Jon’s a legend. He’s our pop music critic. He’s the co-host of the “Popcast” podcast. And he reviews songs while driving through New York City (though his car is currently in for repairs). Since the ...

Music that strives for gloss, pep, ecstasy, spectacle. Often an expression of whiteness, too. A one-size-fits-all solution. For a time, in the 1980s, this kind of pop music — think of Michael Jackson ...

Kraftwerk began as the Beatles ended in 1970 and are still with us. In terms of years together, then, Kraftwerk have the big ...

Many artists today, namely Sabrina Carpenter, are releasing 1980s-tinged pop anthems that lean into femininity. Carpenter is known for not shying away from her perspective as a woman while also ...

What pop means changes depending on what angle you’re looking from. It can be a descriptor of audience size, indicating something that’s popular, or it can be a genre tag, specifying a sound. But for ...