If you haven’t been listening to pop radio in the past few months, you’ve missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends. In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot ...

It happened exactly 36 seconds into the song—a glimpse of the shape of pop to come, a feel of the fabric of the future we now inhabit. The phrase “I can’t break through” turned crystalline, like the ...

Too much makeup makes a girl look like a masquerade; excess salt in soup makes it inedible, so also is the overuse of Auto-Tune by Nigerian pop singers which breeds mediocrity and laziness in the ...