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It’s an interesting exercise to see yourself as others see you. And one of the easiest ways in which to do that? Look at what they tag you in on Facebook. As far as my 905 Facebook friends are concerned, the most logical things to tag me in are: Buzzfeed listicles aimed at people who […]
Read MoreThis review originally appeared on The Arts Desk. Back in the early 2000s, it was rumoured that Ryan Adams had covered Is This It by The Strokes in its entirety. According to my extensive cataloguing of the career of Americana’s enfant terrible, only “Last Nite” ever surfaced (I have a live version, which opens with […]
Read MoreThis review originally appeared on The Arts Desk. While most contemporary entertainers rely on a little of the old smoke and mirrors, no pop culture phenomenon requires the same suspension of disbelief as the 21st-century pop concert. When you pay your money, it is with the understanding that, while everything you see may be staged, […]
Read MoreDespite releases this year by the men whose works are tattooed on my heart (or wrist, in the case of Ryan Adams; and back, for The Hold Steady), practically all of my favourite albums have been by women. Whether Laura Jane Grace’s no-bullshit, this-is-who-I-am fire on Against Me!’s Transgender Dysphoria Blues; EMA or St Vincent, […]
Read MoreThis review originally appeared on The Arts Desk. There’s a “foreword” which accompanies the new Taylor Swift album – because it’s not enough for the one-time Nashville starlet gone full New York pop star merely to create physical objects for the digital age: she also has to give them forewords – which says that these […]
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