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“Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.”– Mina Loy When I read Mina Loy’s description of poetry as “prose bewitched,” I felt like someone had captured the true essence of poetry for the first time. We often struggle to define abstract o...
Its choreography went viral, and its music video becamethe most viewed by a female K-pop solo act in 24 hours.Less than six months later, JENNIE added more history to her solo resume, becoming the first Korean solo act to perform at Coachella when she sang "Solo” dur...
A few years before, he had written a rather beautiful poem called ‘Stille Nacht’. So, he asked Franz Xavez Gruber, a schoolmaster and organist in a nearby town, to set his six-stanza poem to music. That night, the two men sang ‘Stille Nacht’ for the first time at the church’...
This might just be the first trend on this blog that has origins in a Japanese manga series. We have said it before, and we’ll say it again – TikTok trends can be born out of any corner of the Internet. This audio has been clipped from Death Note (2007), an anime centered around...
At first one tiny rabbit. A baby. A cute little thing that ended up eating every inch of clover among the grass and helped destroy the lawn long before the drought. It’s hard to be angry at the little thing so I left it alone. Go and ravage my garden then, see if I care. ...
He told his guests, per the Los Angeles Times, that his intent was to "bring love back to R&B music." The album dropped Sept. 15, two months before Cassie filed her lawsuit. Read on for all the details of the investigation that resulted in criminal charges for Combs: GIORGIO VIERA/...
My first idea was to add an “Editor” worker at the end of the process, and give it all of the “before/after” pairs of my edits with the task of improving the produced lyrics. By then, I accumulated quite a collection of these, and it seemed reasonable to try. Unfortunately, ther...
“At first I was like, ‘What the fuck?’” Tatham recalls of the plum booking, which was confirmed a mere three sleepless nights before the big show. “But it was more or less because of the Diplo song I just put out. They’re close. I think she looks to him for advice on cool...
important in free verse. Without the structure of form poetry, free verse often relies on literary devices for sound and rhythm. We’ve already examined the use of alliteration (the repetition of sound in close proximity) in “Spelling.” Alliteration is a useful tool for creating cadence or ...