influential solo albums to his name, leaving a legion of “what if”s behind.
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Jamila Woods Puts Herself at the Center of “Water Made Us”
The New York Times – Music:
“Water Made Us,” a new album due Oct. 13, achieves the musician’s greatest synthesis yet between her voices as a poet and as a songwriter.
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Are We Finally Ready to Take Tammy Wynette Seriously?
The New York Times – Music:
The unsung godmother of so-called “sad girl” music — and one of pop’s most wrenching chroniclers of feminized pain — has long been misunderstood.
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Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga Dueted. Their Stars Were Reborn.
The New York Times – Music:
The crooner and the pop star seemed like unlikely collaborators when they joined up in 2014. But the two masters of reinvention inspired and bolstered each other’s careers.
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On Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour, the World Is Her Ball
The New York Times – Music:
The pop superstar’s first solo outing in seven years draws on the dance-music cultures that inspired her 2022 album, and her work that led up to that ecstatic release.
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Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Chemistry’ Draws on Familiar Formulas
The New York Times – Music:
With a big voice and big personal changes to sing about, Clarkson ends up with arrangements that don’t match the power and rawness of the emotions fueling them.