Music
BitchTapes: Soundtracks from Fantasy Films
In this BitchTape, Rekha Shanker takes us on a fantastical journey, shining a light on soundtrack-born songs that help us suspend disbelief.
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Making Fetch Happen: Fiona Apple’s New Album Is a Story of Resilience and Rebirth
Apple’s latest release is a refusal to relinquish control of her own story.
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Dr. Luke is Overshadowing a Woman’s Accomplishment. Again.
Though Dr. Luke should be a pariah in the music industry, he’s instead credited as one of the producers on “Say So.”
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Black Barbie in Bulgari: Revisiting Hip Hop’s Ghetto Fabulous Era
Though ghetto fabulousness doesn’t quite look the same as it did in 1997, its influence lives on.
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Our Response to Adele’s Weight Loss Says More about Us Than Her
The body-positive movement limits its scope to individual people’s always evolving bodies rather than the systems that turn weight loss into headline-making news.
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Channeling Confidence: mxmtoon Sings for Queer Teens—and for Herself
“I have this platform where I can see my own audience reacting to who I am and feeling safe to express who they are as well.”
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Mixtape to My Heart: Music as a Function of Vietnamese Memory
Music needs minds and media to carry it, but it doesn’t need bags. Music can’t sink boats.
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Truth Hurts: Fat, Black, and Too Good to Cancel
In every industry Black women have to work four times as hard for less than half the credit.
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Taking the High Road: Kesha’s Music Creates a Path of Healing for Survivors
You do not have to be defined by something that was done to you.
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