Demi Lovato lifts weight off her heart with poignant ‘Dancing With The Devil…The Art of Starting Over’
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On this strikingly candid album, Demi Lovato finally knows her worth — and she wants the world to know it, too.
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Madison Beer’s bittersweet ‘Life Support’ manages to prevail with bravery
Beer’s often ambitious songwriting on Life Support suggests significant promise, but its depth isn’t consistently reflected by the album’s distracting production. It chips away at the refreshing qualities of her sincerity and bravery, making what could have been transformative into something much more mundane.
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Thank u, Netflix: ‘ariana grande: excuse me, i love you’ is glamorous relic of live performance
Thanks to Netflix’s newest concert movie of quarantine, “34+35” fans can step back into a pre-Positions soundscape to follow Ariana Grande through her “Sweetener World Tour.”
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Ariana Grande’s ‘Positions’ is stylish, saccharine sensuality
Grande rarely played it safe in the last few years, but with Positions, it feels like she’s lifting her foot off the gas pedal.
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‘Chromatica’ is Lady Gaga’s best, most triumphant work to date
Gaga is in her element here, traversing the record’s production with a quirky ease one can only expect from “mother monster.”
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The Daily Californian Arts & Entertainment picks for best-dressed at the Grammys 2020
While many of the looks successfully grabbed our attention, here are our picks for the best-dressed celebrities on the Grammys red carpet.
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Mac Miller’s spirit lives on in posthumous album, ‘Circles’
Although Mac Miller could not complete the trilogy of albums he set out to produce, his legacy and spirit live on in Circles.
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2020 Grammy nominations try to clarify the blurred line between rock, pop — but aren’t successful
It’s difficult to classify rock and pop as two completely distinct genres — they undoubtedly blur together at some level of sonic scrutiny.
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The Daily Californian’s predictions for the 62nd annual Grammy Awards
Even though “Truth Hurts” is objectively a better anthem than Swift’s tired romantic crooning, Swift’s return to her pop-country roots may garner recognition from the oldies fans in the Academy.
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A 2019 guide to 11 influential womxn in music
Who’s been dominating your playlists this year? If it’s any of the powerful womxn listed below, you’re doing things right.
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