• Music

    Top 10 Albums of 2016

    Despite how terrible many of the events of 2016 have been, not everyone had a bad year. Honestly, there are quite a few music artists who had an amazing year. 2016 has been an incredible year for music and a year that has seen the emergence of so many new trends that are sure to carry on into the new year. Firstly, this year saw many artists experimenting with genre-mixing in their albums. It is beginning to be difficult to determine what constitutes R&B, rock, soul, indie, or even rap anymore. Artists who we associate with one genre have began branching out or incorporating multiple genres into their music. Many genre mixes were…

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    The New MTV

    Yes, another piece about how the ‘M’ in MTV should not stand for ‘music’ anymore, and should instead stand for ‘millennial.’ But the fact that so many people are writing on this shows that it is an issue. The MTV VMA’s are probably the one time of the year that MTV actually attempts to showcase music. Sometimes they succeed in doing so, but other times, it just feels like a pop award show, with the music coming in second to the scandalous events sure to take place that evening. I have had less and less interest in watching the VMA’s in the past few years, but this year I decided; why…