“Our intention with this mix is to use music as a medium to inspire, inform, and impact,” says McFlyy. “Sharing stories is what women love to do. This is our way of using our voice and our collaborator’s voices to remind us of who we are, how valuable we are, and why we should celebrate ourselves.”-Milk.xyz // Read more here.
'control' at 30 →
Still an all-time favorite, album and artist. No cultural amnesia here.
wisdom: a portrait series anthony demby →
A beautifully articulated piece for The Manifesto from my friend and incredible human Anthony Demby. Read it in it's entirety here.
“I am not asking for a message in every song but I miss the vulnerability of storytelling. Take me somewhere, make me feel something, and make it resonate.”
All Hail: How Adele's 'Rolling Stone' Cover Destroys The Male Gaze →
there's no such thing as 'first' anymore →
For years—decades, centuries even—we’ve always wanted to be first. Being first affirms our primacy in the pecking order of taste. It’s a way to stunt on our friends and competitors. It’s practically a superpower, one that separates us from them. The poetry and swagger of discovery is only for a chosen few. Everyone else? Have fun late-adopting.
Things fall apart, though. Cool became commodity, which shrunk the distance between those who know and those who would like to seem as if they do. The internet sped things up. Physical culture became emulsified: .mp3, .jpg, .gif, .mov, and more. Having a thing that someone else didn’t have—or more to the point, couldn’t have—became a virtually extinct mode of existence.
In 2015—in music, especially—the first has been drowned by the flood. Exclusivity has given way to ubiquity. The novelty of the new has been replaced by its omnipresence. ...MORE
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