10 thoughts on boygenius
and the way people talk about them and some fundamental truths of my approach to music and also a wine metaphor.
criticism
On Music Criticism + Failed Internet
some words about reviews and the state of the internet
on tiktok midwest emo + the way we talk about music
If you're the kind of person who thinks people talking about genres is stupid and shouldn't happen, this isn't for you.
Lately I've been thrust onto emo tiktok. I don't want to be there. I want to use tiktok to go empty brain. I want to watch people cook beautiful
on objectivity
Today it’s 75 degrees in Philadelphia. I went to Penn Treaty Park with a bottle
of cider and new sunglasses to read Joan Didion’s Let Me Tell You What I Mean. I
have a business degree so I didn’t read any Didion until my twenties. I wish
on for emma, forever ago by bon iver
reckoning with being seriously moved by a bon iver record and the concept of passive shared experience
on five years since the death of the revival
Allegedly, fifth wave emo is in full swing. I’m the kind of dreadfully boring
person who has spent way too much time in my relatively short life considering
what is or isn’t emo and how to talk about those things so this new, artist led
definition of a
on david dobrik, ezra koenig, and taking advantage of your public reputation
This piece of writing discusses sexual assault and describes a situation which
may be triggering to some. Be kind to yourself.
I am, unfortunately, big into Youtuber drama— the valid, the stupid, the Much
Too Serious To Call It Drama, all of it. I watch lots of channels that could