Music
Streaming Isn’t Music’s Magic Bullet
Independent artists are reckoning with what it means to work on their own terms in an industry that’s increasingly led by a small number of billion-dollar data and tech companies.
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Does Taylor Swift Have to Be Queer for “folklore” to be a Lesbian Album?
Longing is, after all, queer.
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On “Bad Vacation,” Liza Anne Finds Community in Vulnerability
“I feel like everything is just paused and repeated in this expansive yet really calming state of learning to love and to be loved.”
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Haim’s “Women in Music Pt. III” Gets a Little Darker
Haim is pressing pause on their sunshine-y, Fleetwood Mac aesthetic.
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Smoke Signal: Building the Past, the Present, and the Afrofuture
Today’s Afrofuturist art blurs the lines between present and future, fact and fiction, and fantasy and reality.
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Cultural Disruptors: City Girls Flip Misguided Stereotypes into Their Superpower
City on Lock is their ethos at its finest—taking the stereotypes stacked against them as bold, Black women who demand good sex and long money, and flipping them into their super power.
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Sound Out: Coming Home to Lavender Country
Queer country artists have been making their voices known for decades.
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Petty, Egotistical Barbs Overshadow J. Cole’s Important Message
Holding people, including Black celebrities accountable for their inaction or misguided action, isn’t an attack or an attempt to create undue separation between Black men and Black women.
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Greater Expectations: Through Music, Dua Saleh Nurtures Personal and Political Identity
“My brain was manufacturing new language because I was refusing to be seen as a woman.”
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More Than Stans: Stop Dismissing the K-pop Fandom’s Political Power
Anyone who’s paying attention to how K-pop stans use social media aren’t surprised that they’ve mobilized on behalf of a larger social movement.
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