Why is pop so meta right now?
Pop stars have long written about life in the limelight, but a new wave of artists – including Tinashe, Adéla and Charli xcx – are painstakingly self-mythologising through song. Welcome to the era of meta-pop
Black News 
“I put the work in and I waited,” Tinashe sings on “Empty Stadium”. “Don’t wanna die underrated.” It’s one of many candid moments on her excellent new album Popstar that offers up a zoomed-out perspective on pop stardom itself. And Tinashe isn’t alone in mining her own career trajectory for lyrical inspiration: the genre is currently awash with artists deconstructing themselves andhellip;
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