Natalie Morin

Jazmine Sullivan is the greatest R&B singer too many people have never heard of. The 28-year-old, who in 2010 won the Billboard Rising Star Award at the Billboard Women in Music Awards, has been lauded for her silky, old-school sound (she cites…

Between the strong performances and feminist statements made by musicians like Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj, the public has been increasingly obsessed with crowning musical "divas." And yet, despite that trend, one old myth still persists: Behind every…

Carly Rae Jepsen, the 29-year-old Canadian famous for her breakout single "Call Me Maybe," just released a new single, "I Really Like You." Despite the fact that her previous album, Kiss, received mixed reviews, people seem to have forgotten that…

One year ago, Hozier was a 23-year-old Irish singer-songwriter living with his parents and working on a song in the attic. A bit more than a year later, he was at the Grammys playing that song for an audience of legends. It's one of the most…

One hundred hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. On Nov. 30, 2011, four minutes and six seconds of those hours belonged to George Ezra, an 18-year-old British folk singer. They would make him world-famous. The video of a dorky young…

You may have caught on by now that there's a high likelihood that the pop song you can't stop listening to was made by a Swede and streamed by millions of Americans on Spotify, a Swedish company. Or how even that folk song that sounded so American…

British singer Charli XCX has been almost-a-pop-star for almost eight years. She nearly caught a break when she became famous for singing undeniably great hooks — her chanting on Icona Pop's "I Love It" helped propel the song into the…

The music video is the most important artistic form in music today. In an age where most traditional formats are failing musicians, music videos are surging in popularity and in artistic quality — according to VideoInk, YouTube viewers consume 2.28…

A feminist revolution has been brewing in our pop music for a long time. It was slow at first, but in 2014 the tide finally came in. This was a hugely historic year for women in music. It was the year that feminism finally broke into the…

Sorry, metal fans, but according to Consequence of Sound, you should probably give your constant "rocking out" a rest. Studies have shown that headbanging — meaning a violent thrashing of the head in time with music — can cause spinal injury, or…

We need to talk about Iggy Azalea's "Black Widow."  The song has been out for a little while now, and in that time it has managed to become the ninth most popular song in the country. There's one catch, though: It's arguably the worst song on the…

Good news: This week, something meteorologists are casually referring to as an "arctic blast" will make your mid-November feel like a balmy mid-January. Two-thirds of the country will suffer; Minneapolis should have 10 inches of snow by Tuesday. The…

If you listen to enough popular country music, you'll notice Southerners are a backwards people. Nine times out of 10 men can be found getting the ice-cold beers out of their pickup trucks and tending to their farms, which, one can only assume, grow…

Last Friday, British boy band One Direction became a real band. That was the day they released the video for "Steal My Girl," the new single off their upcoming album, FOUR, due to drop on Nov. 17. It was a smash hit. Many could attribute the video's…

If grew up watching American Idol, you know that the weeks leading up to the show's finale were your version of the NBA playoffs, Super Bowl or World Series.  You had your favorite players who you supported through failure or success week after…

Remember little Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers? Well, the teen heartthrob is back on the pop music scene with a little less than a month until his big solo release. Only he isn't exactly doing the Jonas Brothers schtick anymore: Where once the…

Last week, NBC's The Voice announced that country-turned-pop singer Taylor Swift would be an advisor for an episode on the show with an eye towards a potential judge's seat sometime in the future. Much like the show’s coaches Adam Levine, Blake…

This month, a band called INFINITE made history for K-pop — it scored a hit, and it did it while singing in Korean on the strength of their song and amazing dancing. The boy band became the first Korean musicians to top the Billboard Twitter…

Since the beginning of country/pop singer Taylor Swift's rise to fame, she's never been shy about her relationships. In fact, it's now widely accepted that if you break up with Swift, she will write a "revenge song" about you. For tween sensation…