The 1980s gets remembered for shoulder pads, synthesizers, and excess, but the decade’s most lasting cultural force was a generation of women who rewrote what stardom looked like. Actresses, mus...
Hollywood has always run on ambition, and ambition tends to create friction. Some of the industry’s most celebrated figures have also been its most difficult to work with, generating behind-the-...
A handful of songs have crossed from popular music into something closer to financial institutions. They collect money from radio stations, streaming services, TV commercials, movie soundtracks, weddi...
Every year, hundreds of films get made, and a handful of them turn out genuinely terrible. Not just forgettable or mediocre, but catastrophically, memorably bad in ways that stick around for decades. ...
Celebrity relationships have always attracted speculation, and the internet has made it worse. Rumors move faster than facts, and by the time a story gets corrected, half the world has already accepte...
Pop music gets discussed endlessly in terms of voices, visuals, and vibes. The songwriting tends to get buried. That’s a mistake, because some of the most technically impressive and emotionally ...
Critics get it wrong. It happens more than the music press would ever care to admit, and the proof is sitting in millions of record collections around the world. Some of the most celebrated albums in ...
Most rock albums have a great opening track, maybe a strong single buried in the middle, and then a forgettable stretch before things wrap up. That’s just the reality of how most records get mad...
Prince Rogers Nelson was one of the most decorated performers in pop history, but his reputation as a performer may have actually undersold what he was. The man wrote constantly, obsessively, and for ...
Angelina Jolie has spent decades being the one who shows up for other people. She built a humanitarian career out of it, adopted children from three countries, and spent years as a UNHCR Goodwill Amba...
