Ahlem Khattab is a freelance trilingual (Ar, En, Fr) multimedia journalist, a web designer and a web developer. In 2019, she founded Pop! Goes the Music, a bilingual webzine that aims to help people broaden their musical horizons and sheds light on the most fundamental part of what makes good music so powerful: the human experience.
In her career, she worked in Tunisia and mostly in France as a TV reporter/producer (France Télévisions), a writer (Les Inrockuptibles, Jeune Afrique), a translator (Elephant for Arte, Sparknews), a copywriter (Les Inrockuptibles), an editor (Sparknews), and more recently a radio host/producer (RTCI).
Ahlem has spent most of her life in Tunisia, where she was born. At 22, she moved to France to study at the Ecole de journalisme de Lille. She is currently based in Paris.
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March 12th, 2020: When Oh Wonder Electrified the Alhambra in Paris
In this “time capsule”, journalist Ahlem Khattab reminisces over the last concert she has ever attended, in March 2020: a show by the London-based duo Oh Wonder, in Paris. This piece is both a reflection on the effect of the loss of live music for a gig-lover and a review through the lens of the…
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Watch our third episode of “ChillChat”, with Easha
🇬🇧 ChillChat is a series of… chill chats with incredible artists. In this third episode, Pop! Goes the Music gets to know up-and-coming American singer-songwriter Easha, who went viral on TikTok and Instagram with her song Dying Is a Beautiful Thing to Do. The tune itself was inspired by… TikTok (talk about a full circle).…
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Hayley Williams fait rimer musique et thérapie dans “Flowers for Vases”
Après les pétales, les fleurs. Moins d’un an après la sortie de son premier album solo, “Petals for Amor”, la chanteuse de Paramore embrasse sa vulnérabilité et son passé plus que jamais dans ce nouveau disque, tout en délicatesse et mélancolie.
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How to Write a Heartbreak Song, a Recipe by Rhys Lewis
The British singer-songwriter is known for having a way with beautifully putting feelings (and heartache, especially) into words. So we asked him to come up with a recipe to make the perfect heartbreak song from scratch.
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Écrire la parfaite chanson de rupture en 7 étapes : une recette de Rhys Lewis
Il est connu pour son talent à mettre en mots les sentiments les plus douloureux, surtout quand il s’agit de maux du cœur. L’auteur-compositeur britannique vous propose sa première (et unique !) recette pour préparer une bonne chanson de rupture, en exclusivité pour Pop! Goes the Music.
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Comment TikTok a transformé “Ratatouille” en comédie musicale Broadway
D’une Ode à un rat… à un spectacle au casting impressionnant, diffusé en live stream ce 2 janvier 2021. Des TikTokeur.euse.s ont donné naissance à la première comédie musicale participative de l’histoire de Broadway.
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2020, l’année de l’escapade musicale de Taylor Swift
Alors que le monde s’est confiné cette année, l’autrice-compositrice américaine nous a fait voyager avec deux albums, sortis à près de quatre mois d’écart, purs produits 2020.
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Watch our second episode of “ChillChat”, with Rhys Lewis
🇬🇧 Video in English. Subtitles available in English and French. 🇫🇷 Vidéo en anglais. Sous-titres disponibles en anglais et en français.
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Watch the first episode of our new series “ChillChat”, with Reuben James
🇬🇧 Video in English. Subtitles available in English and French. 🇫🇷 Vidéo en anglais. Sous-titres disponibles en anglais et en français.
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The Making of “Slow Down”, the EP by Reuben James: “These were the best peaches I ever had”
The English pianist, singer and songwriter walks us through the stories behind each track on his second EP, including how he ended up eating peaches in the same studio Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole once recorded.
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