Charlie Puth and Shawn Mendes, Would-Be Pop Kings
The Popcast is hosted by Jon Caramanica, a pop music critic for The New York Times. It covers the latest in pop music criticism, trends and news.
These are fraught times for the young male pop-singer business. Justin Timberlake is no longer young, nor particularly pop; Justin Bieber has been slowly removing himself from the narrative; and boy bands, from Prettymuch to BTS, are pop-locking their way back to the forefront.
Some might see a setback; others might smell opportunity. Two performers with new albums have their sights set on pop ubiquity: Charlie Puth and Shawn Mendes.
Charlie Puth and Shawn Mendes, Would-Be Pop Kings
Boy bands are on the rise and young male singers have some choices to make. A conversation about two performers with their sights set on pop ubiquity.Mr. Puth has just released "Voicenotes," an impressive album that remakes him wholly from how he was first introduced to the public, which is as a purveyor of high-gloss treacle. "Voicenotes" is a confident, emotionally hefty pop-soul collection, and it shows Mr. Puth to be a careful songwriter and whiz producer.
Mr. Mendes's new album is self-titled, and it is his third. But it is his first to largely avoid the muscled style of singing that has up until this point set him apart. Instead, he attempts to navigate a host of styles better deployed by more experienced pop hands.
To discuss Mr. Puth and Mr. Mendes on this week's Popcast, Mr. Caramanica is joined by Wesley Morris, a critic-at-large for The New York Times and one of the hosts of the podcast Still Processing, and Jia Tolentino, a staff writer for The New Yorker.
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