“I just was not expecting the look on people’s faces”: The controversial Tori Amos song that her record company hated – before a remix hit No.1

The album was described by Emma Madden of Pitchfork magazine in 2025 as “strange, unsettling and outside the bounds of any ...
Spin

‘Diamonds Are Forever’: The Women Behind the Songs of James Bond 007

Following January’s rumors that Dua Lipa is negotiating to write and perform the theme song for Amazon-MGM's “Bond, James ...

Could Megan Moroney's New Songs 'Who Hurt You?' and ‘Wish I Didn't' Be About Riley Green? Here's Why Fans Think So

Megan Moroney recently teased new songs "Who Hurt You?" and "Wish I Didn't," and fans are wondering if they could be about ...
collider

The Beach Boys Song No One Expected to Become Their Greatest — and Why It’s Now Their Most Covered Classic

Jazmin Kylene is a Miami-bred writer and editor with a decade-long career that spans all editorial genres, though she has a particular passion for music journalism. Upon graduating Florida Atlantic ...
Whiskey Riff

Ella Langley & Riley Green’s “You Look Like You Love Me” Finishes Its Award-Season Run With A Staggering Seven Wins Across the ACM & CMA Awards

A whole lot of hardware for a single song. In many ways, “you like you love me” has simply been the gift that keeps on giving for Langley and Green. Beyond its massive streaming numbers (267 million ...
Variety

‘Now You See Me 3’ Director Ruben Fleischer on Those Major Cast Surprises, Plans for Part Four and What Critics Get Wrong About Commercial Films

Director Ruben Fleischer heard a loud gasp. In the very first screening of “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t,” one particularly shocked moviegoer had an audible response to the heist film’s third-act ...
Radio World

Why I Love Radio

If you were to ask, “Why do you love radio?” I’d suggest you grab a cold drink and sit down. It’s not a simple answer, because for me, it’s never been just about the music or the voices — it’s about ...
Uproxx

Ravyn Lenae’s “Love Me Not” Could Be The Grammy Breakthrough R&B’s Been Waiting For

Dropped in the middle of our modern, noisy musical landscape, Ravyn Lenae’s “Love Me Not” achieved the impossible — breaking through by sounding like nothing else on the charts. The swoony, melodic ...
Mashable

'The Last of Us' Season 2, episode 4: Why Ellie sings 'Take on Me'

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NPR

Do you love a movie everyone hates? Confessions from an NPR panel

NPR editor Barrie Hardymon and producer Marc Rivers talk about the joy of loving movies everyone else loves to hate. The late great film critic Roger Ebert wrote this in a one-star review about a ...
The Conversation

Why do some songs get stuck in our heads so easily? The science of earworms

Emery Schubert receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Pause and think about it for a moment. For those unfamiliar, nothing will come to mind. But if you’ve heard the song of the same ...
The Root

These 13 Artist Covers of Bobby Caldwell’s ‘What You Won’t Do for Love’ Have the Internet Obsessed

They say there’s nothing better than the original, but you have to admit, some of the best covers to our favorite songs can give the original a run for their money! Just take Bobby Caldwell’s 1978 ...