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Christine Capetola

Writer. Professor. Cultural Programmer.

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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 … Read the rest

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

Placebo, Nostalgia, and the Pre-Pandemic Past

April 8, 2022 By ccapetola

As many of our masks start to literally and figuratively come off again, we are entering a new moment of pandemic nostalgia, of the desire for a time when our personal—and geopolitical—lives didn’t feel as complicated as they do now. … Read the rest

Filed Under: depression, feelings, intimacy, nostalgia Tagged With: Never Let Me Go, Penn, Placebo

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

2021 in Review: Anxiety, Family, and Community in the Long Pandemic

December 21, 2021 By ccapetola

It was another hard pandemic year—and the pop music around us often reflected that. Our first full (calendar) year of the pandemic, pop both musically and narratively carried forward our feelings of anxiety and isolation but also yearnings for connection … Read the rest

Filed Under: feelings, queerness, vibrations Tagged With: Dawn Richard, Halsey, Little Simz

Sleater-Kinney, Collective Loss, and the Long Pandemic

August 16, 2021 By ccapetola

On June 10th, Sleater-Kinney took to Twitch to promote their new album, Path of Wellness. Now just Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein (plus whoever they record and tour with for a particular album), the broadcast focused on the musical—and … Read the rest

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