Category: Opinion
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Smells Like Charlie: A Taste of Smells Like Me by Charlie Puth
Written by Simon Gonzalez. Illustration courtesey of Grace McGlynn. Yes, if I must be honest, the tragedy of modern pop songs being glanced at like a dead rodent lying on the street: with dismissal and pity, is quite reasonable. Said type of music might even fit into the category of useless, and I frankly recognize…
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Why Carly Rae Jepsen was the Pop Princess we Needed in the 2010s, but Didn’t Deserve.
Written by Flora Cerabino-Hess. Illustration courtesy of Fon Leigh. If you’ve never looked further than the sexy hunk of man meat in Carly Rae Jepsen’s 2012 hit music video “Call Me Maybe,” then you’re missing out. Now that we have distanced ourselves from the overplayed, overproduced pop of the 2010s, we must give credit to…
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Adam and the Metal Hawks: A Crash Course in Crowd Pleasing
In most cases, the opening band has one primary objective: to warm up the crowd. In the case of Adam and the Metal Hawks (aka AMH), who opened for Bret Michaels at the BergenPAC in Englewood, the crowd wasn’t just warm, they were fired up. As for myself, not only was I hot and bothered…
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Review: Barbie Round Two
Perhaps one of the most anticipated films of the year and a soundtrack that I couldn’t stop listening to, Barbie was even better the second time around at the Savannah Film Fest. The Barbie Movie had big enough hype to take over the world and, in a way, it did. From a massive marketing budget…
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To Mother or Not To Mother… That Is the Question
Mother is a term coined by the internet to describe any iconic female individual. This use of the word stemmed from, like almost all “online slang”, POC within ballroom and drag culture. The term ‘Mother’ was used often as an exclamation, a sound of praise towards a feminine individual who had the ability to look…
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So Much (For) Stardust Review
Written by Jalen Smith So Much For A Grand Return. As the album begins, it kicks things off with good instrumentation, keying you into a good headspace for the overall sound. “Love From The Other Side” is a good tease and decent opener to the best tracks of the album. However, with the exception of…