Coco Jones: From Dropped Child Star to Grammy Winner
Coco Jones starred in the most watched kids and tweens movie of 2012, Disney's Let It Shine, charted with her music, and then got dropped by Hollywood Records in 2014 because executives decided she wa...
2 Jul 17min
Demi Lovato: Surviving the Child Star Machine
Behind the purity-ring Disney image, Demi Lovato was fighting a daily battle to survive the expectations placed on them. This deep dive goes beyond the tabloids to examine the devastating mechanics of...
2 Jul 19min
Olivia Rodrigo's Driver's License: A Bedroom Pop Detonation
A 17-year-old alone in her bedroom records an unpolished snippet of a sad piano song and posts it online. Months later it shatters global streaming records and redefines the modern power ballad. This ...
2 Jul 19min
Donna Summer: The Church Girl Who Built EDM
How does a Boston church choir girl who moved to Germany for musical theater end up pioneering modern electronic dance music, and how did a typo on a record sleeve give her one of pop's most famous st...
2 Jul 20min
Fifth Harmony: The Pop Heist of the Decade
They generated billions of streams, performed for the President, and had their own Barbie dolls, yet they didn't legally own the name they answered to. This deep dive tells the story of Fifth Harmony,...
2 Jul 19min
Girls Aloud: Reality TV Pop That Won Over Rock Snobs
When frontmen of U2 and Coldplay named the most cutting-edge music of the decade, they pointed to a girl group manufactured on a reality TV show with its own line of false eyelashes. This deep dive ex...
2 Jul 19min
H.E.R.: The Anti-Star Who Hid to Be Heard
How does a child prodigy performing on national TV at age 10, signed to a restrictive major deal at 14, become one of the most anonymous figures in modern music, only to emerge with an Oscar, an Emmy,...
2 Jul 17min
Girls' Generation: The Nation's Girl Group
At the first YouTube Music Awards in 2013, a South Korean girl group dethroned Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, and Psy for Video of the Year. This deep dive explores how Girls' Generation, known as SNSD, be...
2 Jul 21min
