Harper's Bazaar June/July 2023

This is our Freedom issue, and our cover star, the Brazilian pop star Anitta, is someone who has fought for it her entire life. After coming up in the favelas of Rio, Anitta—captured brilliantly by photographer Emmanuel Sanchez Monsalve—is now an international sensation. But she speaks her mind and unapologetically brings the entirety of who she is to everything she does. She has gone on to create her own singular vision of success: one that gives her the choice to be exactly who she is. Women like Anitta are showing us that we no longer need to conform to old norms about how to look or dress in order to be taken seriously, that you can own your own sexuality and also be an ambitious businesswoman—that there is room for…

FEATURED TRACKS 1. “MOST OF THE TIME” Bob Dylan 2. “BACKS TURNED LOOKING DOWN THE PATH” Warren Zevon 3. “EVERYBODY LOVES THE SUNSHINE” Roy Ayers Ubiquity 4. “U.F.O.” Jim Sullivan 5. “I WISH I KNEW HOW IT WOULD FEEL TO BE FREE” Nina Simone 6. “CRUISIN’ ” Smokey Robinson 7. “NAMASTE” Beastie Boys 8. “SEABIRD” Alessi Brothers 9. “I MUST BE IN A GOOD PLACE NOW” Bobby Charles 10. “NOBODY’S GIRL” Bonnie Raitt 11. “I AM THE COSMOS” Chris Bell 12. “RUNAWAY MAN” Dion 13. “SILVER RAVEN” Gene Clark 14. “LET HIM ROLL” Guy Clark 15. “MOVE ON UP” Curtis Mayfield 16. “OUT HERE ON YOUR WORD” Johnnie Frierson 17. “FREEDOM DEATH DANCE” Eugene McDaniels 18. “IT’S SO NICE TO GET STONED” Ted Lucas 19. “FREE” Cat Power Listen to Jenny Lewis’s…

1 LISTEN TO PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE Out June 9, the fourth album from French singer and songwriter Christine and the Queens is an operatic 20-track meditation on love and transformation inspired by the dramaturgy of Tony Kushner’s play Angels in America. It includes the synth-pop single “To Be Honest,” about navigating feelings of detachment from his past. 2 CATCH A BRAND-NEW BALLET This summer, the American Ballet Theatre will present the New York premiere of Like Water for Chocolate at the Metropolitan Opera House. The new ballet, based on the 1989 novel by Mexican writer Laura Esquivel, follows a woman named Tita who falls in love with her neighbor Pedro but is forbidden from being with him because of a long-standing family tradition. Choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, the performance…

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