The era opened with gangsta rap and grunge, and it ended in sunshine pop music and boy bands. Now that’s diverse! Below, ...

You might think that pop music is short for “popular” music, but that’s not exactly true. Since its inception in the 1950s, “pop” has come to mean a style of music that is universal, accessible, and ...

Whitney Houston Performs In Paris Bercy on May 18th, 1988. She is one of the best female vocalists of the 1980s. The 1980s were a great time for music, with so many iconic female singers and vocalists ...

Debbie Gibson boasted serious musical chops from a young age, and wrote all her own songs. Her 1986 debut single "Only in My Dreams," released when she was just 16, remains one of the most timeless ...

Cheers ring out as the four women take to the stage and launch into a synchronized dance routine in front of giant speakers blasting music. Singing in Korean to a crowd in Seoul and adorned in ...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, women have taken over pop music. And, unlike previous eras, there’s no longer one single archetype for a female pop star. Some are theatrical, others are ...

With the Grammys coming next week and the Oscar nominations out, I've been thinking about the ways the culture industry — including writers like me — throws things into buckets in order to see what ...

Katy Perry’s breakout moment, in the late two-thousands, had a type of frivolity and irreverence that feels difficult to summon now. Her début single, “I Kissed a Girl,” from 2008, is just what it ...

“A high tide lifts all boats” might be a cliché — and a fraught one at that — but clichés are clichés for a reason. A recent reminder that proved the timeless truth of that age-old aphorism came from ...

Taylor Swift moved from country to pop music in 2014. She said she felt iced out by some of her pop artist peers at first.

Walking into the Swiftmas pop-up shop, guests were greeted by a pink Christmas tree, sweatshirts that read “1989” and bedazzled lightning bolt earrings. A pink neon sign read, “Babe you look so cool.” ...