Pop is no longer what it used to be. As time has passed, the genre has moved with it, subbing squeaky clean, over-produced tracks for more realistic, modern takes. Part of that evolution includes the ...

Isabella Kensington appreciates the science of a good, sad pop song—neuroscience, specifically. I meet the British-American singer-songwriter at East Village institution Veselka, the legendary ...

Growing up is hell. Your body changes so quickly you can almost sense it happening. Your hormones trip off thoughts you can barely manage or understand. In adolescence, before we settle into the ...

Experts weigh in on why "sad Affleck" memes of Ben Affleck keep going viral seven years later. (Rob Latour/Shutterstock, Backgrid) So why do these kinds of Affleck pictures take off online? According ...

On Sunday, I was happily transported back into my tween years at the Sad Summer Festival held at the Palladium Outdoors. The lyrics of emo pop punk and music aside, the Sad Summer Festival, which ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...