Now that the holiday season has officially started, this means that holiday music officially gets kicked in gear. Radio stations, shopping malls, and television commercials start playing “Deck the Halls,” “Jingle Bells,” and other music of that sort. But for…
Movie Review: Gaga: Five Foot Two
The first shot of Gaga: Five Foot Two is worrying: It’s the heels of Lady Gaga’s rhinestone boots, ascending to the sky with the Bulgarian folk song “Kaval Sviri” playing in the background as if she’s become the shining Mother…
New(ish) Music Tuesdays: February 2017
Welcome to the February installment of New(ish) Music Tuesdays, our monthly feature in which our music staff write about their favorite new songs. Reagan Harrison’s picks SIA – “MOVE YOUR BODY” A club hit at its finest, this song…
The Young Folks’ Top 50 Albums of 2016
This year, The Young Folks has compiled its first ever Top 50 Albums list. The albums and their positions were chosen through balloting of six TYF writers: editor-in-chief Gabrielle Bondi, music editor Ryan Gibbs, film editor Allyson Johnson and music…
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…
Album Review: Lady Gaga – “Joanne”
Lady Gaga is a weird gal, or at least weird in the terms of modern pop music. Yes, her looks are as iconic as they are strange. Her performances are equally complex and ridiculous, bouncing between avant garde and a Joel Schumacher…
TV Review: American Horror Story: Roanoke 6×03 “Chapter 3”
Just when the I was worried I would get bored with this season, “Chapter 3” delivers a taste of a twist that may happen in the coming episodes. The beginning of the episode picks up where the last left off, the…