Taylor Swift performs on stage during The Eras Tour on June 28, 2024 in Dublin, Ireland. Charles Mcquillan/tas24 | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Taylor Swift’s European tour was top of mind for Nikita Rao when planning where to go for her family’s annual summer vacation. Rao, her husband and two kids, who live … Read more
Four years ago, when Ivan Cornejo was a junior in high school, he had a meeting with his family to announce that he was dropping out. His parents were alarmed, of course, but his older sister, Pamela, had a more sympathetic reaction, because she also happened to be his manager, and she knew that he … Read more
Halfway through Charli XCX’s new album, “BRAT,” the British pop star delivers a lyric that is “pop” in neither form nor content. She is rapping, more or less, her voice slightly warped by Auto-Tune. Flouting conventions of rhyme and meter, she acknowledges the sorts of concerns that stars like her are typically expected to ignore, … Read more
A BRAND new music venue could be coming to the UK in the near future, with plans to make it the biggest in the country. This month, a huge new arena is opening its doors in Manchester, but the man behind it already has his sights set on building a bigger one. 4 Co-op Live … Read more
In the past several months, Taylor Swift has become culturally ubiquitous in a way that feels nearly terrifying. Superstardom tends to turn normal people into cartoons, projections, gods, monsters. Swift has been inching toward some sort of tipping point for a while. The most recent catalyst was, in part, love: in the midst of her … Read more
Confessional pop music has become freighted over the years by a kind of heightened expectation. Fans see more of pop stars now, in the quasi-candid precincts of social media, which means that fans believe themselves to have an understanding of pop stars, and there is a way in which songs or albums or music videos … Read more
A SUMMER camp just for adults in the UK is said to be the only one of it’s kind – with thousands of Brits already raving about it. Camp Wildfire is a weekend festival for over 18’s only, with guests ranging from 25 to 50. 6 A UK festival has named itself the “only summer … Read more
From afar, Green Day doesn’t seem too hard to figure out—for decades, the band has been reliably churning out chunky, three-chord earworms about jerking off, being bored, growing up, getting wasted, and bucking against “subliminal mindfuck America”—but its astonishing endurance, paired with the long tail of its influence, suggest something deeper. Last week, Green Day … Read more
