There’s a bit of a paradox to these. The sort of people who follow music — say, by reading pop music columns — have probably known about many featured artists for a while. The sort of people who don’t ...

She’s proven more than a fair few times that she could thrive as an artist in that arena. Though we love her dance-forward pop hits, we can’t help but yearn for a full rock album from Gaga.

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“Writers who want to have pop hits for mainstream radio are likely to be influenced by that technological constraint,” said Bennett. But several artists in the 1960s experimented with longer ...