How Taylor Swift changed the music business -- from touring to album releases to fan engagement to marketing to artists' rights.
Sony so far is the only one of the three majors to alter its contracts. Such wording presumably remains filed away at UMG (Kendrick Lamar, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish) and Warner Music Group (Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Cardi B). (Varietyreached out to ...
Sports anthems by Queen, Lil Jon, The White Stripes and more have been ubiquitous at sports games for years. Here's how a stadium anthem gets born.
turned it upside down and changed it into something that when they created it—they never could imagine it would turn into this. That's urban, that’s Black folk. We did that. It's our culture that is taking over the internet at this time. Swizz and Tim created a TV sh...
It's the definitive '90s country song by the definitive '90s country music female. Twain changed the sound of country radio, adding thick guitars and heavy rhythms. We've not gone back to how it was before. Vince Gill, "I Still Believe in You" ...
While the track has been widely criticized for its "queerbaiting" lyrics, Perry recognized them as problematic in a2018 YouTube video forGlamour, and affirmed she would "probably make an edit" if given the chance to rewrite it. "We've really changed, conversationally, in the...
Kanye is infamous for a lot of things. One, in particular, is hisrant during a 2005 Hurricane Katrina telethon— you know the one. Well, in borrowing his own words: Kanye West does not care about his fans. In fact, if there were ever an argument for anyone whoprobably hates their fan...
Emile Haynie is a Grammy award-winning producer who's worked with Kanye West, Lana Del Rey, Adele, and FKA Twigs, to name a few. We chat about Chris going all city at Equinox, the David Beckham doc, his smoothie routine is more of just milk tea, getting choked out, he's been inje...
“Even as an attorney, it hurt. A lot of my colleagues quit or changed their areas of expertise.” Flash forward to 2016, a year that kick-started a massive culture-wide shift in consumer appetites and industry trends. Only a year later, streaming would finally overtake physical distribution...
Frequent Kanye West collaborator Mike Dean credits those 40 productions with changing the sound of modern rap. He first worked with 40 on Drake’s 2010’s “Over” and, despite numerous beefs and subliminal shots between Kanye’s G.O.O.D. Music and Drake & co.’s October’s Very Own, ...