The holiday season is upon us, plus it seems that Netflix is the gift that keeps on giving. Just a couple weeks immediately after dropping the teaser for You Season 2, the streaming platform is back today (December 16) with a full-length trailer that, admittedly, leaves us with more questions than answers. "It's hard to have a fresh begin whenever the past is on your mind," Joe (..

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the initial line of "Boxer" is a brilliant introduction to Stray Kids: Translated, it goes, "Hello, I’m a young man who can fly anywhere." It's a confident declaration, at once cheeky polite, and it also speaks to the Korean boy group's signature tenacity. It's charismatically delivered by main dancer Lee Know, the intensity building with every word. Each person, attention!" He spit..

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Before the most gracious breakup song in the world, "Thank U, Next," dropped like a nuclear bomb last November, the earliest taste of Ariana Grande's fifth album arrived by way of the a 45-second Instagram teaser. That black-and-white clip introduced us to "Needy," on which Grande owns up to being enthusiastic although I don't give no fucks," which is exactly the sort of thing people ..

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Watching Mikaela Straus’s November 24 debut on Saturday Night Live felt like observing a symbolic coming-of-age in real time. The singer-songwriter, better known by her gender-paradoxical pseudonym King Princess, took to the hallowed stage for a dichotomous two-song efficiency. Armed with a guitar contained in place by an eponymously branded strap, giving her the vibe of a got-stone..

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As a spice, ginger can imbue a concoction with lively energy (even as it makes smoothies taste like gasoline). Because the title of Brockhampton’s explosive fifth album, it signifies the bitterness and sharpness noticed in the music, a required slap in the face of both the industry and the self-described boy musical group itself, amidst sort turmoil and an artsy dry spell. Ginger, o..

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Imagine in case you can outsource your own self-care. As a substitute opposed to ambling mindfully toward enlightenment, you’d simply dial a hotline to connect to a service that did your fretting for you. “We worry about and also you don’t have to,” a robotic monotone would tell you once you’ve connected, purging all your anxieties for total mental clarity. That’s the pitc..

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By Dani Blum The beat drop in “Bad Guy” is a rip in time. It begins as a throb and ends as a vortex, unraveling a slick, muted pop song into a trap-drum, SoundCloud rap-adjacent cyborg. Pop has been building to this – the thump of bass in Taylor Swift’s “I Knew You Were Trouble,” the electronic thrums during Lorde’s first album – although the full dissolution of a tra..

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2019 is over, and thus is genre. It’s a dangerously pithy thing to mention, especially considering how the separation of music’s sound is still central to the inner workings of the complete industry. Radio is based around genre. So are Billboard’s charts and Spotify’s biggest playlists. Programmers bake it into the algorithms that help you discover your next preference artist..

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By Bob Marshall As Album of the Decade lists continue to roll in while in the final months of 2010s, the best spots re populated by three albums, and with good reason. Kanye West's masterpiece of maximalism My Cute Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kendrick Lamar's candid portrayal of the Black American experience To Pimp a Butterfly, and Frank Ocean's experimental and eclectic Blonde all were h..

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One of Taylor Swift’s very best songs is “Delicate,” a meditation that swirls lust with apprehension, stains anticipation with doubt. Under the night lights of a thumping metropolis, she nurses a surfacing realization that a new relationship isn't about to end well. 2012’s Red standout “Treacherous” contained a similar sentiment: She decides to dive in with a lover while a..

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By Virginia Lowman Ari Lennox’s Shea Butter Baby is both old school and quintessentially modern. An amalgamation of funk, R&B, and jazz that’s rooted in soul, the Dreamville songstress’s debut album is an ode to Blackness and connectivity, acknowledging oppression and the anxiety, financial constraints, and loss of freedom that accompany it. It is, above all, a celebration ..

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Every year since Tyler, the Creator made a cockroach into a gourmet meal in his disturbing 2011 “Yonkers” video, the rapper has become more charismatic, serpentine, and, notably, more human. Much of Tyler’s early subject matter because the frontman of Uncommon Future was disgusting – designed for maximum offense from conservative listeners. Although he matured after awhile and..

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