With guitars starting to give ground and hip-hop not yet fully crossed over to a wider audience, the 1980s were the biggest decade for dance-based pop in the American mainstream. And as it came to a ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

Toby Gad, the Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer behind hits by John Legend ('All of Me'), Beyonce ('If I Were A Boy') and Fergie ('Big Girls Don't Cry'), has re-imagined the greatest hits of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Madonna nearly reaches the top of iTunes with “Human Nature (Howie ...

Songwriters are the unsung heroes of the musical world. While plenty of artists and bands write their own material, just as many use songwriters to write or co-write the tracks that would propel them ...

Tehuan Harris is a news and features journalist at Collider, reporting and writing about all things music and reality TV (sometimes). She is a talented journalist and a natural storyteller who writes ...

Madonna’s stardom is built upon her foundation of fearlessness. She is a visionary who isn’t afraid to subvert expectations and reimagine pop and her role in it with each new project. Madonna released ...