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MAITREYA CORSO by Maya Hawke // Album Review

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MAITREYA CORSO feels like Maya Hawke 's most fully realized piece of storytelling yet - a record that is built on the beautiful, intentional writing that allows her talents to shine the brightest. The album's title comes from a persona that Maya created, who she said is a "...magical misfit, whose sheer inability to adapt to the surrounding world allows her to create a world of her own, and to explore the positive and negative power of the ego." Much of the album is rooted in the notion of questioning whether inner happiness and fulfillment is ever something to be fully achieved, or rather a never‑ending goal to persist and reach toward through the different seasons of life. The title itself reflects the duality at the heart of the project; Maitreya is drawn from Buddhist tradition and Corso is derived from the last name of Beat poet Gregory Corso. Together, they frame the album as something deeply personal and artful. It is often existential and easily her strongest...
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SOUR by Olivia Rodrigo // 5 Year Anniversary Album Review

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Olivia Rodrigo 's debut album is such a distinct and realistic depiction of all the sweet and sour parts of what it means to be a young woman growing up and coming of age in the modern world. What was initially meant to be just an EP quickly transformed into a full-length project after the massive success of her debut single "drivers license" surpassed everyone's expectations in early 2021 . Olivia and her core collaborator on this project - and on all of her music thus far - Dan Nigro , put this album together in just a few months. While she would go on to further develop her sound and find herself musically throughout the creation of subsequent releases, this stands as one of the defining debut albums of this generation of pop music.  Olivia has always worn both her influences and her heart on her sleeve, and SOUR feels like a natural extension of that. Each song is deeply personal, yet clearly shaped by the music that raised her. Much of  SOUR feels like modern, u...
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Dangerous Woman by Ariana Grande // 10 Year Anniversary Album Review

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Dangerous Woman continues to be one of the defining albums of Ariana Grande 's career. This record solidified her place in pop music history and delivered a run of some of the best and biggest hits of the decade. At this point in her career, she was fully taking over pop music, and this album truly solidified her status as the defining voice of a generation. On "Side To Side" , Nicki Minaj ends her verse with a proclamation that "Young Ariana run pop", which has only gone on to be more relevant in the decade to follow. In terms of pure pop aesthetics, Dangerous Woman still stands as the quintessential era of her career in so many ways, and is anchored by some of the strongest track runs she's ever released. It followed the classic hits that made up her 2014 sophomore album My Everything , and it built on that momentum with an even more fierce and empowered stance.  The branding and iconography of the album's cover is also an iconic piece of her career ...
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