(Warning: Vox Lux spoilers ahead.) Over the last couple decades, there's been a shift in the way we discuss pop culture. It has been, for lack of a better word, called poptimism, which has resulted in a race to analyze the lowest common denominator as high art. Originally started as a welcome way…

"EDM has been sad, slow songs for years now"Calvin Harris attends The BRIT Awards 2018 held at The O2 Arena on February 21, 2018 in London, EnglandCalvin Harris has said that EDM of recent years sounds nothing like the music that he enjoys making. The producer extraordinaire, who has topped Forbes’ list of the highest paid DJs for the ...

The Iowa metallers’ new single is as heavy as they’ve ever beenSlipknotIt’s the most common statement in rock. Flick through any metal mag and you’ll see it printed endlessly: ‘it’s our heaviest album yet!’. Better still, there’s that old chestnut: “the heavy parts are heavier, and the melodic parts are more melodic!’. When t...

As far as lyric as band-thesis statements go, Fucked Up never made their ethos clearer than on the chanted refrain of "Twice Born." "Hands up if you think you are the only one," lead barker Damian Abraham asks in-between a number of Biblical queries concerning the fates of Peter and Pilate. Towards the end of…

It's pretty common for young couples, especially young couples who aren't yet ready to have kids, to raise pets together. It is less common for them to decide that they should become owners of a fucking pig. And yet that is the route that Ariana Grande and her fiancé, SNL star Pete Davidson, have chosen.