‘On reflection, it’s very uncool’: readers’ scrapbooks of pop fandom | Music

Simon Davis’ metal scrapbook.

‘I heard Roxy Music at a Scouts gathering and was hooked’ I was obsessed with Roxy Music as a teenager. I heard their first two albums at a Scouts gathering and was hooked. Every week, […]

Billie Eilish dropped ‘What Was I Made For?’ and pop queen Glüme has never felt more seen

Billie Eilish dropped 'What Was I Made For?' and pop queen Glüme has never felt more seen

Billie Eilish dropped “What Was I Made For?” and child actor-turned-pop queen Glüme Harlow has never felt more seen. Eilish has been teasing the new sob-inducing track she wrote with her brother Finneas O’Connell for […]

From nightmare ticketing to online abuse, being a pop fan is becoming miserable | Music

Robert Smith of The Cure performing in New Orleans in May – the band have put a price cap on tickets.

This week, hundreds of thousands of Taylor Swift fans around the UK, Ireland and Europe have been desperately trying to get tickets to the Eras tour, which kicks off in Paris in May 2024. When […]

The Who review – rock operas get an orchestral uplift in a show stuffed with classics | Pop and rock

Spiky and electric … Daltrey (left) and Townshend.

‘I want what you’re taking,” Pete Townshend quips, pointing to an enthusiastic fan. “Not again,” retorts Roger Daltrey, comedically rolling his eyes. After six decades of bickering, the two original members of the Who still […]

Misheard lyrics from iconic pop songs

Misheard lyrics from iconic pop songs

Stacker compiled a list of some of the most misheard pop lyrics to become infamous for the funny mistakes fans made when singing the “wrong” words. – Frank Micelotta Archive // Getty Images Sandi Hemmerlein […]

Windrush at 75: How Caribbean culture dominated British music – Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph | Society

Photograph: Ollie Millington

Archive: Station Noailles Marseille, Thames News, Rinse FM ContributorsLloyd Bradley – music journalistSandra Cross – singer and songwriterD Double E – Grime artist MusicLord Invader – Teddy Boy Calypso (Bring Back The Old Cat-O-Nine) (1992, […]

Aisha Harris’ ‘Wannabe’ muses on the pop culture that shaped her

The cover of Aisha Harris' "Wannabe: Reckonings With the Pop Culture That Shapes Me"

“It’s nearly impossible to escape this world untouched by pop culture: moviegoing, TV watching, music listening,” writes pop culture critic Aisha Harris in the introduction to her book, “Wannabe.” “It doesn’t all just happen to […]

Sabrina Carpenter review – pop’s next big thing is best when she lets loose | Pop and rock

Revitalised … Sabrina Carpenter.

Framed by a huge heart-shaped mirror, as if she’s one of Greta Gerwig’s Barbies, Sabrina Carpenter steps into the spotlight. “Back then I didn’t know who I was, not even in the slightest,” she sighs […]

The Weeknd review – spectacular voyage through post-apocalyptic pop | The Weeknd

We are the robots … The Weeknd.

The Weeknd’s 2023 stadium tour – postponed so many times that its title features not just the name of his most recent album, Dawn FM, but its 2020 predecessor, After Hours – is nothing if […]