Reanna Cruz
Reanna Cruz is an intern for NPR Music's Alt.Latino.
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With her debut album, 'Feed the Beast,' the rising pop star is still in the process of figuring out where she wants to be in the pop music echelon. -
On Charli XCX's Crash, the artist leans fully into a mainstream pop persona for the first time in almost a decade. -
Moved both by the loss of a founding member and a desire to return to the rap group's experimental roots, Injury Reserve's "Knees" feels like a musical left turn.
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What happens when you take one of the greatest hitmakers of all time, pop's current It Girl and an Australian dance music trio? You get a roller rink-ready jam.
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For Madonna's 63rd birthday, Bark Bark Disco slows down her early hit "Borderline" and invokes the personal whisper of a moonlight tryst.
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The song highlights Tesfaye's sonic progression from origins of brooding minimalistic R&B, into the coke-fueled, Giorgio Moroder, dance-floor bombast he's dipped his foot in on previous records.
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The Drag Race queen returns with a synthwave track that channels the 1980s goth scene.
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On a 35th anniversary edition of True Blue, a 10-minute version of "Open Your Heart" welcomes an intimate connection between the instrumental and Madonna's voice.
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As Lil Nas X becomes bolder in his lyrics and creative vision, he transcends confines of "The Gay Rapper" stereotype, carving out space as an unapologetic messiah for today's queer generation.
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City Girls' latest single, "Twerkulator," bounces between sensually whispered hooks and bombastic verses guaranteed to induce a twitch of movement in even the grumpiest of grandfathers.
