Katy Perry released Teenage Dream in 2010 and closed out a decade of cheerful guitar-pop dominating the charts. The following year, Adele conquered the music world with moody introspection, and Lorde arrived next, saying she’d never seen a diamond in the flesh on “Royals.” Optimism and guitars were so passé. Before the doom-and-gloom of real […]
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