The Glam Soul Era Is Here

When RAYE performed “Joy” on national television earlier this year, she brought a gospel choir with her and stood center stage in a beaded column dress and threw her head back and sang like she meant every word of it — because she did. The audience wept. It was the kind of moment that doesn’t get manufactured, the kind that makes you realize something has been quietly building for a while.A new wave of artists — mostly British, mostly women, all of them carrying voices that cou