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We Had The Loveliest Time - A Carly Rae Jepsen Album Review by Alex and Q
We Had The Loveliest Time - A Carly Rae Jepsen Album Review by Alex and Q

POP EMERGENCY! Everyone’s favourite Canadian chartreuse has released another album! Coming hot of last year’s The Loneliest Time, the queen of wistful pop has released The Loveliest Time. Using Spotify’s hot new synch feature, Alex and Q poured a glass of Kylie rosé and got to listening. Thus enjoy our scattered and excited thoughts. 

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Lana, Glamour and White Privilege
Lana, Glamour and White Privilege

Lana Del Rey citing herself as glamorous, fragile and delicate while othering women of colour as “strong,” goes hand in hand with a long tradition of viewing white women as glamourous and women of colour as exotic

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The Taylor Swift Guide to Co-Opting Pride
The Taylor Swift Guide to Co-Opting Pride

It’s a fine line to tailor to the gays without coming off as pandering, or a privileged white girl who saw season 6 of RuPauls Drag Race for the first time on a plane. Anyway, here’s the new Taylor Swift song.

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Break Up With Ur Toxic Femininity Ariana, I’m Bored
Break Up With Ur Toxic Femininity Ariana, I’m Bored

It’s not punk or edgy or cool to hate on other women just for the hell of it; it’s internalised misogyny.

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