Pop Culture

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How Can You Become TikTok’s Latest Trend? Or Should You Even Want To?

Every so often, there tends to be an aesthetic or trend that dominates the online algorithm.

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Heavenly Plagues and Demonic Rituals: Florence Goes on Tour

Upon arriving in the humid, gray streets of Washington D.C., the first thing I noticed was the flower crowns. Then the glitter. 

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Songs We Dance To

I discovered my love of dancing at my junior prom, when I slung around my “Prom Royalty” sash to “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X

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God Save the BBL: 5 Signs of the BBL Era Ending

It’s 2014. Nicki Minaj’s big booty anthem “Anaconda” hits the radio 

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10 Modern Albums I Consider to be Required Listening For Any Music Fan

We’ve all heard about which Beatles album or obscure 90s indie band every music nerd insists is the pinnacle of musical creation, but what about the newer acts?

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A Fat Person’s Guide to Building an Eclectic Wardrobe

As someone who hasn’t had the option of shopping in any brick and mortar store since the 9th grade, I never thought I would ever be able to accumulate enough clothes in my size to have any kind of style—let alone a distinct style that was my own.

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Connect-dle: Stories of Human Connection as Told Through Puzzles

It’s been a little over a month since Wordle, a daily brain teaser in which players must guess the five letter word of the day in six tries or less, took the Internet by storm.

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Music and Identity Politics: How BTS Breaks the Mold

Since their debut in 2013, the worldwide sensation and phenomenal K-pop boy group BTS has made a steady, but certainly not easy, climb to success.

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We Are Intimate Strangers

When midnight comes, I open EasyNet, click on a song, and observe the number of comments that are welled up with melancholy and wistfulness springing up like mushrooms after raining.

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In a Digital World: An Interview with Melody Supreme's Gwen Berthy

I don’t know much about music, unless you count the piano lessons my mom made me take when I was eight.