Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club: A Five-Year Vindication
Chappell Roan wrote Pink Pony Club in two days in February 2019 after a life-changing visit to the Abbey, a gay bar in West Hollywood, where she felt she could finally be herself. Her label Atlantic R...
2 Jul 20min
Clairo: Surviving Viral Fame and the Industry Plant Label
Claire Cottrell, known as Clairo, recorded Pretty Girl on a cheap keyboard in her childhood bedroom and became a viral sensation almost overnight. But fame arrived with accusations that her whole care...
2 Jul 21min
Cyndi Lauper: The Neon Trojan Horse of Pop Rebellion
Before she gave the 1980s its ultimate party anthem, Cyndi Lauper was a runaway teenager surviving two weeks in the Canadian wilderness with her dog, escaping an abusive stepfather. Her path to stardo...
2 Jul 16min
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
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
