Craig Jenkins

1 week ago | vulture.com | Craig Jenkins |Jason Frank |Fran Hoepfner |Dan Reilly

Displaying all articles tagged: album review 1:09 p.m. His new album shows an endearing willingness to grow his craft but also a steely reverence to older, better pop forebearers. new music friday 12:57 p.m. In the video for “Mr. Electric Blue,” the singer goes after his own gimmicks. out in the boonies 11:54 a.m. Benson Boone not asking us to take him seriously; he’s asking us to make sure he doesn’t bonk his head when he does a flip.

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Craig Jenkins

The TikTok star’s debut album succeeds in upending any lingering feelings that she’s mostly good for an eight-count and a smile. The influencer pop sphere is, mathematically, a graveyard with scores more misfires than successful conversions of internet cachet into hit parades. The same machine that helped Troye Sivan and Benson Boone evolve also yields terrible singles by controversial beauty industry personality James Charles.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Craig Jenkins

5 hours agoOn the eve of her album’s release, Spotify and Addison hosted an intimate performance for devotees at New York’s iconic nightclub, The Box. Addison Rae lost herself and found herself again. With the release of her highly anticipated debut album, we saw a rebirth right before our eyes. Rebirth, …

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Craig Jenkins

She wants to be seen as an auteur now. Pedigree is core to Miley Cyrus and her lore. Her father, Billy Ray, had the kind of crossover line-dancing hit in the ’90s whose success has scarcely been repeated. Equally crucial to Miley’s country-pop and boundary breaking is having Dolly Parton as a godmother. Billy Ray’s pride and persistence along with Parton’s business acumen and convention bending are dueling inspirations, but they’re also benchmarks of expectation for a successor.

1 month ago | vulture.com | Craig Jenkins

On his fourth album, I’m the Problem, Wallen gestures at saying his worst is behind him while defending a right to remain a little wild. Since 2020, country firebrand Morgan Wallen has taken repeated spins through a cycle of assuring us that the partying he sings about isn’t ruining his life, that he’s tightening up.