Pop Music

The video for Swift’s LGBTQ+ anthem is erected on the stereotype of the redneck homophobe

From Matmos to Grimes, a new wave of music is critically engaging with environmental politics – but what does it sound like?

To celebrate the publication of Neil Tennant’s collected lyrics, Michael Bracewell reflects on one of the great synth-pop groups 

Xenophobia has escalated to ‘emergency’ levels but the most watched music video on Italian YouTube is by a Tunisian-Italian artist

The Carters’s museum takeover powers through art history’s greatest hits – with a serious message about how the canon treats black bodies

Paul Rekret surveys ‘chill wave’, the mellow pop, sepia-toned indie and tropical dance tropes in new music releases 

Looking back on the Rockumentary

Elizabeth Peyton