Country music has produced some big stars over the years who’ve gone on to enjoy major success: Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson are just a couple of examples. But while those figures have dominated the spotlight, a whole group of unsung artists have also been contributing to the genre for decades. And it’s time they got their due! So grab your cowboy hats and rhinestones: we’re about to run down the 20 most underrated country stars to ever take to the microphone.

At the end of each year, our socials are filled with everybody and their mom dropping their "Spotify Wrapped" lists. Maybe you’re in the top 0.005 percent of Taylor Swift fans, or perhaps you’ve streamed 25,000 minutes of Call Her Daddy. Whatever the case, these in-depth stats reveal what your taste in music in 2023 says about you. But while each list is incredibly personal, Spotify has also dropped the top tracks, artists, albums, and podcasts globally. The results tell us everything we need to know about 2023 in pop culture.

Shirley Chisholm is a name you ought to know: she was a groundbreaking politician and the first Black woman to run for president. Her campaign was unsuccessful in the end, but that didn’t stop her efforts from changing lives. And now Netflix has released a movie about her, Shirley, starring Regina King. Here we take a deep dive into it and see how well it succeeds in portraying its subject.

Frank Herbert’s Dune books and the movie adaptations they inspired are filled with out-there technology and esoteric ideas about the potential of human consciousness. But how many of the author’s ideas bear any relation to reality? Is it possible that we could develop gizmos like stillsuits, ornithopters, and personal forcefield shields, and, if so, how far away are we from seeing them? We’ll look at these and more of Herbert’s ideas to see if our real-life technological progress is taking us any closer to the world of Dune.