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Culture March 23, 2019
Dean Lewis’s A Place We Knew
The appeal of Dean Lewis’s debut album, A Place We Knew, is that the earnest musings on broken relationships can be moulded to anyone’s story. But what his formulaic songwriting gains in popularity, it lacks in depth and insight.
Music September 08, 2018
Troye Sivan’s ‘Bloom’
Troye Sivan’s album Bloom delivers polished, romantic pop music laced with an appreciation of longing and regret.
Film December 01, 2018
I Used To Be Normal
Tracking four boy-band-obsessed young women over several years, a new Australian documentary, I Used To Be Normal, turns the spotlight off the stars and onto the fangirls in an effective and sensitive paean to blind infatuation.
Life June 23, 2018
The power of fandom
As the National Library raises funds to preserve 19th-century fan scrapbooks, the author reflects on giving herself over to fandom – and how its obsessiveness is both critical and self-reflective.
