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Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism Review

Dua Lipa went on vacation for four years (not actually) and now the suits want their money. They don’t want a prog pop-rave record. Give us the hits and a pretty CD to sell at Target please. Here’s to a summer of Radical Optimism.

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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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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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Music Reviews: keep it going!!!-xaviersobased

I know nothing about this artist. He also doesn’t seem like a real person. The beats and bars are repetitive, clawing melodies out of jarring rythyms that don’t work the first 5 times you hear them. Then, somehow, after xaviersobased says it for the 6th time, it sort of works

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