Music reaction online content: Unlocking your personal perspective or constraining it?
Music News Blitz writer Zach Heynes explores the online phenomenon of music reactions, a subgenre of content creation where influencers share their live reactions to a song or album.
Great films, greater soundtracks - underrated music from popular films
Music News Blitz’s Zach Heynes discusses three standout scores from already popular films to shine a light on an aspect of the cinematic experience that warrants some more credit.
Music analysis: Why music feels less monumental in the streaming era
Claims are often made that “music used to matter more,” and “it used to tell stories,” implying that today's music doesn’t hold the same substance that it once did, writes Music News Blitz’s Darshan Kaur Gill.
20 years on: How Taylor Swift transformed the music industry
In 2006, 16-year-old Taylor Swift stepped into the music industry; two decades later, her influence is impossible to ignore.
Music News Blitz writer Abbie Latymer calls her “an authentic voice who transforms personal insecurities and experiences into uplifting and inspiring music”.
Music analysis: Why have concert ticket prices risen so much?
Is it artist greed? Ticketing websites? Or are fans just willing to pay?
Spending a fair amount to see your favourite artist is not new, and even expected. But it definitely feels like concert prices have become ridiculous.
Music Blitz Writer Bella Ford reports…
Music analysis: Nostalgia and cultural influence of FIFA soundtracks
With every new edition of a FIFA game, a new soundtrack containing diverse, energetic and underground music arrived with it.
These playlists solidified the bridge between football and music in a way nothing else has.
Among the overwhelming sense of dissatisfaction with the direction Electronic Arts (EA) have taken the FIFA franchise down, the soundtrack behind the games remained a constant success every single year.
From its first soundtrack on FIFA ‘98 which featured Blur’s iconic ‘Song 2’ up until more recent editions in the early 2020’s – the songs behind the videogames have become as influential as the game itself.
But how was this created and why is the nostalgia behind FIFA songs so strong?
Music News Blitz’s Gabriel Mills shares his thoughts.
Mitski’s Nothing’s About to Happen to Me: The female and feline intersection
Every few years, Mitski returns to my Spotify feed with a new body of work for me to unpack and internalise as she discusses, in sometimes horrifically accurate levels of detail, feelings of melancholy and sorrow in a way few other artists are able to replicate.
2018’s “Be the Cowboy” was an uncomfortable assessment of desire and the want to be desired, a testament to the tempestuous feelings that love can bring and the negative effects it can have on one’s sense of self, writes Music News Blitz’s Isaac James.
2023’s “The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We” was a sorrowful commentary on love as a force for transformation and the desolation we often tolerate, simply attributing the horrors of modern life to industrialisation and population expanse.
So, what is “Nothing’s About to Happen To Me” a testament to?
Cats. The human perception of cats, and how their suffering can mirror our own.
Music analysis: A look at how divorce curates career-defining albums
Women have always had a foothold in the music industry, their creativity transcending the glass ceilings that have otherwise subjugated them in other fields, writes Music News Blitz’s Isaac James.
Music analysis: Why is Madison Beer still not considered a ‘Main Pop Girl’?
After over a decade in the industry, Madison Beer is heading out on her fourth solo album tour this May following the release of her third studio album, “Locket”.
She was discovered by Justin Bieber at age 13, after he tweeted a link to her YouTube video of her singing a cover of ‘At Last’ by Etta James.
It was following this that she was signed by Justin Bieber to Island Records and was set on the trajectory of a true pop star, writes Music News Blitz’s Darshan Kaur Gill.
Within the same year of being signed, Beer went on to record a multitude of songs, building on the momentum of being newly discovered.
An image of the “female Justin Bieber” was curated for her by her label, in hopes of propelling her into stardom.
The soundtrack of Bugonia: Creating a musical score in a vacuum
One of my favourite films of 2025 was undoubtedly Bugonia, an uncomfortable questioning as to whether or not the fear of aliens is simply true xenophobia and the fear of the unknown, or whether we are merely frightened of the possibility that they might have the same capacity for malice and violence that humans do.
However, the atmosphere and tone of the film were built upon the foundation of something all great films have, that being an amazing musical score.
Music News Blitz writer Isaac James expands.