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“ee (GaN bonn Uy, FU MUSIC & Nd FESTIVAL 1 sACARD/ | SUPERIOR + oe RoR SUPERIOR CARTA BLANC» NZ ae a Z ISSUE 1335 ‘ALL THE NE THAT ‘Heartbreak is something that people are scared to talk about. I’m not scared to talk about it’ Juice WRLD 1998-2019 Remembering the late Chic Whose mournful, melodie s noise and made him a budding 28 42 48 Elizabeth Warren's The Decade How Chris Martin The Betrayal i in Music Fixed Himself of the Kurds round in northern the weeks after the Dems be ili By Tessa Stuart : By Jason Motlagh PHOTOGRAPH BY Micaiah Carter The Mix <= 17 Marcus King's True Blues The guitarist on strugaling with mental illness and the healing power of music. 18 Rock Exposure Inside Ethan Russells classic photos ofthe Beatles, Stones, and more SPOTLIGHT 24 100Gecs The duo made a gloriously strange debut while living thousands of miles apart. 6 | Rolling Stone | January 2020 26 29 30 dé cuaRrs The Biggest Artists of 2019 How Post Malone finally dethroned Drake aa HER. The alt-R&B rising star talks blues, genre stereotypes, and life asa child prodigy. RS REPORTS. Jason Flom's Crusade Inside the Lava Records CEO's decades-long fight to release the wrongfully convicted from prison, National Affairs 35 Senate Sellout Why Lindsey Graham traded bipartisan respect for bind loyalty to Trump, RS REPORTS 40 The Viral Murder of Bianca Devins How a 17-year-old was betrayed by the very conline communities she sought solace from. Departments Letter From the Editor Correspondence Playlist Random Notes The Last Word 2 Reviews Music 83. Harry's Breakup Adventure Harry Styles embraces Seventies sounds on his outstanding new Fine Line ALBUM GUIDE a6 Neil Young The legend has followed his muse from folk to ctunge — and pretty much fverything in between, From Fleabag to Watchmen, these 10 shows vill be on our minds long after the year ends. Movies 90 The Year in Film Mobsters, litle women, and Korean class conflict filed the big screen in 2018. ‘The 10 best films, ranked, Books 92 Top Music Reads We look back on our favorite music books of 2019 — including titles by owns Srone writers David Browne and Brian Hiatt Plus, Elton John’s long awaited memoir, Me. On the Cover Elizabeth Warren photographed in Boston fon November 24th, 2019, by Peggy Sirota. HEAR) NUL Wale 4 MUSIC INTRODUCING AMAZON MUSIC HD FEATURING CAMILA CABELLO The highest quality streaming audio, with 50 million songs in HD and millions in Ultra HD, including the new album, "Romance. Get started at amazon.co: jusic! y y)) — A Ni? amazon music —7 PODCAST ‘Useful Idiots’: 2020 Is Here. Now What? Join hosts Matt Talbbi and Katie Halper for ongoing coverage of the presidential race and exclusive interviews with key players. 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The biggest argument ‘was over which album to crown number one: Beyoncé’s Lemonade or Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. In the end, Kanye’s 2010 masterwork was unde- niable. Throw it on today, and all the confounding things Kanye has done since then melt away. Like Brian Wilson’s most daring creation, Smile, Twisted Fantasy is a singular artistic vision that hints at the unraveling darkness to come, yet sounds even more mind-blowing now than the day it came out. Revisiting the music made us realize what a chaotic, transformative decade we're leaving behind. Streaming created a bounty of options for listeners and allowed musicians to be less beholden to record companies and radio. Even the biggest artists were free to chase their ambitions: Taylor Swift began the decade as a country star and ended it making pop that moved defiantly between genres; superstars Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Ariana Grande broke out of their roles as Top 40 queens to make grand personal statements on landmark albums. Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize for the explosive, lyrically challenging Damn., yet still reigned as a rap god who headlined halftime shows. Music got more introspective (Drake's hugely influential Take Care), more political (Beyoncé’s “Formation” and Chance the Rappers Coloring Book), and more lyrically adventurous a la our favorite country song of the decade, Kacey Musgraves’ feminist, queer-friendly “Follow Your Arrow.” Global artists — from. Latin hitmakers like J Balvin and Bad Bunny to a truth-telling teenage rebel from New Zealand named Lorde — moved from the margins to the pop charts. And beyond the pop charts, a new generation of female artists including Soc- cer Mommy, Snail Mail, Margo Price, and Lucy Dacus defined the sound of now. “The 2010s was a decade where there was less consensus and artists pushed the boundaries of music,” says reviews editor Jon Dolan, who compiled the Best Albums and Best Songs of the Decade features. “It was an amazing decade. The boundaries between genres melted faster than ever, the pop landscape became more global, and huge stars took artistic risks that would've been unthinkable 10 years ago.” JASON FINE EDITOR 12 | Rolling Stone | January 2020 | eee GOTAKOT NEWSTIP? WE WANT TOHEARIT. Email us, confidentially, at Tips@ RollingStone Yar at @ Kurdish gravesite in Syria INSIDE THE STORY The Betrayal of the Kurds ‘On the ground in Syria, witnessing catastrophe and the effects of Trump WHEN JASON MOTLAGH AND CENGIZ YAR centered Syria on October 20th, after President ‘Trump pulled troops from the region, they witnessed the human cost of the decision, “it was brutal to see such carnage wrought by the whims of one man” says Motlagh. Both Motlagh and Yar have built careers document: ing hostile regions. Yet even for them, the trip, ‘came with grave risk "We were downrange of Turkish guns," says Motlagh. "Extremist militias and ISIS sleeper cells were on the loose” De. spite the chaos, Yar captured the turmoil of life (on the ground with his photos. “The Kurds have ‘endured incredible sutfering,” says Motlagh, “and they've always been gracious to me: RS REPORTS: Inside the Murder of a Teenage Girl by an “incel orbiter who posted the photo on Instagram — was largely incorrect. She had been in many ways: atypical teenage git: Shed dyed her hair, enjoyed concerts, spent hours on social media, and talked to other disaffected teens on the gamer app Discord. “This ‘wasn't a story about Gen Z social media fame gone awry.” says Dickson. “i's about a smart, talented, very sad girl whoid found some semblance of comfort in the online communities shetd built for herself, and the tragedy was that someone from one of these communities killed her” ‘ON JULY 14TH, 17-year: ‘ld Bianca Devins was murdered and @ photo of her mutilated body went viral on the internet. When culture: writer EJ Dickson began to investigate the tragedy ("The Viral Murder of Bianca Devins," page 40), she learned that the early reporting — which stated that Devine was ‘an influencer murdered