Katy Perry’s breakout moment, in the late two-thousands, had a type of frivolity and irreverence that feels difficult to summon now. Her début single, “I Kissed a Girl,” from 2008, is just what it ...

You can’t talk about pop music without talking about queerness. Q: Tell me the college dorm on Buswell St. is queer-friendly without telling me it’s queer-friendly. A: They just hosted a party called ...

What is pop music? Musicologists Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding argue in their book, Switched on Pop, that “pop isn’t a genre; it’s a marketing category that encompasses everything that is ...

An exploration into some of the most iconic pop music that defined the early 2010s. The landscape of pop music has changed drastically over the last few decades. In the 1950s, country legends like ...

There’s a brilliantly funny scene in Tom Stoppard’s play The Real Thing, where the character of Henry, an intellectual playwright, is invited to select his favorite music for BBC Radio 4’s Desert ...

Looking to emulate South Korea's K-pop juggernaut, the island nation's music industry is banding together to take its pop music global. By Glenn Peoples “We’ve been trying to spread our music from ...

It's a commonly held grudge of listeners who are no longer pop's core demographic that the music of the moment is not what it once was. It was a claim made about jazz in the 1920s when New York ...

On April 9, Billboard announced a new app called the Hot 100 Challenge. The publication, known for producing weekly music charts, offered “fantasy-sports-style gameplay” for pop music fans. In the app ...

K-pop powerhouse BTS has sent shock waves through the music world by boycotting the upcoming Grammy Awards, pointing to the organisation's decision last month to introduce an Asian music category. The ...

Here’s everything you ever wanted to know about K-Pop music video production: storyboarding, set design, lighting, VFX, and more! According to the director, each music video can take around two weeks ...