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Album Reviews
An In-Depth Look at Taylor Swift’s “Reputation”
As many of you know, I have been a huge Taylor Swift fan for the past 11 years – starting when I was just 12 years old. I have seen Taylor Swift perform seven times and will be seeing her for the eighth time at B96’s Jingle Bash on December 7. I was lucky enough […]
MoreMelodrama: Review
45 months is a long time for an artist to disappear in between their album cycles. It took 45 months (or approximately 1325 days) for Lorde to return to the world, to grace our presence with the release of her second album, Melodrama, following the massively successful debut of Pure Heroine. Any artist taking that long of a break […]
MoreGONE NOW: Review
There are albums that you enjoy, that you listen to multiple times immediately after they are released and encourage your friends to listen to. There are albums created by musicians that you’ll support on tour and see the live show, you’ll post a tweet or a boomerang of the show and that’ll be that. But […]
MoreHarry Styles: Review
September 20, 2010 was an important day for pop culture – even if you don’t know it. Just over 7.5 years ago, Harry Styles – previously known as one fifth of the massively successful, brilliantly devised boy band otherwise known as One Direction – auditioned for the British television show The X Factor. At just sixteen years old, […]
MoreJoanne: Review
Lady Gaga seems to spend her off seasons reinventing herself. It’s her time to take on side projects and activism roles while quietly calculating her next personality switcheroo. Although the success of her debut album, “The Fame,” received positive reviews for club anthems like “Just Dance” and “PokerFace,” fans and critics alike were still left wondering who […]
MoreI like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it: Review
Whenever a band with a successful debut album releases their sophomore LP, they’re taking a risk. The risk that they are potentially releasing a second version of their debut: similar vibe, title, and aesthetic, or the risk that comes with completely changing their sound. What if the new sound turns off fans of the initial release? […]
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