As she comes of age in the 1990s, she finds solace in the music of Biggie Smalls and Aaliyah, but her weight continues to climb—until a family tragedy forces her to face the source of her hunger, ultimately shattering her inherited stigmas surrounding women’s bodies, and embracing her ...
Aaliyah, Lil Kim, Busta Rhymes, and more, and that sounded like transmissions from a distant, futuristic planet. Standouts such as “The Rain,” boosted by a choir of crickets, and the soul-powered “Sock It 2 Me” spun the music world in a new direction and made Missy one of music...
Years prior to the final build-up and burst of the housing bubble, Ian MacKaye and company used “Cashout” to forcefully question the motives of real estate developers and the local governments who cater to them. In the process MacKaye delivers one of his most nuanced vocal performances, ...
074: Destiny's Child"Say My Name"[Sony; 2000] The fact (1) that every man, woman, and child in America can sing the vocal hook from this song despite the fact (2) that the beat and bassline sequence underneath that hook is so deeply tricked out and bizarre (we're talking delirious...
Left to right: Aaliyah, Tempest, Z, Efro, Xan, Freja. The real dangers of co-sleeping. Zism of the day:While I’m cooking, Z comes running into the kitchen and says, “Mommy it’s way too hot. We need the door to be open!”“No, no, no! We can’t open doors, the cat ...
a huge proponent of open and honest communication. But for the first time in my 4 decades, I don’t think it is worth it anymore. The only relationship worth having is the one with yourself – because no one else gives an eff outside of their own bubble. I think you knew this, ...
Documents recently leaked from the ModularSystems.com web site include a dump of a secret “datamine” data base containing over 39,000 entries tracking 16,740 Second Life players, detailing avatar name, avatar key, and IP address. The database was apparently populated between early January and...
Aaliyah, Lil Kim, Busta Rhymes, and more, and that sounded like transmissions from a distant, futuristic planet. Standouts such as “The Rain,” boosted by a choir of crickets, and the soul-powered “Sock It 2 Me” spun the music world in a new direction and made Missy one of music...
Tim Bergling, who took his own life in 2018, at age 28, got his stage name from Avici, the hell-like realm in Buddhism where dead sinners are reborn. There is something punishing about “Levels,” which, like the office drone pushing a boulder up a mountain in its music video, seems...
Aaliyah: “We Need a Resolution” (2001) R&B has made a craft of apportioning guilt as much as declaring love, but “We Need a Resolution” despairs at ever separating the two. “You got issues, I got issues,” Aaliyah sighs, as always evocative rather than exhibitionist, “but I kno...