Monday Roundup Mix
featuring Claud, Rhiannon Giddens, Remi Wolf, and more!
Happy Monday! Firstly, I’d like to thank everyone who reached out to me about one of the bigger pieces of pop culture news this past week: Taylor Swift and Matty Healy’s rumored relationship. It’s nice to be thought of, especially since I do have a lot of opinions on the matter.
I’ll keep it brief: I am disappointed, but not that surprised, by this relationship news. Matty Healy, the lead singer/primary songwriter of The 1975, is a shitty dude who fancies himself a performance artist and provocateur. Taylor is no saint (also something about this just feels like a stunt-y, PR move), but aligning yourself with a controversial guy is a weird move no matter the reason.
So, what else has been going on?
Beyoncé kicked off her Renaissance World Tour in Stockholm, Sweden.
Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels won a Pulitzer Prize in Music for Omar, an opera about enslaved people brought to North America from Muslim countries that premiered at the Spoleto Festival in 2022.
Loreen, a Swedish pop singer, won Eurovision on Saturday.
I went to a Pitbull concert last week and it was one of the silliest shows I’ve ever experienced. He gave a lot of motivational speeches between songs including one about using social media, but not letting it use you! He also closed the show by leading the crowd in a chant of the riff from “Seven Nation Army.” Loved it, would go again.
New music from Janelle Monae, Mikaela Davis, Arlo Park, Venus & the Flytraps, and more- all of which are on today’s roundup mix:
What are you listening to this week? Let me know in the comments or by replying directly to this email! Thanks for supporting Made You a Mix!