HALUHALO: MUSIC
Getting Geese(d): The Performative Stance of Taste in Online Discourse
There has been a growing pressure in contemporary online discourse that goes beyond simply responding to art. A great case study is Geese and their third album, ‘Getting Killed,’ which continues to suggest that this generation’s rock can exist without self-mythology or the puffed-up seriousness the genre has worn for decades.
Fragments of One Dream: Tomorrow x Together and the Rhythm of K-pop Storytelling
K-pop is often discussed through performance – choreography, sound, and visual style – but over the past decade it has also developed increasingly elaborate narrative systems. For 4th Gen K-pop Group Tomorrow x Together, narrative unfolds less like an album and more like cinema stretched across time.
'Michelangelo Dying' by Cate Le Bon REVIEW: Terribilità Personified
Michelangelo embodied terribilità, an effect of profoundly powerful and terrible awe. Cate Le Bon’s Michelangelo Dying channels that same terribilità on her own terms — with sublime ambition, but also a vulnerability more humbling and distant from him.
Spotify and the Invisible Tyranny of Convenience
Spotify doesn’t just fail artists and workers; it actively sustains an increasingly hostile future, one that is detached from the values music is meant to uphold and funded by fans of the art form who often have no idea what they’re supporting beyond convenient access to new albums, buzzed-about debuts, and algorithm-sweetened trends.