pop culture

Adult Swim’s ‘Smiling Friends’ Finds Success Amongst Animation Animosity

How much does the death of the artist matter in pop?

How the world's biggest boy band encourages kindness to ourselves and others.

How does its cultural legacy reveal our acceptance of teenage girlhood?

One of the difficulties of art is that the public eye makes little effort to separate artists from the brands they cultivate. Taylor Swift is the latest artist to be subjected to "sell-out" scrutiny for her shift into pop music, and the criticisms for her work are nothing new.

A look at Sesame Street far exceeding the quota for kid's show hipness.

Hannah buys some coke from her junkie neighbor Laird and things get weird.

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