Thinkpieces
What Is the Deal With Everyone Wearing Small Sunglasses?
An in-depth investigation to this year’s trendiest face furniture.
Can Men and Women Ever Just Be Friends? An Investigation
We asked some smart friends why they aren't shagging.
What the Taylor Swift vs. Kanye Beef Tells Us About the Meaning of Life
Steven Hydens's new book 'Your Favorite Band is Killing Me' focuses on famous music rivalries like Oasis vs. Blur and Taylor Swift vs. Kanye to reveal that these beefs were about something more than drunken VMA speeches or Noel Gallagher's big mouth.
I Went to See The Libertines in Nottingham to See if They Still Mean Anything in the Age of Thinkpiece Pop
The rakish idealistic boys of yesteryear have become the portly realistic men of today.
Why Is Madonna, the Grown-Ass Grammy-Winning Queen of Pop, Still Looking for Ideas to Steal?
Any cringeworthy moment Madonna serves up isn't the result of age, or of the length of her career, or even a dulled instinct as far as picking songs—so why does she keep trying to prove herself?
This Is How We Don't: The Raised Stakes of Appropriation
Why the wanton jacking of black culture by white artists carried an extra edge in 2014.
A No-Bullshit Review of Pop Music in 2014
Starring thinkpiece pop, Killer Mike, rave nostalgia, and the same boring white guys with guitars.
Here's Kendrick Lamar's New Track, "i"
It's the first song from his upcoming album following 'good kid, M.A.A.D. city.'
It's Time to Shut Up About Your Pubes
Do we have to love our pubes? Is an apparently obligatory pride in our underbrush as unhelpful as the previously obligatory shame? You do not need to defend your bod. But you also don't need to keep talking about it.
Six Tedious Conversations No One Was Actually Having in 2013
Robin Thicke, Katie Hopkins, twerking: A year in fake furores.