Rebels and outcasts remaking female pop
Two new groups thrive on the tension between their gloomy mood and their gifts for pop songcraft
New York
IN recent years, female pop has been remade again and again by rebels and outcasts, singers who exude scepticism and self-doubt, not blithe cool and exuberance. Lorde, Halsey, Alessia Cara and more: All thrive on the tension between their often gloomy mood and their instinctual gifts for pop songcraft.
Rena Lovelis, the lead singer of the pop-punk, electro-pop, just plain pop band Hey Violet, is an indirect offspring of these singers, but has solved a conundrum none of them have quite mastered: how to make a bad attitude gleam.
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