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Celine Dion Can Only Be Herself
  + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
“I always envy people who smoke and drink and party and don’t sleep,” Celine Dion tells her physical therapist with an exaggerated sigh, midway through the new documentary “I Am: Celine Dion.” “Me, I have water and I sleep 12 hours.”This monastic constraint has long been a core part of the Celine Dion legend. In a cruel twist of fate, though, even the ceaseless care Dion devoted to her voice could not preserve it. In 2022, she revealed in an emotional Instagram post that she has stiff person syndrome, a rare and incurable neurological disorder that causes painful muscle spasms and affects roughly one in a million people. After watching “I Am: Celine Dion,” a remarkably candid portrait directed by Irene Taylor on Amazon Prime Video, it is difficult to imagine a disease that would be more personally devastating to Dion, whose entire career has been one long exercise in control, sacrificing all for the ecstatic release of live performance. Since her emergence as a Québécois child star with a precociously huge voice, something about Dion’s essential nature has remained constant, impervious to both changing trends and scathing critique.
Persons: , Celine Dion, , Dion, Irene Taylor, who’d, Elisabeth Vincentelli, “ Dion Organizations: Amazon Prime Locations: York
The 40 Best Songs of 2024 (So Far)
  + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Jon Pareles | Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new songs. After six months of listening, here’s what they have on repeat. LINDSAY ZOLADZFollowing her worldwide 2023 hit “Water,” Tyla pulls away from temptation in “Safer,” harnessing the log-drum beat and sparse, subterranean bass lines of amapiano. Her choral call-and-response vocals carry South African tradition into the electronic wilderness of 21st-century romance. JON PARELESOne We MissedAt once strobe-lit and silky, Ariana Grande appropriately channels Robyn — the patron saint of crying in the club — on this nimbly sung, melancholic pop hit, a highlight from her bittersweet seventh album, “Eternal Sunshine.” ZOLADZ
Persons: Sabrina Carpenter, LINDSAY ZOLADZ, Tyla, JON PARELES, Ariana Grande, Robyn —, Organizations: The New York Times, Spotify, Apple Music
The Rolling Stones Really Might Never Stop
  + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
The Stones’ first New York-area stadium gig in five years was sponsored, without a hint of irony, by AARP. I’ll have whatever vitamins the Stones are taking, please.) Ronnie Wood, the core group’s baby at age 76, still shreds on the guitar with a grinning, impish verve. Sprinting the length of the stage during a rousing “Honky Tonk Women” — the 13th song in the set! — he conjured no other rock star so much as Benjamin Button, as he seemed to become even more energetic as the night went on.
Persons: Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, I’m, Jagger, Benjamin Button Organizations: MetLife, York, , AARP, verve, Hackney Locations: Manhattan, York City, New York
Onstage with her group the Mamas & the Papas at the Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967, Cass Elliot, the grand doyenne of the Laurel Canyon scene, bantered with the timing of a vaudeville comedian. “Somebody asked me today when I was going to have the baby, that’s funny,” she said, rolling her eyes. The unspoken punchline — if you could call it that — was that she had already given birth to a daughter six weeks earlier. July 29 is the 50th anniversary of her untimely death at 32, a tragedy that still spurs unanswerable questions. Might Elliot, who was one of Johnny Carson’s most beloved substitutes, have become the first female late-night talk show host?
Persons: Cass Elliot, , , , Owen Elliot, Kugell, ” Elliot, Elliot, Johnny Carson’s Organizations: Mamas, Monterey, Pop Festival, Sunset Locations: Laurel, Los Angeles
If there has been a common thread — an invisible string, if you will — connecting the last few years of Taylor Swift’s output, it has been abundance. Her last LP, “Midnights” from 2022, rolled out in multiple editions, each with its own extra songs and collectible covers. What Swift reveals on her sprawling and often self-indulgent 11th LP, “The Tortured Poets Department,” is that this stretch of productivity and commercial success was also a tumultuous time for her, emotionally. — there was a second “volume” of the album, “The Anthology,” featuring 15 additional, though largely superfluous, tracks. Gone are the character studies and fictionalized narratives of Swift’s 2020 folk-pop albums “Folklore” and “Evermore.” The feverish “Tortured Poets Department” is a full-throated return to her specialty: autobiographical and sometimes spiteful tales of heartbreak, full of detailed, referential lyrics that her fans will delight in decoding.
