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
FKA Twigs: The Auteur Who Built a New Vocabulary
From dancing in the background of pop videos and learning to pole dance while working in a Soho gentlemen's club, Tahliah Barnett became FKA Twigs, one of the most vital and fiercely independent voice...
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
