Taylor’s version: a story of industry ownership and creative growth
Last week Taylor Swift announced the first stage of her re-recording of her catalogue following the 2019 sale of her masters to Scooter Braun. In a highly anticipated post on…
Armie Hammer – a cannibal?
Armand Douglas Hammer, also known by Armie, actor, both of the Winklevoss twins, and grandson of an oil tycoon; has been denounced as a cannibal. He has received backlash for…
Albums of the Year: HAIM and Taylor Swift
HAIM: Women in Music Pt. iii The album has a playfulness and whip precision intricacy that all makes sense once you know that former Vampire Weekend band member Rostam Batmanglij…
Felicity: A Show That Shaped Me
Upon returning from reading week, I found my flatmate had spontaneously cut her hair short. This sent me spiralling down a Felicity rabbit hole. The show that possessed, inhabited and…
Leap Year: A Love/Hate Classic?
Leap Year (2010) is categorically a bad film. I do not deny this. That said, I have a lot of thoughts about it that confuse me. I came grovelling back to…
Lady Gaga is back with ‘Stupid Love’
Four stars. Stupid love. For Gaga fans, endearingly known as Little Monsters, around the world, these two words have dominated their lives the past week. Fans of Lady Gaga have…
Albums of the Year 2019: Dedicated – Carly Rae Jepsen
Pining, yearning, vulnerability, oh my! Carly’s fourth album presents a woman in love with love, a boy’s obsessed devotion to capturing the imagery and high flung emotional flip flopping of…
Albums of the Year 2019: Father of the Bride – Vampire Weekend
When Lorde said “please could you be tender” in her song ‘Hard Feelings’, Ezra Koenig and the Chris’ said yes Ella we can, and then they went and made this…