Persons: Taylor, Swift, , ’ ” Swift, Department ” Organizations: Poets Department, Department
St. Vincent Dives Headfirst Into the Darkness
  + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
On a recent Tuesday night in a dressing room of the Brooklyn Paramount Theater, Annie Clark, the 41-year-old musician who records as St. Vincent, thumbed through a shelf of secondhand records and sipped a glass of pink champagne. Clark, invited to D.J. the venue’s grand reopening party, was the room’s first inhabitant since a major renovation restored the former movie palace; a pristine, new-car smell lingered. She wore a cream-colored silk blouse, black kitten-heeled shoes and a gauzy black bow tied artfully around her neck. Even in a moment of relative repose, Clark possessed a feline hyper-awareness of her surroundings.
Persons: Annie Clark, Vincent, thumbed, Clark, Dave Grohl, , “ I’ve Organizations: Brooklyn Paramount Theater Locations: St
Additional readingYou can explore a longer playlist of Kim Gordon’s music here. You can read our recent profile of Kim Gordon here. The New York Times Audio app is home to journalism and storytelling, and provides news, depth and serendipity. If you haven’t already, download it here — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and sign up for our weekly newsletter.
Persons: Kim Gordon’s, Kim Gordon Organizations: New York Times
Kim Gordon’s Coolest Act Yet
  + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Plenty of people she loved attended her 60th birthday bash in New York, but she still felt unmoored. Gordon’s 70th birthday party last year, though, was another story entirely. For one thing, it was in Los Angeles, the city she’d grown up in and returned to in 2015. But also, as Gordon explained on a video call from her book-strewn home in late February, it doubled as a celebration of finishing her second solo album, “The Collective.”“It was kind of great to have done that on my 70th birthday,” she said and laughed from behind tinted sunglasses. (The title is partially inspired by Jennifer Egan’s novel “The Candy House.”) But left turns are business as usual for Gordon, a restlessly curious artistic polymath who has never settled for the conventional, expected or familiar.
Persons: Kim Gordon, , , Thurston Moore, Gordon, I’d, Jennifer Egan’s Locations: New York, Los Angeles
Almost a year after the sudden death of Alynda Segarra’s father, the sight of a Bronx-bound subway entrance made the musician cry. “I walked by the 1 train yesterday, and the color of the red and the ‘1’ and the ‘Van Cortlandt Park’ and the ‘Uptown’ — I just burst into tears,” Segarra, who uses they/them pronouns, said. “My dad loved enjoying,” Segarra said. “He just didn’t deny himself pleasure. So now I’m really starting to be like, ‘Why not?’”
Persons: Alynda, , ” Segarra, Riff Raff Organizations: Manhattan’s Hotel Chelsea, Chelsea Locations: Bronx, Van Cortlandt, , Manhattan’s
Listening to boygenius, Together and Apart
  + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Dear listeners,It’s been a big week for boygenius, the singer-songwriter supergroup of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus. “This is our last show,” Dacus told the crowd, “and we’re feeling it.”Is it weird to say I wasn’t mad about this news? “The Record” itself had been an unexpected bonus, since boygenius initially seemed like a one-off project that wouldn’t last longer than a six-song EP and a subsequent tour. But the runaway success of “The Record” also means that some people are more familiar with boygenius than with the three accomplished solo artists who make up the group. It’s a celebration of both the individual work of Baker, Bridgers and Dacus (which sounds like a law firm that I would definitely hire) and also the magic that happens when they put their Captain Planet powers together and become boygenius.
