For Gen Z, one of the most prominent aspects of social media is aesthetic. With the rise of image-centric social networks like Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Facebook, no longer are teenage print ...

Is This It? examines the current state of rock music through a modern-day lens, highlighting the artists, perspectives and sounds that have kept the genre and its dedication to counter-culture alive.

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She's in her 20s or 30s, she hates her job, her love life is in disarray and she's self-absorbed yet beset by self-doubt. In other words, she's a hot mess — and she's the star of the 'sad girl novel', ...

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As new styles of music emerge, women are disproportionately subject to the judgment of their emotions rather than their talent. In the past few years, the term “sad girl music” has caught on in pop ...

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When I read the title of Charlotte Stroud's article "The curse of the cool girl novelist" and the accompanying description of said type of novelist, I had a solid image of what she was referring to.

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