MONTERO marks Lil Nas x’s ascension as the new king of pop
Welcome to the new pop era. Just like the generation piloting it, this era is young, exciting, and queer. That’s why Lil Nas x is at the forefront.
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The top-10 singles of a very young 2021
I think a list of what you should be listening to is a great use of your time this weekend. 2021 is shaping up to be another good year for music, so let’s highlight a top 10 of the year so far
Nomadland rejects the hipster dream of van-life
Van-life is the latest trend of young adults partaking in a trendy form of houselessness by converting a van or short bus into a posh living space. Nomadland, however, ignores these hobbyists to focus instead, on the vast majority of houseless people
How to celebrate Chinese New Year or make Super Bowl ads without being offensive
Chinese New Year is one of the most important holidays on the Chinese calendar to not only the country itself, but the millions of Chinese diaspora around the world. So when a holiday this important comes around, we have to be careful not to botch it.
Redditor investors and Promising Young Woman make for a very bad week for toxic masculinity
If you’re interested in the specifics of the stock market, just walk out of your home until you run into the nearest white man and he would be ecstatic to explain it in excruciating detail. Without a hint of irony, the basics of this process here
Defining authoritarianism in the wake of a coup
As embarrassing and infuriating as the storm on the Capitol was, it didn’t exist in a vacuum and it wasn’t spontaneous. “News” outlets like Fox and Breitbart stroked the flames of January 6th’s terror attack under the guise of stopping an oppressive government. The problem with this messaging isn’t that it downplays the risks of authoritarianism, but that it doesn’t know what authoritarianism really looks like. To mitigate that, here are three sources of media to better acquaint yourself with the concept
Taylor Swift’s Evermore Review
Taylor Swift released her sister album to Folklore, but the constant refrain throughout these sister albums, however, is that they don’t enjoy the same commercial success as their predecessors despite their caliber
The Crown Season 4 – Where Brits take a backseat to their oppressors
After you get past the brilliant cast of characters playing people far uglier than them and the Hans Zimmer intro music, you’re left with the shell of a show that sought out to explore the personal feelings of a family whose internal workings were as rotten as the medieval structures that prop them up
Taylor Swift’s Folklore Review
Queer coding, soft sounds, and all the trappings of cottagecore from Taylor Swift’s folklore
Performative Wokeness on the rise
With any struggle against an oppressive system, when a movement becomes so loud that it can no longer be ignored, the institution in power will try to pacify the protesters with symbolic concessions rather than real change