The New York Times

Olivia Rodrigo Tried Writing Love Songs. Then Life Got Messy.

The punk-leaning pop star tapped the vibrancy of 1980s new wave and the sentiment of “Sex and the City” on her new album “You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So in Love.” Popcast The punk-leaning pop ...
The New Yorker

Steve Lacy’s Modern Love Songs

In the summer of 2022, Steve Lacy’s “Bad Habit,” a buoyant but doleful song about a missed shot—“I bite my tongue, it’s a bad habit,” he sings ruefully—started going crazy on TikTok. Lacy, who was ...