Popcast Mailbag! Halsey, Nicki, TikTok and, of Course, Taylor

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You ask, we answer. Or prevaricate. It depends!

On this week’s Popcast, part of our semiregular mailbag series, the team takes questions on a range of topics:

• the year in Taylor Swift

• the quality of Halsey’s new music

• the state of the music video

• the ways TikTok can be a lifeline for a legacy act

• the direction Drake’s career should head in

• the increasingly idiosyncratic vocal styles of young female pop stars

• whether we still buy physical media

And much more.

Guests:

• Joe Coscarelli, The New York Times’s pop music reporter

• Caryn Ganz, The New York Times’s pop music editor

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