A Woman's Rage: Songs About Being Fed Up
To cope with the tumult of a difficult week and the anniversary of the #MeToo movement, music critic Ann Powers spent the week with music from women expressing one thing: Being fed up.
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I Hope We Both Die: How The Mountain Goats Wrote The Ultimate Anthem To Dysfunction
"No Children" began as a darkly funny song about divorce. Today, it's something more: a vessel for raw-throated catharsis and a chance to indulge your worst self.
Natalia Lafourcade Is The 21st Century's Guardian Of Cultural Memory
In many ways, Lafourcade has left her mark on the 21st century by looking back. Her work has freed music that for many younger listeners had been trapped in amber, and imbued it with new life.
Bigger Than Disco, 'You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)' Is A Celebration Of Self
Sylvester's 1978 dance hit transcends its moment and even the gay rights and AIDS awareness movements it came to represent. It's an anthem to liberation — of desire, and of the body.
Carly Rae Jepsen Is The 21st Century's Queen Of A Million Kingdoms
Though "Call Me Maybe" has been a defining moment of her career, it's the aftermath of her 2015 album that's come to define who Jepsen is on social media: the subject of a bottomless well of memes.
The Legacy Of 'Adam's Song,' An Anthem To Darkness, Loss — And Recovery
The Blink-182 hit was a surprise in 1999: a raw look at suicide and depression from a band more known for naked antics and fart jokes. Two decades later, it stands as an unlikely salve for survivors.
Nicki Minaj Is The 21st Century's Insatiable Hip-Hop Monarch
Minaj indelibly changed the hip-hop landscape in the past decade. She wanted the throne. Now that she has it, she isn't going to relinquish it to anyone — male or female — gunning for that title.
The New Kanye Reaffirms His Love For President Trump On 'SNL'
Yandhi's release is still a mystery, but Ye makes his allegiance to all things MAGA clear in another controversial album rollout week.
The Hot New Musical Trend In Zanzibar Is From The '80s — The 1880s
The traditional music known as taarab was fading away — until a school began giving lessons to aspiring musicians.
Punks, Up Against The Wall
The new book Burning Down the Haus fastidiously traces the self-discovery of punks in the socialist dictatorship of East Germany, and the violence and repression they endured on the way to freedom.