Persons: It’s, Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, boygenius, ” Dacus, I’m, I’d, we’d, , Baker, Bridgers, who’s, plumb Organizations: boygenius, Los Locations: Los Angeles
7 Grammy Winners Worth Another Spin
  + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Dear listeners,I can hardly believe I’m saying this, but this year’s Grammys were … really good? Tracy Chapman, radiating joy and in fine voice, sang “Fast Car” publicly for the first time in ages, alongside a visibly reverent Luke Combs. For today’s playlist, we’re going to hear from some more of those slightly-less-than-household-name artists who took home Grammys this year. I chose two selections of my own, and I also asked my fellow Times pop critics Jon Pareles and Jon Caramanica to send me a few of their picks — a mix of jazz, folk, pop, gospel and more. Listen below to tracks from Laufey, Peso Pluma and Samara Joy, and check out the Bonus Tracks for more of our Grammy coverage.
Persons: Tracy Chapman, Luke Combs, Joni Mitchell, Billie Eilish, Finneas, Taylor Swift, she’s, Phoebe Bridgers, Karol G, Lainey Wilson, Victoria Monét, Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica, Samara Joy Organizations: SZA Locations: Laufey, Samara
When a beloved artist who has not performed live in some time returns to the stage, we often expect them to appear fragile, unsteady, ill at ease. It was a genuine moment of warmth and unity, the sort seldom offered these days by televised award shows — or televised anything, really. Thirty-five years ago, at the 1989 Grammy Awards, Chapman stood alone onstage and performed a wrenching rendition of “Fast Car” accompanied by only her own acoustic guitar. What made Sunday night’s performance feel different wasn’t just the time that had passed, or the gray hair that now elegantly frames Chapman’s face. It was the presence of Combs, born a year after that Grammy performance, regarding Chapman with an awe-struck reverence.
Persons: Tracy Chapman, Luke Combs —, Chapman, Combs,
Two of the night’s strongest performances came from young women using pianos to accompany the wispy, stratospheric upper reaches of their registers — and to comment on the tyranny of fragility and prettiness. The second was Olivia Rodrigo, who nailed the vertiginous high notes that punctuate her rock-operatic smash “Vampire,” and then riffed on the song’s theme as she smeared herself with spurting fake blood. Each performance, in its own way, felt like a rebuttal to the constricting standards to which so many young women are held. Eilish’s was about the pain of being perceived as an object; Rodrigo’s reimagined the same kind of pressure as a horror movie. LINDSAY ZOLADZ
Persons: Billie Eilish, Barbie, Olivia Rodrigo, Eilish’s, LINDSAY ZOLADZ
Guide to the Grammys
  + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( The Staff Of The Morning | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Two beloved songwriters, almost half a century apart in age, are set to be stars of tonight’s Grammy Awards. Joni Mitchell, who nearly died from an aneurysm several years ago, will give her first Grammys performance at the age of 80. And Taylor Swift has a shot to win her fourth album of the year award, something no other artist has done. But Swift, who has six nominations, faces tough competition. We asked three Times music critics — Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz — to share their thoughts on who might win tonight’s awards.
Persons: Joni Mitchell, Taylor Swift, Swift, SZA, , Victoria Monét, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, Miley Cyrus, Jon Batiste, — Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica, Lindsay Zoladz —
Meet the 2024 Grammys’ Best New Artist Nominees
  + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Dear listeners,Some people swear there’s a curse that comes with winning the Grammy for best new artist, but it’s difficult to believe that when you remember who has actually taken home the trophy. Toggle the winners list back another decade and you’ll see some established industry power players like John Legend (best new artist 2006), Carrie Underwood (2007) and Adele (2009). The Grammys even got it right as far back as 1965, when the award went to a group of worthy Liverpudlian newcomers called the Beatles. Today’s playlist is an introduction to the eight artists who stand a chance to join their ranks at this Sunday’s Grammys. Personally, I’d be happy to see the 34-year-old mom take home best new artist; I love when someone who’s been toiling in semi-obscurity for years finally gets her moment in the spotlight.
