Larisha Paul
Larisha Paul is a staff writer at Rolling Stone, covering pop music and its intersections with the entertainment industry. Her work runs from reported features to fast-turn news, reviews, and live coverage, and appears across multiple editions of the brand. Before joining Rolling Stone, she worked as a freelance culture writer, bringing a broad entertainment lens to her music reporting.
Pop music within the entertainment ecosystem
Paul’s core focus is how pop artists, songs, and scenes sit inside a wider entertainment ecosystem rather than in isolation. Author copy for the masthead explicitly frames her beat as pop music and its intersections with film, television, and the broader industry, and her archive reflects that mix. On the German edition of Rolling Stone, she has published more than 180 stories since 2025, spanning music news alongside coverage of film and series, reinforcing that cross‑medium perspective. Her positioning at the magazine places her at the centre of pop coverage while keeping her writing connected to the business, media, and screen worlds that shape how music reaches audiences.
Features and artist-focused storytelling
Features and profiles are a significant part of Paul’s output, with pieces that frame individual artists inside larger pop narratives. In a feature titled “PinkPantheress Is Building a Pop Empire,” she covers the rise of a contemporary pop figure as a project of scale and influence, rather than just a string of releases, signalling her interest in career arcs and cultural positioning.
She contributes to Rolling Stone’s “Artist You Need to Know” franchise, a format geared toward spotlighting emerging or ascendant artists and explaining why they matter in the current pop moment. Across these pieces she tends to anchor stories in the artist’s work and strategy - how they are building their catalogues, their public personas, and their relationships to fans - rather than in lifestyle detail.
Her coverage of Cara Delevingne’s single “Need It,” written over text with Fiona Apple, fits the same pattern: the headline centres the unconventional songwriting process and collaboration, underscoring her interest in creative mechanics and the way artists from other fields move into pop.
News coverage of releases and industry developments
Paul is a regular presence in Rolling Stone’s Music News section, where her byline sits on time-sensitive coverage of new songs, projects, and shifts around pop artists. Those stories track developments in real time - singles, announcements, and other moves that shape an artist’s current chapter - while staying grounded in the music itself. Her work also extends into regional editions such as Rolling Stone UK, Rolling Stone Canada, and Rolling Stone Philippines, where archives show her covering new releases tied to artists already established with the magazine, including former cover stars unveiling fresh material like the single “One Song Away From Crying”.
That spread across different editions suggests that her news stories are used to connect global audiences with the same pop narratives, keeping continuity between a major artist’s past coverage and their latest work.
Reviews, live coverage, and cross-format criticism
Beyond news and features, Paul contributes album reviews and live reviews, giving her a critical voice across studio recordings and performances.
Rolling Stone’s album review archive lists her bylines on recent records, placing her among the magazine’s evaluative voices on contemporary pop releases. The live reviews section similarly carries her reporting from shows, where she translates performance choices, crowd response, and staging decisions into coverage that feeds back into the larger narrative of an artist’s momentum. On the German edition, where her topics include both music and film and series, she extends that critical approach to screen projects, reflecting the same habit of treating music and adjacent media as part of a shared cultural field.
Taken together, these strands - features, news, reviews, and live reports - show a reporter who covers pop music as a connected system of recordings, performances, and media moments, rather than as isolated tracks.
With a background in freelance culture writing and a current role focused squarely on pop, Paul’s coverage is defined less by a narrow sub‑genre and more by her attention to how artists build stories across formats and markets. She is most active where pop music meets other entertainment platforms, and where new releases, profiles, and critical pieces can be read as different angles on the same narrative about an artist’s place in the industry.
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