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Positions (Vevo Live Performances) - EP Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2021 Ariana Grande
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Apple Music Live: Gracie Abrams
Apple Music Live: Gracie Abrams Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Gracie Abrams Beloved folk-pop vocalist Gracie Abrams takes us on a journey of love and accountability at Colorado’s fabled Red Rocks Amphitheatre for one of the last stops of her The Secret of Us tour. While the performance leans heavily on songs from that album, her 2024 opus of young love and self-reflection, she also performs tracks from her debut full-length Good Riddance and other gems like the as-yet-live-only “ Death Wish .” ’Twas one of the more enchanting Apple Music Live engagements in recent memory, anchored in emotional connection, recorded in front of an adoring audience, and mixed and mastered in Spatial Audio for your listening pleasure.
West End Girl
West End Girl Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Lily Allen Seven years have passed since Lily Allen bagged herself a Mercury Music Prize nomination for No Shame , a peppy yet vulnerable record that chronicled the singer-songwriter’s attempts to pick up the pieces following the breakdown of her first marriage. Her fifth studio album, West End Girl , adheres to a similar formula—eviscerating themes concealed within bright pop melodies—pulling the listener into a tightly contained soap opera that arrives in the wake of her second marriage (to Stranger Things star David Harbour ) ending. Announcing the record, she said it was an attempt to document “the events that led me to where I am in my life now” while also describing it as a “mixture of fact and fiction.” Setting the scene with the title track—a dreamy, orchestral number that depicts a couple moving into a new home but hitting a bump when one of them lands a role in a play—the album narrates a bait-and-switch story in which ...
There’s Always More That I Could Say
There’s Always More That I Could Say Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Sigrid “I feel like I’ve combined the best out of the two albums I have out already,” Norway’s pop queen Sigrid tells Apple Music , as she thinks about There’s Always More That I Could Say . “It’s the same carefree, joyful, childlike wonder, bursting with creativity from the first album. And it has the ambition and the nitty-gritty detail and expansive production from the second album with some of the harder lyrics.” The down-to-earth star isn’t entirely comfortable talking about her music in such glowing terms, but she should be. Working with longtime collaborator and good friend Askjell Solstrand , she’s produced 10 perfect pop tracks, from Norwegian summer jam “ Jellyfish ” to the heartfelt breakup ballad that’s the title track. Unleashing herself from the studio was a key move for Sigrid as she and Solstrand headed out into coffee shops, parks, and remote places to write. “I really loved making this album,” she says. “Som...
It’s Not That Deep
It’s Not That Deep Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Demi Lovato Shortly before releasing her eighth album in 2022, Demi Lovato posted a photo dressed in all black with her middle fingers up, captioned “a funeral for my pop music.” That album, Holy Fvck , channeled heavy feelings through hard rock and pop punk, abandoning the sweetness of her biggest hits to embrace her early inspirations. Lovato’s first remix album, 2023’s REVAMPED , doubled down on the pivot, reworking songs like “ Heart Attack ” and “ Cool for the Summer ” into tough rock numbers. But as she teased her ninth studio album in summer 2025, the 33-year-old singer captioned a cheeky TikTok from the studio: “My pop music coming back to life after we held a funeral for it.” Popvato had officially returned. On It’s Not That Deep , Lovato sweats it out under the strobe lights, reveling in the sultry, celebratory sounds of house, EDM, and club pop . “I wanna go fast/I wanna go hard,” she sings on “ Fast ,” a pulsing...
Smoochies
Smoochies Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Ashnikko The 29-year-old singer/rapper blew up on TikTok with her 2019 breakthrough hit “ STUPID ,” joining the pantheon of defiantly bawdy, cyborgian e-girls. On her second studio album, which follows 2023’s apocalyptic WEEDKILLER , Ashnikko hones her pop songwriting chops while valiantly striving to kill her inner It Girl . (See “It Girl,” a decaying folk song about rejecting the allure of external validation.) On Smoochies , she recruits a crack team of weirdo-pop producers (longtime collaborator Slinger , plus Elvira Anderfjärd , Luka Kloser , and Tove Burman , who wrote and produced Addison Rae’s 2025 debut ) for sweet, tough, and distinctly modern love songs. “I want you in my body like microplastics,” she sings on “ Microplastics ,” and on “ Trinket ,” she collects boys like Labubus and dangles them from her purse. On “ Smoochie Girl ,” she wonders over glitchy sugar-rush synths: “Is this too much to keep a lock of your hair in a resin r...
The Life of a Showgirl
The Life of a Showgirl Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Taylor Swift What’s a girl gonna do after the record-smashing Eras Tour ? Well, its success sparked the flame inside Taylor Swift that led to a reunion with former collaborators Max Martin and Shellback for her 12th full-length The Life of a Showgirl . Indeed, in a very showgirl manner, Swift flew back and forth to Sweden between stops on her European leg—remember, the singer-songwriter believes “jet lag is a choice”—to join Martin and Shellback, Swift’s co-writers and producers on some of the most memorable and popular hits of her career (“ We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together ,” “ 22 ,” “ Shake It Off ,” “ Blank Space ,” “ Don’t Blame Me ,” and “ Delicate ,” to name a few). The result? A confident, dazzling, at times elegant, at times cheeky, at times sensual pop explosion that examines Swift’s relationships and her fame, which is both deeply personal yet extremely relatable...mostly. (The struggles of “ Elizabeth Taylor ”—with its ...
The Art of Loving
The Art of Loving Album ∙ Pop ∙ 2025 Olivia Dean Olivia Dean’s follow-up to 2023’s Messy suggests she’s anything but. From the radio-friendly uplifter “ Nice to Each Other ” to the sweeping, late ’60s Dionne Warwick -esque soul of “So Easy (To Fall in Love),” The Art of Loving finds Dean self-assured as she slinks freely through R&B and pop. “You can make whatever you want, there’s no rules and that’s such a freeing feeling,” she tells Apple Music ’s Rebecca Judd . Dean describes her songwriting on The Art of Loving as “real, fresh, and honest” and she makes it sound so easy. It’s no surprise that the overarching theme—love in its different forms—came naturally. “I had the title quite quickly,” she says. “I’ve also been fascinated by love. It’s the one thing that everybody is looking for in their life in some capacity, whether it be friendship, family, romantic, but it’s something that we’re not taught. There’s not a love module in school. It’s t...