The Winds of Creativity
André 3000, a world-renowned rapper, singer, songwriter, musician, and flautist, recently came out with his first solo album. New Blue Sun is an ambient instrumental album with eight songs and a total run time of one hour and 27 minutes. Commonly known for being one...
Sped-Up Music and Misconceptions of Creativity
As a child who would grab my parent’s iPad to play Nyan Cat or Fruit Ninja, anything on the Internet that was fast-paced and so peculiarly artificially colored drew me in like a magnet. So it was no surprise when I became hooked on nightcore music videos on YouTube,...
Electric Intimacy and Post-Lockdown Performing: Chelsea Cutler at the Royal Oak Music Theater
Twenty-four has never sounded so dreamy—this was my initial impression of the music of Chelsea Cutler, an artist who invites us to get lost in our fantasies, to look forward to that forever with the person we love that we’ve never before had the courage to imagine....
Our Knights in Shining White Armor: Discussing Race and the White Savior Complex in the Classroom
Just say it. I thought. Just say it. It’s not a bad word, it really just is what it is. But she didn’t say it. She wouldn’t say it. In a class discussion on The Bluest Eye, the white student in the row ahead of me skirted around the words “white privilege” despite...
My Grandmother, the Blackbelt Judo Legend
“I had teachers who said I have a 3-dimensional mind,” my grandmother explained. “I can close my eyes and see how to construct something. I can see how it works, rotate it in my head and see all views of something I want to construct.” Although Janice Adrianne...
In Defense of Incomprehension
Music is a magic made mundane by its ubiquity, but it is magic all the same. As many like to say, it is a universal language unrestricted by linguistic barriers, but not everyone takes the opportunity to venture out and listen to music not in their native tongue. This...
The Art Of Instagram Thrifting
Thrifting: generally defined as the purchase of secondhand products such as clothing, accessories, and other items for use by a new consumer. Yet, the rise in thrifting among Gen Z has transformed the concept into an admired social practice, an opportunity to find...
Still Woozy Releases first Full Album
Trying to pin down Still Woozy’s genre can be as slippery and elusive as his dreamlike beats themselves. Part indie and part psychedelic bedroom pop with a healthy amount of funk thrown in, it’s clear no one category’s conventions can tie him down. To put it simply,...