After a decade in the pop fringes, Charli xcx’s 2024 album Brat propelled her to global stardom: an acid-green ‘Brat summer’, a Glastonbury headline slot and brat as Collins’ word of the year.
But how…
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Talk is of newlywed Taylor Swift taking a break from music. Did I take a nap and wake up in the 1950s? | Laura Snapes ⊕⊕
After exchanging vows with Travis Kelce, the workaholic pop star probably won’t be staying home to admire the wedding silverware
No speculation is too harebrained when it comes to Taylor Swift and Tra…
57 days ago
If CMAT is an affront to the male gaze and Olivia Rodrigo is indulging it, how exactly should women dress? | Laura Snapes ⊖
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The loud online hate aimed at two pop stars with polar-opposite styles suggests a shrinking realm of acceptability in which women can exist. That is, you suspect, the point
For an eye-catching spring/…
5 months ago
Mandy, Indiana: Urgh review | Laura Snapes' album of the week ⊖
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The Manchester/Berlin band’s second album refines their industrial-club sound, as physical and hyper-detailed as being dragged under by a wave and admiring the flotsam
Mandy, Indiana are…
9 months ago
‘The most spontaneous person I’ve ever met’: Guardian writers remember Diane Keaton ⊕
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From Annie Hall to The First Wives Club, Keaton’s performances redefined what it meant to be funny, stylish and unapologetically oneself. Our writers pay tribute to a one-off star who made eccentrici…
The Life of a Showgirl is a massive hit – and massively divisive. What should Taylor Swift do next? ⊖
Swift’s 12th LP is set to dominate the charts – despite fans lampooning the lyrics and lamenting its quality. Guardian music writers discuss what it means for her career
Laura Snapes Taylor Swift’s 12…
15 months ago
‘One minute it’s “would you like to listen to Galaxie 500?”, the next humanity’s enslaved’: can anyone escape Spotify? ○
As a new book skewers Spotify’s effect on music, two Guardian music writers spent a week assessing the limits of living with and without it
Laura Snapes, deputy music editor I was set the task of not …
17 months ago
Don’t look back: after decades of apathy, A Complete Unknown has turned me into a Dylan nut | Laura Snapes ○
I went into the cinema without expectation, I left feeling like a besotted teenager and have listened to little other music since
The bookshop in the town where I used to live had a world-beating seco…
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