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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, “Last night I cried.” Sampled out of Gabriel Hardeman Delegation’s take on “Until I Found The Lord Read More

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 a sample of a slovenian folk choir singing a song from the bela krajina region where my ancestors are Read More

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 adulthood with. Entering my life after Sleater-Kinney went on hiatus in 2006, LOT have been Read More

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

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