I always self describes as “excitable.” I love a movement, or a moment, or a collective sense of enthusiasm. It has been harder and harder to find things that we can all celebrate and enjoy instead of debating, fighting or hating each other over. Harry Styles brings that sense of levity. We belong together. HisContinue reading “Harry Styles – Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally”
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Song of 2025: Alison Goldfrapp – Sound & Light
What do you want? What do you really need? Okay forget that… what would make you feel good right now in this moment no matter what? Sound & Light. This year feels like a series finale that should have come three seasons back. Everything came to such a pressure point that it felt like aContinue reading “Song of 2025: Alison Goldfrapp – Sound & Light”
Madonna – What It Feels Like For A Girl
On the brink of pride month in what feels like the most regressive time for LGBTQIA+ rights in the 21st century, it seems appropriate to get even. This song focuses on the archaic expectations of women in modern society. Stay soft, quiet, pretty and obedient. But you still have to bring in a salary, climbContinue reading “Madonna – What It Feels Like For A Girl”
Lykke Li – I Never Learn
I Never Learn This tattoo-worthy sequence of three words is seared in my brain. I think about it often while driving, working, exercising etc.. The level of self-assessment by someone who has fought through the same shit as me is jarring. There’s a stormOnly love remains “Why am I like this?” I’ve asked myself. IContinue reading “Lykke Li – I Never Learn”
It’s Rameses
“I like your friends, Aaron, but I don’t know what Rameses thinks about me. I’m kind of scared of him.” Said the boy I was dating years ago. “You’re right to be.” I said in response. I was introduced to Rameses through our mutual friend Steve, who has somewhere between 75 and 124 close friends.Continue reading “It’s Rameses”
David Bowie – Heroes
We really thought we had it, didn’t we? There were palpable collective cultural triumphs in 2024, but it seems like a lot of us fell face first into an unimaginable sense of loss in the last few months of the year. I’ve been ruminating on this song for most of 2024, but it recently slidContinue reading “David Bowie – Heroes”
AG Cook/Charli XCX – Lucifer
Kicking around my head since its release, this song has remained on repeat throughout this year. It preceded BRAT summer and all that Charli would accomplish as a newly mainstream artist, but grabbed my attention moreso than any individual track in the BRAT universe. Being that AG Cook is her most frequent collaborator, it’s justContinue reading “AG Cook/Charli XCX – Lucifer”
So Clear – Miya Folick
I feel really lucky to have stumbled across this track. It will be a staple as I move through difficult times, having trouble trusting myself to pull through and not sink into an unrecognizable version of myself who’s incapable of feeling any normalcy. I see messed up things happening to everyone close to me nowContinue reading “So Clear – Miya Folick”
Sun Bleached Flies – Ethel Cain
This will be my most streamed song of the year. There aren’t days that I don’t listen to it, and I rarely do so without repeating it several times. The ethereal composition of this specific storyline makes it feel oddly familiar. Each line has me leaning in closer, looking for the bits that feel trueContinue reading “Sun Bleached Flies – Ethel Cain”
Charli XCX – Von Dutch
Never try to be a ‘cult classic.’ It entails a pattern of delayed gratification and underappreciation until the point that you stop counting likes/votes/follows before they ever come. Charli XCX knows this all too well, being largely ignored by the mainstream until she literally punched us in the face to get our attention in theContinue reading “Charli XCX – Von Dutch”
I'm Just Gonna Dance All Night 