The Time I “Lied” on My College Application About Being a Songwriter Adrian Ceja May 19, 2023 Columns and Opinions 17 year-old me was many things: eldest sibling by chance, Taylor Swift enthusiast by choice, a teenager by definition, and liar by the means of my own mind, which I still do not fully understand to this day. I ...
Addison Rae: the pop princess that got away Adrian Ceja December 12, 2022 Opinion If you are on TikTok, you have probably heard the name Addison Rae. She is the fourth most followed person on the social media platform, and has amassed over 88 million followers (as of December 2022). She hail...
Young Queer Boys & Female Pop Stars: A Relationship That Transcends Generations and Isolation Adrian Ceja November 26, 2022 LGBTQ+, Opinion It was 2009. I was 6 years old sitting in the backseat of my parents’ car. We were driving in the car on the freeway, and all of a sudden I heard a sound. ‘Mum mum mum mah’ filled the space around me whil...
Destined for superstardom: Rina Sawayama “holds the girl” in Oakland Adrian Ceja November 26, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Oakland In April of 2020 I stumbled upon an artist who just released their debut studio album. That same artist would soon become one of my favorite artists of all time. Her name is Rina Sawayama. There are so many wor...
Could I beat my most listened to artists of 2022 in a fight? Adrian Ceja November 21, 2022 Creative Writing 2022 is almost over and that means a flurry of Instagram stories showing everyone’s most listened to music of the year is fast approaching. I use Apple Music rather than Spotify, so I do not get the artistic ...
13 Tumblr Albums & Their Berkeley Counterparts Adrian Ceja April 24, 2022 Berkeley, Creative Writing, Opinion The year is 2015. You are 14 years old getting ready for school and looking for your pair of Doc Martens. Your parents come in and you quickly hide your pack of cigarettes. Your room is filled with posters of L...
Women In Country Music: True Crime Adrian Ceja April 14, 2022 Opinion “I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped-up four-wheel drive” is a lyric that will always hit. The sheer passion the song makes me feel is truly unmatched. “Before He Cheats” (2005) by Ca...
Do Today’s Pop Artists Make Albums Anymore? Adrian Ceja March 21, 2022 Opinion Even if no one wants to narrow it down to just one, everyone has a favorite album of all time — the one piece of art they would save if every other work of music vanished from the place we call Earth. My albu...