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By Ural Garrett Dreamer Isioma walks a multicolored tightrope between going with the flow and having a clear plan for their artsy trajectory. This approach allowed their alt-funk breakout 2020 single “Sensitive” to be a viral TikTok sensation that also earned a placement while in the final season of Issa Rae’s iconic comedy-drama Insecure. It’s also apparent on a refreshingly..
Read MoreBy Jack Irvin Foxes didn’t plan to take six years off between albums, although after the release of her most recent full-length project, 2016’s All I Need, the U.K. Singer-songwriter place on Earth Louisa Rose Allen was in need of a reset. Ever since bursting onto scene because the vocalist on Zedd’s Grammy-winning 2012 single “Clarity,” which dominated dance floors globall..
Read MoreBy Dani Blum Raveena needs you to believe that you’re the only one who can heal yourself. The kaleidoscopic R&B singer-songwriter is adamant about this, anchoring her chin on her hand on the other side of the Zoom call, blinking at the bright pixels and saying, again, that nobody else can create your happiness. She is aware. She’s tried. Raveena went to the mountains every t..
Read MoreBy Alex Gonzalez These days, Nija Charles doesn’t have enough time to sleep. In between corporation meetings and sessions with artists for whom she is penning and producing tracks, the New Jersey-born multi-hyphenate is booked and busy. With a resume boasting platinum tracks for artists like Ty Dolla Sign, Ariana Grande, and Beyoncé, she has become one of the industry’s most in..
Read MoreBy Jack Irvin Recovering from a breakup isn’t easy, even if the relationship wasn’t romantic. Early last year, Olly Alexander told fans he’d be pursuing Years & Years as a solo venture immediately after fronting the synthpop musical group, alongside instrumentalists Emre Türkmen and Michael Goldsworthy, for over a decade. Following years of creative disagreements, Alexande..
Read MoreBy Erica Russell Following a string of years that challenged and pushed us all to self-reflect in unexpected ways, Hikaru Utada’s new album, Bad Mode, finds the J-pop legend looking in the reflect. Out January 19, their eighth studio album is largely about growing up, self-love, self-partnering, and acceptance. Utada says it’s also about “working on the relationship with myself..
Read MoreNorth London's Mae Muller began writing songs by attempting to emulate her heroes. First up, whenever she was much younger, was Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine . "I was obsessed," she tells MTV. "I attempted to write like her. I think I was 19 Once I put my first song on SoundCloud." However unlike Flo and other artists whose identities and artsy visions are clearly defined ..
Read MoreBy Caitlin Wolper Is the home still standing? That’s what the singer René Kladzyk is waiting to find out while she returns to her childhood house in Michigan this Christmas. “I've been having dreams about it, just wondering if they tore it down or not. It makes sense for them to tear it down, nevertheless it's just, I don't know — it just feels like the last place that remain..
Read MoreBy Liz Riggs “Well, I guess there’s no turning back,” a fellow thirtysomething late-adopting Taylor Swift fan named Jess Tantisook tells me over the phone. She’s talking about discovering the 2020 album Folklore, although it’s impossible to discuss how we accidentally became Swifties without talking about the coronavirus pandemic, or reexamining the last two years fraught ..
Read MoreAt this point, the BTS song "Butter" is already a little bit of an institution. Despite only dropping in May, it's reached multi-platinum status moreover to hitting No. 1 in a number of countries (including the United States) and gaining a remix featuring none other than Megan Thee Stallion. There really are a lot of factors at play motivating that sort of success, although one of the..
Read MoreEvery year around this time, people begin asking the same question: Will any new contemporary Christmas song ever come close to achieving the status of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas You?" response The reply is likely no, as becomes clear while you imagine the sheer volume of new holiday music releases that drop yearly. Not several of these become standards, and fewer still ..
Read MoreShawn Mendes is single — or at least, he is no longer dating Camila Cabello, with whom he had been romantically involved since July 2019. The pair reported their split on Instagram last month and mentioned in a joint statement that they began our relationship as best companions and will continue to be best friends." Mendes also has a new single out this week called "It'll Be Okay,"..
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