Leaving behind gooey balladry and family-friendly fare, the US star’s reinvention owes a clear debt to Charli xcx but leaves her grasping for space on her own album
March 2024
Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA to headline 2024 Glastonbury festival
Coldplay become act to headline most times with their fifth top slot, while Shania Twain is booked for the Sunday teatime ‘legend’ set as the lineup is announced
April 2022
Saturday Night Live recap
Saturday Night Live: Jake Gyllenhaal hosts a mediocre episode
Camila Cabello: Familia review – Latin-pop lift-off
March 2022
‘It feels like Live Aid’: all-star Concert for Ukraine joins war relief effort
Ed Sheeran, Camila Cabello and Emeli Sandé to play Concert for Ukraine
September 2021
Cinderella review – Ella wears the trousers in goofy musical redesign
With help from mouse-turned-footman James Corden and a genderqueer fairy godparent, Camila Cabello’s Ella gets to go to the ball in an outfit of her own creation
June 2021
Folk singer Mustafa: ‘I’m trying to preserve the memories of young Black Muslims’
The poet, a songwriter for artists including the Weeknd, explains how music helped him explore the loss of friends to inner-city violence: ‘Sorrow is meant to be experienced and felt’
May 2020
Lana Del Rey hits back at critics who say she 'glamorises abuse'
The singer-songwriter said ‘there has to be a place in feminism for women who look and act like me’, citing her lyrics on ‘submissive roles’
April 2020
TV review
One World: Together at Home review – locked-down stars lift the spirits
There are stirring performances aplenty in the Lady Gaga-hosted singathon, but it’s the glimpses of celebs’ homes that are the real treat
March 2020
'It's really irresponsible': pop stars criticise fans over coronavirus inaction
Glastonbury defies coronavirus threat to announce lineup with Kendrick Lamar
February 2020
Brit awards 2020: who will win every award … and who should
Lewis Capaldi could sweep the board in his breakthrough year, but he faces strong competition from Stormzy, Dave and Michael Kiwanuka
January 2020
Grammys 2020: Billie Eilish's triumph overshadowed but well-deserved
Alexis Petridis
Claims about voting ‘irregularities’ and inherent racism swirled around this year’s awards but Eilish brought a powerful emotional punch to proceedings
Brit award nominations 2020: Dave and Lewis Capaldi top pile, with women shut out
Only one British woman, Mabel, is nominated across the best album, song and new artist categories, which skew heavily in favour of solo men
'Do something weird that works on TikTok': how to write a pop smash in 2020
Soaring choruses are out – but cross-genre sounds and lyrics about mental health are in. The brains behind hits for Lewis Capaldi, Camila Cabello and more reveal all
December 2019
Camila Cabello: Romance review – giddy, frisky fun
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Alexis Petridis's album of the week
Camila Cabello: Romance review – so-so songs for pop’s perfect love story
The singer’s second solo album is too heavy on the Auto-Tune, giving cyborg sheen to what should be heartfelt love songs
Drake and Ed Sheeran most streamed artists on Spotify this decade
Sheeran’s Shape of You is most streamed song, with 2.3bn plays, while Drake is most popular artist with 28bn streams
November 2019
Lizzo, Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X top 2020 Grammy nominations
Lizzo scores eight nominations with Eilish and Lil Nas X on six, but British artists largely snubbed in major categories
