Megan Thee Stallion

Read The Daily Californian's picks for the best of music in 2022.

Instead of topping herself with even nastier bars and stickier hooks, or even taking a sharp left turn into new territory, she slips into well-worn grooves carved out by her previous — and far stronger — projects.

Coachella’s monumental sense of scale dizzied, delighted and disoriented. The atmosphere glittered with the rarity of a gemstone, a fanfare of aestheticized and commercialized bohemia.

With a stunning red carpet that held a lot of personality, here are The Daily Californian’s picks for best-dressed at the 64th Grammy Awards ceremony. 

The record sees Lil Nas X coming into his own, churning out both raucous, whiplash-inducing chart-toppers and tapping into a wellspring of contemplative material anchored by his artistic identity.

“Wild Side” is the definition of a confident yet cool summer anthem that — while slow in its approach — is still catchy and confident in its lyrics and melodies.

The show boasted a star-studded lineup, and within the first 15 minutes of the broadcast, nominees Harry Styles, Billie Eilish and HAIM had already performed impressively.

Despite an impressive feature from Megan thee Stallion, it offers nothing new lyrically and musically — lead vocalist Adam Levine has failed to move past a breakup, it seems, for years.

Here are the trials and tribulations my motivation and I had to go through during my first week of spring semester, and it was a long week.

With her sophomore LP Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa put the pop music genre on her shoulders — and needless to say, she carried it without wavering.