With the recent ending of the North American leg of Hilary Duff’s Lucky Me Tour, it feels like an appropriate time to return to the luck…or something album for a deeper read. Of the album’s many personal moments, “The Optimist” stands out as a particularly memorable one, illustrating the lasting impact of a complicated relationship […]
“Finding Emily” is a 2026 romantic comedy film directed by Alicia MacDonald and starring Angourie Rice as Emily Raine and Spike Fearn as Owen Brampton. The film is set on a university campus located in Manchester, England. The film centers around the male protagonist Owen, a sound engineer who works at the campus bar and […]
In her song “The Visitor,” artist Sienna Spiro opens up about her fear of impermanence and being temporary in relationships through her vulnerable lyrics and powerful instrumentation. In her interview on the Zach Sang Show, Spiro shares how the term “visitor” is a perspective rather than a feeling, as she uses it to describe herself […]
What shapes our mental health? It is easy to imagine psychological distress as something that exists entirely within an individual, a chemical imbalance, a diagnosis, or a problem located inside the brain. The illustration by Nate Kitch accompanying Richard Bentall’s 2016 The Guardian article, “Mental illness is a result of misery, yet still we stigmatise […]
Three years ago, I came across Nikita Gill’s People Aren’t Homes, and the poem’s closing lines have stuck with me ever since. Of all the metaphors in the poem, I kept finding myself returning to this very line: “People are rivers, ever changing, ever flowing.” Even now, these words continue to shape the way I […]
“Highly Emotional People” by MARINA is a song from her fifth studio album titled Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land, which was released in June of 2021. Around the time of the making of the album, Marina was undergoing a public split from her long-term partner of five years, Jack Patterson, who was a member […]
Messy (2024) by Lola Young is a song that gained popularity rapidly last year. Part of what makes it so popular is not just the sound, but the honesty in how it captures emotional confusion, especially in relationships that start early in life and shape who we become. What stands out most is the perspective. […]
“Clean” by Taylor Swift is a song from her fifth studio album. While the album is often framed as a collection of party anthems, “Clean” complicates this narrative by suggesting that behind every ‘party girl’ is an honest story about what it means to be truly ‘clean.’ The song begins with Swift describing what a […]
Lizzy McAlpine, a singer, songwriter, and producer, contributes to the large body of alternative and indie wistful music. Her third studio album, “Other,” is a full embodiment of raw vulnerability. McAlpine narrates a breakup throughout this project, one in particular being her sixth track on the album. Staying. The beginning of the song begins with […]
The María’s an American Indie band that combines illustrations of both Spanish and English in many of their songs lead by vocalist Maria Zardoya sings about the longing for a connection that isn’t near or good for her, but one that she is familiar with and is sure that particular person is the only one […]