Everyone is talking about Geese.
On Sept. 26, the rock band released their third studio album to critical acclaim and played a mobbed surprise show in Brooklyn the following day. They performed on...
Two summers ago, I interned at a music company in their communications department. I loved it for a lot of reasons — one being the wall decor, which consisted of pictures, record covers and merchandise...
Albums are more interesting when listened to as the original release, without the changes and additions following its drop. Records are forever preserved in this form. They exist just as they were created. Finding a record in its original form on a streaming service today feels difficult, as if artists no longer feel the original album will satisfy their fans.
A shift is occurring not just in the Kennedy Center, but in the way our politicians interact with art and culture at large. Already, we can see the ways in which conservative media — mainly through podcasts and sports — have influenced swaths of young adults.
The Grammys are still recovering from years of controversy, chief among them their seeming inability to recognize the diverse range of artists that dominate the popular music scene. Beyonce, one of the central figures in the popular music scene for over a decade, has been overlooked in this category time and time again, which perfectly encapsulates these issues.
Attempts at progress seem more like self-serving symbolic recognition rather than an actual understanding of contemporary cultural conversation. Maybe that’s why “Challengers” was snubbed — it found larger recognition amongst those younger crowds, people whose opinion the Academy may not want to be aligned with.
As an article from the New York Times notes, there are certain rules that entertainment lawyers play by. They follow a pretty common playbook: deflect, cover or cower, most often behind carefully worded statements or tabloid stories. But the legal team of Sean Combs — the music producer also known as Diddy — has taken a new approach to protecting their disgraced star: They’re defending him on TikTok.
When criticism is forced into being praise, we lose both those guiding voices and the determination to do better, be better and find music that fits our sound.
Social media — for all its faults — provides us with a forum to expel those fears and to find community in people who deal with uncertainty like we do. It’s also a glimpse into our possible future.
Even with the press, the prime-time advertisements and the slew of high-profile articles, those who need weight loss medication simply cannot get it, and it does not seem like that’s going to change.
At a certain point, the lines begin to blur — are the SNL writers just making bad jokes, or are they so blinded by conventional attractiveness that they’ve been rendered comically stupid?
