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 ...
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...
Crying in the Pit: Japanese Breakfast in Concert Jax Samsell November 13, 2021 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Since Japanese Breakfast’s newest album Jubilee was released in June 2021, I’ve played it on repeat on virtually every occasion of my life: when I moved into my new apartment, when I binge-read Chainsaw M...
“drivers license”: navigating inadequacy, adolescence, and white Disney pop Silayan Camson March 9, 2021 Opinion When I think about the white Disney pop stars I grew up with, I recall Hannah Montana and Taylor Swift playing both roles in the “You Belong With Me” music video which shook my whole world. The drastic shif...
