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@nytimesmusic "In addition to a group discussion of the Showgirl themes and emergent controversies we took listener questions about Taylor Swift vs. Charli XCX; the critical reception so far; some of the albums cringey lyrics (and their clean versions); and more"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-15T20:25Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

""Ozzy: No Escape From Now" review: a metal legends last stand"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-07T17:45Z 244.8K followers, 1134 engagements

"The music biz has changed. These X songs show how Hit-Boy changed with it"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-13T16:30Z 244.8K followers, 3811 engagements

"Two men were charged with murder on Monday in the killing of Ian Watkins the former frontman of the rock band Lostprophets who was serving a 29-year sentence for child sex abuse offenses at a prison in northern England the authorities announced"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-13T16:00Z 244.7K followers, 1427 engagements

"Moving a million in a single week is a feat achievable by a vanishing few. Other than Taylor Swift or Adele the last to do it was Lady Gaga who sold 1108000 copies of Born This Way in May 2011 just before Spotify arrived in the United States"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-16T22:45Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"After DAngelo bared it all his career was never the same"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-14T21:15Z 244.8K followers, 1386 engagements

"Truly isnt a sad book but it is a candid one. And Lionel Richie is refreshingly frank on the subject of race"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-03T17:15Z 244.8K followers, 1119 engagements

"D'Angelo's pleasure principle"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-15T20:00Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"A spokesperson for Drake said in a statement that they planned to appeal the ruling"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-15T18:15Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"A rhythm guitarist and bassist he was a rock for a band whose fiery lead players Eric Clapton Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page had no shortage of ego"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-08T13:25Z 244.7K followers, XXX engagements

"As a producer and songwriter Hit-Boy has helped craft anthems for hip-hop titans like Drake Nas and Lil Wayne as well as pop icons including Beyonc Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande. Its a testament to both his ear and his personable style"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-16T22:15Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"During hourslong comments by the defense five of Sean Combss lawyers spoke and his six adult children each gave brief remarks expressing their love for their father and often in tears asking for mercy"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-08T17:25Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

""The return to what he meant to the culture and what he meant to some of these brands I think thats forever gone"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-07T16:45Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"How DAngelo made his masterpiece "Voodoo.""
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-15T14:15Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

""Im not dying": Dolly Parton assures fans amid concerns about her health"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-08T21:35Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"By XX he had a Myspace page where he showcased his drawings and T-shirt designs as well as the songs hed begun to compose. I didnt know what else to put so I just put Tyler the Creator because of all the little things I was creating he said"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-10T15:15Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"The full NYT obituary for D'Angelo"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-14T19:55Z 244.8K followers, 1250 engagements

"We're answering your questions about Taylor Swift's "The Life of a Showgirl" on a mailbag episode of Popcast"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-14T17:15Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Taylor Swift sold four million copies of her latest album topping a decade-old milestone by Adele. The tally included XXX million vinyl LPs"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-13T18:13Z 244.7K followers, 1207 engagements

"Dolly Parton would like a word: Im not dying"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-09T14:15Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Danny Thompson bassist who defied folk conventions dies at 86"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-13T17:00Z 244.7K followers, 1299 engagements

"Overlooked no more: Violeta Parra folk "genius" who redefined Latin American music"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-13T18:00Z 244.8K followers, 1387 engagements

"What's next for Sean Combs"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-14T21:45Z 244.8K followers, 1180 engagements

"D'Angelo the soul singer songwriter and producer who died on Tuesday at XX released three studio albums of meticulously constructed vocally ambitious genre-crossing music. Hear XX of his essential songs"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-14T20:25Z 244.8K followers, 1152 engagements

"At a Grammy party five years ago Jay-Z Beyonc Lana Del Rey and Cardi B listened in rapt attention as Sean Combs accepted an honorary award. Its doubtful he will ever enjoy that level of adulation and prominence in the entertainment industry again"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-06T14:45Z 244.8K followers, 1293 engagements

"Breaking News: Ace Frehley the original lead guitarist of Kiss who often performed in white-and-silver face makeup and sold millions of records during his two tenures with the band from 1973 to 1982 and then from 1996 to 2002 has died at 74"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-16T23:01Z 244.8K followers, 1489 engagements

"The issue in this case is whether Not Like Us can reasonably be understood to convey as a factual matter that Drake is a pedophile the judge wrote. "The Court holds that it cannot.""
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-14T16:15Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Looked at one way Taylor Swifts new album The Life of a Showgirl is a record-smashing success. From another angle Showgirl Swifts ninth full-length release since 2020 counting her rerecorded albums is being received more coolly"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-16T20:15Z 244.8K followers, 1014 engagements

""He will be back" said Rob Shuter who worked as a publicist to Sean Combs in the early 2000s Maybe not at the Met ball ever again; maybe he wont be sitting down for drinks with Anna Wintour or Clive Davis or the owners of Estee Lauders company"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-10T19:45Z 244.8K followers, 1085 engagements

"At one point in the interview Tyler the Creator paused "to postulate about the prevalence of female-fronted R&B groups in the mid-90s to early 2000s: Groove Theory City High Lucy Pearl.""
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-16T23:25Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Sean Combs the fallen hip-hop mogul was sentenced on Friday to more than four years in prison for prostitution-related offenses in a case that drew global attention for its lurid accounts of violence and fetishistic sex marathons"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-06T17:15Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"I beg your honor for mercy Sean Combs said during his 12-minute address his voice shaking as he stood at the defense counsels table. He added No matter what anybody says I know that Im truly sorry for it all"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-07T19:45Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Fatal Optimist is deeply sparse and stripped-down driven primarily by Madi Diazs strong yet uncannily tender voice and acoustic guitar so bare you can hear her fingers slide and stick on the strings"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-14T23:15Z 244.8K followers, 1159 engagements

