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Emma | Culture, books & nostalgia in glossy second takes.
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Culture
Nostalgia
Nostalgia
Old internet, old trends, and things I probably should have moved on from but haven’t.
It Started With Grimes
My Chemical Romance at Bellahouston Park: Long Live The Black Parade Review (Glasgow 2026)
YouTube in 2012: The Golden Era of Internet Fame
I Started Posting on social media Again (And It Wasn’t As Deep As I Thought)
Five Songs That Instantly Take Me Back to 2014
The Girls Were Starving: Growing Up With Diet Culture and ANTM (Part 2)
America’s Next Top Model: The Netflix Documentary That Exposes Tyra Banks’ Accountability Problem
My favourite Superbowl performances (biased and not always about the music)
Owning music made me a better listener (and I miss that)
2026 Is the New 2016 (And I Think I Know Why)
Why David Guetta’s Cheesy 2010s Dance Music Worked (And Still Does)
A Court of Thorns and Roses Saved My Reading Habit
Gangnam Style: How Psy got everyone horse dancing and caused world peace in 2012
2006- NME dictated indie cool in an era of dying media
Easy A & The Scarlet Letter: Slut-Shaming then and now
2011 Club Music Revisited: Rihanna, Calvin Harris, and the Anthem That Stuck
Cheap, Sticky, Iconic: 10 Beauty Products Every Millennial Used
Why Kesha’s Tik Tok Became a Cultural Phenomenon; 2010 to 2025
2015 to Now- Did Dazed Get It Right? Grimes, Drag, and K-Pop.
Print Media Still Matters (to Me)
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