Canada’s beloved pop star is the emotional defibrillator for this exact moment. And we’ve never needed her more.
As an elite topline writer, Jason ‘Poo Bear’ Boyd has produced a pile of pop hits. So why does he still feel like he has plenty to prove?
Adele’s ’25’ is the year’s biggest album. And yet Adele the person still remains a mystery, secondary to her art—a rare feat in 2015
A writer delves into the largely anonymous, fascinating machine that churns out today’s pop hits and tells their human stories
This week on our culture podcast: Chilly Gonzales’s dissertations on pop, and we talk Carly Rae Jepsen’s new album Plus: our songs of the summer
Singer-songwriter Dan Hill on why this is the greatest generation
A British store’s Christmas ads have a habit of spawning chart-topping pop hits
The New Zealand singer has anthems for suburban teens
Maclean’s archives: A candid interview with the new king of pop
Six years after she ruled the world with Loose, the pop star learns to say yes again
The 96-year-old composer of the classic holiday song talks about his life
How a YouTube sensation from London, Ont., wound up in Timbaland’s studio