"The Life of a Showgirl has become Taylor Swifts 15th album to go to No. X on the Billboard XXX chart Billboard magazine announced on Monday. Only the Beatles have more No. X titles with 19"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-15T13:45Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Ace Frehley who died on Thursday at XX scored his only Top XX solo hit with a cover thats endured for decades. Heres how the Kiss guitarist made New York Groove his own"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-17T12:56Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"In a new memoir Kevin Federline says hes worried about Britney Spears"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-14T13:15Z 244.8K followers, 1006 engagements

"The hardest part of writing his memoir Lionel Richie joked was admitting to myself and to the rest of the world that he was not a jock a standout student or even especially popular during his school days"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-06T21:45Z 244.8K followers, 1058 engagements

"The Lemonheads' new album features a coterie of the musicians indie-rock friends including J Mascis and Juliana Hatfield"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-07T18:15Z 244.8K followers, 1257 engagements

"The sentence is a striking fate for a man who once stood at the top of the music world and leveraged his fame into successful business ventures in fashion media and branding"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-09T21:15Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Bert H. Deixler a lawyer for Nirvana said in a statement on Wednesday that his clients were delighted that the court had ended this meritless lawsuit and that they were now free of the stigma of false allegations"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-08T22:45Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Lionel Richies disappearance from the public eye for nearly a decade only gets two chapters in the book but theyre its most vulnerable and powerful. This was when he started to stare down insecurities hed carried from Tuskegee to Los Angeles"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-02T18:05Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Some allies of Sean Combs believe it is too soon to suggest his future is so bleak. Over more than three decades he has had a career defined by resiliency as he has reinvented himself again and again in the aftermath of crisis"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-09T19:15Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Known for both his openness and his mysteriousness the rapper producer and now actor Tyler the Creator keeps people guessing. (via @tmagazine)"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-14T22:15Z 244.8K followers, 1114 engagements

"Lawyers sometimes exaggerate to convince a judge that their client has suffered enough and should be treated with leniency. But in Sean Combss case there is no denying the steep fall by a man who once wielded a culture-shifting power in music and beyond"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-08T22:15Z 244.8K followers, 1089 engagements

"The Life of a Showgirl ended the week with the equivalent of 4002000 sales in the United States according to the tracking service Luminate. In 2015 Adeles XX sold 3482000 copies out of the gate a total unsurpassed for a decade"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-14T13:45Z 244.7K followers, 1155 engagements

"Sean Combs now faces not just prison and a fine but shunning. Here's what's next for the music mogul who was sentenced to a little over four years in prison on Friday"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-04T15:00Z 244.8K followers, 1248 engagements

"The video for Untitled (How Does It Feel) brought D'Angelo new levels of fame but not always the kind of attention he sought"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-15T13:15Z 244.8K followers, 1129 engagements

"Jim McNeely received XX Grammy nominations and shared one for best large jazz ensemble album for the Vanguard orchestras 2008 recording Monday Night Live at the Village Vanguard"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-15T20:45Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Two of Ian Watkinss fellow inmates Rashid Gedel XX and Samuel Dodsworth XX were arrested on suspicion of murder and were taken into police custody"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-16T16:15Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

".@Wesley_Morris talks Lady Gaga's Mayhem Ball with @mehpatrol on the latest episode of Cannonball"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-16T14:15Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Breaking News: DAngelo the neo-soul singer who found fame with an innovative and sensuous take on 1970s R&B as well as a risqu video that made him a pop culture phenomenon but drove him into nearly a decade of seclusion has died at 51"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-14T16:22Z 244.8K followers, 25K engagements

"In a statement the label said From the outset this suit was an affront to all artists and their creative expression and never should have seen the light of day"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-16T18:15Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Two men were charged with murder in the killing of Ian Watkins the former frontman of the rock band Lostprophets who was serving a 29-year sentence for child sex abuse offenses at a prison in northern England"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-15T16:45Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Her most iconic song (Thanks to Life) with its signature strumming and poetic lyrics about beauty and pain joys and sorrows has been reinterpreted by Jennifer Lopez Kacey Musgraves Shakira Arcade Fire and the K-pop duo Davichi"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-15T19:45Z 244.8K followers, 1195 engagements

"Kevin Federline says in his book that since Britney Spearss conservatorship ended Its become impossible to pretend everythings OK"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-15T14:45Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Why is Taylor Swift so polarizing . and other big "Showgirl" questions. Hear the mail bag Popcast"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-10T14:15Z 244.8K followers, 1795 engagements

"D'Angelo released three studio albums of meticulously constructed vocally ambitious genre-crossing music. @JonPareles provides a guide to the best of his catalog"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-15T18:45Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Music lost a titan on Tuesday. Read about D'Angelo's life and career:"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-15T15:45Z 244.8K followers, XXX engagements

"A federal judge has dismissed the defamation and harassment lawsuit brought by Drake against his record label over Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us ruling that its lyrics constituted nonactionable opinion meaning it could not be found to be defamatory"
X Link @nytimesmusic 2025-10-09T21:47Z 244.7K followers, 9328 engagements