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…