It’s almost one year to the day since I published my take on the ’30-day song challenge’ which, if you’ll recall, was one of MANY trends people kept themselves occupied with back when lockdown was still an interesting novelty. However, now that we find ourselves in the restrictive purgatory that is 2021, it’s only fittingContinue reading “The 30-Day Song Challenge in One Day – Revisited (2021)”
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The Strange Phenomenon of TikTok Music
Over the past two years, TikTok has been gaining momentum at a rate never before seen for a social media app. With 800 million active users and 1.5 billion downloads on the App Store alone, TikTok has pretty much taken over popular culture in this era of uncertainty. With the world in lockdown, more andContinue reading “The Strange Phenomenon of TikTok Music”
The Libertines: the last of the Romantic poets
Week one of quarantine has been spent exhausting the entire catalogue of The Libertines and I can’t help but draw parallels between Pete Doherty and the Romantic poets, a group of writers that Doherty has previously recognised as one of his core influences. The band emerged onto the British music scene at the turn ofContinue reading “The Libertines: the last of the Romantic poets”
The Fragile Beauty in Clairo’s ‘Immunity’
Like many music listeners who learn the name ‘Clairo’, my entry point into her music was inevitably through the single ‘Pretty Girl’ which happened to pop up whilst I let music videos cycle through on Youtube. At first, the tens of millions of views seem to be at odds with the fairly low budget audioContinue reading “The Fragile Beauty in Clairo’s ‘Immunity’”
The Turntable 