Jade Read

There may not have been a more fitting place to make that promise than the Walt Disney Theater at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Inside a room named for the man who built an empire on storytelling, Rick Ross spent the next two hours telling one of his own.

Gracie Abrams has long been praised as one of pop's most vulnerable songwriters, but Daughter From Hell exposes the limits of that reputation. Across 17 tracks, she revisits heartbreak, guilt, loneliness and self-doubt without offering much growth or resolution. Many songs introduce compelling emotions but linger in the same space, leaving the album feeling repetitive instead of emotionally rewarding.

With the World Cup over and fans on the next plane home, the songs that linger in pubs, stadiums, and the major cities of America followed them home. Every World Cup sees countries claiming a song as their battle cry, singing it at the top of their lungs wherever they go.