Best (and Worst) Christmas Songs

When I’m away at school, I never listen to the radio. It’s not like I don’t want to; I just don’t have the means of actually listening to a station due to my lacking of how to work the stereo in my dorm room. I’d rather not go through the trouble of deciphering channels. Needless to say, it came as a bit of a culture shock the last time I visited my parents at home to find certain stations blaring Christmas songs on a twenty four hour, seven day basis beginning in October. After having the Christmas Channel programmed in my car for two days, I already got sick of the endless repetition of “Feliz Navidad” and the eighteen compilations of Lite Pop Christmas. This horrific discovery got me to thinking; do people actually like this sort of music being drilled into his or her head during the end months of the year, or do they feel like they have to listen for nostalgia effect? Read more

Kanye West Releases 808s and Heartbreaks on November 25th

Kanye West is back in the industry spotlight a little more than a year after he released his critically praised album, Graduation. On November 25^th, his new album, 808s and Heartbreaks, is being released nationwide. Finishing his saga of ‘college-based’ albums, West is ready to grow up and focus on different aspects of his soul. However, West probably was not expecting to grow up so quickly. Within the past year, West broke up with his long-term girlfriend, been arrested for assault, and, most tragically, lost his mother. Judging by the handful of track leaks within the past few weeks, West has clearly been affected. Read more

New York Romance: Songs That Remind Me Most of The Glorious City

I have an interesting relationship with the five boroughs that lie within New York City. All five of them have drastic differences that separate them from each other, and the stories I hold from each borough are vastly different, as well. I’m fond of the Queens region because I’m technically a Queens baby (for only a month before moving to the Suburbs of Long Island, but that could be overlooked). The Brooklyn area holds a special place in my heart after endless thrifting trips, aimless bouts of roaming around nameless neighborhoods after crossing the Brooklyn Bridge and discovering that I could fall in love with the red velvet cake from the Cake Man. Read more

I Kissed a Girl and I Wasn’t Thrilled

Is Katy Perry is a Nuisance to the Musical World?

The Summer of 2008 will probably go down as two things; the Summer of Jailbait, with the ever-growing fame and egos of such teen sensations of the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus, and the Summer of Agitated Girl Power.

The season started off with a song by Leona Lewis about how she would pull out & cut open her heart and show her boyfriend her ‘bleeding love’, amongst other things. Next comes along a pretty Zooey Deschanal look-alike, Katy Perry, who seems innocent upon first glance, with her modern fifties’ housewife attire looks, polished good looks and brilliantly applied lipstick, but her “pureness” stops with her physicality. When her pretty little mouth opens to sing, the ugliness of her lyrics pour out. Read more