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Throughout his career, Prince surrounded himself with other musicians that he supported, mentored, and studied. Early on, he was writing so much music that he recruited or assembled other acts to play his songs—The Time, Sheila E., Vanity 6. The “Minneapolis scene” of the ‘80s, his engineer Susan Rogers once said, was really “one guy who created his own competition in order to be a scene.” But after his superstardom was secured, Prince continued to reach out to young musicians and bring them into his orbit, and—on the fifth anniversary of his death—those artists are still abs...

Apple The first time I saw Billie Eilish, it was at the Governor’s Ball Festival in New York City in June 2018. She was sixteen years old. She played in the middle of the afternoon at one of the side stages. Her debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? wouldn’t be out for another nine months, but it was very clear what was happening. The tent was packed, overflowing, but you could still see girls sprinting to push their way inside. They knew every word to the singles Eilish had released on SoundCloud and on her EP

Elaine Chung You’ve probably seen it as a meme, or on a t-shirt: “Ever since David Bowie died, shit’s been weird.” This week marks five years since Bowie left us, and it’s hard to dispute that it seemed to start a global decline. His passing on January 10, 2016 kicked off the year of Donald Trump’s election and the Brexit vote. In April Prince died suddenly and tragically. It felt like we were living in a world that no longer had room for this kind of visionary, ground-breaking artist. Not much since has offered evidence to the contrary.

Elaine Chung In 1970, Paul McCartney was in crisis. The Beatles were falling apart. Who was he without his bandmates and what kind of music would he make? He banged out a bunch of songs in isolation, playing all the instruments himself and recording on basic equipment, and released the results under the title McCartney. In 1980, Paul McCartney was in crisis. He had just broken up his band, Wings, after he got busted in Japan for marijuana possession and spent nine days in jail. Now what was he supposed to do? He dug up some home recordings he had made the previous summer—experimental sket...