Stockholm syndrome: Why we can't resist Swedish pop (ft. Zara Larsson)

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How Charlie Puth honored Whitney Houston for 125 million people (live at Berklee NYC)

Charlie Puth joins Switched On Pop in Studio A at Power Station at Berklee NYC, live before a room of current students, ten days after performing the national anthem at Super Bowl 60 and weeks before releasing his fourth album, Whatever's Clever. The conversation is grounded in o ...  Show more

RAYE’s maximalist masterpiece is the hope we need

RAYE names Amy Winehouse and Edith Piaf as her artistic predecessors on the opening tracks of new album This Music May Contain Hope. Both died young, undone by the same darkness they sang about, and placing them there reads as a dare to herself. The album that follows is her atte ...  Show more

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