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Origami Angel Should Be Everywhere By Now and the Reason They're Not Is the Most Interesting Thing About Them
I have been watching people discover Origami Angel for six years. It happens the same way every time. Someone hears a song at a show, or a friend sends them…
By Jesse Harlow
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The Major Labels Sold Your Songs to the Algorithm
Here is what happened, stripped of the press releases. Suno built an AI that can generate a full song (vocals, instruments, production) from a text prompt in under thirty seconds.…
By Cole Briggs
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The Industry Builds Girl Groups to Peak, Nobody Told MUNA
The industry builds girl groups to peak and then quietly waits for the solo careers to begin. MUNA is on their fourth album, still trojan horsing sad lesbian music into…
By Maya E. Lin
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The Labels Saw What Made K-Pop Work and Decided to Remove It
The labels saw what made K-pop undeniable and spent five years trying to remove it. The music got safer. The numbers got smaller. Nobody wants to say it out loud.
By Maya E. Lin
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I Read 200 Olivia Rodrigo TikTok Comments and Music Critics Have No Idea What's Happening
The press spent two days asking if Olivia Rodrigo had grown. Her fans spent two days doing psychology dissertations in the comments. Only one of those groups was actually listening.
By Cole Briggs
