Amanda Petrusich
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 8
- Latest publication
- Sep 19, 2026
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- Jul 20, 2026
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The Unknowable Miley Cyrus (opens the original)
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These days, pop stars are required to participate in a relentless cycle of self-annihilation and triumphant rebirth—with each album, a new Era!—but there’s something almost uncanny about the plasticity of Miley Cyrus. After entering the public consciousness, in 2006, as the chipper, apple-cheeked star of the Disney Channel series “Hannah Montana,” she released multiple songs declaring herself a hedonist, beginning with “Can’t Be Tamed,” in 2010, and reaching a nihilistic apotheosis with her four
The Prolific Storytelling of This Is Lorelei (opens the original)
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In the summer of 2024, Nate Amos released a record called “Box for Buddy, Box for Star” under the sobriquet This Is Lorelei. (The name is a reference to an episode of “Star Trek: The Animated Series.”) The ten-song album felt like a kind of début, though Amos had already established himself as half of the art-pop duo Water from Your Eyes—his project with the musician Rachel Brown—and uploaded hundreds of scrappy, idiosyncratic folk songs to Bandcamp, starting in 2014, when he was a twenty-two-ye
Rivers Cuomo Is Piecing It All Together (opens the original)
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Since the release of the Blue Album, in 1994, Weezer—the alt-rock juggernaut led by the singer and guitarist Rivers Cuomo—has been influential enough that it’s now almost impossible not to hear echoes of Cuomo’s yearning, melodic voice on contemporary pop radio, particularly in punchy, clever songs by Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift. This month, Weezer put out its twentieth studio LP, the Gold Album. Before Cuomo and I sat down to discuss it, he asked if I’d be open to reading some Shakespeare a
What Dolly Parton Built (opens the original)
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A few years ago on my birthday, someone gave me a set of Dolly Parton-themed drink coasters, part of a collection of (mostly pink) kitchen sundries and assorted doodads that Parton had curated for Walmart. I leaned my favorite against the bathroom mirror; it’s been balanced there ever since. The front features a black-and-white portrait of Parton regarding herself before an illuminated vanity, fussing with her hair, which was—it goes without saying—blond, voluminous, impossibly firm. She was so
The Unlikely Reign of âChoosinâ Texasâ (opens the original)
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Ella Langley, a twenty-seven-year-old country singer from Hope Hull, Alabama, with bangs so terrifically thick and ponderous they evoke dense, pre-thunderstorm air, recently broke a major Billboard record: her single âChoosinâ Texasâ is now the longest-running non-holiday song by a solo woman artist, having spent seventeen weeks atop the Hot 100. (Mariah Careyâs âAll I Want for Christmas Is You,â part hymn, part shopping banger, has logged twenty-two weeks at No. 1 since its release
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