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Whitney Houston is often remembered as a summit: the impossible note, the immaculate gown, the anthem rising above a stadium. But a summit is a poor place from which to understa...
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Whitney Houston Made Vocal Power Feel Intimate
Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston is often remembered as a summit: the impossible note, the immaculate gown, the anthem rising above a stadium. But a summit is a poor place from which to understa...
Prince
Prince's central fantasy was total musical agency: write the song, play the instruments, produce the record, design the stage, direct the image and decide how the work reaches i...
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey's voice is usually introduced as an instrument of range. That description is accurate but incomplete. Her greater innovation was learning to treat the voice as a pr...
David Bowie
David Bowie did not invent artistic change, but he made change itself legible as an art form. Each new voice, silhouette and production system asked the same question from a dif...
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson did not merely become the biggest pop star of his era. He changed the unit in which pop ambition was measured. A song could now be a recording, a dance vocabular...
Madonna
Madonna did not merely keep reinventing herself. She made reinvention part of the authorship of pop: a way to control the image, test the culture around it, discard the answer a...
BoA
Before K-pop became a global industry, BoA had already learned how to belong in more than one pop culture at once. She did not simply carry Korean music abroad. She built a care...
Billie Eilish
Examining the resonance within Billie Eilish's sonic landscape.
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