Tag: Pop
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Love, Sex, Magic – Vacancy, Ari Lennox
Whoever’s putting it down on Ari Lennox, needs to start giving lessons. Lennox saunters into the new year with her third full length album, Vacancy after a 4-year break. Produced by big names Jermaine Dupri, Bryan-Michael Cox, BoogzDaBeast, Elite, J White Did It, and Tommy “TBHits” Brown. We are again graced with her silky vocals…
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Primal Therapy with Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine claw their way out of the dirt with their sixth album, Everybody Scream. It feels like running barefoot through the woods as Welch pours out her heart. Since their last release, she’s experienced creation, loss, and a near-death experience, and now she’s here to exclaim her carnal, feminine rage. The title…
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West End Girl – Lily Allen
Lily Allen is one of the voices of my childhood. I liked her because, being from London, she sounded like me when she spoke. Fast forward to today, in the trenches of my feminist reawakening, she’s back with her female-narrative, fly-on-the-wall album West End Girl. It’s shaken the internet and connected women, ear pod to…
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Creating for Herself – Vie – Doja Cat
“You can’t make me feel bad for a cover that has visceral meaning,” was Doja Cat’s statement after posting the cover of her fifth full-length LP, Vie. Fans had expressed disappointment on social media, deeming the photo – featuring the rapper dressed in a wedding gown, dangling from a tree by a parachute (used to…
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Why Placebo’s Debut Album Remains an Angsty Masterpiece.
Placebo came onto the scene with their self-titled album in 1996, a time when Britpop had the UK up against a wall by its Adidas collar and although their lead singer and guitarist Brian Molko has British heritage, their sound didn’t echo the like of Oasis and Blur, regardless of this, the album peaked at…
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I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got. – Sinéad O’Connor.
‘If we could talk about music, we wouldn’t need music.’ – Sinéad O’Connor. This Saturday (26/06/25) marks the two-year anniversary of musician, producer, activist and one of my personal heroes, Sinéad O’Connor’s passing. In her honour, I’m revisiting her second album – ‘I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got’, this release would propel her…
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Taking a Break With Miley Cyrus – Endless Summer Vacation – Review.
Many of us have grown up with Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana, later shocking the world with her ‘rebellious’ era as she went through the growing pains so many child actors who embark on the quest for their own identity face. If you look into her discography, she’s been consistently releasing albums releases since as…