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African pop was poised for a U.S. takeover. Can its stars finish the job? (opens the original)
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When the South African singer Tyla took the Grammy stage to accept the first-ever award for best African music performance in 2024, it felt as if the stars had finally aligned for pop music of the continent. The movement had produced an it-girl avatar who seemed to be blossoming into a megastar, and who stood as a spark plug for broader expansionist ambitions. "I'd never thought I'd say I'm a Grammy winner at 22 years old," Tyla said, before introducing herself to those in the crowd who might no
Jorja Smith finds love in the club (opens the original)
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Amid the smoky, soulful and tender ruminations of Jorja Smith's second album, falling or flying, there is a curious little outlier, like a bejeweled brooch rattling around a dresser drawer. "Little Things" is a funky-house cut that treats a club dalliance as equally transient and essential: "Just a little thing for you and I," the chorus offers, "and if it's meant to be, then that's all right." Of the 2023 LP's four singles, the song is the least like anything in the singer's body of work, which
An art-rock illusionist rewrites pop in her own image (opens the original)
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In the 17th century, sailors of the Dutch East India Trading Company recounted seeing a ghostly ship appear beyond the horizon, seeming to float in mid-air. The Flying Dutchman is just one such seabound vision; history holds accounts of entire fairy castles materializing on the distant waves. Reactions to this "Fata Morgana," the light-bending optical illusion most commonly offered to explain such tales, can tell us a lot about point of view. "I have never beheld the enchantment of the Straits o
Ravyn Lenae, viral success story, adjusts to the aftershock (opens the original)
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In the pop music sphere, there used to be an idea that the artist creating the song was the hitmaker, as if it was a divine gift to see into the collective unconscious. These days, it is more often the audiences that make songs into hits themselves. Take "Love Me Not" by Ravyn Lenae, a soulful soft-rock song from a curious, dynamic artist who seemed destined for a more niche career path before the internet stepped in. A single from Lenae's 2024 album, Bird's Eye, "Love Me Not" wasn't a hit until
Syd and Steve Lacy, voices of The Internet, chase the same quiet cool (opens the original)
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The threat of drifting apart has always loomed over The Internet. The fusionist funk band emerged as a post-Odd Future fever dream, an artistic hydra whose abundance of cooks never seemed to take away from its relaxed and artful blend of R&B, rap, jazz and neo-soul, bubbling and alchemical as if brewed in a single smoldering cauldron. But ever since landing a surprise Grammy nomination for its third album, 2015's Ego Death, the group has wrestled with competing drives: following independent ambi
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