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Watching drag queens wrestle to a remix of Lady Gaga’s “Shadow of a Man”
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Panic ate all the conventional snacks 5 innings ago. Going to have to get creative.
October 28, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Lady Gaga’s Mayhem Ball is the pop event of the year, so I made Wesley Morris come see it so we could discuss. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...
Dark Pop Is In. But Gaga Is Mother.
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This is turning into the most interesting Taylor Swift album to argue over. So we did, on a crew reunion Popcast. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/a...
Why Is Taylor Swift So Polarizing? And Other Big ‘Showgirl’ Questions
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Blessed to have spent my 20s inside the “Yes New York” comp
October 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
VMAs winner Lady Gaga at MSG tonight 😭
September 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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).
August 23, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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A Critic's Notebook:

‘Fleetwood Mac’ at 50: A Marvel of Serendipity and Perfectionism www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/a...
‘Fleetwood Mac’ at 50: A Marvel of Serendipity and Perfectionism
www.nytimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
A pair of kids slayed the Elaine dance contest this year
August 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Bless Weird Al for getting Puddles Pity Party on the MSG stage
July 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Grace Jones will not be contained by the Prospect Park curfew
June 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Her Name Is Nicole 😭
June 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Did not have “Jonathan Groff straddles Keanu Reeves” in our Tonys predictions
June 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The rare Popcast / “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” crossover moment www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/a...
April 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
🚨 Tracy Chapman interview siren 🚨

@lindsayzoladz.bsky.social with a lovely, illuminating (and rare) conversation: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/a...
Tracy Chapman Wants to Speak for Herself
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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...
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.
www.nytimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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)
BRITNEY SPEARS: PART 3 (with The New York Times' Caryn Ganz)
Podcast Episode · Pop Pantheon · 03/13/2025 · 2h 16m
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March 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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-...
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...
www.harpersbazaar.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
After that horrifying Olivia Rodrigo lip sync and this disastrous Snatch Game, nearly all of these Drag Race queens should be fired
February 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Beck is playing most of “Sea Change” at Bowery 😭
February 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
MADONNA “CONFESSIONS PART 2” SIREN
February 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Seeing Jack White now is like being transported to both 2001 and 1971
February 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
February 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Laundry Day is playing halftime at the Knicks game
January 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM