Category: Opinion
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My Top Video Game Soundtracks
As someone who makes games and is passionate about them, there’s not a lot of other majors or avenues that lead back to games, however music is definitely one of the big ones. Sound can make or break a game and soundtracks are very important to listener experience and overall fulfillment and enjoyment of the…
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How I Became Pitbull’s Target Audience: A Retrospect
By Piper Ruth Photo courtesy of Creative Commons I’m a 2003 baby. I was born in the era of embellished camo and fedoras being socially acceptable, but I grew up an onlooker of the 2000’s-2010’s party music scene. As I navigated elementary school, I wanted to know how to shuffle like LMFAO did in the…
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Is Taylor Swift Engaging in the Appropriation of LGBTQ+ Culture?
Taylor Swift has had a chameleon-like presence in pop since the outset of her fifteen year and counting music career. For Swift, each album cycle seems to mark a new era of her life, from her start in pop-infused country, to the synth-pop inspired 1989, and now the cottagecore aesthetic of her latest releases. It…
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Weezer Experiment: How to Lure An Art Student Into False Sense of Hope
3/13/2021 I began Weezer week a bit early so everything could be published on time and unfortunately that meant that I would be listening to Weezer while getting tattooed and getting my oil changed. I started with the blue album while walking to my first appointment. This album gave me 2016 summer camp nostalgia in…
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Weezer Experiment: Cher’s Thoughts on the Band Before Listening
I am Sheriff. It is March 3rd as I am writing this, and I am currently the Events Manager at SCAD Radio. For sake of anonymity, I will be referring to my peers and coworkers with code names. I am one of the lucky few who is pretty unfamiliar with Weezer. During Weezer week, I…
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Music Predictions for 2019
2018 is (thankfully) behind us, so it’s time to look forward to an exciting year for music. Before we take to social media in a few months to complain about how 2019 is the worst year we’ve had yet, let’s take a moment to highlight SCAD Radio’s bold predictions for the next 12 months. Childish…