Noah Berlatsky

The rom-com's worshipping of power and wealth comes with a gender twist.

The loss of gospel history has meant forgetting how important black women have been to American performance styles.

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf: they're all still practically household names.

The history of pop music, and of black pop music in particular, has always been gay history.

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

Banks' "Ice Princess" video shows that it's not only white people who can pick up someone else's culture.

Sex and bodies don't clarify gender; they confuse the issue.

Bulimia.com has reworked superhero images to show more realistic body types—and their efforts are valuable in more than the expected ways.

Maddie & Tae's new hit both indicates and subverts country's long history of sexism.

So, if there are so many ways to sing this song, and if it's meant different things at different points, why complain about Beyoncé's version?