Taylor Swift’s shift from country to pop shouldn’t have surprised anyone who heard the ubiquitous 1997 album from a previous country-pop superstar. The roadmap to Swift’s career arc is all there on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music, and why you buy the tunes you do. Immediately, the hubbub struck me as odd: only one person has ever pointed ...

The difference between taking it easy and making it look easy is that taking it easy is just as easy as it looks, while making it look easy is much harder. Bonnie Raitt was not taking it too easy at ...