Day: March 6, 2025

If you’ve ever felt the pangs of fandom — heart attacks while waiting in Ticketmaster queues, showing up to the venue nearly a day before the performance, textbook knowledge of all the lore, feelings and interviews around your fav’s album and (of course) a beating desire to be able to speak with them (or, hell, dance with them) in person — then you’ll likely vibe with Spotify’s latest fan-focused event. Last week, in a Brooklyn warehouse, Lady Gaga’s biggest fans … Continue reading “Inside Lady Gaga's Little Monster 'Mayhem' Press Conference”

If The Fame was a manifestation, MAYHEM is Lady Gaga’s temperature check — and a confident one at that. Now, nearly two decades into the pop star’s mountain-like career, we’ve seen her lunge in all directions to fight against, escape from and through it all, create her own artistic reality. At times, this has meant landing on entire planets that only exist in Gaga’s mind (and, by proxy, all of ours). We followed her into the past and also the … Continue reading “Lady Gaga: 'My Mayhem Is That There's Lots of Me's'”

Esme Emerson‘s “Stay” is a slow-building, twitchy daydream that explores grief, loss, and (of course) love. The British-Chinese siblings (Esme and Emerson) tell PAPER it’s a “plea for more time with someone, even if it’s just a minute,” adding: “There are so many things to do and say to our loved ones, and never enough time for it all. It’s also about how easy it might seem to leave but how important it is to stay.” The track comes ahead … Continue reading “Esme Emerson Bury Bodies and Feelings on 'Stay'”

Courrèges artistic director Nicolas Di Felice has been committed to optimism, freedom and creating safe space since he revived the brand in 2020. Five years later, for his Fall 2025 show on a confetti-covered runway, that mission remained the same, using color as reminder that celebration is more important than ever in a period of time that feels particularly gray. It makes sense, then, that Spanish-Catalan musician Bad Gyal was sitting front row, since people around the world throw it … Continue reading “Getting Courrèges Ready With Bad Gyal”