Thursday Thinkpiece: Happy Kony Day!
Share a Link, Save the World: Armchair Activism and What We Learned from Kony 2012 A video of a cat falling off a table, and a campaign aimed to take down a child kidnapping despot in Africa. At...
View ArticleTuesday Thinkpiece: Millennials and the Power of Feel-Good Music
In case you haven’t heard (and you very possibly may not have), there are a lot of terrible things happening around the world. Economic collapses, civil unrest, mass kidnappings, disease outbreaks,...
View ArticleThursday Thinkpiece: Is Music Dying?
Is Music Dying? Yes, it is. If you came to find that out but don’t feel like wading through a meandering thinkpiece, there’s your answer, now get out of here. Music, both as a commodity and as an art...
View ArticleThursday Thinkpiece: Shared Universe Syndrome
Welcome to the Age of Branding! Talking strictly from a cinematic sense, of course- branding’s been lording over every other market for...
View ArticleThursday Thinkpiece: One-Hit Wonders and the Incredible Thirst of Carly Rae...
The notion of a “one-hit wonder” might seem simple at first: a performing artist who is only recognizable for one massively popular song. They scored a huge hit and then disappeared from the public’s...
View ArticleThursday Thinkpiece: The Ever-Looming Issue of Immediacy vs. Ownership
Under the guise of convenience, media providers are wresting control from individuals and reaping the benefits in perpetuity. It’s hard to argue against the convenience of streaming media without...
View ArticleThursday Thinkpiece: On Rotten Tomatoes Supposed Omnipotence
The once-niche rating aggregator has evolved into one of the most trusted and cited websites on the internet- easily the most trusted and cited when it comes to cinema. Is it really the monolithic...
View ArticleThursday Thinkpiece: Is Cinema Dying?
Nah, it’s doing fine. Just going through some growing pains. Of course if you’ve been paying attention to movie news this past months you’ve no doubt heard a chorus of doomsayers declaring that OH...
View ArticleThursday Thinkpiece: The Continued Stagnation of Rock Music
There’s a rather contentious recurring statement that’s been made on this blog over the years, and that’s “music (as a viable commercial commodity) is dead”. Although I still stand by it, I will...
View ArticleCovers Uncovered
I’ve written before about the tricky art of appraising a cover song, both on its own merits and in relation to the original. As cynical as it may seem, it turns out it’s much easier to say what isn’t a...
View ArticleThe Grey Tsunami: Why is Twitter Furious Over the NPC Meme?
Let’s not bury the lede here: the histrionics over the NPC meme are absolutely ridiculous. It’s ridiculous that those who promulgate it believe that they’ve uncovered a great truth about the human...
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