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Matt Dwyer
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Published in Cinemania

·2 days ago

Sex Education: Unlearning Unrealistic Expectations

The guys on this show don’t look like those on Riverdale. — Sex Education is the latest in a set of teen dramas that have overwhelmed television and streaming services in recent years. Set in motion by Twilight, the trend of big-box YA has come full circle now that Riverdale has delved into the supernatural (one word: cults). But it is not…

Netflix

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Sex Education: Unlearning Unrealistic Expectations
Sex Education: Unlearning Unrealistic Expectations
Netflix

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Published in Rainbow Salad

·2 days ago

Floodgates

A Poem — The harbor is carved like a glacier ran through it at low tide the wet mud flats glow pink under the fading sun light. A film over drudgery fishing nets and lobster traps beached like the sea creatures they were designed to catch. Houses perched on stilts their paint wearing…

Poetry

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Floodgates
Floodgates
Poetry

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Published in The Riff

·3 days ago

Taylor Swift’s Pop Reincarnation on Reputation

A look back at the marketing of Swift’s sixth album — I confess: even as an avid Swiftie when Taylor Swift released “Look What You Made Me Do,” I was disappointed. A three-year wait for this? The optimist I looked to in life, the singer of “Shake it Off” and “Clean,” had become so pessimistic. Swift released her first five albums…

Pop Culture

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Taylor Swift’s Pop Reincarnation on Reputation
Taylor Swift’s Pop Reincarnation on Reputation
Pop Culture

5 min read


Published in ILLUMINATION

·Mar 14

The Final Predator

A poem I try to find meaning in life in the billboards and flashing lights but they’re all just advertisements for a product that’s already mine. Keeping ourselves amused ‘til death the purpose of life is to make it make sense the cells alone survived before the first human ever took a breath…

Poetry On Medium

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The Final Predator
The Final Predator
Poetry On Medium

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Published in Modern Music Analysis

·Mar 1

Amidst the Chaos: Live by Sara Bareilles | Album Review

She’s not gonna write you a pop song. In a November 2019 show, Sara Bareilles achieved a dream she once thought impossible: headlining the Hollywood Bowl. A stop on her 2019 Amidst the Chaos Tour, Bareilles created an intimate experience indicative of the coffee-shop folk of her most recent studio…

Modern Music Analysis

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Amidst the Chaos: Live by Sara Bareilles | Album Review
Amidst the Chaos: Live by Sara Bareilles | Album Review
Modern Music Analysis

4 min read


Published in Perceive More!

·Feb 23

One Direction Is An Agent of the Patriarchy

They don’t really know what makes you beautiful Bubblegum pop made a strong comeback in the early 2010s after guitar sounds and emo pop-rock dominated the early 00s. Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream broke Michael Jackson’s record for the number of number one hits from a single album, and Meghan Trainor’s…

Celebrity

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One Direction Is An Agent of the Patriarchy
One Direction Is An Agent of the Patriarchy
Celebrity

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Published in Rock n’ Heavy

·Feb 22

Why “ME!”?

An analysis of Taylor Swift’s lead singles — Taylor Swift tends to shock people with her lead singles. Not that Taylor Swift can do anything truly shocking, besides be interrupted by Kanye West, or canceled by Kim Kardashian. But the lyric, “Hey kids! Spelling is fun!” in “ME!” (featuring Brandon Urie), the lead single for her seventh album…

Taylor Swift

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Why “ME!”?
Why “ME!”?
Taylor Swift

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Published in The Riff

·Feb 22

Carly Rae Jepsen: a One-Hit Wonder By Design

We’ll always be calling her back. — Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” dominated radio waves in the summer of 2012. It asserted the relevance of bubblegum pop in a culture about to abandon it for alternative pop that would start with Lana Del Rey in 2012 and culminate in Billie Eilish in 2019. “Call Me Maybe”…

Music

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Carly Rae Jepsen: a One-Hit Wonder By Design
Carly Rae Jepsen: a One-Hit Wonder By Design
Music

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Published in Cinemania

·Feb 22

Netflix’s Dead to Me Gives Life to a New Genre

Shall we call it…the tragicom-dramedy? — Netflix’s Dead To Me arrived unapologetically in the wake of HBO’s Big Little Lies, but doesn’t become beholden to the shadow it is meant to exist in. Both shows are about a mysterious death in a well-off California neighborhood and focus on the stories of mothers in the wake of…

TV Series

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Netflix’s Dead to Me Gives Life to a New Genre
Netflix’s Dead to Me Gives Life to a New Genre
TV Series

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Published in Music Voices

·Feb 22

The Fearless Trailblazing of Taylor Swift’s Re-recorded Albums

Paint the town…red? — On Valentine’s Day 2021, Taylor Swift released the rerecorded version of “Love Story” (titled “Love Story (Taylor’s Version)”): a layup in terms of marketing for Swift. First of all, the original song already retells a classic piece of literature with Swift’s shameless fingerprint: it’s the story of a couple from…

Music

7 min read

The Fearless Trailblazing of Taylor Swift’s Re-recorded Albums
The Fearless Trailblazing of Taylor Swift’s Re-recorded Albums
Music

7 min read

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