NALOne Wise Wheel: An Exploration of Fiona Apple’s Album “The Idler Wheel…”For a musical act to be described as “singular” is an underused and secretly apt claim: such a plain and seemingly redundant descriptor…Nov 22, 2023Nov 22, 2023
NAL’Cause You’re Online: an Analysis and Review of Childish Gambino’s “Because the Internet”Childish Gambino left listeners in a weird place by the end of his debut LP Camp. The album was a straightforward, messy body of work that…Jun 10, 2023Jun 10, 2023
NAL8 Ways FX’s The Bear Masters the Art of the TV ShowTelevision is at an odd juncture in the world. The standards we use to judge the popularity of a given show are changing, and TV as society…Mar 1, 2023Mar 1, 2023
NALInsightful Mod-Rom-Com: The Wisdom of (500) Days of SummerAs I took a break from listening to Joy Division and The Streets, and was transported back into the year 2009 via Marc Webb’s romantic…Jan 19, 2023Jan 19, 2023
NALNathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal and the Philosophy of the Anti-Do-OverThe entire premise of Nathan Fielder’s recent HBO reality series The Rehearsal is the definition of counterintuitive. Preparing people for…Jan 5, 2023Jan 5, 2023
NALThe Intrinsic Linguistics of The 1975’s Newest AlbumHumor is often a disconnection—a discord between statement and reality is part of the fundamentals of irony—but yet almost always a means…Dec 27, 2022Dec 27, 2022
NALThe Artistry of Exacting Artifice: A look at Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread (2017)Life can be such a beautiful cloth spread out as an intricately designed and cohesive unit, and only when looking closely do we see the…Dec 19, 2022Dec 19, 2022
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