Motown

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As young Michael, the empathetic Juliano Valdi makes us feel the loneliness of a boy in a Motown Records recording booth facing grown-up pressures to excel.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Forward-thinking enough to reinvent the guitar-bass-drums palette for the EDM boom; yet stark and lovelorn enough to pass for Motown in another era.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026

"There's a there's a thing I miss in in pop music today, which is that kind of Motown feeling, that classic feeling, that analogue feeling," she told me last year.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

Yet Moy receives scant mention in the many books on Motown history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

The Motor City, which hasn’t been dubbed Motown yet, becomes for a time the “Arsenal of Democracy.”

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides