Artist Spotlight: Vana
From TikTok star to your new favourite divine feminine red-headed metal artist, meet Vana. The American-born New Zealand artist began her career making TikToks in mid-2021, known for meme content that often played on TikTok fetish content, where she ‘Pavlov'd’ her audience with a bell, now featured in all her songs. Some may know her on TikTok from her viral “are you from Mississippi?” joke (please search Vana Mississippi on TikTok; I will not be quoting it here). Vana went f
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3 years of Guts by Olivia Rodrigo
No one spills their guts quite like Olivia Rodrigo and 2026 marks the third birthday of the pop star’s sophomore album: Guts. Released on 8 September 2023, Rodrigo’s second studio album built on the success of the juggernaut debut release Sour which had spawned hits such as ‘Driver’s License’ and ‘Déjà vu’ and firmly established her as one of the leading Gen Z pop girls. I have grown up alongside Rodrigo, who began her career starring as Nini in Disney’s High School Musical:
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You Are More Than Your Worst Mistake
We can study so hard, but still fail. We rehearse what to say and know what not to do, but things still come out wrong. We precisely plan for our ideal outcome, but nothing goes right. How is it that we attract the very thing we’re trying to repel? After a while, the problems don’t seem solely external. It can make anyone raise the question: What if we’re the problem? Is the bad we experience just a mirror? Anything in a single context is bad. If someone steals, that is an o
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