Reverb: Tate McRae’s ‘So Close To What’ and hypersexualization in the music industry

Does the music industry hyper-sexualize artists to sell them as commodities? Tomy Helman PO ’28 considers the evolution of pop artist Tate McRae, analyzing her last album, “So Close To What.”

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Good Noise: Beware ye that are fearful, JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown’s new album is ‘Scaring the Hoes’

Sometimes I want an album to envelop me like a warm hug, but the more I listen to music, the more I find myself wishing I could fill a syringe with concentrated noise and inject it straight into my amygdala. “Scaring the Hoes” satisfies the latter urge and then some.

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Selected ambient works: Dreamy yet sharp, ‘Chloe and the Next 20th Century’ leaves the old Father John Misty’s antics behind

Music columnist Nicholas Black PO ’24 explains how “Chloë and the Next 20th Century” is not only a sonically dazzling album, but also a turning point for Father John Misty.

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