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This isn't Noah Kahan's second album but the second album to follow up your first BIG one is always going to be the cause for a lot of anxiety. You've been wrestling with a sudden gravity-defying leap to superstardom, dealing with regular issues that didn't stop when your star got bright, but now everything's colored by extra pressure. Is this going to change you? Was that the best you had in you? How do you move forward, and in what direction? Reinvention? More of what ... read more

I used to have a little bit of an obsession with Hilary Duff when I was a kid, driven purely by my love for A Cinderella Story and her early songs on Radio Disney like "Wake Up" and "Metamorphosis." I kept up with her cursorily over the years when I was curious and remembered she probably still existed somewhere in the world, and when I heard a new album was imminent, I was intrigued enough to hear what she was up to. "Mature" and "Roommates" were not my ... read more

Taylor Swift’s newer music is so steeped in her own lore, inspired by her own experiences and so enamored of her own celebrity and luxury-steeped life, it’s a challenge for me to separate Taylor Swift’s songs from Taylor Swift. I used to be able to, her music was relatable to me in my childhood and pre-teen years (her debut to Red). I fell off around 1989 when her celebrity started to reach new heights, and when Jack Antonoff took over the picture (my hatred of Jack ... read more

Just two deeply insecure girls being self aware about how they project those insecurities onto each other and honestly and openly working it out on the remix!!! This honestly floored me, how refreshing it is to get something so REAL.