Lady Gaga’s 6th album is a conceptual release about a future that is neither utopian nor dystopian. Despite its sci-fi visuals, the album looks more to the past and present than the future. Chromatica gives us a world that sounds like 90s house music made for this summer’s cancelled Pride parties. It is lyrically somber, but musically upbeat, a productive te ... Show More
Aug 25
Phoebe Bridgers opens her Moleskine
Many of us keep a journal, but few of us are able to turn our unvarnished thoughts into cultural moments touching on love, death, and guitars quite like Phoebe Bridgers. Her new album Lost Weekend isn’t just throwing the pages of her personal life into song, it’s much more than t ... Show More
36m 27s
Aug 18
We have Confessions to make...
Madonna has returned this summer with Confessions II: an album full of huge hooks, pounding bass, and sincere emotion. It’s the queen of pop's first record in seven years, and serves as a sequel to her 2005 smash hit, Confessions on a Dance Floor. The record ties together threads ... Show More
39m 6s
Feb 2025
Lady Gaga, Jonas Blue, Ookay, Linney, Freejak, Melli, Judgemxnt, Swedish House Mafia, Timmy Trumpet, XANDRA, Gigi Grombacher, Nathan Dawe
Tracklist: Abracadabra - Lady Gaga (PTSD ENERGY Mix) Like A G6 - Timmy Trumpet, Naeleck, POLTERGST Rest Of My Life - Endless Summer, Sam Feldt, Sadie Rose Van, Jonas Blue Body Say - XANDRA, Gigi Grombacher Feel Again - TELYKast, Moa Lisa Drive Away Slow - Ookay, Linney California ... Show More
29m 36s
Jun 2020
Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’ Breaks Male Monopoly at No. 1 on Billboard 200
On the latest Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, with Lady Gaga’s “Chromatica” marking just the second album by a woman to be No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2020, the team discusses why there have been so few leading ladies atop the chart this year, some near misses from some notable wom ... Show More
24m 1s
Aug 2022
Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’: The Speed Round
The conversation continues about one of the year’s most ideologically provocative pop albums, its queer inspirations and its credits. Guests: Naima Cochrane, Vulture's Jason P. Frank, Resident Advisor's Kiana Mickles and Patrik Sandberg. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or ... Show More
1h 15m
Jun 2024
Brat | Every Single Album: Charli XCX
Nora and Nathan kick off their "brat summer" by talking about Charli XCX's sixth studio album. They talk about how this album differs from her past, more mainstream pop albums (1:00), the inner monologue that is running through many of the songs on this record (31:49), and the na ... Show More
1h 28m
May 2020
Charli XCX Explains Why She's Loving Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa & the 'Happy' Pop Revival
Charli XCX joins the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast to discuss her new made-in-quarantine album "How I'm Feeling Now," and how "it felt like a very ripe time" for her to write new music. Plus, she discusses the upswing in popularity of disco-tinged "happy" pop music from the likes of ... Show More
25m 10s