From boxers to bodybuilders to road trippers and beyond, the past six months have given us an unprecedented number of movies about queer women. As slow, candlelit period pieces fueled by stolen glances, often the sole lesbian representation in media, feel increasingly outdated, this new “golden age” presents an exciting[Read More…]
Hot Take
Song lyrics don’t need to make sense
By Charlotte Hayes, Staff Writer
While songs like Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” contain lyrics more profound than most poetry in the modern canon, others just kind of…feel right. Sometimes, when it comes to the words to a song, what is being said matters so much less than how it’s said. Nonsensical lyrics can operate as everything from metaphor to verbal percussion, each allowing an artist to alter the confines of traditional language use within the medium. So whether it’s Hozier’s “Drain the whole sea, get something shiny, something meaty for the main course” in “Take Me to Church” or the (in)famous “If I was a sculptor, but then again, no” from Elton John's “Your Song,” maybe it’s better to not think too hard about what anyone’s singing and just let the music move you.