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Mental Health Issues As Addressed by 11 ’90s Pop Rock Songs

Posted on November 24, 2020August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

“Jeremy” by Pearl Jam Mental health phenomena addressed: bullying/school shootings. Key lyric: “clearly I remember, picking on the boy, seemed a harmless little fuck” “Jeremy”

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, MVP to MediumTagged counting crows, down by the water, dumb, elliott smith, everclear, everything to everyone, hurt, jeremy, jumper, lily my one and only, nin, nine inch nails, pearl jam, pj harvey, possum kingdom, Round here, self esteem, the offspring, the smashing pumpkins, the toadies, third eye blind, whatever

From Hood-Adjacent to Upper-Middle Class Neighboring: A Story of White Assimilation Through Fashion

Posted on November 17, 2020August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

The Social Mobility of White Men: A Personal Examination I was once at a house party from whose balcony I could see my elementary school,

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, MVP to Medium, Pop Culture DiaryTagged cross colours, cult, cultural commentary, fashion, male fashion, pop culture, starter

Thank You For Coming To Milwaukee Tom Petty

Posted on October 13, 2020August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

October Should Be Tom Petty Month: An Essay and Playlist Tom Petty was both born, and died, in the month of October. It should be

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, MVP to Medium, Pop Culture DiaryTagged tom petty

9 Songs That Want It Both Ways (And Which Ones Pull It Off)

Posted on September 29, 2020August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Art that conflicts with itself is – if judged solely on this quality – inherently more intriguing than art that does not. How successfully a

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, MVP to MediumTagged alice merton, bruce springsteen, lorde, mike posner, mos def, outkast, roger miller, sting, the police

The 1 Thing I Learned from Weezer, and the 1 Thing I Should Have

Posted on September 7, 2020August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

It must have been 6th grade. If my memory serves me, (which it does, in that it serves the motives of my present moment), I

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, MVP to Medium, Pop Culture DiaryTagged brene brown, culture commentary, opinion, pinkerton, think piece, thinkpiece, vulnerability, weezer

Sad Is Not Only Specific

Posted on August 18, 2020August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Exploring The Nuances of Gladwell’s Assertions That Country is Better at Being Sad than Rock ‘n Roll In Season 2 of Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History,

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, MVP to MediumTagged country music, dawes, malcolm gladwell, music, sad

Is America Really a Third World Country in a Gucci Belt?

Posted on August 11, 2020August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

On Marr 22, 2020 @jasminetyon tweeted and birthed, very possibly, a new sentence into the American conversation. America is a third world country in a

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, MVP to MediumTagged america, America is a third wold country with a gucci belt, gucci, gucci belt, gucci gang, third world, third world country1 Comment on Is America Really a Third World Country in a Gucci Belt?

The Shared Universe of Springsteen’s Nebraska

Posted on August 4, 2020August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Everyone knows Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska is not a set of 10 separate stories taking place in an elaborately inter-related and overlapping shared universe.

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, MVP to MediumTagged bruce springsteen, nebraska

10 Songs That Describe 10 Aspects of Adulthood

Posted on July 28, 2020August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

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

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, MVP to MediumTagged bills, courtney barnett, fast car, leonard cohen, lunchmoney lewis, murs, nick lowe, r.e.m., the beach boys, the ramones, the roots, tracy chapman3 Comments on 10 Songs That Describe 10 Aspects of Adulthood

No One Is Talking About 2020 Like Tracy Chapman Did in 1988

Posted on July 7, 2020August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

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

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