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Track Review: Charli XCX-Von Dutch

“Von Dutch” is the opening single from Charli XCX’s album Brat, which comes out on June 7th. That is a record we will be discussing when it comes out for sure. And this single has me hyped.

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Bow To Your Queen: A Preview of Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism

It is a well known fact that Dua Lipa is the world’s greatest popstar. She just is. The voice, the production, the hooks, the costumes, the choreography….I just don’t know what to say. I really enjoy the music of Dua Lipa. I genuinely think she’s an underrated artist and that’s saying something because she’s one of the biggest stars on the planet.

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New York 9s: We Still Don’t Trust You (The Mixtape)

This is the Holy Grail of recent Future projects, because it’s basically everything we’ve ever asked of Future. Mean, angry, blistering trap bangers. Future is one of, if not the best, rapper alive and this little mixtape should be celebrated as his latest triumph, not as a throwaway mixtape.

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We Still Don’t Trust You-Future & Metro Boomin

This album will definitely age well, though probably in a different way, as evidence of both Metro and Future’s more experimental and off of the straight and narrow style music. It’s got a much softer, pop-esque record, with very different production and songwriting from the first

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Rating Every Monsterverse Movie by How Much I Like Them

Godzilla X Kong: A New Empire is almost here, and I can’t wait to see it. The Monsterverse has always been a guilty pleasure of mine, mostly because big monsters destroying things rules. I’m not sure I need to explain myself further.

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“Us” Is A Chilling Indictment of Classism

This film is a great example of smart, nuanced horror in every department from the writing to the shots to the pacing. This movie will frighten you and has some good scares, but they never feel cheap or forced. It’s held together by dark, but tight and brilliant writing as opposed to simple jump scares and gags.

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Bottoms-Movie Review

This is a 2020s Roger Waters movie. There’s just a lot going on here and for the most part, I thought it was great.

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Helldivers II: First Impressions

A little late, as always, but believe me when I say I’ve been playing a lot of Helldivers 2 recently. And this is more than just hype. This game is good. Really good. It’s the online co-op game we’ve needed for a long time.

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Barbie Got Me Messed Up

Barbie was one of the best movies I have seen recently, at any level. It’s such a brilliantly shot, acted and designed movie that sometimes you forget the foundation it stands on is this perfectly written, perfectly structured script. It artfully moves you from Act to Act smoothly, and there’s never really a sense of a loss of pace. There could be an argument made that the occasional singing and dancing scenes could take you out of the movie, but because this movie is Barbie, I would argue it absolutely doesn’t.

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Paris Texas Is The Future of Music

Rap and rock have traditionally been opposed. Both genres and their conventions have lent themselves to elements of rawness, but together, there is a bitter harmony that I believe will be the defining sound of the 2020s before the decade is up. Enter Paris Texas, an alternative hip hop group comprised of rapper-producers Loiue Pastel and Felix.

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