Month: March 2025

In her new single, Cortisa Star raps, “Face card don’t decline/ I ain’t playing, even Prada want me.” The track, “PARIS,” comes from a true experience. Just this past week, fresh off an interview with PAPER, the 19-year-old viral sensation made her runway debut when she walked Miu Miu at Paris Fashion Week. “It was crazy,” Star says. “This was my first time out of the country.” Since first breaking through with “FUN,” the Delaware-bred rapper has built a career … Continue reading “Cortisa Star On Her Miu Miu Debut: 'I'm Going Everywhere'”

On Michelle Zauner’s advice, I read Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain on the six-hour flight from New York to LA. During our Zoom interview, we discussed the book’s cult appeal and why Japanese Breakfast took a hiatus after the massive success of Jubilee and her hit memoir Crying in H Mart. The two projects balanced one another out: a boisterous yellow-tinged album, and a personal tale of food and grief. The singer-songwriter’s third record, For Melancholy Brunettes & sad women, … Continue reading “Japanese Breakfast Climbs the Magic Mountain”

Few would probably think The Age of Surveillance Capitalism could work as the basis of a techno record. Those people don’t know Marie Davidson. The Québécois musician’s latest album, City of Clowns, is a dance floor-ready exposé of our big tech reality inspired by scholar Shoshanna Zuboff’s epic unpacking of how social platforms commodify our data and digital labor. Utilizing her signature deadpan approach to social critique (made most famous by her class-conscious hit, “Work It”), Davidson skewers digital culture … Continue reading “Marie Davidson Wants You to Dance Away the Algorithm”