The Pop Corporation

WORDS ABOUT MUSIC + POP CULTURE

  • REVIEW / CAMILA CABELLO / C,XOXO

    Camila Cabello can’t seemingly catch a break. Whether it’s poor advice or self inflicted is largely a moot point, because the basic kicker is that ‘Havana’ aside, her career has seen her become famous, but not cool. We’ll stay away from the tittle-tattle that may or may not make her a divisive pop figure and…

    Read more

  • CORNELIUS COSMIC ROCK MASTERPIECE

    For those who know who Cornelius is, you’ll need know introduction. For the rest, he’s one of the finest musicians that Japan has ever produced. To his pals, he’s Keigo Oyamada, and he’s bounced around genres from electronica, to Kosmiche, to music that saw him dubbed the “modern day Brian Wilson”. Whatever he is, you…

    Read more

  • VIDEO ESSAY: WIPEOUT’S RAVE SOUNDTRACK

    Wipeout was a behemoth of a video game, which saw gamers racing anti-gravity vehicles at breakneck speed on the PlayStation. That’s fun and all but that’s not the whole story. See, anyone who remembers it and liked to have their weekends chemically altered, they knew that Wipeout had one of the most banging soundtracks of…

    Read more

  • CELEBRATE THE FRENCH FASH FAILURE WITH THIS MR OIZO SET

    Any excuse to share a banger of a set (and in places, utterly undefinable and gonzo) from one of the finest Frenchmen to ever live, Mr Oizo. There’s big 4/4s, disco, pop, broken electronics, fierce edits and super crunchy synths galore. Fuckin’ magnifique!

    Read more

  • IS THERE NOT ENOUGH ROCK FOR GLASTONBURY?

    Are you one of those people who thinks of festivals as things that belong to rock music still? Well, times have changed. From the ’90s onward, Glastonbury embraced dance music, hip hop and increasingly erred on the side of pop music. Of course, glancing at the line-up for the 2024 show, it’s not like rock…

    Read more

  • KENDRICK DROPS NOT LIKE US VIDEO BUT YOU KNEW THAT ALREADY

    Listen, this video drop from Kendrick Lamar had over a million views in under an hour, so it’s not like we need to tell you ‘Not Like Us’ summer continues… But here we are. There’s going to be some forensic dissection of this and people going through it frame by frame, so until then, let’s…

    Read more

  • CHILDISH GAMBINO ROCKS OUT, OR SOMETHING

    Donald Glover doesn’t want to be called Childish Gambino anymore, which is a shame seeing as he got his name from a Wu Tang generator and everyone passed that fact off as new. Not that this is a bad thing – it’s fun sharing pop trivia isn’t it? Anyway, this is the last we’ll hear…

    Read more

  • GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW

    As we talked all the way through Jada Star’s set early on the Saturday morning at the Acoustic Stage, having not been to bed yet, it was clear we were in the presence of something very special. It wasn’t the music coming from the PA – and it certainly wasn’t the people around us who…

    Read more

  • YOUNG THUG TRIAL PAUSED

    The racketeering case concerning Young Thug has taken a new twist. The RICO trial is already the longest criminal trial seen in Georgia, clocking up 18 months, and it doesn’t look like letting up any time soon. However, it has been paused indefinitely thanks to an alleged misconduct by Fulton County Superior Judge Ural Glanville.…

    Read more




STOP HOARDING TUNES


  • 10 SONGS WITH… HEY KIDS ROCK N ROLL

    Welcome to a new sporadic feature where we let interesting and cool people tell us what they’re listening to, what makes them tick, and what they love about certain records. 10 songs that mean something to someone you’ll be interested in – as easy as that. Imagine going back to someone’s house after the pub…

  • HEY, SAILORR IS COOL!

    When you think of Florida, you generally think of messy, silly things and some dodgy retirees in golf buggies. Of course, there’s so much more to the area than simply being America’s wang. There’s good music down there. From Jacksonville, there’s SAILORR, who has a fair amount of buzz around them at the minute, thanks…

  • NEW OBONGJAYAR IS ACE

    He’s based in the UK, but Nigerian born, Obongjayar – who is new to us – has announced a new record called ‘Paradise Now’, which we’ll all be able to hear in May. ‘Sweet Danger’ is the name of the new track, and honestly, whatever we were expecting from looking at a thumbnail, this ain’t…

  • MORE WORDPLAY FROM AESOP ROCK

    He’s one of the hardest lyricists on the planet, with almost unmatched wordplay for the most part, and with that, has come a legend cemented in the underground. He’s not likely to trouble a Top 40, but that’s not Aesop Rock’s M.O., so that’s fine. There’s a new track from a new album to listen…

Search for a Topic
Categories
Posted Recently
Submissions

THERE’S NO MONEY IN THIS GAME ANYMORE, BUT IF YOU WANT TO WRITE SOMETHING FOR THE POP CORPS, YOU ARE WELCOME TO GET IN TOUCH. HAPPY HUNTING.