Music
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Read time: Approximately 17 minutes If you’ve ever been invited to a dinner party at a friend’s house, I know you brought a bottle of wine. Why would I know that? You’ve never told me about your friends and why should I know anything about your purchases? It’s because bringing a gift for a host Read more
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A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (although I may have been in Midtown Manhattan at the time), I logged in to a pre-sale queue for tickets to see Kacey Musgraves on her Deeper Well tour. I’d seen Kacey twice before: once at the legendary Apollo Theater (nosebleed seats) and another Read more
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Hot take: Meghan Trainor should be more famous than she is. Hear me out. Over the course of about a decade and six studio albums, Meghan Trainor has promoted a necessary – even urgent, given the ongoing assault on a woman’s right to agency in the United States – narrative of female empowerment, all while Read more
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All of us knew we were in for a new era when Taylor Swift walked into the GRAMMYs ceremony earlier this year. Donning a cleansing white gown with long black gloves, she was elegant and severe. Little clues like a swapped profile photo on IG, now in greyscale and now the visual manifestation of longing, Read more
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When GUTS was first released in 2023, I remember thinking, “This is the album of the year.” I hadn’t heard anything so lyrically tight in a long time, and I loved the cross-genre appeal of the entire record. So when the GRAMMY nominations came out and Olivia Rodrigo snagged a bunch, including one for Album Read more
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Why do we do what we do? The “hierarchy of needs” theory articulates the levers of human motivation. Moving from the pyramid base upward, they change from deficiency needs (a means to an end) to growth ones (psychological in nature). Self-actualization – achieving one’s full potential – is at the top. Though self-actualization may be Read more
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