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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 18, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Atlantic
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Neil Young’s Epic Reckoning With Mortality (opens the original)
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At first listen, Neil Young’s new song “Soon I Might Be Going” comes across like a sad shake of the head at the hot and Trumpy 2020s. Electric guitars fizzle with the slow majesty of a dying campfire; Young’s rooster-crow voice sounds tired and hoarse. He sings of a president on TV tearing down the old White House. He describes a Christmas in the Rockies that’s warm as summer, during which “the clouds that used to pour the rain / Are billowy and strange.” He notices new cars on the street, new b
Woodstock, Lilith Fair, and Taco Bell Rolled Into One (opens the original)
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Early Saturday afternoon at the Daisy Chain Fields festival, in Irvine, California, the 25-year-old singer Eli twirled in a tank top emblazoned with a cartoon guitar while singing songs whose plasticky violins recalled the kind of music played on the Disney Channel in 2004. Dancers waved poles with dresses attached to them as if they were flags. She took out her phone, whose case was shaped like a cute bear, and read some thoughts she’d jotted down. “This journal entry is to show you my fundamen
We’re Living in the World Dolly Parton Built (opens the original)
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Dolly Parton’s death at age 80 comes at a time when her influence seems at its peak. Country music is surging, female singer-songwriters are on top, and audiences seem hungry for honest idiosyncracy—for figures who, like Dolly, transmit their inner truth to mass audiences in a voice that’s clear yet scraggly. But Parton’s greatest legacy is existential in nature. Piling on wigs and feathers, she showed that you can be yourself while playing a character. Parton’s self-construction project began i
Party in the (Downwardly Mobile) U.S.A. (opens the original)
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With every passing year, Miley Cyrus’s 2009 single “Party in the U.S.A.” comes to feel more like an artifact of an empire before its fall. When the Disney Channel star sang about hopping off the plane at LAX with a dream and a cardigan—on the way to turn her country-girl ambitions of fame into Hollywood reality—she projected an image of a nation that still believed in its own myths, trusted its power centers, and grooved together to the same songs. The guitars fizzed like a fresh can of Coke, an
A Perfect Album for a Frustrating Decade (opens the original)
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One of the coronavirus pandemic’s many terrible legacies is the slow smothering of ambition in popular culture. In the depths of the crisis, media—music, movies, and all the rest—were widely hailed as a “balm” for anxieties and a “lifeline” to the shared society we could look forward to someday returning to. Yet at the same time, that pre-pandemic sense of cohesion was being destabilized. Entertainers emerged from lockdown to find their fans wild-eyed with obsession and everyone else utterly unr
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