“'It was only a matter of time,' Carpenter said of Antonoff to Rolling Stone. 'He heard some of the stuff that I was working on for this album, and we just started to make magic.'”— Tomás Mier, rollingstone.com
“I know I have good judgement I know I have good taste It’s funny and it’s ironic That only I feel that way”— Sabrina Carpenter, youtube.com
“On BRAT, Charli is once again channeling her experiences into radical, bite-sized pop songs. It makes CRASH feel even more like an aberration, drawing way closer from the forthright nature of how i’m feeling now. BRAT, though, is messy and vulnerable—in a way Charli’s work has lacked over the last d…”— Eric Bennett, pastemagazine.com
“Fans knew that singer-songwriter Billie Eilish was up to something when she added all of her Instagram followers to her Close Friends Story, sharing mysterious, close-up photos, like an image of a hand in front of what appears to be the night sky.”— BRIANNAH RIVERA, elle.com
“It looks like Olivia Rodrigo has more guts to spill, and she will be doing it really soon on the deluxe version of her critically acclaimed sophomore album.”— Condé Nast, Teen Vogue, teenvogue.com
“If a new Taylor Swift album announcement was on your Grammys 2024 bingo card, congratulations! At the Grammys, she announced that TS11 is coming soon and it is called The Tortured Poets Department.”— P. Claire Dodson, teenvogue.com
“Brenda Lee was just 13 years old when she recorded 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' in 1958. It's a true Christmas classic, a bouncy earworm - and pretty much everyone knows the lyrics. But it's never made it to number one on Billboard's Hot 100 — until now.”— Connor Donevan, NPR, npr.org
“This year, the 29-year-old Ghanaian American singer-songwriter Amaarae took, to use a technical term, a big swing. With a voice of feathery beauty and songs blending R&B, hip-hop, rock, and Afropop, she had already earned buzz for her 2020 debut album, The Angel You Don’t Know. On the follow-up, Fou…”— Spencer Kornhaber, theatlantic.com
“'Now and Then' will satisfy old fans and introduce the band to new ones”— The Economist, economist.com
“Since the release of her last album Anti in 2016, Rihanna has welcomed two children and become a billionaire thanks to her two businesses, Fenty Beauty and Savage X Fenty. Now, the singer will finally give her fans what they have been craving for over half a decade: new music, at least.”— Alyssa Bailey, elle.com
“A small part of me hates that this is called a video and not a documentary or a film, and that I am referred to as a YouTuber and not a filmmaker or a documentarian or an artist.”— Kevin Perjurer, youtube.com
“Half a century later, Mitchell’s 'Blue' exists in that rarefied space beyond the influential or even the canonical.”— New York Times, nytimes.com
“Pop music can encompass so much, and Olivia is carving out space for herself with a raised eyebrow and a very sharp knife.”— P. Claire Dodson, teenvogue.com
“What I realize when I reflect back on the silent voices of my youth, though, is that we girls had so much to rage and yell and be sad about — maybe even more than the boys ever did.”— Lindsay Zoladz, npr.org
“Sour confirms this is just the start of her story, where she expertly rides the wave of teenage turbulence and emotional chaos down any road she chooses.”— Angie Martoccio, rollingstone.com
“I'm God's favorite flavor. I'm blessed and highly favored. He gives me all the blessings and them blessings turn to paper.”— Princess Nokia, open.spotify.com
“The absolute drama of a slow, sad song is a veritable buffet for prospective actors. As TikTok solidifies itself as a kingmaking promotional tool and a rung on the ladder to music superstardom, the songs that best lend themselves to memeing are becoming the songs that rise the highest on the charts.”— Craig Jenkins, vulture.com
“All that poetry and all those songs... about something that lasts no time at all.”— Nick Hornby, Jenny Mellor, Carey Mulligan, imdb.com