Melody Danielle Rice
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Melody is 23 years old, and lives in Ypsilanti, MI. She recently graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a double-major in Journalism and Women’s and Gender Studies. She is a pop culture geek, obsessively consuming music, film, and T.V. Since she was 16, she has wanted to be a cultural critic, and she spends most of her free time listening to music, watching films, researching, and writing. Tumblr: http://memorize-your-lines.tumblr.com/

Melody on Music: Downloadin’ Makes Me Feel Good

Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. Beginning in 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past…

Melody on Music: Sheer Mag, Sleater-Kinney, Allison Crutchfield

Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. Beginning in 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past…

Melody on Music: Sleeping Beauty

Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. Beginning in 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. You can read past…

Melody on Music: Year-End List Ruiners (Almost)

Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. Beginning in 2016, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks. My New Year’s resolution…

Melody on Music: Five Stages of Grief

Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. Beginning earlier this month, Melody relaunched this column on The Young Folks,. “Desperate times call…

Melody on Music: Sleigh Bells, Lady Gaga, Miranda Lambert, Hamilton

Editor’s note: From 2012 to 2014, Melody Rice wrote the music column Matt on Music for The Eastern Echo, the student newspaper for Eastern Michigan University. We are proud to announce that Melody will now be relaunching his column on The…

TV Review: Rectify (4×01) “A House Divided”

Rectify is the most distinctive drama on television, mainly because of how much it avoids television’s biggest appeals. There’s little comfort on the show. Its most fascinating relationships—Daniel and Tawney, Amantha and Jon—are defined by how broken these people are,…