The Peculiarity of 'Evermore': Taylor Swift Releases Companion to Six-Time Grammy Nominated 'Folklore'
There is certainly something peculiar about Taylor Swift’s ninth studio album evermore. Maybe it is the way that she announced its release, a mere five months after its predecessor folklore which revolutionized Swift’s appeal in the alternative community and garnered six Grammy nominations.
My Husband's Girlfriend's Husband: The Chicks Bare All In Empowering Return
The Chicks (Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer, and Martie Maguire) are midday drives with my parents, legs swinging from a carseat and cloudy skies. They are the seashells reverberating off of standup speakers in the living room of my Aunt, Thanksgivings on the beach and learning harmonies.
Phoebe Bridgers Awaits Spaceship Home in Second LP "Punisher"
“I’ll find a new place to be from/ A haunted house with a picket fence.”
Exploring themes from existential philosophy to extraterrestrial existence, Phoebe Bridgers concludes her second masterpiece, Punisher, with the fittingly named track, “I Know the End.” Her repeated understanding of someone’s necessary departure is melancholy, soft, almost fragile.
Seahaven Makes Waves With Long-Awaited Return, "Halo of Hurt"
“So it goes/ Simply is as it always was, and always will seem to go.”
Kyle Soto, frontman of Seahaven, whispers these lyrics amidst a slow-ache overture. While the band who grew to prominence with their 2011 debut LP Winter Forever needs no introduction, “Void” signals a new beginning for the Torrance-bred foursome. The track enters with an electronic minor melody, ringing out while samples of ocean waves and seagulls crescendo.
The Old Taylor Is Alive: Swift Releases Storytelling Masterpiece With "folklore"
Taylor Swift is a poet.
The evidence dates to a contest held by Creative Communication in 2000. “A Monster in My Closet”, Swift’s fifth grade piece, won its category. Her storytelling was notable at the age of twelve, her first original song “Lucky You”, boasting the details of a girl named Lucky who holds a rabbit foot in her pocket and dances “...in spite of the fact that she’s different/ and yet she’s the same.”
From Condescending Guitar Center Encounters to Grief: HAIM's "Women In Music Pt. III" Tackles It All
“Man from the music shop, I drove too far/ For you to hand me that starter guitar.”
With Joni Mitchell-inspired acoustic chords and simplistic vocals, HAIM targets perhaps the most oppressive force against female musicians with their track, “Man from the Magazine”: the bushy-bearded condescension of male Guitar Center workers.
