“Fluorescent”—has there ever been a better descriptor for first love? When Lorde sings it to the empty space beside her on ”Supercut,” toward the end of her shining record Melodrama , we share a bit of her noted synesthesia : We see that bright, electrode glow of possibility, feel its siren shine on…

When people think of knowledge, they generally think of two sorts of facts: facts that don’t change, like the height of Mount Everest or the capital of the United States, and facts that fluctuate constantly, like the temperature or the stock market close. But in between there is a third kind: facts…

Originally titled A , the debut album from SZA was meant to conclude a trilogy of self-titled releases following 2013’s S and 2014 ’s Z —her official entré into the music world. The release date was originally projected for summer 2016 and, as she revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly…

In 1990, Salt-N-Pepa walked onto the Hollywood set of “The Arsenio Hall Show” ready to spread awareness about HIV and AIDS. The men in the audience were fervently doing the signature Hall bark well beyond the call of the show. The Queens trio—Cheryl “Salt” James, Sandy “Pepa” Denton and Deidra…