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Byline: Jon Caramanica In the months leading up to the election, Donald J. Trump sat for a slew of casual and unconventional conversations with podcasters and streamers. We watched them [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica At 74, the singer and songwriter returns to arenas with a message of healing and understanding. He's using trademark exuberance and joy to deliver it. It was [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The rising pop singer has been transparently navigating the demands of fame - onstage and online - as she's grown from cult queer-pop hero to zeitgeist-shaping star. [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The breakout girl group went public with complaints against its parent company, Hybe, which has just released a new TV series and film about the control it [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica For her first headlining tour in an innovative three-decade career, Elliott unleashed a relentless and exhilarating display of theatrical and visual ambition. It's nearly impossible to fathom [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica With the release of 'Cowboy Carter,' Beyoncé's eighth solo album and the one that finds her exploring - and testing - the boundaries of country music, much [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica Shane Gillis hosted 'S.N.L.,' the show that rebuffed him. Ye topped the Billboard chart after making antisemitic remarks. Has the mainstream given up on banishing bad actors? [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The opening night of the pop star's Guts World Tour had sparkle and abandon, but making her songs feel big didn't require much besides the songs themselves. [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 'Vultures 1,' the rapper's album with Ty Dolla Sign, arrived on the 20th anniversary of his debut, 'The College Dropout.' The old Kanye, the new Kanye. Kanye [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The rapper and singer has always been a master of the internet, not of music. But with his latest release, 'J Christ,' he's lost his grip on [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica ValTown, an account on X and other social media platforms, spotlights gangs and drug kingpins of the 1980s and 1990s - and how crime and celebrity often [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica A few weeks of political brouhaha this summer obscured a different story: The genre is moving, in fits and starts, from the political to the personal. For [...]

Byline: Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz Many of the LPs that made an impact this year, including SZA's 'SOS' and Olivia Rodrigo's 'Guts,' came from looking inward. Jon [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica On 'Pink Friday 2,' the rapper remains a star navigating hip-hop on sometimes untested terms. But even as she's receded from the center of the genre, her [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The rapper's new album, 'For All the Dogs,' comes after a summer of live-show triumph and extra-musical boredom. The dominant preoccupation of the hip-hop internet in recent [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica Backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards last month, at the Prudential Center in Newark, the out-of-nowhere Mexican superstar Peso Pluma gathered his band for an inspirational [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica In the inaugural show at Sphere, a $2.3 billion venue, a band unafraid of pomp and spectacle was sometimes out-pomped and out-spectacled. Perhaps the true gift of [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica If you want to get to the studio at Sean Combs's house, pass the purple Anish Kapoor sculpture, then saunter into the living room, stopping to marvel [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica On her new LP, the rapper turns out tracks about her musical prowess and lust that show she's not interested in making music the way today's biggest [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica Disrupting a celebrity may now be the ultimate concert souvenir. No pop star wants to be unsafe, but some are increasingly making themselves part of the crowd. [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The pop singer's new single dismantles a former paramour who was entranced by fame, borrowing a tactic from Swift's career-shifting 'Dear John.' On 'Drivers License,' one of [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica Earlier this month, Pharrell Williams was in the men's atelier on the second floor of Louis Vuitton's corporate office in Paris, sunglasses on, surveying his new perch. [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica NASHVILLE - The spoils of fame are coming fast for the emerging country star Bailey Zimmerman. The Texas singer-songwriter Cody Johnson gave him a standing offer to [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The opening night of the star's Eras Tour traversed her 10-album career, revisiting crossover hits, rowdier experiments and more restrained singer-songwriter material. GLENDALE, Ariz. - The most [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica In a floor-through loft in SoHo one Friday night in January, Vincent Ferraro was selling luxury clothing. Sort of. On one side of the room, a tattoo [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica What's at stake for a 22-year-old trilingual rapper who became a TikTok sensation by talking dirty and who aspires to be the president of Palestine? A lot. [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The awards show needs to build bridges between generations. That means convincing once-overlooked upstarts to show up as elders. Around midway through the 65th annual Grammy Awards [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica Last year, the Bronx rapper emerged from the drill scene with a pop-friendly sound, and attracted the attention of Drake. Now she's releasing her first EP. On [...]

Byline: Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz The most effective artists of the year weren't afraid to root around deep inside and boldly share the messiness, the complexities and [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica, Joe Coscarelli, Jon Pareles and Lindsay Zoladz Beyoncé has the most nominations for the 2023 awards, and many recent perennials are back again. But some of music's [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica Quick-jabbing triplets had been a staple of rap, but the trio made the style sound fresh, thanks in large part to Takeoff, its master of syncopation. The [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The singer-songwriter's 10th studio album returns to the pop sound she left in 2019, and explores a familiar subject: how she is perceived, and how she perceives [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The genre's more-is-more moment might be coming to an end, and younger acts like Aespa and NewJeans point a way forward. As K-pop was broadening its global [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The former syndication star and top-flight interviewer is rebuilding his daily show on Amazon's new app, Amp. LOS ANGELES - One afternoon in June, Zach Sang was [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The 21-year-old Scottish folk singer-songwriter found a sudden hit by tapping into the platform's appetite for melancholy with a striking, sorrowful chorus. If TikTok has made you [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica and Lindsay Zoladz The first two nights of a 15-concert run at Madison Square Garden were heavy on charisma, banter and nods to the past. Over the [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica Questions about borrowing, authorship and inspiration - from the underground to the mainstream and vice versa - connect new releases from Beyoncé, Madonna and Saucy Santana. Much [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The rap-rock group's first tour in more than a decade arrives at a moment of political tension, and opens with the like-minded hip-hop duo Run the Jewels. [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica On his seventh album, 'Honestly, Nevermind,' the pop disrupter who rethought rap's relationship with melody opts for a new direction: nightclub abandon. For more than a decade, [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 'Twelve Carat Toothache,' the new album from the post-genre star, continues to collapse several styles into one, and hones a template adopted by a new generation, including [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The Air Force 1, manufactured in Italy, will be unveiled in a new installation in Brooklyn. It was one of the designer's final projects before his death. [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The Pulitzer Prize-winning social commentator rapper returns after five years with 'Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,' an album about what's broken on the inside. Kendrick Lamar [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica Two nights after she won three Grammys, the new pop star began her first tour with a show both rowdy and intimate. PORTLAND, Ore. - As a [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The three-part Netflix documentary 'Jeen-yuhs' shows the superstar in his earliest days, then time warps to the present, with disorienting results. No one could quite understand why [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica On the first page of Will Smith's recent memoir 'Will,' the global superstar recounts a gruesome story of watching his father strike his mother in the side [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The singer-songwriter Sadie Jean performed a lovelorn track and left room for a response. Lil Yachty took the bait. But their duet isn't the track available for [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The country superstar had the biggest album of 2021 despite being captured on video using a racial slur. Is he on a redemption tour, or just on [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 'Dawn FM' extends and reimagines Abel Tesfaye's fixation on perfect pop that he's been chasing since the mid-2010s. There's not a moment to breathe on the new [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica New chart-topping albums from the two singers serve as raw excavations of relationships gone bad. Adele's new album, '30,' is about the dissolution of her marriage, and [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica Look around at the way young men now think about clothes, design and music, and you'll see him everywhere. In recent years, it could often appear as [...]