“Jazz!! is!! back!!:” The release of Laufey’s “Bewitched” and thoughts on the future of the genre Gianna Caudillo October 10, 2023 Album Review, Classical, Columns and Opinions, Cultural Commentary, indie-pop, Jazz, Music Consumption, Opinion, Reviews In early 2021, a friend of mine sent me a link to a TikTok accompanied by an innocuous message somewhere along the lines of, “Thought you’d like this.” Intrigued, I clicked, and a curly-haired girl in a p...
Listen to My Spotify Playlist: How Streaming Affects Music Consumption and Culture Ellie Nguyen August 9, 2023 Columns and Opinions, Cultural Commentary, Music Consumption, Opinion, Political 3 Comments The winter season has become synonymous with Spotify Wrapped season, wreaking havoc upon us trembling listeners, fearful of what our Wrapped will unearth. Maybe you listened to Your Best American Girl by Mitski...
Do You Hear the People Sing: Labor and Liberation Through Music Ellie Nguyen December 4, 2022 Blog, Columns and Opinions, Music History, Political On the first day of the UAW strike, nestled at the corner of Bancroft St. and College Avenue, post-docs, GSIs, and academic researchers organized and gathered, parading signs with the words “UAW ON STRIKE” ...
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...
The Gender Listening Gap Ava Aguiar November 27, 2021 Opinion 1 Comment It was your typical college Friday night: the warm ambiance of soft chatter, the occasional laugh, and just the right music to match a clamoring group of new friends. That night I had been given the high task o...
Spotify Blend: Sweet Dreams Really are Made of Nightmares Jax Samsell October 23, 2021 Creative Writing, Uncategorized Spotify Blend is the newest feature on Spotify. It syncs your music taste with whoever you send the Spotify blend link to and generates a playlist with similar songs you each would like. It has a song compatibi...
TO BE OR NOT TO BE THE MAIN CHARACTER: GEN Z’S ESCAPE INTO MUSIC Layla Dargahi March 16, 2021 Creative Writing, Uncategorized I was surprised the day I learned I was not the only child that escaped into their own music video once the radio turned on. The sorrowful look in the eyes, the distant and longing stare as trees pass the car w...
Match Made in Heaven: How Spotify on Tinder Reveals the True You Paloma Macias December 12, 2020 Columns and Opinions, Creative Writing Cell phones have been integrally woven into the tapestry of the twenty-first century. As a staple of modernity, the iPhone has been at the forefront of this technical revolution. According to a 2007 Apple press...
Why do we use Spotify’s private session? : asking B-Side Daniella Ivanir November 24, 2020 Columns and Opinions, Creative Writing It is no secret that social media platforms are used as a way to socially vet potential new friends or romantic partners; they’re a tool to test compatibility. How one captions their photos, their sense of ...
Playlists: The 21st century love letter Paloma Macias December 3, 2019 Columns and Opinions These days, Spotify is as much of a social platform as it is a music streaming service. Spotify’s functional purpose as a social sharing platform — heightened by the ability to see friends’ activity — f...
A Playlist for Your Morning Sanjana Sanghani December 2, 2019 Creative Writing Fun fact: I almost always wake up with a song already stuck in my head, a completely random track that my brain apparently decides to fixate upon overnight. The reason why this is crucial is because for me, the...
How-to escape a music rut Madeline Rohner February 13, 2019 Columns and Opinions A new year is upon us, which means it's time for a fresh start. I'm sure by now you have listened to your Spotify 2018 yearly roundup and re-experienced all the painful emotions that go along with it. If this i...
Bedroom pop: has it got to stop? Walker Spence February 28, 2018 Columns and Opinions It was a quiet Saturday night. I sat on my friend’s couch, aimlessly browsing through the Spotify app on his television and hoping something would catch my eye. Eventually, something did— a Spotify playlist...
Scraping beyond the surface of Spotify Premium Brendan Redmond January 31, 2017 News For $5, you can buy ¾ of a large coffee from Starbucks. Or, you could have unlimited streaming from Spotify for a month. This seems almost too good to be true … but wait! There’s more. Through hours of exp...
Turning the tide on streaming services: a socioeconomic reflection Joanna Jiang April 4, 2015 Columns and Opinions, News We used to listen to a few songs repeatedly. Now we can listen to more songs, with fewer repetitions. In its latest campaign, TIDAL describes itself as “the future of music streaming.” The service wa...