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VMAs winner Lady Gaga at MSG tonight 😭

Lady Gaga finally found a way to tap into all the things that made her so thrilling and enchanting 15 years ago in her new live show. The Mayhem Ball is 10/10 (but a few notes).

‘Fleetwood Mac’ at 50: A Marvel of Serendipity and Perfectionism

A Critic's Notebook:

‘Fleetwood Mac’ at 50: A Marvel of Serendipity and Perfectionism www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/a...

A pair of kids slayed the Elaine dance contest this year

Bless Weird Al for getting Puddles Pity Party on the MSG stage

You knew this was coming

Were any of those in traffic tho

Grace Jones will not be contained by the Prospect Park curfew

Her Name Is Nicole 😭

Did not have “Jonathan Groff straddles Keanu Reeves” in our Tonys predictions

The rare Popcast / “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” crossover moment www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/a...

Tracy Chapman Wants to Speak for Herself

🚨 Tracy Chapman interview siren 🚨

@lindsayzoladz.bsky.social with a lovely, illuminating (and rare) conversation: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/a...

Lady Gaga Sells ‘Mayhem’ Hard. But Does It Work? On Popcast, a discussion about the singer’s latest “return to form” album and whether her aggressive promotion of it adds up to anything new.

Parched Lady Gaga fans are willing a sip of the good stuff into … something more.

Talking “Mayhem” with @lindsayzoladz.bsky.social (who doesn’t necessarily agree with me!) and Joe Coscarelli (who sort of does, but there are other issues there) on Popcast. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/a...

A piece of red velvet cake with white frosting jammed into a takeout container.

And yes, it's been a while ... (but it's still here)

BRITNEY SPEARS: PART 3 (with The New York Times' Caryn Ganz) Podcast Episode · Pop Pantheon · 03/13/2025 · 2h 16m

In honor of the piece of Britney Spears's birthday cake that has been in my freezer since 2008, I joined @djlouiexiv.bsky.social on Pop Pantheon to talk about her most chaotic and musically fascinating era.
bit.ly/4iw9bEe (Apple)
bit.ly/3FvX8Ze (Spotify)

Peter Sichel, Wine Merchant With a Cloak-and-Dagger Past, Dies at 102 He played a crucial role in the early days of the C.I.A., as a station chief in Cold War Berlin and Hong Kong, before shifting gears to popularize Blue Nun wine.

Delicious again, Peter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/d...

Rihanna Is the People’s Pop Star She’s a titan of music, a mother of two, a self-made mogul, and the newly minted face of Dior J’adore. Twenty years since her first chart-topping single, Rihanna just might have manifested her dream l...

Many of pop’s biggest stars have stopped doing interviews, but one woman has picked up the slack*

*to mostly talk about her non-musical ventures, but still!

www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

After that horrifying Olivia Rodrigo lip sync and this disastrous Snatch Game, nearly all of these Drag Race queens should be fired

Vocals are sterling tonight

Beck is playing most of “Sea Change” at Bowery 😭

MADONNA “CONFESSIONS PART 2” SIREN

Seeing Jack White now is like being transported to both 2001 and 1971

I would not say it is going over well

Laundry Day is playing halftime at the Knicks game

Vin Diesel shading the Rock is the real blockbuster award here

Well now this is news I can use

The enduring influence of “Pop-Up Video”