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1432 Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2024 Katy Perry When she skyrocketed to stardom at the tail end of the 2000s, Katy Perry was a girl-next-door gone wild: dancing on tables, kissing cherry-Chapstick-ed strangers, and shooting whipped cream out of her sparkly bustier. Her trademark hits represented pop as pure escapism—fun and frivolous, with production from the era’s biggest hitmakers (Max Martin, Stargate, Dr. Luke). Sixteen years after her breakthrough with 2008’s “I Kissed a Girl,” the era from which Perry emerged has cycled back into fashion as a nostalgic trend. But on her sixth album (not including her contemporary Christian record as Katy Hudson), named for her angel number—and for how people typed “I love you” back in the pager era—the 39-year-old singer is focused on the present. “When I was going through [2008 debut album]  One of the Boys , it was like, ‘Oh my god, hold on to this ride!’” Perry tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, tracing the arc of her career as it pertains to her emotional...

TESTIMONY. Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2024 Tayc

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Tag & Night Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Patent Ochsner Add this album to your library now.

  Hello World Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2024 Pinguini Tattici Nucleari

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Dua Lipa Live from the Royal Albert Hall Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2024 Dua Lipa 2024 was a year of milestones for Dua Lipa. The British pop star released her third album  Radical Optimism —on which she realized her long-held dream of working with Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker—and headlined Glastonbury Festival, something else she’d been “manifesting” since the start of her career. Then, in October, she ticked off another major moment: this performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Here, alongside the 53-piece Heritage Orchestra, conducted by Ben Foster, and a 14-person-strong choir, Lipa performs  Radical Optimism  start to finish, followed by some of her best moments—from “Be the One” and her 2023  Barbie  smash “Dance the Night” to  Future Nostalgia ’s excellent “Love Again” (its “My Woman” sample performed by horns) and “Levitating.” Plus, there’s a Cleo Sol cover (“Sunshine”) and an appearance from actual Elton John, who joins her on stage for their 2021 megahit “Co...

rosie Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2024 ROSÉ The first time ROSÉ was interviewed about her debut solo album, she burst into tears. “I ended up crying for the whole 30 minutes,” the K-pop singer recounts to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “It was not a smooth ride, and it just showed how much time and effort and blood, sweat, and tears I actually did put into it.” ROSÉ was born in New Zealand to Korean parents and raised in Australia, shooting to global fame in 2016 as one-fourth of the mega-successful girl group BLACKPINK. The 12-track   rosie , which is what she’s called by her friends and loved ones, is, as she says, both a “time capsule” and a “therapy session”—a raw chronicle of her twenties as she’s still experiencing them, and an opportunity to be more personal than K-pop artists often get to be. “It's just what I talk about with my friends and family, put into an album so that we can all share it and hopefully my fans feel closer to me,” she says. On “toxic till the end,” the singer makes a clear...

Disobbedire Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2024 Fiorella Mannoia

eternal sunshine (slightly deluxe and also live) Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2024 Ariana Grande Ariana Grande is used to being in the spotlight, but over time, she’s gotten savvy at playing it. The pop star’s seventh studio album   eternal sunshine —a lightly conceptual riff on the head-spinning 2004 film starring Jim Carrey, of whom Grande has said she’s a lifelong fan—feels like a mind game itself, blurring the lines between real-life references and theatrical bits. It arrives in the middle of a whirlwind tabloid-packed stretch—Grande married, divorced, and scored a starring role in Hollywood’s big-screen adaptation of   Wicked —and she knows fans have questions. What’s true? What’s real? Ari gives a lot of things on this album, but answers aren’t one of them, a cunning reminder of how little transparency celebrities actually owe us. In an interview with Zane Lowe, Grande leans into the project’s thematic murkiness. “true story,” she says, is “an untrue story based on all untrue events,” ...

El Último Día de Nuestras Vidas Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2024 Dani Martín

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Shawn Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2024 Shawn Mendes “It feels really good to be in the driver’s seat,” singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe on the eve of releasing   Shawn , his first album in four years and most personal record to date. A teenage social-media sensation who became one of pop’s biggest stars in the late 2010s, Mendes pulled back after the release of 2020’s   Wonder , canceling a 2022 tour and setting out on a journey to find himself, a decision he calls “terrifying” but one that was ultimately liberating. “It was the greatest gift I’ve ever given myself,” he says. “I gave myself a life. The best part about that is, it taught me that the next time I’m standing at the crossroads between choosing something in my truth or doing what would make everyone else happy, I have this reference point.” “Everything’s hard to explain out loud,” Mendes sings on the hushed opener “Who I Am,” a sketched overview of where Mendes has been and what’s to come over the next...

AFTERCARE Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2024 Nessa Barrett Since debuting in 2020, Nessa Barrett has crafted evocative and deeply personal songs about topics like mental illness, trauma, and the struggles of young womanhood, drawing listeners in with her catchy hooks and mesmerizing, fragile timbre. The alt-pop artist wrote her first album, 2022’s   young forever , during what she called the worst year of her life. But as Barrett sifted through her recent experiences to inspire her follow-up, she realized she wasn’t sad anymore. This epiphany spurred a new creative approach, one in which she could channel her energy into creating a character instead of resurfacing her own pain. On   AFTERCARE , Barrett immerses herself in dark, moody soundscapes as she transforms into an empowered woman who owns her sexuality while remaining vulnerable. It opens with the hazy title track, where the question “You love the chase, but will you stay when it ends?” sets the tone for an exploration of love, sex, an...