CULTURE

Highlights from the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards

Written by Samantha Phillips

Everyone’s proud of Noah Kahan. You can ask the fans I met before his concert, my friends who are devout listeners, his publicist, and myself. If you’re a Noah Kahan fan, you undoubtedly feel an overwhelming sense of love and affection towards his skyrocketing success. Because if you watch and listen to Noah, you feel […]

Like Barbie before it, Bottoms lets girls be messy and boys be the butt of the joke

On August 28, 1963, The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom drew a quarter of a million people to the nation’s capital in order to protest racial discrimination and advocate for equal rights and opportunities for Black citizens. It is rightly considered a milestone in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and remains […]

Written by Samantha Phillips

Human beings are not “brands,” and the human experience should not be brandable.

I speak for many people when I say that I crave honest, relatable lyricism, and catchy pop melody, and a strong vocal performance. It’s so rare in life that a music artist nails all of those in their songs, which is why pop queen sensations like Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift are held at such […]

This YA adaptation is firmly in the fun rom-com canon

We are officially approaching the middle of August already. How is the summer flying by that fast that it feels like every week I’m discussing a new season approaching? Taylor Swift was right, August does really slip away like a bottle of wine. But that’s not stopping me from coming up with a fresh batch […]