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Doreen St Felix: The Prosperity Gospel of Rihanna http://m.pitchfork.com/thepitch/724-the-prosperity-gospel-of-rihanna/

http://www.full-stop.net/2015/03/19/reviews/diarmuid-hester/the-university-of-pennsylvania-caren-beilin/

Peter Frase http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-future-bubble/

From a review of Who Owns The Future, and a great critique of metaphors. 

After reading this, was watching some interviews, and this was something I noticed. 

“‘Gunshot’ is I Never Learn’s fist-pumping climax and a total outlier, as longtime producer Björn Yttling still handles the majority of I Never Learn, his trademark, treble-harshed reverb making each lovelorn lullaby sound like it’s smeared with Li’s own tears and ruined makeup. That lends a crucial, tactile reality in Li’s sadness, since very few of her lyrics are going to remind people of things their significant others have actually said to them—’Every time the rain falls, think of me.”  “Baby wait a lifetime before you find somebody new’, ‘Every time I pay the price for a heart that can’t be broken.’ Maybe you’ve thought these things, and hearing them out in the open ensures I Never Learn isn’t an admission of defeat; there’s an unspoken uplift to be had, that you can only hurt this badly after loving way too hard. A chorus of Lykke Li’s sing the title of ‘Never Gonna Love Again’, whereas the gospel choir does the same with “Heart of Steel”, either taunts or acceptance of a fate where grand, sweeping sulks are just a natural and welcome state of being. We’re used to breakup albums that assume you just want to crawl into a hole and die, but I Never Learn is for the times when heartbreak is so life-affirming that you want to share the feeling with the world.” — Ian Cohen

From my interview with James McWilliams. 

The Good Wife 2014, Scandal 2012

The Net (1995)

Disco goddess sensibilities

We have become the wallpaper we wanted to marry.