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JULIA GRAY

selected clippings

Washington post

  • Covid put music festivals on hold. Climate change might cause bigger long-term problems.
  • 100 Gecs Sound Like Nothing And Everything You've Ever Heard
  • Sopranos Fans Haven't Stopped Believin'  ​

New York Magazine

  • The Horniest Decade: A Taxonomy 

The ringer

  • Stephan Jenkins Is Not Here to Talk About the Past
  • 'Euphoria' is Rewriting the Teen Soap Soundtrack
  • How Olivia Rodrigo Became a Canvas for Millennial Nostalgia
  • Our Tech-Addled, Modern World Changed Dating. It Also Changed the Breakup Song
  • The Apocalyptic Pop Of Grimes' New Album
  • Fiona Apple Is at Her Sharpest—and Most Playful—on ‘Fetch the Bolt Cutters’

Pitchfork

  • Pussy Riot - Matriarchy Now Review
  • Cake Pop - Cake Pop 2 Review
  • Gus Dapperton - Orca Review
  • No Rome - It's All Smiles Review
  • Glaive - All Dogs Go To Heaven Review
  • The Front Bottoms - In Sickness & In Flames Review
  • Widowspeak - Plum Review
  • Slow Pulp - Moveys Review

retail brew

  • How in-store music can help retailers hit the right notes
  • Goodbye, minimalism: How Gen Z is reshaping retail product design
  • How men’s beauty brands plan to take off in 2022
  • Why this “dinner-party store” is perfecting brick and mortar before digging into e-comm
  • A look inside Jokr, the rapid grocery delivery company
  • “It was kind of an accident”: How kids’ overalls company Hey Gang expanded to adults
  • How beauty app Supergreat aims to stand out in livestream shopping
  • The cannabis beverage market is bubbling with brands
  • The Rise and Fall of the Metal Straw
  • Mobile apps must now be more than a checkbox for retailers
  • TikTok #dorm content is driving a new category of home decor
  • Nostalgia-hungry millennial parents crave healthier lunch box snacks for their kids
  • Interest in designer collabs grows as Gen Zers view luxury goods as assets
  • ReviewMeta wants to helps online shoppers reality check shady Amazon reviews
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Stereogum

  • Rebecca Black On Viral Fame And 10 Years Of "Friday"
  • The 10 Best Charli XCX Songs
  • With Its New Music Spinoff, The Bachelor Out-Dumbs Itself
  • Hayley Williams Interview
  • ​Am I Grateful Enough For The Dead?​
  • Tinder Is Even Worse At A Music Festival
  • The Dream Of 2010 Is Alive At Electric Zoo
  • Musical.ly, Tik Tok, And The Memeification Of Music​​​
  • Now That’s What I Call Music! Turns 20  
  • “…Baby One More Time” Turns 20
  • A Decade Of Katy Perry: The Rise And Fall Of A Candy-Coated Pop Star In An Increasingly Sour World
  • A Look Back At Sex And The City's Perfectly Corny Soundtrack
  • James Blake Plays A Beautiful Set To Bored Teens At Gov Ball
  • Something About Airplanes Turns 20
  • Best Music Beefs Of 2018
  • 2018’s Worst Music Trends
  • 5 Other Songs Chainsmokers Should Make Into Movies (Satire)
  • The 10 Best Yeah Yeah Yeahs Songs
  • The Brilliant Future Gospel Of Young Fathers' Cocoa Sugar
  • Band To Watch: THICK
  • The Good, The Bhad, And The Buzzy 
  • Narrow Stairs At 10: An Interview With Ben Gibbard​

Nylon

  • Discord, Where Everybody Knows Your Name
  • Cat Cohen & Pat Regan Seek Treatment

Uproxx

  • How TikTok Has Changed What Fans Expect From Pop Stars
  • Kelsey Randall’s Ruffles And Rhinestones Turn Musicians Into Fairytale Rock Stars
  • Vertical Videos & The Attention Economy
  • Charli XCX Makes Pop Music For The People

Playboy

  • The Metamorphosis Of The Mask
  • Hannah Levy's Latex Furniture
  • Can "Influence" Be Taught?​​​
  • Meet The Artist & Sex Worker Subverting Cream-Covered Fantasies​​
  • Against Hats
  • Fashion & Fetish​​​

The business of business

  • BlackRock former CIO Tariq Fancy on greenwashing, "following passion alone," and other scams
  • A talent agent explains how YouTube kids and family content mushroomed into a multi-million-dollar business
  • I tried the YouCam Makeup app and created the Perfect Woman
  • Vice Ventures wants good companies in "bad" industries
  • On Fanhouse, users pay for selfies, sh*tposts, and a sense of intimacy
  • The bossware boom is upon us: a look inside the employee monitoring software market
  • ​David Dobrik's Dispo app wants to put the 'social' back in social media, but can it rival Instagram?
  • Twitter comes for creator payment platforms like Patreon with new Super Follows feature
  • Spotify is entering the creator economy and cementing its podcast dominance
  • Go viral or go home: "TikTok leggings" raise the stakes as athleisure brands battle it out
  • ​​The curious case of Quibi: why its "quick bites" were doomed from the start
  • A look inside Reels: Can Instagram's new feature beat TikTok?

gray area / substack

  • I Post, Therefore I Am
  • Lip Service
  • Hindsight is 2020 - Year in Review

forbes

  • What Does It Mean For A Brand To Get "Canceled"? Not Much.

Paper

  • Tove Lo Pushes Pop To Its Climax 
  • Kimbra Is Ready For Her Return​
  • Citizens Of Nowhere Makes Bootleg Authentic
  • Mari Andrew Navigates Early Adulthood In 'Am I There Yet?'
  • Lauren Rantala: The Trials Of A Teenage Grim Reaper ​
  • Material Girls: Exploring Intimacy With Power Tools​
  • The Organization Teaching Afghan Girls To Skateboard
  • ​I Tried Kava And It Was Nothing Like Xanax
  • Healing Crystals & Sex Toys (Interview)​​

Vice

  • Infamous Erotic Novel 'Story of O' Inspired Natalie Frank's Arousing Art
  • Aaron Johnson's Nightmarish Burger Art 

Man repeller

  • The State Of "Basic" In 2019 ​
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