Female rappers continue to make waves, so why can’t they top the album charts?
(August 26, 2022). Their singles do very well. Their albums…not so much. Two of the highest profile female rappers of the past ten years released new music on August 12,…
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From Destiny’s Child to Rosemary’s Baby? The religious right’s persecution of Beyoncé and ‘Renaissance’… is it fair or even accurate?
(August 17, 2022). Beyoncé’s latest project Renaissance fell from No. 1–where it debuted last week—to No. 3 on the latest Billboard album chart. With its chart-topping debut, it became her…
Ranking Olivia Newton-John’s 25 best songs—in one blogger’s opinion—along with a mini-story on each
(August 15, 2022). The passing of Olivia Newton-John on Monday, August 8, 2022, has inspired many tributes and career retrospectives. Last Thursday, for example, this blogger wrote a personal reflection…
This one hurt bad… Remembering the iconic Olivia Newton-John (1948 – 2022), my first true pop music love
(August 11, 2022). Very few of the artists whose passings have inspired this blog’s many memorials over the past seven-and-a-half years hit as personally as this one. Pop music icon,…
Where Is The Love? “Love” songs don’t top the charts anymore; Here’s a decade-by-decade comparison, plus some likely reasons for the downturn
(August 5, 2022). Love is hard to come by these days, especially at the top of the music charts where there’s been a lack of “love” songs hitting No. 1…