Music as Soft Power

Chappell Roan and the Age of Manufactured Authenticity A dispatch from the front lines of pop’s new Cold War By the time Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” cracked the Global Spotify Top 50 last week, diplomats in Brussels were already drafting memos: a drag-tinged Midwestern torch song had somehow become a soft-power bargaining chip. From…