Body Image and Fashion In The Music Industry

emilytreadgold #6, Editorial

Billie Eilish’s British Vogue cover was a massive point of contention this week. The star who masked her frame and her hair in outlandish colors and oversized clothes posed for an Old Hollywood style shoot that was absolutely stunning. Fans compared her to the likes of Marilyn Monroe, but it brought up this huge discord of body image in celebrity …

“Boy band” Isn’t An Insult, You Need To Get Over It

emilytreadgold #8, Editorial

When you think of boy bands, what comes to mind? One Direction? NSYNC? The Backstreet Boys? I recently posted a Tik Tok saying all bands with boys are boy bands, and people got very, VERY upset, mostly because I grouped in 5SOS (along with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin). According to comments, they can’t be a “boy …

Why Can’t Tik Tok Women Be Taken Seriously In Music?

emilytreadgold #10, #4, Editorial

Okay, I think we’ve waited long enough for this, and that is my opinion on TikTok stars and their rise to the music scene. Before I begin, I want to deem the question – why are the women somehow the only ones facing backlash? Bryce Hall. Griffin Johnson. Tayler Holder. All males who have singles on Spotify, and yet somehow …

Stop Pitting Women Against Each Other

emilytreadgold #2, Editorial, News

Love triangles in music are nothing new. In my generation, we had the iconic Lindsay Lohan, Hilary Duff, Aaron Carter feud. Now we have Olivia, Sabrina, and Joshua. While all of this is delivering us some wonderful drama, any girl-on-girl rivalry rubs me the wrong way, especially since pitting women against each other. It’s 2021. We don’t need to stoop …

Artists To Watch In 2021

emilytreadgold #1, Editorial

Maude Latour We are by no means new Maude fans. Our obsession with Maude just keeps coming up every time she releases a new song. If you want to feel like you’re in a coming-of-age indie movie with heartbreak and love, you need to listen to Maude. We think this is the year she will blow up, and we just …

Olivia Rodrigo Is The Pop Star We Need

emilytreadgold #7, Editorial

Olivia Rodrigo isn’t a name you might have heard before unless you’re embedded in the world of Highschool Musical: The Musical: The Series, HSMTMTS, a layered world of Disney that only the most die-hard fans know about, but when her song “Driver’s License” hit the music charts last Friday, we got a taste of who she’s going to become. “Driver’s …

Our Favorite Albums of 2020

emilytreadgold #1, Editorial

If I had to sum up what all of my music taste has been in 2020, it would be the word “longing.” It’s like I’m craving everything that we can’t have right now. I want to feel all of the feelings I felt when I was with people, and I’m looking for any amount of emotions to fill that void. …

Stop Trying To Define Miley

emilytreadgold #10, Editorial

I’ve been seeing a flurry of tweets about how the new Miley Cyrus album isn’t “rock” it’s pop and this to me just feels like fighting words for a multitude of reasons.  Genres are Dead It’s 2020, genres are fluid, we live in a beautiful time of distinctive genres being dead. It’s so hard to classify anything especially when there’s …

folklore and feelings: fan messages to Taylor Swift

emilytreadgold #17, Editorial

The funny thing about listening to folklore is that when I heard it, I knew it would be an album full of regret and melancholy accompanied by waves of sadness. I’d like to think of this as Red, but evolved. I guess who Red grows up to be.  I say it with every era. I am adamant that Taylor writes …