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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

“Barbie World” by Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice will compete for best rap song. Tracks from the soundtrack also hog up four of the five available slots in best song written for visual media. Peso Pluma’s 2023 album, “Génesis,” is just tucked among the nominees for música mexicana. But música urbana — encompassing reggaeton, Latin hip-hop, dembow, Latin trap and more — is a crowded, competitive, hugely popular format. His 2023 album, “Seven Psalms,” plays as a thoughtful, complex, tuneful farewell, anticipating his death.

Persons: Greta Gerwig, ”, Billie Eilish’s, “, Nicki Minaj, Edgar Barrera, Eslabon, Natanael Cano —, Tainy, Rauw Alejandro, Karol G, JON PARELES Olivia Rodrigo, Olivia Rodrigo’s “, Rodrigo, Daniel Nigro, Mick Jagger, CARYN GANZ, Paul Simon, it’s Paul Simon, It’s, Simon, Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Steely Dan, Bob Dylan, Tony Bennett, PARELES Organizations: Spice, Pluma, música, Grupo Frontera, Grupo Firme, Foo Fighters, Queens Locations: Mexican American, Americas, Mexican, música mexicana, urbana, Colombian, Será, Spanish, Newport

☆ Doja Cat Looks to the Past to Make Her Own Moment on ‘Scarlet’
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Jon Caramanica | More About Jon Caramanica | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

She does so not in an especially nostalgic or imitative fashion, but more as a decoration. Doja Cat also varies her rapping technique in ways that recall these bygone eras. “Love Life” nods to the mid-90s proto neo-soul of Groove Theory, and Doja Cat matches it with a percussive flow that recalls Ladybug Mecca of Digable Planets. Lyrically, “Scarlet” has two primary topics: Doja Cat’s dominance and her lust. And her songs about sex, like “Agora Hills” and “Often,” are bawdy and lighthearted.

Persons: ”, Diamond, Doja, Ladybug Mecca, She’s, “, Versace Organizations: York, Theory

☆ Olivia Rodrigo Has Seen the World Now, and She’s Livid
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Jon Caramanica | More About Jon Caramanica | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

That’s the novel approach of Olivia Rodrigo, a modern and somewhat signature pop star. Her jolting debut album, “Sour,” released a few months later, showed her to be a spiky, vivid writer and singer, but one who hadn’t quite seen the world. Two years later, on her poignantly fraught, spiritually and sonically agitated follow-up album “Guts,” Rodrigo has seen too much. As on “Sour,” Rodrigo, who is 20 now, toggles between bratty rock gestures and piano-driven melancholy. Or as she puts it on “Making the Bed,” “I got the things I wanted/It’s just not what I imagined.”

Persons: Taylor, Olivia Rodrigo, ”, ” Rodrigo, “

☆ Country Singer Morgan Wade Was Looking for the Spotlight. It Found Her.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Jon Caramanica | More About Jon Caramanica | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The power of the video, far beyond the tabloid tease, is the conventional frankness with which it depicts same-sex attraction. Coming from an artist signed to a Nashville major label, it is deeply striking. And having been on the receiving end of scrutiny for the last several weeks, Wade has finally emerged on the other side, emboldened. “I don’t know why we’re in this day and time where we have to speculate about people’s sexuality,” she said, emphatically. “Taking elements of who I used to be and those core fundamental things and finding out like, Hmm.

Persons: ” Sparr, Wade, “, ” Locations: Nashville

☆ As Objects Fly Onstage, Stars Become Part of the Audience’s Show
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Jon Caramanica | More About Jon Caramanica | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Is the star of the concert onstage, or in the crowd? In part, that’s because the barrier between the stage and the crowd is more porous than ever, going both ways. Recent weeks have seen a spate of objects flying toward artists, a sign that fans are seeking out ways to insert themselves into the performances they’re attending. But pop stars are wise to this, too, understanding that in an era of social media-inspired invasiveness, allowing themselves to be touched by the crowd is a powerful marketing and publicity tool. The barrier between stage and audience is philosophical, a shared understanding of social practice but not anything more than that.

