Caryn Ganz
Pop music editor at The New York Times
Caryn Ganz (Pop music editor at The New York Times) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Bunky Becky Birthday Boy, It's a Beautiful Place (Water From Your Eyes album), Getting Killed (Geese album).
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
Bunky Becky Birthday Boy
Ganz praised Sleigh Bells' comeback album as a reminder that the band anticipated hyperpop.
“it was an amazing reminder of how they were predecessors to all the things that we love in the sort of experimental hyper-pop realm”
The Daily: Sunday Special: The Best Music of 2025 (Dec 14, 2025) · Listen from 43:17
It's a Beautiful Place (Water From Your Eyes album)
Ganz called Water From Your Eyes the most exciting Brooklyn band of the moment.
“To me, this is the exciting Brooklyn band at the moment”
The Daily: Sunday Special: The Best Music of 2025 (Dec 14, 2025) · Listen from 37:27
Getting Killed (Geese album)
Ganz argued Geese fail to successfully channel the 1960s and 1970s New York bands they draw on.
“To me, they're not doing it successfully. It just feels like a mishmash to me”
The Daily: Sunday Special: The Best Music of 2025 (Dec 14, 2025) · Listen from 34:35
The Life of a Showgirl
Ganz said The Life of a Showgirl left Swift both more popular and more openly criticized than ever.
“she is like the most popular person ever to walk the earth, but she's also being more criticized than she ever has been”
The Daily: Sunday Special: The Best Music of 2025 (Dec 14, 2025) · Listen from 19:16
Man's Best Friend (Sabrina Carpenter album)
Ganz argued Sabrina Carpenter's second big album was less successful because its shtick needed a new iteration.
“There is a bit of schtick to her music. And I think that it played off perfectly on the first record”
The Daily: Sunday Special: The Best Music of 2025 (Dec 14, 2025) · Listen from 14:35
Mayhem (Lady Gaga album)
Ganz said that after initially disliking Mayhem, seeing the tour made her view it as a reinvention, though still flawed.
“But overall, I really do see it as a sort of reinvention”
The Daily: Sunday Special: The Best Music of 2025 (Dec 14, 2025) · Listen from 7:57
Other remarks
Ganz said 2025 was a year of disappointment, with many anticipated records falling short.
“So to me, overall, there were a lot of records I was expecting to be great. They were a little lesser than I anticipated”
The Daily: Sunday Special: The Best Music of 2025 (Dec 14, 2025) · Listen from 1:55
Appearances
Sunday Special: The Best Music of 2025The Daily · Dec 14, 2025 · 56 min
Gilbert Cruz, Caryn Ganz and Lindsay Zoladz review the biggest and best music of 2025, from Bad Bunny and Taylor Swift to Geese, then play a music quiz.
Often appears with
- Gilbert Cruz · 1 shared episode
- Lindsay Zoladz · 1 shared episode