The Popcast is hosted by Jon Caramanica, a pop music critic for The New York Times. It covers the latest in pop music criticism, trends and news.
Judging by the best albums and best songs lists by The New York Times pop music critics, many musicians dealt with great trauma in 2017. Lorde, Mount Eerie, Jay-Z, J. Cole, Julien Baker, Kendrick Lamar: these artists all tackled difficult circumstances with artistic fortitude.
In 2017, Pop Music Made Triumph Out of Tough Times
To recap the year’s best albums on this week’s Popcast, Mr. Caramanica was joined by The Times’s chief pop music critic, Jon Pareles; the pop music editor, Caryn Ganz; and the pop music reporter, Joe Coscarelli.
They discussed the various ways tragedy was expressed this year in pop; the return of pop-punk; sexual frankness in pop; evolutions in Latin music; and also some albums and songs they regrettably overlooked.
Email your questions, thoughts and ideas about what’s happening in pop music to popcast@nytimes.com.
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