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Christine Capetola

Writer. Professor. Cultural Programmer.

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SZA, Warning Shots, and Answering Your Own SOS

January 24, 2023 By ccapetola

SZA’s “SOS,” the title track and opening track for the album of the same name, begins with a call for help. After a morse code distress call beeps off, a group of women’s backup vocals harmonize to sing, … Read the rest

Filed Under: anxiety, feelings, intimacy Tagged With: SOS, SZA

Zola Jesus, Getting Lost, and Coming Home

August 8, 2022 By ccapetola

On March 23, 2022, Slavic American experimental pop artist Zola Jesus released “Lost,” the lead single for her forthcoming album Arkhon. As Nika Rosa Danilova describes on her Patreon page, “i wrote lost after chopping up … Read the rest

Filed Under: feelings, intimacy, vibrations, vulnerability Tagged With: Lodge Room, Zola Jesus

Land of Talk and the Intimacy of Healing

June 1, 2022 By ccapetola

At close to one year of being in LA, I went to see Land of Talk live for the first time in five years. As I’ve written about before, Land of Talk are the band that I’ve grown up through … Read the rest

Filed Under: feelings, intimacy, romanticism Tagged With: Land of Talk, Lodge Room

FKA twigs, Pandemic Dating, and Sex after Abuse

January 28, 2022 By ccapetola

On January 14, 2022, FKA twigs dropped her first mixtape. “CAPRISONGS is my journey back to myself through my amazing collaborators and friends,” twigs declares in an Instagram post from January 6th. At the end of the post, twigs … Read the rest

Filed Under: intimacy, queerness, vulnerability Tagged With: CAPRISONGS, FKA twigs

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