A great K-pop song surprises you. It doesn’t whisper its intentions; it shouts them in multiple languages with a dance break in the middle. And in Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters, those songs also have ...

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To coincide with her mainstage performance at Dubai's Untold Festival this weekend (Nov. 6-9), India-based global superstar ...

To musical bluebloods, or blue-ears, or whatever you might call them, pop music has always been seen as an opiate for the masses. Listeners with taste never go for the most popular. They are more ...

Pop music in the 1980s was something special. The decade provided a time when things seemed stable but also new. It’s hard to put a fine point on it, but there was no worry about the oncoming new ...

Before "Like a Virgin," the iconic cone bras, and way before thatSuper Bowl moment, Madonna’s career started with a song you’ve probably never heard. The funky, synth-filled dance track lit the fuse ...

The 1980s were a transformative era in pop music. Musicians were moving away from the disco genre of the '70s and decided to innovate with bolder sounds. It was a time in which synthesizers, ...

A schmaltzy ballad. A bubble-gum pop song. A raunchy rap anthem. All three Hot 100 hits feature Mars, a blockbuster singer and songwriter who is largely a cipher. By Shaad D’Souza It’s a free-for-all ...

It’s hard to talk about music, about the flow of chords and melodies and arrangements, when you’re talking about a pop song, because it can all sound a little technical and abstract. But these mystic ...

“I was crying so much in therapy,” Reneé Rapp says with an incongruous laugh as she logs onto Zoom. Her therapy session was earlier that morning, but she still arrives upbeat, friendly and gregarious.