Aespa: How K-Pop's Metaverse Group Conquered the Charts
Aespa turned a bold sci-fi avatar concept into one of K-pop's defining acts of the 2020s. Built by SM Entertainment and debuting in November 2020 with Black Mamba, the group of Karina, Giselle, Winter...
2 Jul 19min
Alanis Morissette and the Fury Behind Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette went from being dubbed the Debbie Gibson of Canada, a synth-pop teen who opened for Vanilla Ice, to the queen of alt-rock angst behind a single album that sold over 33 million copies...
2 Jul 21min
Thank U, Next: How Grief Rewrote the Pop Rulebook
In late 2018, at the peak of her career, Ariana Grande's personal life shattered publicly. Rather than issue careful PR statements, she locked herself in a studio with friends and champagne and made a...
2 Jul 20min
Ariana Grande: From Rejected R&B Kid to Pop Mogul
At 14, Ariana Grande was laughed out of a Los Angeles boardroom for pitching a soulful R&B album. Years later she held the top three spots on the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously, a feat untouched sin...
2 Jul 20min
Arlo Parks: The Cost of Comforting a Generation
Arlo Parks went from a teenager writing poems and listening to too much emo music to winning the Mercury Prize, touring with Billie Eilish, and co-writing for Beyonce. This deep dive traces her accele...
2 Jul 17min
Beabadoobee: The Misfit Who Escaped Her Viral Fame
Expelled from a strict Catholic school for misfit behavior, a teenager taught herself guitar from YouTube and uploaded a song as a joke under a gibberish Instagram name. Years later she was opening fo...
2 Jul 20min
Beyonce's Cowboy Carter and the Reclaiming of Country
When Beyonce performed a country song at the 2016 CMA Awards, the response was to scrub the evidence and reject the song as not country enough. This deep dive into her 2024 landmark album Cowboy Carte...
2 Jul 17min
