When real life gets weird, art gets surreal. From the Rapunzel-inspired fantasia of Chappell Roan’s “The Subway,” to the bucolic dreamscape of Rosalía’s “Berghain,” to the trippy erotica of FKA twigs’s “Striptease,” the best videos of the year blurred the... See more
Christmas music has become such a commercial juggernaut that it’s practically impossible for a non-holiday song to crack the upper echelons of the Billboard singles chart between Black Friday and New Year’s Eve. Undisputed classics from the last century—M... See more
Released on the heels of 1992’s criminally under-appreciated Erotica and its accompanying coffee-table book, Sex, Madonna’s Bedtime Stories served as both a course correction and an image rehabilitation for the artist. If the album, which outsold and out-... See more
Hot on the heels of “House,” featuring John Cale, Charli XCX has dropped another new song, “Chains of Love,” from her soundtrack to Emerald Fennell’s film adaptation of Wuthering Heights. The film, in theaters on Valentine’s Day, is the follow-up to the E... See more
For an album whose title suggests a comedown from its predecessor’s euphoric high, the opening track of Eusexua Afterglow goes surprisingly hard. Backed by a relentless 4/4 throb, the fleeting “Love Crimes” finds FKA twigs equating corporal pleasure with ... See more
