Melissa Kacar

A generational anthem of unrequited love, Robyn 's "Dancing On My Own" captures the courage it takes to keep on dancing through heartbreak. She wrote it after going through a breakup and seeing her ex at a club with another girl. That moment of watching him, wanting him to notice her, and realizing he wouldn't, became the emotional core of the song. "I'm in the corner watching you kiss her, I'm right over here, why can't you see me?" she sings in the chorus. "I'm giving it my all, but I'm not the girl you're taking home, I keep dancing on my own". Musically, she pulled from the lineage of great sad‑disco icons like Donna Summer and Ultravox. She was also deeply inspired by club culture itself while she was making her three-part record Body Talk . "I'm fascinated by club culture at the moment,” she told Pop Justice. "Clubs are like the new church for people...it's where you go to feel a part of something big...

Happy Record Store Day! To celebrate the semi-annual independent record store event, Icona Pop released a special limited edition glow-in-the-dark vinyl pressing of their iconic breakthrough hit, "I Love It". Originally released in 2012 as the lead single from their self-titled debut album, the track quickly became a defining anthem for the Swedish pop duo. Not only did it launch their career, but it also marked the first major hit for Charli XCX , who at the time was just 21 years old and an emerging songwriter carving her place in pop music. Charli had signed with Asylum Records in 2010 while still in school, spending her early years experimenting with different sounds and resisting the idea of mainstream pop, which didn't initially align with her vision as an artist. Her breakthrough came when she began collaborating with producer Patrik Berger, who was then best known for his work with Lana Del Rey and Robyn , and later worked with artists like Carly Rae Jepsen , ...

Take The Sadness Out of Saturday Night  is an album built on its contradictions; the divide between wanting a big life and wanting a secret life, finding ways to live alongside simultaneous hurt and hope, going from the shadow to the city and back again, and most of all, the desire to move forward while still feeling tied to all that has come before. With this album, Jack Antonoff sets out to make a project that is largely an examination of joy and the need for it, but also the doubt that comes with not understanding why you can't seem to hold onto it. As so many Bleachers records do, this album approaches those feelings in a way that shows how they shift and evolve through time. It is shaped by the angst and fears of that moment, but also by what he called the "unearned hope" he was feeling at the time - with all of it wrapped up in the collective consciousness of that particular point in history.  With this music, Jack isn't necessarily setting out to solve all of ...