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One of the best songs off Duo's new album, DECIDE. The head-bopping beat goes perfect with the monotonous tones. The last 30 seconds leaves you wanting more!

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"honeybee table at the butterfly feast" - Teen Suicide

The band Teen Suicide has released an album after six years. This album goes deep into a longing sensation. It portrays a sentimental, bittersweet theme throughout the album. The tie of heavy rock and psychedelic melodies is beautifully done. The melancholic, poetic feeling is ideal for the upcoming autumn season.

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Where Is My Mind? - Pixies

I associate this song with the act of stumbling through life. Sometimes it feels like I am on autopilot. In other moments I realize exactly where I am on this rock of a planet floating through space. The confusion of identity and life bleeds through the lyrics. The mush of dreamy tunes and the strong beat blend into a chaotic mural, resembling the disordered confusion of life.

quick little review for a song I adore :)

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"Bullet Train" could not have a better soundtrack.

The film featuring Hollywood stars and bright cinematography gets yet another point for its stellar soundtrack. Japanese renditions of Bonnie Tyler's iconic 'Holding out for a Hero' and Bee Gees' oh-so-70s 'Staying Alive' only add to the mayhem of the movie. 'Le Despedida,' sung by Alejandro Sanz, was the perfect theme for Bad Bunny's chatacter, the Wolf. The movie features a wide variety of music genres, ranging from the '60s to the '90s. If not for the actors or action, check out "Bullet Train" for its phenomenal soundtrack.

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“Sleeping Giant” - Bedlocked

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Queen - Jazz

Jazz is the seventh studio album released by British rock band Queen. The album was released in November 1978 spawning four singles, one of them is a double a-side released: Bicycle Race/Fat Bottomed Girls. The album peaked #2 in the UK achieving gold status. The album achieved platinum status in Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, and US.

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Beabadoobee's Beatopia

Beatrice Laus, also known as beabadoobee, has released her second album, Beatopia and it is a lucid dream on a record. It isn’t just another beloved typical indie album, rather one that combines different melodies into a hazy indie-pop trip. 

The album title and cover come from a fantasy universe she created in her seven year old head. But now it represents who she has become and the evolution of her sound. She’s much more than her grungy indie songs from Fake it Flowers, her first record. Her sophomore record features touches of 90’s indie rock, Bossa Nova melodies, chilled R&B, and guitar bangers, all tied together by her whimsical vocals. The songs are a dreamy fit for a coming of age film.

Laus did a stellar job at fulfilling her goals of making the album feel like a lucid dream. “I wanted it to feel like a massive trip,” she told NME at Glastonbury last month. Listeners are able to drift weightlessly through the sounds of her sweet vocals and unique melodies. The future of her music career looks highly promising.

She credits The 1975’s Matty Healy, PinkPantheress, Jack Steadman of Bombay Bicycle Club, Georgia Ellery of Jockstrap and Black Country, New Road. 

By Laura Marine

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"Thérèse" by Maya Hawke, an Ode to a Young Girl

Maya Hawke has released a single titled “Thérèse” for her upcoming album Moss. The Stranger Things actress and daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke will be releasing her second album on September 23, 2022.

Hawke sings of a girl. She describes her longing to be older, her fantasies of a boy, and her escapes from reality. The singer draws inspiration from “Thérèse Dreaming,” a painting displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The painting features a young girl with her arms up, legs spread so her underwear shows, and eyes closed, lost in a dream. Hawke goes in her mind and depicts the young girl’s dreams in a whimsical melody. She describes the boy she likes and her youth. 

Hawke also goes into the controversy of the painting. Some want the painting to be taken down, claiming it to sexualize the young girl. But a line of lyrics shows her disagreement, how the girl has only been misunderstood. People without sensitivity don’t understand the painting, only cars and horses. 

 “Thérèse does not belong to you

The horses cars and cowboys do”

The soft melody of the song reminds me of forests and fairytales and tranquility and youth. The initial light notes makes me think of Sufjan Stevens’ “Mystery of Love” while the depth of the lyrics and melody screams Taylor Swift’s evermore and folklore. 

Maya Hawke leaves us with yet another peaceful song as we excitedly await her new album, Moss.

By Laura Marine, 2022

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LDR's Influence on Teens

From Tumblr's sad girls to the rising coquette style, Lana Del Rey has been the face of it all.

A decade since the release of her first studio album, Born to Die, Lana Del Rey still continues to influence teenagers and their aesthetic appearance all around the world. Lana Del Rey’s influence has led adolescents into the 2010s “Sad Girl” era on various social medias and more recently, the rise of the coquette trend. 

Reaching 2.3 Billion views, the aforementioned coquette style has been rising in influence throughout the TikTok platform. NYLON has defined it as an aesthetic meant to “embody all things idyllic and feminine.” The coquette style has engaged teenagers with its soft colors, chunky heels and dainty fabrics. This new trend has used Lana Del Rey’s Americana style back in the early 2010s as an influence for fashion as well as music, pictures and merchandise. Many Tiktok videos feature coquette-decorated rooms, most of which include the singer's merchandise. The popularity of this dainty trend is merely as famous as the previous trend surrounding Lana Del Rey.

The 2010s infamous "Sad Girl" trend took social media platforms by a storm. This era of the internet was characterized by glamorous sadness. "Sad Girls" often uploaded pictures of smudged mascara, cigarettes and tears, some even posting videos of them crying. Tweets and Tumblr posts brought these people together to share their thoughts on their depression. The movement glamorized depression and Lana Del Rey was the face of it all. 

This movement took place during the release of her debut album Born to Die, which emphasizes melodramatic sadness in the lyrics. Whether or not their depression was real or simply the trend, social media gave it all away by openly exposing their thoughts. "The Tumblr and Instagram generation saw Lana Del Rey as this perfect emblem of seductive sadness” UK pop writer Michael Cragg. "Sad Girls" took her as a symbol, fueling their own sad aesthetic.  

The sad trend is now highly criticized for the glamorization of false depression. During that era, smudged makeup and dainty bodies distinguished depression. Intense bedridden, unhygienic misery was seen as disgusting, not depression. Devcollab from The Establishment states, “Women are best when they are sad (and young, and hot) forever.” This damaging mindset was prominent during the era and is one society has begun to debunk.  A teenager, who decided to stay anonymous has answered her thoughts on the internet era. “Tumblr served as a safe space where I was comfortable sharing. In hindsight, I realize how harmful the romanticization of depression was.” Upon further research, former Sad Girls seem to share similar thoughts.

Teenagers don't seem to be the only ones affected by Lana Del Rey, the music industry has been too. Her sad-pop music had an influence on music itself, increasing the range of emotions portrayed in pop music. Redbull states, “in 2019, there’s infinitely more room for discussions about depression in chart music than 10 years ago, mirroring wider social trends.” Aware of her impact, the singer told Pitchfork in 2017, "there’s been a major sonic shift culturally; I think I had a lot to do with that." Many famous pop singers, such as Taylor Swift and Rihanna, took a turn to emotional music upon Del Rey's rising fame. 

From stylish trends to long and depressing internet eras, her impact on teenager's aesthetic appearance remains prominent. Pop culture, inspired by her, took an emotional change in music.

By Laura Marine, 2022

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