Persons: Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo —, John Legend, Carrie Underwood, Adele, Jelly Roll, Coco Jones, Victoria Monét, Ariana Grande, Chloe x Halle, Monét, I’d, who’s Locations: Dua Lipa
Nine years ago, Joni Mitchell fans wondered if they might ever hear her perform again, after Mitchell — the Canadian singer-songwriter and icon of the folk movement — had an aneurysm that initially left her unable to speak. But in recent years she has made a gradual recovery, and in 2022 she surprised the music world with a performance at the Newport Folk Festival. And on Sunday, at age 80, Mitchell is set to perform at the Grammy Awards for the first time. Show organizers offered no details about her appearance, including whether she is expected to play solo or with guests. “To hear Mitchell hit certain notes again in that inimitable voice was like glimpsing, in the wild, a magnificent bird long feared to have gone extinct.”
Persons: Joni Mitchell, Mitchell —, , Mitchell, “ Joni Mitchell, Brandi Carlile, Wynonna Judd, Marcus Mumford, George Gershwin’s, Carlile —, ” Lindsay Zoladz, Organizations: Newport Folk, The New York Times Locations: Newport, , George
Starting with today’s Amplifier, we’ll be including links to stream our playlists with either Spotify or Apple Music, in addition to YouTube links to individual songs. Where do I find the new Amplifier playlist each Tuesday and Friday? There’s a main playlist on both Spotify and now Apple Music that we fill with the new songs every time we send out a new Amplifier. How can I listen to an older Amplifier playlist? (We’ve added the 10 most recent Amplifier playlists to our Apple Music account page and will continue to archive the older ones throughout the next few weeks.)
Persons: I’ve, We’ve Organizations: Apple, Spotify, New York Times, Times
Sleater-Kinney’s 10 (or Actually 11) Best Songs
  + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Dear listeners,I first heard the band Sleater-Kinney when I was a teenager, and it’s not an exaggeration to say it changed my life. The drummer, Janet Weiss, played harder than pretty much anyone I’d ever seen, of any gender, and she sometimes wore pigtails. I still believe that Sleater-Kinney’s two-decade, eight-album stretch from 1995 to 2015 ranks among the strongest runs ever by an American band. But its last three albums, released since Weiss left the group, have largely left me cold. But I’d be lying, or blindly stanning, if I said I rank this new album with the band’s best work.
Persons: Kinney, it’s, , I’d, Janet Weiss, Weiss, Carrie Brownstein Locations: American
Now that she’s released the deluxe edition — in honor of her 78th birthday, on Friday! — Dolly Parton’s already sprawling double album “Rockstar” runs nearly three hours long and clocks in at an indefatigably rockin’ 39 tracks. “I know the game, you’ll forget my name,” she sings, with a slight ache in her voice. “And I won’t be here in another year, if I don’t stay on the charts.” Given that “Rockstar” became the highest-charting album of Parton’s career just a few months ago, that fate seems, blessedly, unlikely. LINDSAY ZOLADZ
Persons: she’s, Dolly Parton’s, Billy Joel’s, , Parton, Rockstar ”, LINDSAY ZOLADZ Organizations: Rockstar
More than most artists on pop’s current A-list, the 28-year-old rapper and singer Doja Cat is a child of the internet. Born Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini, she spent much of her youth making beats and rabble-rousing social media posts. 1 on Billboard — retains the glint-eyed, anarchic spirit of an internet troll. She has been a near constant presence on the charts for almost four years, but as a live performer she is still largely unproven. Her dreamy, disco-inflected breakout hit, “Say So,” was released in January 2020 and, during the pandemic, became a TikTok sensation.
