Contributor: Adam R. Holz

The devil truly is in the details in this dreary, demented rumination on wickedness … that has no godly counter and certainly no happy ending.

The profound and the profane pound away at each other on The Life of Pablo.

Beyoncé’s “Formation,” for all of its controversy, for all of its potential benefit and harm, for all of its political posturing, is also …

The Choice dutifully checks every expected box—both the poignant elements and the problematic ones.

The latest effort from Australia’s most famous wig-wearer zigzags maddeningly between self-respect and self-objectification.

Zayn Malik has shed his association with One Direction. And his first solo hit sheds—and shreds—what few inhibitions his former boy band might have had.

A whole lot of bullets find their final resting places in bad guys’ skulls before that riding-off-into-sunset scene finally comes to the rescue.

A small handful of suggestive lyrics curl down the edges of this Smile a bit. But Tori Kelly’s effervescent winsomeness is amazingly Unbreakable.

“7 Years” of whiplash, you might say of this Lukas Graham song. Liberal, conservative. Immoral, moral. High and sober.

Rihanna may be living life completely on her own terms, but beneath all the carnal bravado, it’s pretty clear she’s hardly happy.

When Rihanna sings about having too much “work,” she’s really talking about something else entirely.

Dirty Grandpa lives down to its name, then plunges so much deeper into verbal and visual refuse that the word dirty starts sounding clean in comparison.

Panic! at the Disco’s sole remaining band member says marriage has made him a changed man. It’s a claim this album doesn’t support.

Lecrae’s third “mixtape” delivers another hard-hitting dose of faith-filled yet pull-no-punches commentary on contemporary culture.

The idea of a professional wrestler becoming a pastor might seem, well, preposterous. But that’s the part that’s actually “inspired by true events.”