Y/N is a guide to the week’s music releases based on our highly scientific, non-subjective Yes/No rating system.

Y/N is a guide to the week’s music releases based on our highly scientific, non-subjective Yes/No rating system.

When Rita Ora and her myriad collaborators released “Girls” in May, there was pushback and much debate over whether the song was a queer power anthem or a piece of exploitative trash. The lyrics, largely written by men, were criticized for stereotyping lesbian romance as nothing more than casual, drunk fun among…

After Rita Ora released her song “Girls,” which features Charli XCX, Cardi B, and Bebe Rexha singing about how they wanna kiss other girls after a little wine and weed, the track was immediately criticized for being a “harmful,” stereotypical depiction of lesbian desire. Ora responded to critics by explaining that the…

By now you may have heard, though it seems more likely that you haven’t heard, Rita Ora’s new song “Girls,” which features Charli XCX, Bebe Rexha, and Cardi B.

Y/N is a guide to the week’s music releases based on our highly scientific, non-subjective Yes/No rating system.

Y/N is a guide to the week’s music releases based on our highly scientific, non-subjective Yes/No rating system.

The last time I saw Charli XCX was in 2015, at a theater in Detroit, where she was absurdly upstaged by her tourmate/co-headliner, Jack Antonoff’s Bleachers. Despite not having the same level of high-charting hits, Antonoff seemed to command more passion from the crowd, never hesitating to pull from his Springsteen…

Charli XCX released a music video for her new single “Boys” on Wednesday and in the time since, I have not been the same. For one, I must contend with the fact that I now know what Charlie Puth looks like—and that I think he’s attractive, god help me. I must also grapple with my (totally plausible) queer-girl…

Charli XCX continues her streak of making sugary, unabashedly girly pop with her new single “Boys,” which includes a music video starring what feels like every hot dude in music.

Worldwide pop princess Charli XCX is dropping a new mixtape this week entitled Number 1 Angel, a long-awaited follow-up to her effervescent last single, “Vroom Vroom.” As Stereogum points out, one of the new tracks is an irresistible little number called “Lip Gloss” that’s already lodged in my head—MMHMM! I KEEP IT…

Charli XCX, whose closet(s) must be a covetable dream world of iridescence and fantasy fur, arrived on the MTV EMAs red carpet in Rotterdam Sunday evening dressed like a party mermaid in shimmery paillettes and pink bear mitts of an apparent infinity shawl. If I were a pop star, I’d absolutely do this too.

Just in time for Halloween, Charli XCX redeems the bad rep that zombies have sustained in our culture and portrays them in an entirely different, refreshing light: as cotton candy pink-loving party animals, so devoted to having a good time in perpetuity they’re forever sustaining the after-after-after-party.

Raye is a South London 18-year-old who has pop chops that are just off-kilter enough, which is probably one reason she and Charli XCX hit it off when they first met. Their shared sensibilities of being exactly themselves, as well as letting a wack dude have it when he deserves it, are present in this video for Raye’s…

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…

Sunday night marked MTV’s Europe Music Awards, held in Milan and featuring many famous musicians and a few I had to Google. (I do not know how I lived this long without knowing the identity of Stash Fiordispino.) As is typical with pop music awards shows, some attendees went all in, some went all out (too out), and…

Weekly-ish, a pre-approved, snap-judged music guide based on our very scientific, non-subjective Yes/No rating system. There’s really no debating this, come on stop.

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Forget Ryan Adams’s 1989, an album whose pleasures should be apparent to only Ryan Adams fans and interesting to a smaller cohort still. In terms of gender-flipped cover collections, what Bleachers just did in Terrible Thrills Vol. 2 is much, much livelier: it’s their debut album Strange Desire with a different woman…