Angelica Frey

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Angelica Frey

Erika Vikman – Ich Komme (Finland)What would Eurovision be without sexually explicit songs? Australia’s Milkshake Man by Go-Jo is quite self-explanatory; the standout is Finland’s Erika Vikman with Ich Komme (“I am coming” in German). Set to a four-on-the-floor beat and Eurodance instrumental, the track bursts with unrestrained hands-in-the-air energy. Vikman sings of pleasure, ecstasy and a state of trance with a vigour reminiscent of Norway’s 2023 entry Queen of the Kings, by Alessandra.

4 weeks ago | daily.jstor.org | Angelica Frey

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Lady Gaga’s 2025 album Mayhem has been lauded as a return to form, referencing the bass-heavy, dance-inflected songs of her early-career tracks such as “Just Dance,” “Bloody Mary,” and “Marry the Night.” This is also true on a textual level.

1 month ago | daily.jstor.org | Angelica Frey

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Music plays a central role in David Lynch’s filmography, deployed in both diegetic (in-universe musical or dance performances) and extradiegetic (where the music is just background, not acknowledged by characters) ways to define the scenes that have become cemented in our imagination.

1 month ago | observer.com | Angelica Frey

Gala Dali sitting for a painting with Salvador. AFP via Getty ImagesGala Dalí (1894–1982) had a favorite quote she enjoyed repeating: “If, like me, you are neither a brain nor a beauty, creating is the only antidote to self-betrayal.” For a long time, she was mainly known to mainstream culture as Salvador Dalí’s muse and wife, but she was much more than just a source of inspiration and a life partner.

1 month ago | daily.jstor.org | Angelica Frey

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. When he penned Aradia, Gospel of the Witches in 1899, Charles Godfrey Leland ended up writing a cornerstone text within the twentieth-century neo-pagan revival. In it, he asserted that his findings were based on an extant earth-based folk religion in northern Italy, whose figurehead was Aradia, a woman connected to the cult of the goddess Diana.