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Ah, playlists. They’ve always been ways to communicate unsayable feelings and to transmit us to different, sometimes extremely specific times and places. But lately my YouTube and Spotify recommendations have been filled to the brim with extremely specific yet somehow universal playlists. Though they all seem to express a variety of different experiences, most are […]

Years ago, my girlfriend and I went to Woodstock for Valentine’s Day. We Airbnb’d a room in the house of a former Waldorf teacher who had a cat named Missy Elliot. Next to the house there was a fire station, and outside the fire station there was a sign advertising a Valentine’s Day pancake breakfast […]

Taylor Swift’s “folklore” breaks down time, threading personal mythologies with nonlinear storytelling, embedding raw personal emotion into fictional stories.