Lorde: The Anti-Pop Architect Who Walked Out of the Machine
At 16, Ella Yelich-O'Connor uploaded her Love Club EP to SoundCloud for free and racked up 60,000 downloads before her label caught up. As Lorde, she dismantled the maximalist EDM pop of the early 201...
2 Jul 21min
Maren Morris: Leaving Nashville to Find Her Authentic Voice
Maren Morris climbed from smoky Texas bars and a Nashville songwriting career to become a genre-blending superstar with the self-released breakout My Church, a Grammy winner that bypassed traditional ...
2 Jul 19min
Madonna's Celebration Tour: Survival, Spectacle and a Record Crowd
Madonna's Celebration Tour, her first retrospective run, nearly ended before it began when a serious bacterial infection put her in the ICU in June 2023 and forced a postponement. It ultimately transf...
2 Jul 19min
Marina: One Word Living a Thousand Lives Across the World
A single six-letter word, Marina, stretches across the absolute limits of human experience, from Italian boat docks to global pop stars, warships, a classified surveillance database and an asteroid. T...
2 Jul 16min
Mary J. Blige: The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul Who Saved Her Own Life
Mary J. Blige turned private suffering into a public blueprint that redefined R&B and hip-hop. Born in the Bronx and raised partly in the Schlobohm projects in Yonkers, she was discovered through a ra...
2 Jul 18min
Miranda Lambert: The Teenager Who Rebuilt Country in Her Own Image
Miranda Lambert walked out of a Nashville studio at 16 rather than accept a generic pop sound, then went home to Texas, learned guitar from her father and built a record-breaking country empire on her...
2 Jul 19min
Miley Cyrus's Flowers: From Sad Piano Ballad to Billion-Stream Anthem
Miley Cyrus's 2023 hit Flowers began as a slow, solitary piano ballad about a burnt-down marriage before producers transformed it into a twangy disco-funk anthem of self-reliance. Built on the mathema...
2 Jul 18min
Muni Long: The Shadow Songwriter Who Reclaimed Her Own Voice
Muni Long spent a decade as a ghostwriter behind hits for Rihanna, Ariana Grande, Pitbull and others after her solo debut as Priscilla Renea sold just 1,200 copies in its first week. This episode trac...
2 Jul 20min
