“I sound like a fuckin’ douche,” Shura interrupted herself more than once to blurt out over the course of our interview, unwilling to allow either of us to take this thing too seriously.

Justin Bieber is a happy man. But like any human being, he’s also sad sometimes. Nowhere is this more evident than in his new video for “Company.”

Mind of Mine, the debut solo album from exiled One Direction member Zayn Malik, is sonically a bit like easing oneself into a lukewarm bath. In an epoch in which The Weeknd’s poppier work is considered musical genius, there’s certainly a public demand for tepidity—flatlined choruses that substitute vehemence for…

Like people in other professions, actors weren’t always actors. Many hoped to be discovered while working in the food industry. Some were once educators. Others were just typical office workers who decided it was their time to become a star. But a special few tried their hand at a different kind of celebrity before…

Just two minutes into Charli XCX’s documentary about feminism in pop, The F Word And Me, Charli is seen doing press before her set at the Glastonbury Festival in London . After a female reporter asks her which essential item she’d bring to a festival (“Vodka,” says Charli), it cuts to an off-camera male interviewer…

In a recent interview with The Guardian, Ryan Adams, pop musician and Taylor Swift cover artist, compared the blonde-mopped scribe of hits such as “Bad Blood” and “Our Song” to Shakespeare himself. This is sweet of him, and his comparison feels hyperbolic yet utterly genuine; he goes on to emphasize how much her music…

In a recently published excerpt of Grace Jones’ upcoming memoir (cheekily titled I’ll Never Write My Memoirs), the legendary musician shares her criticisms of today’s current pop stars, asserting that many of them attempt to claim originality and subversiveness, while really only copying her style and playing it safe.

Jezebel Quickies is a new video series in which we get to know our favorite dynamic musicians, artists, actors and other creatives in a snap amount of time.

Hailee Steinfeld, “that child actor,” is working on a side hustle as a pop star; you may be surprised to know that her debut single, entitled “Love Myself,” is a jubilant paean to humanity’s favorite activity, masturbation.

Briana Marela is a newcomer to the atmospheric pop landscape, but she’s clearly nailed down the most important rule of the game: record your album in Iceland.

If you live on the Internet, it probably feels like Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea have been teasing their “Pretty Girls” collaboration for like 10 years now. Here it is, finally, and it’s clearly elbowing to be the song of the summer.

With all due respect to “Trap Queen” and other strong contenders for this year’s seasonal jam, here is my pick for song of the summer: Amy Schumer’s One Direction parody, “Girl, You Don’t Need Makeup.”