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WHAT A MOMENT to be a Miley Cyrus fan. “Flowers” is more than just a surprise comeback hit — it’s the triumph of Mileyism. It’s been 10 years since her last Number One hit, “Wrecking Ball,” at the height of her tabloid-scandal, electro-sleaze Bangerz era. But now she has finally transformed into the kind of old-school grown-up legend she’s always wanted to be. “Flowers” and her Saturn-return post-divorce album, Endless Summer Vacation, finish off her unlikely journey from Hannah Montana to world-wise adulthood. This moment is the cherry on top of one of modern pop’s longest, most bizarre stories. Miley’s only 30, but she’s already been a mega-famous artist for nearly two decades. She started out as a Disney moppet playing a fictional pop star with a secret life…

THE FIRST CALL for help came before sunset on the evening of July 15, 2021. “I’m throwing up blood,” Ta’Neasha Chappell, a 23-year-old mother in pretrial detention at the Jackson County Jail in Brownstown, a small town amid the hills and farms of southern Indiana, told the staff via intercom. “This is my second time. I overlooked it today the first time, but it’s happening again.” A jail officer went to her cell to examine the vomit, did not believe it contained blood, and left. It was the beginning of a long, lonely night for Chappell. The only Black woman in her unit, she had spent more than seven troubled weeks at the jail, battling racist slurs from her fellow inmates. Chappell was an outsider, a lifelong resident of…

It was one of those beautiful and unseasonably warm fall days in New York City, November 2019, when Pras Michel, founding member of the Fugees, documentary filmmaker, and man about town, was headed to a lunch date, a first date with a woman he hadn’t met before. Around noon, he walked out of his SoHo apartment building and onto the street, which was busy in all the typical New York ways: There were construction workers, a guy with a jackhammer, a fiber-optic telephone worker, people window shopping at the Versace store. He turned right and didn’t make it 20 feet before, in his peripheral vision, he saw a tall man point to him, and suddenly those normal people acting in their normal phone-company and window-shopper ways surrounded him. Out…

Why did you call your new album Gasms? When you say “gasms,” most people think about orgasms. But any good feeling that you get is gasm. It’s probably a controversial title, but I wanted it to be that way. What music still moves you the most? I listen to everything. I heard a great dose of music growing up. I heard everything from classical, like Bach, Beethoven, and Chopin, to gospel, jazz, and blues. So many Motown greats are no longer with us, and most of them were your good friends. How do you get over losses like that? Because you have to, man. We have the Motown Museum in Detroit. When I go back there, man, I walk through the building and I look at those pictures. Eighty…

WHAT’S NEW, WHAT’S NEXT, WHAT’S NUTS WHETHER YOU’RE a New York native, a transplant, or just a visitor, you’ve probably seen a struggling artist performing on the subway. “Showtime, showtime, showtime!” street dancers often shout before flipping off the ceilings of the MTA cars and maneuvering around their poles. Going from “Showtime!” to stardom is rare, but Britanny Fousheé did give busking a shot, well before her 2022 breakout as the co-writer on one of the world’s biggest pop songs — Steve Lacy’s “Bad Habit.” “One time I tried to sing on the train,” she says over Zoom. “And it just did not work out for me.” Her tone is sharp and yet blasé, making it hard to imagine her clamoring for attention in a crowd of commuters. “You…

IN 2016, A 19-year-old Lil Yachty emerged as a fresh-faced, red-haired maverick eagerly planting Generation Z’s flag in hip-hop. Songs like “Minnesota” intrigued many, but rap traditionalists denigrated him as a “mumble rapper” — an upstart who, they claimed, was insulting the essence of hip-hop one warbled vocal run at a time. That didn’t stop Yachty, though. In the years since, he’s kept trying new things, even as many other artists have gotten stuck retreading tired formulas. “Who cares?” he says now. “It’s going to go, or it’s not. You only have one life, bro. Just do shit.” His latest creative gamble is Let’s Start Here, a psychedelic-rock project that posits Yachty as the lead singer of his band of friends (who include indie staples like Alex G, Mac…

THE CERULEAN SKY over Beverly Hills is silvering its way toward nightfall when I find myself trapped at Paris Hilton’s. The photographer and crew have packed up and left with their sundry equipment. The stylists have packed up and left with countless lumpy bags and a large box they’d struggled to fit in their car. The landscapers have packed up and left in a white truck laden with an alarming amount of foliage. Even the helicopters overhead have stopped their mosquito whine. A hush has fallen over Hilton’s stately driveway (where her pink Bentley sits with a flat tire) and over her Italianate mansion (where a neon-pink glow emanates from one entire wing). And here I am, shaking the curlicues of an elaborate wrought-iron gate that had been wide…

SREMMLIFE IS THE VERY BEST LIFE Hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd keep the vibe going on their excellent fourth album By BRITTANY SPANOS Rae Sremmurd Sremm4Life INTERSCOPE RAE SREMMURD ARE party starters first and foremost. Their 2015 debut, SremmLife, burned bright with blockbuster singles like “No Flex Zone,” “This Could Be Us,” and “No Type,” still club staples to this day thanks to the Tupelo, Mississippi, brothers’ exuberant charisma and Mike WiLL Made-It’s slick production. They were ahead of the curve, too, on viral challenges like “Black Beatles.” It’s been a few years since we’ve heard Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi make music together. Their last album, 2018’s SR3MM, was mostly a soft launch of their solo careers, but they’re back in full force as a united front for Sremm4Life,…