Protest songs: From “Blowin’ in the Wind” to “This is America” Protest songs have been a central part of American music, life, and politics for hundreds of years. One of the most significant protest songs of all time is Bob Dylan’s 1963 single, “Blowin’ in the Wind”....
From Beatlemania to One Direction Infection, images of young women have flashed across news screens. Historically these pictures have narratives attached to them often stating that these are “crazed fan girls” Beyond the inherently problematic narrative that these are...
I love music, but I hate organizing it. I’d rather spend time listening to songs than sorting them! So, I steal all my friend’s playlists and enjoy the fruits of their labor. And now I’m going to share them with you. This week, I’m highlighting Sydney Muench’s...
Shoutout to depressing Pandora playlists, you a real one! Hi and welcome back to Songs From The Heart! Today’s column is about my favorite band, Gorillaz. I can’t pinpoint the exact time I heard my first Gorillaz song but I remember the general time in my life. It was...
Welcome to my new column, Musical Personalities! In this series I’m going to be thinking about the way a person’s music taste can represent their personality through analyzing some of my friends’ favorite songs. I’m starting off with my friend A.M (initials for some...
The 2010s have seen a huge emergence of new music genres and further iterations of these genres, but one makes its place better than the rest. Characterized by simplistic production and songs detailing intimate and youthful experiences, bedroom pop continues to pave...
(First things first, I’m so sorry about that title, like wow! A question mark followed by a quotation mark and followed again by yet another question mark! What an eyesore!) A lot of people’s stories about the garage/post-punky/indie rock whatever outfit “Shark?” due...
2014 was a strange year. Vine was still alive, grunge fashion was at its height, and indie/alt pop was having its moment in the mainstream. At the epicenter of so many of these trends was the website Tumblr, known for the droves of teenage girls who populated the site...
Out of all the great and interesting sounds in this world, there are none that we are more predisposed to like than the human voice. It’s true the predisposition does not necessarily mean that something is good, but in the case of vocals, I certainly find that it is...
February is a month that is exciting for some and a dread for others. For many people, melancholy is an emotion that arises during this time and lingers. A song that I believe presents a different facet of melancholy is “Nothing New (Taylor’s Version) [From the...