These songs aren’t explicitly about being an adult, nor are they about growing up (well, mostly). These songs embody adulthood, they are it. They are
Category: Arts and Entertainment
Conservative Hollywood
Often Derided as Out-of-Touch Liberals, Hollywood’s Biggest Hits Have Been It‘s Most Conservative Are there any group of words more synonymous with “liberal” than: Hollywood
Re-Making The Classic, White Upper-Middle Class High School Coming of Age Movie via Soundtrack
Exploring The Tropes of The Genre With a Limitless Budget for Song Rights I am nothing if not a fan of the coming of age
No One Is Talking About 2020 Like Tracy Chapman Did in 1988
And An Argument for Her Overall Underratedness “Don’t you know? Talking about a revolution sounds, like a whisper” “Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution”, Tracy Chapman, 1988
Netflix’s Lenox Hill, The Cure For The Common Coronavirus*
*At Least, The Cure for America’s Politically Divided Version of COVID-19 Wading into a cool pool of water, hungover. Bringing a Miller Lite and30mg of
How Being Rich in America Became Acceptable: A Timeline
Robyn is arguably the best white, female R&B singer of the 2010s. I know, at least, one person who would disagree: Billy Eichner with his
5 Reasons No Player Could Ever Be Greater Than Michael Jordan
As me paraphrasing Bill Simmons once said, “we love Lebron, but we revered Jordan”. Watching The Last Dance one thing that immediately struck me was
A White Man, In All Black, Smashing Windows: What Black Art Can Tell Us About What We’re Seeing Right Now
Surrealism As A Mirror in Black Art I write to escape. I cannot escape this. A Black man, killed on what amounts to national television,
The Wombification of America
In the 2010s: a Trend of Upper Class Escapism Wrapped in the Ethos of Nihilistic Self-Care America was probably always on this path. Late Stage
Thank You, Hip Hop
As I Release My Third and Final Full Length Album: 7 Life Lessons Being a White Rapper Taught Me Most dreams start in High School.