Tag: pop music
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The documentarian nature of my writing of the past few years, an intentional practice I started in order to reorganize my entire process around the mundane facts of my second, perhaps third, chance at life, has begun to bear fruit. I still don’t see the big picture but I was nudged yet again by the…
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“Elizabeth Taylor” is the second track on Taylor Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl” record. It’s probably my fifth favorite on the album, partly because it feels a bit more generic pop than most Taylor Swift tracks of recent years. Even while I feel like all this high-gloss and the highly referential nature of this…
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“The Fate of Ophelia” is both the first track and first single released from Taylor Swift’s album Life of a Showgirl. The music video itself deserves its own deep dive, but for today, we’ll focus on the track itself. Widely considered the “earworm” of the record – although I’d say track three “Opalite” fits that…
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Yes, I love Taylor Swift. She is one of my absolute heroes. If you have a problem with it, well, I can’t help you… Quotes from the book Rob Sheffield on His First Impressions of Her 1989 Album: “The songs were great—they were Swift songs—but each one made it harder to comprehend why she was…
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A Deep Dive into a Modern Pop Masterpiece Sabrina Carpenter’s latest single “Manchild” might just be one of the most brilliant pop songs of the 2020s. Beyond its catchy beat and sassy lyrics, the track doubles as sharp social commentary, and its music video unfolds as a pastiche of classic film moments that enrich the…