When you think of pop music that defined the 2000s and 2010s, it’s hard not to picture Katy Perry, dressed in candy-colored ...

A tour of the more surprising — and kind of anonymous — corners of the current Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

Jill Sobule, the singer and songwriter whose 1995 hit “I Kissed a Girl” was the rare pop song of that era to take an openly queer theme into the cultural mainstream, died Thursday. She was 66.