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Katy Perry’s Space Journey Takes Feminism to New Heights!

1 week ago | pitchfork.com | Vrinda Jagota

At 9:31 a.m. EDT yesterday, Katy Perry, in full hair and makeup wearing a designer cobalt blue bodysuit, was ready to make history. As she boarded flight NS-31 to make an 11-minute roundtrip journey to the edge of outer space, she endeavored to “put the ass in astronaut.” Which is so cool and brave to admit, given that she’s probably the first person ever to say those words in that particular order.
SASAMI: Blood on the Silver Screen

1 month ago | pitchfork.com | Vrinda Jagota

Across Sasami’s first two albums, the Los Angeles songwriter drew impressively from a range of musical traditions: shoegaze’s wandering guitar riffs, nu metal’s gnashing arrangements, county-pop’s storytelling. The result was a dynamic, constantly evolving sound, which Sasami channeled to express introspection, frustration, and deep, almost mythological, yearning.
Baalti: Mela EP

1 month ago | pitchfork.com | Vrinda Jagota

When sound systems in West Bengal start playing music, the bass is so powerful that pooled water appears to sizzle like oil. Smartphone footage of the contraptions in action sometimes appears distorted from the force of the sound waves. The sound systems are made of brightly colored speakers and amps, originally meant for religious ceremonies or political gatherings, that have been tied together into mobile structures that loom two or three stories high.
Indian Pizza Is Extremely Online

2 months ago | tastecooking.com | Vrinda Jagota

The video starts with an image you know well: man on bended knee, woman staring down at him. Bliss awaits, surely. “Excuse me, can I take you on a date?”“Ew, no way.
Leo Bhanji: Shell EP

Dec 15, 2024 | pitchfork.com | Vrinda Jagota

London-based lo-fi electronic musician Leo Bhanji has said that he feels successful as a songwriter when he’s able to express confusion in his work. His songs eschew causality and linear narrative for vibrant pastiches of half-revealed secrets, flickers of regret, and inner monologues. On his new EP, Shell, he deftly uses this oblique approach to relay the turmoil he feels as he falls in love, often despite his own best intentions.
SPIDER WOMAN - SPIN

Nov 24, 2024 | spin.com | Vrinda Jagota

Don’t let the sparklemuffin’s whimsical name fool you: The brightly colored Australian spider’s life has enough lust, betrayal, and intrigue to launch an HBO true crime series. The male sparklemuffin dances to attract female spiders. If he impresses his desired partner, they mate. But if she deems his moves unsatisfactory, she kills and eats him.
Opinion | Why One Direction fans may be grieving more than Liam Payne’s shocking death

Oct 22, 2024 | msnbc.com | Vrinda Jagota

One Direction fans have long distinguished themselves as tireless advocates for a band that, for a few years in the 2010s, was one of the biggest cultural phenomena in the entire world. A 16-year-old fan started a GoFundMe to raise the $87.8 million needed to buy the band’s contracts in an attempt to get recently departed member Zayn Malik to rejoin the group.
Dessert After Dark

Oct 21, 2024 | cakezine.substack.com | Vrinda Jagota |Cake Zine

Dessert After Dark is a mini newsletter series presented by Codeword, a communication design agency” building better comms, content, and communities for some of the best brands in the world. See their work and say hi at Codeword.Agency. Cake friends,Welcome to 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤: A full week of original content in partnership with Dirt, a digital culture newsletter. It’s a new incarnation of their series The Nightlife Review, only this time, it’s all about dessert.
Half Waif: See You at the Maypole

Oct 10, 2024 | pitchfork.com | Vrinda Jagota

When Half Waif’s Nandi Rose began writing See You at the Maypole, she had just experienced a missed miscarriage and learned that her mother-in-law had pancreatic cancer. To process her grief, she started chasing the sunset. Driving down country roads on “Sunset Hunting,” a track on the new album, she is struck by the image of winter sunlight bouncing off barren land.
We’ve Seen the Future, and It’s JHAYCO

Sep 9, 2024 | spin.com | Vrinda Jagota

JHAYCO thinks the palm reader is right about everything. We’ve just left the psychic’s storefront —a tiny room that smells strongly of cigarettes—and are standing on a nearby curb underneath the Williamsburg Bridge, discussing the reading. He is dressed in black leather pants, boots that peek out from underneath, and a tight white T-shirt, and is chatty and personable — and attentive when he speaks.