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Confessions of a Former Fare Hopper April 16, 2024
Last week, a 16-year-old boy shot a 14-year-old boy in the head on the Brookland Metro platform, just a few blocks away from where I work. It was about 4:00 p.m. and the station was crowded with kids who had just got out of school. I have been down t...
Did Social Media Kill the Pop Song? April 11, 2024
Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That” landed with the force of an atomic bomb. Released last month, the thumping diss track hit the Billboard Hot 100 in a flash but went dynamite across X, Instagram, and TikTok thanks to a surprise verse from Kendric...
Back Home Again April 01, 2024
The story begins in a hotel or motel, where the narrator, a twenty-something only child, has had a disturbing dream involving his or her mother. The novel, introduced by this scene and ending with what follows it, consists otherwise in a long analeps...
Pop Music Really Ain’t What It Used to Be April 01, 2024
New research has revealed that pop music lyrics really have been dumbed down over the last 40 years.The words in English-language tracks have become ‘simpler’ and ‘more repetitive’ since 1980, say scientists.Dr Eva Zangerle and her colleagues analyse...
