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Listening Party: Brat, Charli xcx
I donβt usually tell people I like anything popular. Itβs not rebellionβitβs instinct. But I love popstars. Not pop music, necessarily, but the machinery of it. The myth-making. The kind of woman who enters the room like she invented the door. Reality TV is full of them: women whose every gesture is curated, every meltdown β read more
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Retake: Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass, Lana del Rey
Notice itβs another year where spring is over and summer has a way of making an entrance. And here I am, on my bed, listening to Lana Del Rey when I should be rereading Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass. I say βshouldβ not because the poems require discipline or rigor, but because they seem β read more
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FYR, 2024: Carpenter vs. Cabello
For Your Repertoire presents — I wouldnβt call Cabello vs. Carpenter the most groundbreaking moment in pop music this decadeβnot in terms of innovation, genre-pushing production, or showstopping performance. But as a cultural event? It’s textbook pop spectacle. And letβs be honest: nothing fuels modern fandom like a clean, media-coded catfight. If this saga had β read more
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Listening Party: The Family Jewels by Marina and the Diamonds
I remember confusing Marina and the Diamonds with Marina AbramoviΔ. An easy mistake to make if you’re twenty, half-jaded, and just beginning to think that pop music might be smarter than you’d been led to believe. I thought Lady Gaga was referencing her with the artifice, the glamour, the grandiosity. But it wasn’t her. It β read more
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