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Today’s pop stars are cramming songs with so much biography they need footnotes – and they’re in danger of alienating all but their hardcore fansWhen Taylor Swift released Reputation in 2017, she self-published an accompanying magazine while avoiding...
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Music videos were once cultural events almost as important as the music they promoted. In an era of digestible bite-size content on TikTok, the art form is in danger of being lost for everIn increasingly turbulent times for the music industry, one as...
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(Republic)Amid intense and intrusive speculation about her private life, Grande wipes away the tears and tackles the big questions of adult life with maturity, compassion – and delicious gossipBy 2020, Ariana Grande had achieved saintlike status in p...
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Guardian readers are longing for returns by artists from Ariana Grande to Archie Shepp –and even possibly Kate Bush?Sometimes the best new music comes from old favourites: 2023 saw a Rolling Stones album, André 3000’s ambient flute solo debut, a Para...