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Christine Capetola

Writer. Professor. Cultural Programmer.

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Fever Ray, Changing Bodies, and Musical (Gender) Queerness

May 15, 2023 By ccapetola

Radical Romantics, the latest album from Swedish synth-y and experimental pop artist Fever Ray, opens with an apology of sorts: “First I’d like to say that I’m sorry/ I’ve done all the tricks that I can.” The opening lines are a campy wink, acknowledging the steel drums—and pitch shifting—that are hallmarks of Karin Dreijer’s work Read More

Filed Under: intimacy, queerness, romanticism, transness, vulnerability Tagged With: Fever Ray, Fox Theater, Radical Romantics

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

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 explains astrology’s importance for this project of reconnecting with herself: it’s my stubborn caprisun ass telling Read More

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

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