Dua Lipa's Radical Optimism: The Difficult Third Album
After Future Nostalgia revived disco and earned Grammys, Dua Lipa faced an impossible choice: bottle the same magic again or risk everything on a new direction. She chose the tightrope, wiping her Ins...
2 Jul 20min
Dua Lipa: From Rejected Choir Kid to Global Pop Mogul
Told at age 11 that she could not sing, Dua Lipa moved from London to Kosovo and back again, relocating to London alone at 15 to chase a music career. The daughter of Kosovo Albanian refugees, she hus...
2 Jul 17min
Florence and the Machine: Chaos, Survival and Rebirth
Florence Welch nearly named her band with a teenage joke, cutting Florence Robot Is a Machine down to Florence and the Machine an hour before her first gig. From recording breakthrough hit Dog Days Ar...
2 Jul 19min
Faye Webster: The Uncategorizable Artist Who Refused a Lane
Alt-country singer, underground rap label signee, competitive yo-yo designer, Nike ad photographer, and writer of love songs about a baseball player. Faye Webster's resume defies all categorization, a...
2 Jul 17min
Avril Lavigne: The Country Kid Who Became a Punk Icon
She grew up singing country covers in a bookstore, played right wing on a boys' ice hockey team, and came from an evangelical family in a town of 5,000. Yet Avril Lavigne became the global face of 200...
2 Jul 24min
Charli XCX: The Warehouse Rave Kid Who Rewrote Pop
At 14, Charli XCX was playing illegal East London warehouse raves, her parents cheering from the back with a camcorder. She grew up to architect hyperpop and, with the lime green Brat, spark a cultura...
2 Jul 21min
Fergie: From Spelling Bee Champion to Pop Royalty
Stacey Ann Ferguson was a straight-A Catholic school spelling bee champion, a Girl Scout, and the voice of Sally Brown in the Peanuts cartoons. Reconciling that image of 1980s innocence with the barri...
2 Jul 17min
