Being called the voice of a generation might seem a little off to someone born after the millennium. But Olivia Rodrigo’s songs clearly hit home for Gen Z. She turned twenty this year, and has already been one of the biggest stars since 2021, when “Drivers License” became the No. 1 song on the planet. She won three Grammy Awards that year, including Best New ... Show More
Mar 15
Chloé Zhao on “Hamnet,” Which Is Nominated for Eight Academy Awards
Chloé Zhao became only the second woman to win an Oscar for Best Director, for 2020’s “Nomadland,” and she is nominated once again for “Hamnet,” starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley. Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s novel of the same name, the film follows a young William Shakespea ... Show More
22m 7s
Mar 13
Social Media Goes to Court
In the book “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University, argues that social-media platforms are detrimental to youths’ well-being, and that society needs to treat them as literally addictive. It has spent nearly a hundred weeks on the Ne ... Show More
28m 37s
Mar 10
Ryan Coogler on “Sinners,” His Epic Film about Race, Music, and the Undead
When the Oscar nominations were announced this year, Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” set a record. It received sixteen nominations, the most for any film ever. The fact that it’s, in part, a vampire movie, made by a director who’s not yet forty, makes that feat all the more remarkable. ... Show More
19m 28s
Sep 2023
Olivia Rodrigo and the Year of the Girl
As Olivia Rodrigo releases Guts, we take stock of the singer-songwriter who seemed to come out of nowhere, fully realized as an artist, back in 2021. How did Olivia surprise us so much before, and can she repeat her success a second time? Sam chats with Lindsay Zoladz, pop music ... Show More
42m 50s
Sep 2023
Into It: Olivia Rodrigo and the year of the girl
As Olivia Rodrigo releases Guts, we take stock of the singer-songwriter who seemed to come out of nowhere, fully realized as an artist, back in 2021. How did Olivia surprise us so much before, and can she repeat her success a second time? Sam chats with Lindsay Zoladz, pop music ... Show More
41m 5s
Aug 2023
Olivia Rodrigo’s Good Ideas
Everyone seems to be getting Olivia Rodrigo wrong. She's one of the few pop stars who has made it big in the current era of fragmented music streaming, but so much of the narrative has been about whose songs she's stealing from, whether it be Taylor Swift, Elvis Costello or Param ... Show More
31m 35s
Jun 2023
Lady Gaga’s Chromatica Ball Film, Bebe Rexha’s Concert Scare, Olivia Rodrigo’s Biting Return & More Pop News
On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith talk about all the new pop headlines, including Lady Gaga confirming a Chromatica Ball film; Bebe Rexha‘s scary concert over the weekend when a crowd member threw a phone at her head, requiring her to go to the hospital and get ... Show More
24m 2s
Apr 2021
April 21st – Rolling Loud Music Festival Announces 2021 Headliners & Olivia Rodrigo Shares Her Love For Cardi B
The Rolling Loud Festival will be returning to Miami in July for its 2021 show with major artists headlining, including Megan Thee Stallion, Post Malone, DaBaby and more. Plus, Olivia Rodrigo has nothing but love for Cardi B and sang her praises during a recent Apple interview wi ... Show More
3m 22s