Pop

Between Those Lips

The Riviera sunset is flooding the lobby and bathing us all in warm light, but as it catches that world-famous mouth, there is a glint I know to examine more closely.

by Jessica Porter

4 min

The Rolling Stones Celebrity Crushes Sticky Fingers

My Myspace page becomes a giant collage depicting my undeniable love for Dana and Tegan and Sara. I’m not hiding anything. In fact, I think I’m making it pretty impossible for anyone who knows me to say, “that girl MUST be straight.”

by Kayleigh Palmer

4 min

The L Word Identity Tegan and Sara

So Unusual

The art of giving zero f*cks

by Jamie Glowacki

3 min

Cyndi Lauper Punk Rebellion

Gods Of Rock

Build it and they will play

by Arka Ray

3 min

Rock Band Gaming Beastie Boys

Right As Rain On Volume Ten

In harmony, but out of tune

I wanted to take it all back. Rewind. Pause. Please pause, Dad.

by Marnie Goodfriend

4 min

Nostalgia Fatherhood Bruce Hornsby

The Shadow Of Me

Okay not being okay

My home was now a crime scene, everything I owned was evidence. I watched the light go out on the bright, outgoing, creative 22 year old and a ghostlike shadow take her place.

by Marnie Goodfriend

5 min

Fiona Apple Abuse Coping

Everybody, Everybody Knows

Everybody Knows

“Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere” meant something specific for Young, in a strange city where the weather never changes, dreaming of a bit of a breeze that never seemed to come.

by Joseph Bien-Kahn

3 min

Neil Young Siblings Growing Up

Living In Love In The Year Of The Tiger

Mastering the curves of Topanga

The soft, thick leather of the steering wheel begged for a gentle touch; the engine's natural rumble was backed up by Audi's turbocharged powerplant; and the 505-watt Bang & Olufsen sound system bumped harder than anyone would ever need.

by Asa Beal

3 min

Audi A5 Sex St. Vincent

Nowhere To Go But Up

When getting out is all you have

The children missing shoes, the young men preyed on by John Wayne Gacy, the drunks confined to their fire escape — all these lost souls, they had nowhere to run.

by Debra Kahn

4 min

Rebellion Bruce Springsteen Nostalgia

The Tao Of Bowie

Because we've got five years

I had to get away from the TV. Now I'm sitting in my room gazing into the cryptic face of my alien visitor, whose timing cannot be coincidental.

by Asa Beal

4 min

David Bowie Vinyl Childhood

My Grandmother, The FBI, & Jay-Z

Learning how to make the song cry

It’s a New York spring morning: hazy, dim, quiet. From the bottom of the staircase I hear these new sounds: wailing, then choked silence, then gasping for breath. It is 6 in the morning and my mother is in tears.

by Eric Turner

3 min

Mourning Jay-Z Family

Shattered Vinyl

100 yellow ribbons is all I need

They loved Frank Sinatra and cigarettes and bell-bottoms and platform shoes and sneaking out in the middle of the night and being all kinds of Dazed & Confused. Absolutely brilliant.

by Julie Townsend Maigret

4 min

Tie A Yellow Ribbon Positive Change Tony Orlando and Dawn

Charlie's Angels Meet The Upside Down

The high cost of popularity

Diana Ross and Crystal Gayle had a Beautiful Hair Baby, and she has great clothes and the fierce confidence of a thousand 3rd graders. She is terrifying. I have to be friends with her.

by Julie Townsend Maigret

3 min

Charlie's Angels Peer Pressure Stranger Things

My Life Is Delirious

What would Eddie do?

When I turn 17, I do my first open mic at a coffee shop near my hometown in Connecticut. White people, dim lighting, and overpriced coffee. Terrifying.

by Rob Santos

4 min

Eddie Murphy Standup Comedy Motherhood

My Pop Education

Boarding school with Britney and Gaga

I can learn by listening. Listening and Listening and more Listening until eventually my parents insist that I take my headphones off and “be present” or get grounded.

by Kayleigh Palmer

3 min

Britney Spears Lady Gaga Playing Music