Tag: essay
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Making Beat Tapes Using CAPCUT: My Odyssey
Inside every young man is a wolf, and that wolf wants to make bad SoundCloud beats. CapCut is a video editing software. There are many relatively cheap ways to create music digitally, but this shouldn’t be one of them. What my freshman year self did here can be broadly categorized as a bastardization of everything…
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The State Of Pop: When The Bubble Pops
Part 1 of an AROUSE special series Does pop music really not hit the same? Or do you just miss being 13 years old? Nostalgia – the world’s greatest spice – enriches even the worst struggle meals. The sounds that permeate your formative years inform and develop the palate you’ll carry for the rest of…
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Sports Matter
Sports matter. I’ll explain this further later, but first we need to talk about losing. Losing hurts. Losing by a small margin feels like a stabbing pain right in the chest. Getting beat to a pulp, meanwhile, feels like suffocating. It hits you like a tidal wave. Salt in your eyes, sand in your trunks,…