Skip to content
HeyJared

Carl Wilson

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
4
Latest publication
Sep 25, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Slate
Top 50K sites
Earliest in this view
Jul 24, 2026

Latest articles

  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Carl Wilson

    Unfortunately, All of Taylor Swift’s Songs About Travis Kelce Continue to Be Terrible (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Taylor Swift’s September surprise seemed more exciting when it sounded like it would consist of just one song. Coming nearly a year after the big-pop mishmash that was The Life of a Showgirl, and a few months after the soft-countryish Toy Story 5 single “I Knew It, I Knew You,” maybe “Patient Zero” would signal another stylistic turn ahead of a future album. At least, as t

  2. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Carl Wilson

    Dolly Parton, America Will Always Love You, but It Didn’t Always (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone · English

    Read excerpt

    Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. With her death this week, uncountable tributes are being made now to Dolly Parton’s warmth, humor, heart, individuality, and inclusiveness, with her admirers across the globe spanning the rural to the urban—as her own life arc famously did—as well as the devout to the heretical, and nearly every other axis of culture, gender, sexuality, and ideology, all the way down the g

  3. Article · Aug 14, 2026 · Carl Wilson

    Her Previous Album Has Become One of the Defining Records of the Decade. Her New One Is Something Else Altogether. (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Critical tone · English

    Read excerpt

    Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. For millennia, women’s voices have borne the burden of lamenting the dead, from the ancient Greek and Egyptian eras through to modernity, across cultures, including in Gaza today. But on “The Outside,” the track that opens Phoebe Bridgers’ return album after an extended bereavement leave from public life, she abjures obvious signs of feminine mourning, the sob or wail many

  4. Article · Jul 24, 2026 · Carl Wilson

    She Became the It Girl of Summer 2024. Now She’s Lifting a Middle Finger to It All. (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The primary impulse I have after listening to Charli XCX’s new album is not to debate whether it’s the proper, or perhaps properly improper, follow-up to the pop singer’s 2024 season-and-color-and-lexicography-defining hit record Brat. It’s to be in an arena, shouting along to David Cronenberg intoning, “They are dead, they are gone, no one lasts forever,” as he does over

Publishing over time

Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.

Recurring subjects

Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.

Audience

Top 50K sites

For Slate, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026

Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.

About this data

Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.

Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.

See coverage about Carl Wilson