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Dua Lipa’s Club Future Nostalgia: a fun (but often weird) remix album

Earlier this year, British pop singer Dua Lipa released what will probably be the best pop album of the year. Future Nostalgia, her sophomore record, gave listeners a clearer sense of her style and solidified her status as a pop music powerhouse, delivering one great track after the other. It is a remarkably consistent album…

The Batman Trailer: 3 Things to Be Excited About

This past weekend, DC Comics held a virtual convention called DC FanDome, which was packed with exciting news for DC Comics fans. A two major video games were announced, “Gotham City Knights” and “Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League,” and trailers for Wonder Woman 1984 and the Synder cut of Justice League were shown. However,…

Five years later, Carly Rae Jepsen’s EMOTION is still a pop gem

It’s hard to think of any pop artist who has had a career trajectory quite like Carly Rae Jepsen’s. A few years after bursting into the Billboard Charts with her hit Call Me Maybe, Carly Rae Jepsen somehow managed to move from the newest exponent of the mainstream to an indie pop icon and critical…

Opinion: Republicans lie about Trump’s mishandling of the pandemic

Halfway through the first night of this year’s Republican National Convention, Natalie Harp, a member of the Trump Campaign’s advisory board, made a bold statement. “Just imagine what 2020 would have looked like, fighting for your life without Donald Trump fighting for it, too.” This moment is indicative of a recurring theme in the RNC…

Fall Guys Review: A Hilariously Frustrating Battle Royale

If there is any game that is getting players through the current global pandemic, it’s Fall Guys. This unlikely gaming hit makes a twist on the battle royale genre by purely relying on its simplicity and the interactions between its players. Each game starts with 60 players and they will be progressively eliminated throughout five…

3 Takeaways from the Democratic National Convention

During most election years, the Democratic National Convention is unsurprising. Often, the convention is carried by a few apt speeches that give the country a glance into how the Democratic Party wishes to shape the narrative of the election. But this is 2020, and a year as unconventional as this one calls for an unconventional…