The year 1999 was one of the most lucrative years for pop music, and the turn of the millennium brought with it a whole new trajectory for countless genres. Since so much great chart-topping music ...

On the song that established “country rap” as a pop-viable signifier with baggage, Robert Ritchie concocted a gun-slinging alcoholic pimp character “straight out the trailer” who hates sheriffs, ...

Trent Reznor said that, originally, this triumphant churner was out of place for his ambitious, moody, 103-minute concept opus The Fragile. “I didn’t want a song that was too obviously the hit single, ...