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Lady Gaga in New York City, February 14, 2025. (NDZ/Star Max/GC Images/getty images)

Lady Gaga finds her love in the “Mayhem"

Coleman Spilde
Singer Marianne Faithfull performs during the 'ICCARRE' Auction Cocktail To Benefit AIDS Research At Maison Jean Paul Gaultier on November 23, 2015 in Paris, France. (Photo by Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images)

Marianne Faithfull dies at 78

Alex Galbraith
Taylor Swift performs at Melbourne Cricket Ground on February 16, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. (Graham Denholm/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)

"The pop world changed" in Taylor's wake

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Halsey performs on stage during the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards at UBS Arena on September 11, 2024 in Elmont, New York. (Noam Galai/Getty Images for MTV)

Halsey as “The Great Impersonator"

Nardos Haile
American singer and songwriter Taylor Swift performs on stage as part of her Eras Tour in Lisbon on May 24, 2024. (ANDRE DIAS NOBRE/AFP via Getty Images)

Fans say Swift blocked fellow artist's #1

Griffin Eckstein
Nicholas Galitzine, Raymond Cham Jr, Jaiden Anthony, Viktor White and Dakota Adan in "The Idea of You" (Alisha Wetheril/Prime Video)

Idea of You's "unabashedly pop music"

Nardos Haile
Doja Cat performs onstage at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 12, 2023 ( Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)

Doja Cat's success built on controversy

Nardos Haile
Grammy Award, AI, concept (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Will AI win a Grammy? Could happen

Nardos Haile
Bernie Sanders, Taylor Swift and Cardi B (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Do Democrats need pop stars? Absolutely

Danny Goldberg
Pat Metheny (Photo courtesy of Pat Metheny)

Pat Metheny steps away from improv

Kenneth Womack
Nancy Wilson (Jeremy Danger)

"We didn't attach sexual identity to it"

Nicole Michael
Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. (Darren Stone)

An iconic new cover of "Blackbird"

Kenneth Womack
Miniatures (Ken Sharp)

Bite-sized baroque pop "Miniatures"

Kenneth Womack
John Roberts (Alexander Thompson)

John Roberts never tires of the Beatles

Nicole Michael
Dessa (Sam Gehrke)

Dessa's lifelong Beatles influence

Nicole Michael

"I wouldn’t be here but for the Beatles"

Nicole Michael
Doug Fieger (Photo courtesy of the estate of Doug Fieger)

Knack fans know Fieger's hooks endure

Kenneth Womack
Paul McCartney (Photo by Mary McCartney)

Paul McCartney's dazzling return to form

Kenneth Womack
The Go-Go's (Showtime)

"The Go-Go's" punk side you didn't know

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Prince performs at the First Avenue Nightclub in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1983. (Jim Steinfeldt/Michael Ochs Archives/GettyImages)

How Minneapolis created a legend

Rashad Shabazz - The Conversation
Taylor Swift (Netflix)

"Miss Americana": Isn't Swift delicate?

Ashlie D. Stevens
I'm With The Band: Nasty Cherry (Netflix)

Netflix's "Nasty Cherry" is the pits

Ashlie D. Stevens
John Lennon (1940 - 1980), his son Julian and Yoko Ono pose for photographers at Internel Studios in Stonebridge Park, Wembley, during a rehearsal for the Rolling Stones' 'Rock and Roll Circus' TV special, London, 10th December 1968. (Photo by Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

John Lennon's self-imposed exile

Kenneth Womack
Lizzo performs at Mojave Tent during the 2019 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on April 14, 2019 in Indio, California. (Rich Fury/Getty Images for Coachella)

Preaching the Gospel of Lizzo

Ashlie D. Stevens
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