Looks like I’m hopping on the YouTube train with Vivian and Taj. The other day, I saw this video in my YouTube recommendations: I’m not sure why YouTube recommended this to me, exactly. Okay, no, wait—I’m pretty sure it’s because I spend unholy amounts of time watching Miley Cyrus videos and replaying my favorite clips…
In her 2006 poetry collection Averno, Louise Glück writes a series of poems based on the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone. This myth was originally intended to explain the changing of the seasons. Generally, the myth states that Persephone was the daughter of Demeter, an earth goddess or Mother Earth. One day, when she…
One of my favorite examples of remix for some time now has been the remixing of popular songs to create a mashup of the songs. Particularly, I have been watching YouTuber Daniel Kim’s “Pop Danthology” videos since the first one was created in 2010. Kim mixed between 50-90 pop songs that became popular in a…
Being someone who is interested in music and the world of music sharing, I took interest in the genre itself, thus leading to this project. I have found out quite a bit about a few websites that I’m sure most, if not all, of us know and love. It has also helped me to realize…
The term genre is broader than most people think it is. At least, it’s more than what I thought it was. When I heard the word genre growing up, I would think of a category, particularly for books and movies: comedy, horror, thriller, drama, etc. In Creative Writing, genre is something that is discussed a…