Drop the Mic: A Review of the New 98 Degrees Single
By: Mar Curran I was innocently scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed the other day when something alarmed me, Internet. Headline after headline announced that 98 Degrees has released a new […]
Category Archives: Music
Queering the Hip Hop Tradition
By: H. Melt During my freshman year of college, my girlfriend at the time bluntly asked, “do you think you’re Black?” because I listened to hip hop. Some of my […]
The Greatest Love I Have Ever Known, Music
by: Lindsey Dietzler Music has the capacity to console us, to heal us, to inspire us. It invites us to listen, to dance, to explore ourselves, to watch, to participate. […]
A Clearly Confused Paglia: Examining Her Latest Critique of Popstars
by: Mariann Devlin Camille Paglia, in a piece for the Hollywood Reporter, slammed both Taylor Swift and Katy Perry for lacking the kind of gritty eroticism as their pop-music colleagues […]
Feminism For Everyone: A Response to Taylor Swift
by: Mariann Devlin “I’m not a feminist, but I believe in equality.” We’ve all heard those words before, by skeptics of feminism who are almost as frustrating to me as […]
Dear Madonna: When a Point Has to Be Made on the Back of a Thong, Something Is Wrong
by: Sophie Turton Overt displays of political protest can work well for those subjugated and discriminated, with something of great importance to say and the courage with which to say […]
Pop Punk Love: Sometimes Unrequited is Just Another Word For Creepy
by: Amanda Tague The “Boy meets girl, boy gets girl, and they live happily ever after. Or at least until the credits end or the next album comes out,” story […]
I Think I’m Starting to Hate Taylor Swift, and I Don’t Like It
by: Nico Lang I first became aware of the fact that Taylor Swift was a thing in 2008—because the internet (and almost every girl I knew) told me that I […]
Did the New OneRepublic Song Rip Off Florence + the Machine?
by: Nico Lang America, the dog days aren’t over after all. If you’re a big fan of the Florence + the Machine song on which this pun is based, you […]
Let’s Start a Body Revolution: A Response to Lady Gaga Fat Shaming
by: Kara Crawford At the end of September, Lady Gaga launched a campaign she is calling the “Body Revolution” in response to criticisms which she received for supposedly having “fattenedupandpiledonthepounds”. […]
