Category: culture
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I’m Scared of Taylor Swift’s Fanbase: A Swiftie’s Reflection on TTPD
It’s 2007, my grandpa is a fan of country music and my mom buys him an album with a frizzy, curly haired girl on the cover. It’s 2008, we’re on the train and my cousin shares her iPod with me and plays a song called “Love Story”. I put it on repeat until she requests…
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How “Moulin Rouge: The Musical” Has Given Me an Existential Crisis
Picture this: it’s 2018 and the musical adaptation of Moulin Rouge is opening in Boston. As a lover of the film and a musical theatre dork this was a dream come true – not that I would see it in Boston of course. I followed the show’s progress constantly, its Broadway transfer in 2019 was…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Hopeless Romanticism
The concept of being a hopeless romantic seems to get lost in high school. I for one, am capable of exuding disgusting amounts of hopeless romanticism. The Dictionary defines a hopeless romantic as “a person who holds sentimental and idealistic views on love, especially in spite of experience, evidence, or exhortations otherwise.” Is it so…