Retroverse Year

2024

Cowboy Carter rewrites the conversation about genre ownership — Beyoncé claims country and Americana as Black music history, and the charts pay attention. Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets Department' keeps event-album culture alive while Kendrick Lamar's feud with Drake turns diss tracks into national news. The year feels like artists arguing over who gets to tell America's story. The year feels like artists arguing over who gets to tell America's story, one genre at a time.