Sasha Sloan’s Only Child (2020) is an attempt to simulate codependence, autophobia, regression, arrested development, and an inferiority complex and pass it all off as vulnerability and childlike wonder.
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The Sad-Girl Industrial Complex: Sasha Sloan and the Business of Melancholy
Sasha Sloan’s Only Child (2020) is an attempt to simulate codependence, autophobia, regression, arrested development, and an inferiority complex and pass it all off as vulnerability and childlike w…
“I’ve heard it said a thousand times,” Chester Bennington sings in Linkin Park’s “Until It’s Gone” (2014). After listening to this song, I can attest that I have heard it a thousand and three times.
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Until It’s Gone: Cinderella by way of Linkin Park
“I’ve heard it said a thousand times,” Chester Bennington sings in Linkin Park’s “Until It’s Gone” (2014). After listening to this song, I can attest that I have heard it a thousand and three times…
The last verse of Senses Fail’s “Miles to Go” (2022) is the final stanza from “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Whoever came up with that idea doesn’t know how poetry works. If you think any part of Robert Frost’s poem can exist in a vacuum, isolated from the whole, you’re a philistine.
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Senses Fail has “Miles to Go” Before They Can Write a Decent Song
The last verse of Senses Fail’s “Miles to Go” (2022) is the final stanza from “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Whoever came up with that idea doesn’t know how poetry works. If you think any …
Slayer: Raining Blood, Missing the Point
According to Slayer songwriter Jeff Hanneman, “Raining Blood” (1986) is “about a guy who’s in purgatory ’cause he was cast out of heaven. He’s waiting for revenge and wants to fuck that place…
Creepy Sweaters and Grocery Lines: Realism and Romanticism in ‘Cardigan’
In “Cardigan” (2020) Taylor Swift embraces sentimentalism, finding absurd value in everything. That’s an improvement over cynics who know the price of everything and the value of nothing — or, as A…
When did pop music forget how to tease? Sabrina Carpenter’s “Juno” ditches subtlety for blunt-force horniness — and the result is embarrassing, not empowering.
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JUNO (2024) by Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Carpenter’s “Juno” brings to mind Ariana Grande’s “34+35,” which ends with the line “Means I wanna 69 with you” — just in case we couldn’t do the math. Carpenter’s next-to-last words in “Ju…
Miley Cyrus’s BB Talk; or, Hey, I’m Just a Regular Armpit-Sniffing, Teeth-Licking Gal
“BB Talk” is the pot calling the kettle black while trying too hard to sound black. If I were the kettle, I would tell the pot, ‘Well, at least I’m not a wigger.’ In the song, Miley Cyrus is so f…
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