Home Opinion Page 37

Opinion

“She’s indecisive, she can’t decide”, Sean Kingston once sang. No, he wasn’t a Libra himself, but he may well have been singing about one. Represented by the scales, the Libra is concerned with balance, which means they’re great at spinning...
Though it was nearly a year ago, Jesy Nelson’s decision to leave Little Mix on the grounds of poor mental health remains nothing short of revolutionary. A rare move of open no-nonsense autonomy in pop, she cemented the notion...
There is usually a bit of ceremony around a Glastonbury Festival headliner announcement, but in one not-so-cryptic Instagram post last week, Billie Eilish marked the latest in the important trajectory of both the festival and her own career. At...
As the year draws to a close and we start to look back on our favourite records, let’s take a second to talk about the major albums still to come. With the promise of actually being able to tour on...
Throughout the pandemic, it has become painfully apparent that music is in a bad way. With closing venues, artists encouraged to ‘retrain’ and endless woes over the pittance of streaming revenues, it’s been tough to know exactly how we...
Wet Leg - ‘Wet Dream’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjpgJjdk52c If there’s one thing we like more than a boundlessly exciting, ever-so-slightly Elastica-y track with a giddy, chant-along chorus, it’s said track amped up with a healthy dose of eyebrow-curling sass. “What makes you think...
We’ve come a long way since Poppy – aka Nashville-raised singer Moriah Rose Pereira – first emerged in 2014, claiming to be some kind of sentient AI being. Over the years, she’s slowly shed that façade, replacing it with something more...
Delilah Holliday - ‘Dimension’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGctbib0cjI “I think about you all the time / I think you’re haunting me, stalking me in my mind,” sings former Skinny Girl Diet member Delilah Holliday on her latest solo track. But while ‘Dimension’ might seem...
Did anybody have Nicki Minaj subtweeting Chris Whitty on their 2021 Bingo card? Not I, but if we’ve learnt anything recently about digital-era discourse, it’s that literally anything goes, particularly when it comes to matters of the pandemic. From...
On a sunny afternoon in mid-September, over a thousand people gathered in an industrial park in Walthamstow for the inaugural Dialled In festival. Accompanied by a thoughtfully curated programme of music, art and food, the crowd was able to...