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☆ How Aimé Leon Dore Took New York
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Jon Caramanica | More About Jon Caramanica | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

He met Anthony Bigio, now vice president for design, when Mr. Bigio was designing custom Air Force 1s for clients at Nike’s Mercer Street location. Joe Bavasso, now ALD’s vice president for product, had a job at Todd Snyder but sought out Mr. Santis in hopes that ALD would sponsor his summer basketball team in the Rockaways. A few years ago, Mr. Santis discovered the New Balance 550, a low-top lifestyle sneaker, in an old New Balance catalog and revived it as a collaborative release with ALD. Since then, the 550 has become in “a staple iconic franchise for New Balance,” said Chris Davis, the New Balance chief marketing officer and senior vice president for global merchandising. “It was one of those phenomenons in sneaker culture that only comes around once every few years.”

Persons: David Z, Michael K, ravenously, Santis, Anthony Bigio, Bigio, Joe Bavasso, Todd Snyder, ”, Chris Davis Organizations: Air Force, Nike’s, Yankees, Mets, New, New Balance

☆ The Night Sinead O’Connor Took on the Pope on ‘S.N.L.’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Jon Caramanica | More About Jon Caramanica | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

She was something grander than a simple pop star — she became a stand-in for a sociopolitical discomfort that was beginning to take hold in the early 1990s, a rejection of the enthusiastic sheen and power-at-all-costs culture of the 1980s. And so, in an era where late-night television performances could still prompt monocultural mood shifts, her gesture was a volcanic eruption. And she was a savvy radical — reportedly she had done something slightly different in rehearsal, and saved the pope photo for the actual show. (The photo itself had hung on the bedroom wall of O’Connor’s mother, who O’Connor later said had physically and sexually abused her as a child.) Also, she was on live television, holding court for three minutes on the miseries of discrimination and abuses of power, under the guise of being a pop star performing a song.

Persons: Sinead O’Connor’s, Bob Marley’s, O’Connor intoned, Pope John Paul II, “, O’Connor —, —, O’Connor

☆ Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Vampire’ Takes a Note From Taylor Swift: Leave a Mark
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Jon Caramanica | More About Jon Caramanica | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Rodrigo is 20 now, and “Guts,” due in September, will be her second album. And while “Drivers License” and its fallout became tabloid fodder, the public narrative wasn’t encoded into the song itself. “Vampire” changes that. On “Drivers License,” Rodrigo still saw the other woman as an enemy, or source of tension, but now on “Vampire,” she understands what the lines of allegiance truly are, marking an emergent feminist streak. Here, she finds kinship with her ex’s other partners, and lambastes herself for thinking she ever was the exception: “Every girl I ever talked to told me you were bad, bad news/You called them crazy, God, I hate the way I called ’em crazy too.”

Persons: Rodrigo, Bia, Mayer, Swift, John, ”, ” Rodrigo, lambastes Locations: Angeles

☆ Taylor Swift, Pop’s Maestro of Memory, Returns to the Stage
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( Jon Caramanica | More About Jon Caramanica | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Of late, Swift — obsessive about memory and even more obsessive about lore — has made revisiting her old work integral to her public presentation. Her ongoing rerecordings project layers a veneer of artistic liberation atop a business tug of war with the owners of her master recordings. And Swift herself tackled each period of her career — the dynamic ones and the flaccid ones alike — with real gusto, in outfits covered in glitter, or fringe or glittery fringe. Her stage was set up for both big-tent power and maximum intimacy; it jutted out into the crowd for almost the entire length of the floor. She concluded with a selection of songs from “Midnights,” a challenging album to wrap a show of this magnitude — it’s more an amalgam of old Swift ideas than a harbinger of a new direction.

Persons: ”, Swift, —, ” “, John, “, King Locations: Nashville, King Kong

☆ Ice Spice Broke Out With ‘Munch.’ Rap’s New Princess Is Just Warming Up.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Jon Caramanica | More About Jon Caramanica | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

All of her released songs so far have been produced by Riot (born Ephrem Lopez Jr.). The two met when they were both studying communications at SUNY Purchase, where Ice Spice also played volleyball, as she did at the Catholic high school she attended in the Bronx. They found a common language in drill songs that didn’t shy away from the personal, and that were lyrically emphatic, line by line. She also found that writing personal stories came naturally. “It’s just like a relief whenever I complete a song.”Before “Munch,” attention came in fits and starts, not all of it positive.

Persons: ”, “, Ephrem Lopez Jr, “ It’s, “ Munch, Drake unfollowed Organizations: Riot, SUNY, Catholic Locations: Brooklyn, Bronx, Toronto

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