“I booked an arena tour and a lot of those shows were, like, half full. There were some nights where I was like, ‘This is awkward’”: Lorde reflects on the “damage” she suffered when her Melodrama tour was hit by low ticket sales
“I wrote Manchild on a random Tuesday with Amy and Jack”: Is synth-pop-country a genre? Sabrina Carpenter’s new single suggests that is, and she’s positioning it as a song of the summer contender
“They start the song and then they just… it feels like a run-on sentence to me. I can’t find the hook. I can’t find the chorus. It just keeps on going, and then it ends”: Barry Manilow says that songwriting has changed, but he won’t be changing with it
in Artists, Singers & Songwriters “I immediately heard the melody in my head. I just felt intuitively, ‘This is gonna be something’”: How Madonna created a dancefloor classic — with a sample that other artists could only dream of using
in Artists, Bands, Singers & Songwriters “I got to know her music pretty well, Houdini and the like. I just think she’s great and it was such a great thing to get up with her. The band were fantastic – they played it really well”: Neil Finn on how his unlikely duet with Dua Lipa came about
in Artists, Recording, Singers & Songwriters, Tech “I wanted to call it Taylor’s Version. I lobbied very much to the record company”: As Taylor Swift finally takes ownership of her original master recordings, John Fogerty has re-recorded 20 of his greatest songs, note-for-note
in Artists, Recording, Singers & Songwriters, Tech, Tutorials, Vocal Techniques The vocals on Billie Eilish’s Birds Of A Feather are consistently out of tune, says this musician, and he thinks he knows why
in Artists, Singers & Songwriters “I thought, ‘He’s given me the riff of the century!’”: The classic song that Stevie Wonder wrote for Jeff Beck — but ended up saving for himself
in Artists, Singers & Songwriters “You know, I could sing into the stratosphere. Now, I’ve lost a little of that, but I’ve gained other things”: Daryl Hall reflects on how his singing voice has changed, and why he thinks it’s now “more appropriate sounding”
in Artists, Music Theory And Songwriting, Singers & Songwriters, Tutorials “I said, ‘I have this other idea!’ and that I wanted to work on this song with guitar. They were just like, ‘Let’s do it’”: Natasha Bedingfield on how she made the 2004 hit that became a viral sensation 20 years later
in Artists, Bands, Music Theory And Songwriting, Singers & Songwriters, Tutorials “People think I’ve been to the moon, they think I’ve met an alien”: The National’s Matt Berninger on how people react when they find out he’s worked with Taylor Swift, and why she’s such a great lyricist
