Pop

She’s the nation’s court jester

It is impossible not to be swept up in the giddy exuberance of it all

Quiet dignity is dead

What we know so far about the ‘nightmare’ production

When Hollywood gets representation right

Heartbreak, drama and damn good songwriting

Just because he detected the modern tendency to confuse celebrity with profundity doesn’t mean he necessarily avoided it

Shouldn’t my tastes have evolved in the past 13 years?

Pop was invented for teenagers, and it’s wholly appropriate that it should have outposts that are completely remote to me.

One of America’s greatest songwriters enchants London

For all his reputation as one of England’s defining pop songwriters, America was Davies’ inspiration, and it is to the subject of America that he has been drawn these past few years.

Kanye West is more than halfway in to the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame — if his politics don’t block the way. This extraordinary rapper-producer first won over a worldwide audience with the 2004 anthem ‘Jesus Walks’, disrupted hip-hop’s bling-bling materialism with the us-vs-them challenge of his Jay-Z collaboration Watch the Throne, and then released the … Read more