NEW YORK (AP) — Fans of the New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde have long commended the artist for her visceral pop craft. Her music, to certain ears, sounds like freedom. On her new album, it is as ...

A year after we entered global isolation due to COVID, Ella Yelich-O'Connor resurfaced to tell us she’d stopped taking calls. On 2021’s polarizing Solar Power, she threw her cellular device in the ...

It’s not easy making great music — something few artists understand. In the height of mass streaming parties and social media to boost popularity, many artists have abandoned the concept of a full ...

Even though she’s dropped an album every four years, Lorde’s career has felt so start-stop that it’s surprising to realize we’ve had a dozen trips around the sun since “Royals” lofted her, at the age ...

Perhaps you know the feeling of skepticism bordering on trepidation when a pop star’s new album is framed as highly personal. In the celebrity-obsessed social-media era, there might be an implicit ...