Persons: Doja, Amala, Zandile Dlamini, , doesn’t Organizations: Billboard, Barclays Center Locations: New York City
Best Albums of 2023
  + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Jon Pareles | Jon Caramanica | Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Her voice sounds utterly guileless as she sings about lust, betrayal, revenge and healing. 3. boygenius, ‘The Record’Synergy reigns in boygenius, the alliance of the singer-songwriters Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus. Paul Simon, ‘Seven Psalms’“Seven Psalms” comes across as a farewell album from Paul Simon, 82. Simon sings about mortality as a “great migration” and extols the presence and purpose of “The Lord,” as the biblical psalms do. The songs on her second album, “Guts,” combine pop’s concision and melody with rock’s potential to erupt.
Persons: Karol G, Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, mentorships, Paul Simon, , It’s, Simon, , Olivia Rodrigo, Oliva Rodrigo, Feist, ’ Feist Locations: Colombian, Dominican, Afrobeats, boygenius
Brenda Lee, a Queen of Christmas and So Much More
  + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Lee inducted Tucker into the Country Music Hall of Fame in October, and people are still talking about the dry delivery and killer comic timing of her speech. Lee has, Tucker added, “the best sense of humor known to man (or woman).”For the past four years, “Rockin’” has peaked at No. Because while Brenda Lee is a Christmas queen, she’s also so much more. Brenda Lee has stories. While still in her teens, Lee shared bills with Little Richard, Chubby Checker, Dusty Springfield — the list is seemingly endless.
Persons: Tanya Tucker, Lee, Tucker, , , Mariah, ” Lee, Carey, Brenda Lee, she’s, Elvis Presley, Elvis, “ I’m, I’ve, ” Patsy Cline, Little Richard, Chubby Checker, Dusty Springfield, John Lennon, Lee “ Organizations: Country Music Hall of Fame, Ole Opry, Beatles Locations: Hamburg
That titular syllable is exhaled breathily on the chorus and later, as the song’s intensity builds, shouted like a slur from the cheap seats. “If they call me a slut,” she sings, in a love-struck, lavender haze, “you know it might be worth it for once.”That lyric feels flippant, even half-baked. But it’s also important to remember where, in 2014, Swift was in her evolution. “‘Slut!’” is not a great Taylor Swift song, though it is an interesting one. For all its messiness, this track feels like a more honest snapshot of who she was at a certain moment in time — a young woman, wielding words, still figuring it all out.
Persons: Swift, Kathleen Hanna, , , ” Swift, it’s, Lena Dunham, you’re, Amber Rose, Reese Witherspoon, Taylor
“A lot of albums these days are just insanely long collections of what people have been working on, shoehorned into a theme,” Mura Masa said. It traces a loose narrative of a doomed love and is held together by a thematic focus on death and the afterlife. So that song is me being like, ‘I’m not your internet girlfriend. “Sometimes I’d rather not explain what I want something to sound like, I’d rather just do it,” she said. When people are basically flaunting how much something costs, I find that those aren’t really the people that I’m drawn to working with.”
Persons: Mura Masa, , , ” Pink, , They’re, I’ve, I’m, ’ ”, Pink, “ I’m Organizations: ,
Jamila Woods’s Songs Have Many Loves
  + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Most people first heard Woods’s voice — warm, heartfelt and sincere — when she was featured on gospel-tinged tracks by Chance the Rapper (“Blessings”) and Segal (“Sunday Candy”). Each song took the name of a different pioneer: “Zora,” “Miles,” “Octavia.”That’s not to say there wasn’t any Jamila in them. “With ‘Legacy!,’ there’s a lot of songs where I was actually writing a lot about myself, but I’m like, ‘I’ll call it ‘Sonia!’” she said and laughed. “Water Made Us,” which she considers her most personal and vulnerable album to date, found her “shedding” armor. I don’t need to put that layer on top of it anymore.”“Water Made Us” is all about Woods’s own search for love.
Persons: Woods, Chance, Segal, Candy ”, , , Tubman ”, Zora, ” “ Miles, ” “ Octavia, ” That’s, Sonia, ’ ”, , It’s, Said it’s
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