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SZA, Variety’s Hitmaker of the Year, Unpacks ‘SOS,’ Her 9 Grammy Noms, and Says ‘F— You’ to Song Leakers
SZA is vigorously scrolling. “I never have topics before I start a song,” she says about her creative process, late one August night, high…
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Boy Power: The Women of Boygenius on the Joys of Nourishing a Supergroup Without the Superegos
The three singer-songwriters who make up Boygenius are musing about what they did and didn’t intend to accomplish when they went into the studio…
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Why Olivia Rodrigo Thinks ‘Guts’ Was the ‘Most Important Album for Me to Write’
In Olivia Rodrigo’s new song for “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” the 20-year-old singer-songwriter exclaims, “I’m here, I’m there, I’m…
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Metro Boomin on His Stellar Year: ‘Heroes & Villains,’ ‘Spider-Verse’ and Being Variety’s Hitmakers Producer of the Year
Picking his proudest moment from the past year is not easy for Metro Boomin. The super-producer has been on quite a run since releasing…
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Behind Miley Cyrus’ Smash Hit ‘Flowers’: ‘She’s Not Afraid to Go After What She Wants’
Turning points are nothing new for Miley Cyrus, who reinvents herself with nearly every album cycle. But 2023 truly represented a new chapter. She…
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The Peso Pluma Effect: Unveiling the Strategy Behind Variety’s Breakthrough Artist of the Year
The fact that Peso Pluma has become a driving force in the growth in popularity of regional Mexican music is a sign of how…
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How Zach Bryan’s ‘Something in the Orange’ Struck a Chord With Listeners — And Why It’s Still Ringing
At the time that he had begun recording tracks that would make his sprawling 2022 third album “American Heartbreak,” Zach Bryan had already become…
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Sabrina Carpenter on Touring With Taylor Swift, ‘Nonsense’ Success and Scandalizing the Catholic Church: ‘Jesus Was a Carpenter’
Sabrina Carpenter would be the first to admit that “Emails I Can’t Send,” her fifth and most recent album, was like going back to…
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In the Pink: Super-Producer Mark Ronson on Making the Music for ‘Barbie,’ and How Dua Lipa’s Song Changed to Fit the Film
Whether it’s a soundtrack, a score or a song placement, there are countless wrong ways to do music for film and so few ways…
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Toosii Explains How ‘Favorite Song’ Went From Viral Hit to Chart Smash — With a Little Help From the Ladies
Around the time that Toosii came up with his viral smash “Favorite Song,” he was largely recording ideas for songs instead of putting pen…
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Maren Morris, Variety’s Changemaker of the Year, on Giving Voice to a Social Conscience in Country: ‘I Just Got So Sick of Being a Yes Person’
Reports of Maren Morris leaving country music have been greatly exaggerated. “You don’t fight for what you don’t love,” says Morris over Zoom during…
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How Luke Combs Took the Carpool Lane to Dominance in Country and Pop Formats With Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’
What part of fast in “Fast Car” did anyone not understand? Country superstar Luke Combs’ cover of the 1988 Tracy Chapman classic proved to…
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Variety Names Hitmakers’ Top 25 Songs of 2023: ‘Last Night,’ ‘Kill Bill’ and More
For the past seven years, Variety has honored the top songs of the year and the Hitmakers behind them, with a special issue of…
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What’s on SZA’s Playlists? ‘Kill Bill’ Singer Talks Inspiration From Ella Fitzgerald and Her Love for Creed and Nickelback
It’s obvious from SZA’s music that she has a wide range of influences, from classic R&B to Joni Mitchell, jazz to pop-punk and beyond.…
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How Drake and 21 Savage Found the ‘Perfect Beat’ for ‘Rich Flex’
Michael “Finatik” Mule and Isaac “Zac” De Boni, better known as the production duo FnZ, were scouring YouTube for fresh sounds when a clip…
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Metro Boomin’s ‘Superhero’ and ‘Creepin”: Vault Tracks That Long ‘Foreshadowed the Album’s Tone’
A densely layered multimedia project that combines music, comic book art, holograms and mini-movies, Metro Boomin’s “Heroes & Villains” is wildly ambitious. That scope…
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Aaron Dessner, Taylor Swift Co-Producer and Member of the National, on Navigating Both Sides of the Mixing Board
The latest episode of Variety‘s “Strictly Business” podcast features Aaron Dessner — the man Swifties are indebted to for collaborating on big chunks of…
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Ashley Gorley, Variety’s Songwriter of the Year, on Being Part of Country’s Big Crossover Moment: ‘There’s a Lot More Freedom in This Genre Now’
Who should be counted as country music’s currently most successful songwriter? You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who could come up with a metric…
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How Eslabon Armado’s ‘Ella Baila Sola’ Became the Official Song of Música Mexicana’s Chart-Busting Year
Back in February, Pedro Tovar, frontman of Eslabon Armado, posted a short clip of himself grooving to the group’s song “Ella Baila Sola” (“She…
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