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...
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...
Miss Americana’s White Feminism is Once Again “Nothing New” Eric Park December 2, 2021 Opinion, Uncategorized 1 Comment If you are like me, who happens to be a huge fan of Taylor Swift while also having a borderline masochistic relationship to sad music, then you were probably counting the days for Red (Taylor’s Version), spec...
To all the Women I’ve Snubbed Before… Xia Jimenez April 21, 2021 Disclosure At the 2004 Super Bowl, Janet Jackson’s nipple was revealed in a performance with Justin Timberlake. He was immediately invited back; she was banned for life. In 2007, Britney Spears infamously shaved her hea...
Positivity in a pandemic: Hana Bryanne on making an EP and going viral on TikTok Baylie Raddon April 15, 2021 Uncategorized 1 Comment In a time of great uncertainty for all, Hana McElroy, or Hana Bryanne as she's known online, uses the changes happening around her to her advantage. The 18-year-old California native was a high school senior wh...
Taylor Swift reclaims her music and herself with the release of Taylor’s Version Jax Samsell March 11, 2021 News, Opinion I am a self proclaimed Swiftie. Like most people, I grew up listening to Taylor Swift, and like most people I would project onto her songs. At age 9, Swift had us angry at relationships we had never been in. We...
“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...
BREAKING NEWS!! Music’s IT couple break up after only a month of dating! Leka Gopal September 4, 2018 News, Uncategorized Noah Cyrus, claim to fame holding a decent amount of genetic material to older sister Miley Cyrus, and Lil Xan, whose claim to fame is creating a smear campaign against all benzos in a similar way Taylor Sw...
New dating site for Kanye West fans appears online Leka Gopal March 19, 2018 News Was the reason you broke up with your last ex really because he wasn’t supporting you emotionally and mentally, abandoning you at your lowest point, or are you just using that as an excuse since you won...