Rosalía’s LUX: why the ‘pop-versus-classical’ question misses the point

The point is that here as elsewhere, focusing too much on the orchestra can get in the way of us noticing continuities between the songwriting on Motomami and Lux. This is, of course, what we might ...
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Do You Remember All These One-Hit Wonders Through the Years?

In 1983 American pop duo, The Weather Girls, released "It's Raining Men," the lead single off of their third studio album.

Babo: the Netflix documentary forcing Germany to confront race, class and the cost of fame

In the new documentary, Babo, viewers watch the gifted yet controversial German rapper Haftbefehl almost destroy himself with ...

Germany’s ‘real’ Running Man had viewers baying for blood

In October 1970, a German game show, or what appeared to be a game show – with music and comedy interludes and surreal, sexed ...
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‘ABBA From Hell’: How Propaganda Created the Most Unforgettable Art Pop Statement of the ’80s

Imagine an album that opens with a singer reciting an Edgar Allan Poe poem in an exotic Germanic accent over a lush symphonic ...