Matthew Apadula is a poet and music critic who was born in New York and has been trying to get back home for a while now. His work has previously appeared on GIGsoup Music and in Drunk in a Midnight Choir. His career aspirations include writing more poems, listening to more albums, and eventually dying in New York.
The video follows FINNEAS as he shows viewers the space where the pair make their music — and raises some interesting questions about gatekeeping in the music industry.
You’re The Man, the intended follow-up to his masterpiece What’s Going On, is a remarkably prescient reminder of what Marvin Gaye could do, and what his music might still stand for.
WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?, the 17-year-old pop singer’s debut album, is sleekly produced but uncomfortably cursory in its explorations of loneliness and depression.