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Op-Ed: Music Is Good For Your Mental Health

Listening to music has other benefits, such as finding the words to put to what you are feeling. Sometimes it is hard for people to figure out what is going on inside of them, and music is something most people can relate to with a vast number of different genres and styles. It makes it easier to talk and figure out who you are as a person. Music can support people throughout all stages of life. It is proven that mothers that sing to their newborn babies and infants have a better relationship, and it is central to infants feeling pleasure at the beginning of their life. This attribute continues to grow with us as we get older, and music still holds beneficial capabilities. Music is an entry into another world where you might not feel as alone. It can help people connect through learning instruments or coming together to sing. Music also helps your brain build capacity and connections which helps you stay more alert and aware of your emotions.

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Op-Ed: Making Playlists Every Month Boosted My Serotonin

Music has a powerful effect on our brains and has been shown to reduce anxiety and depression, stave off fatigue, improve your response to pain, and work out more effectively. That’s why you’ll see playlists tailored just for working out, meditation, or study. To put it simply – music gives your serotonin a little boost, and creating playlists makes it that much easier.

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Op-Ed: Has Modern Hip-Hop Really Become More Destructive? Probably not.

With a current millennial rapper facing down RICO chargers for the content of his lyrics (Young Thug), it seems reasonable that early rap fans would point to their being some credence in indicting lyrical content as being dangerous, offensive, brazen, and influential. And, to be fair, Young Thug’s lyrics are mild compared to some of the content coming from the Chicago and Jacksonville drill scenes, which tend to make fun of dead gang rivals openly, or some of the raw Soundcloud-based music, which tends to be incredibly overt in it’s handling of sexual themes a la Robb Bank$ or the deceased Xxxtentacion.

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Rema ft. Selena Gomez remix “Calm Down” reaches No.8 on Billboards Hot 100

The original version of “Calm Down” was released on February 11, 2022, from his debut album Rave & Roses, which grew in popularity across Europe, reaching number one from Belgium stations Ultratop 50, Dutch Top 40, and Dutch Single Top 100. While the song has risen in popularity in various countries, the Vanguard states, “This is a new height as this is the first ever Nigerian song to chart at Top 10 in Billboard Hot 100’s history.” The song has even reached a whopping 400M views on Youtube and other platforms.

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Ed Sheeran Docu-Series ‘The Sum of It All’ Coming Soon to Disney+

Disney+ will release ‘The Sum of it All’, a four-part docu-series focusing on the life and career of Ed Sheeran. The title references the singer’s albums that are named after math symbols. 

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Clarence “Fuzzy” Haskins, Original Member of Parliament-Funkadelic, Dies at 81

iginal Parliament-Funkadelic member Clarence “Fuzzy” Haskins has died at age 81. Haskins, along with the other core Parliament-Funkadelic members, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

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Behind The Scenes, Taylor Swift’s New Tour “Eras”

Taylor Swift packed her bags and started loading the van as she started her tour in Glendale, Arizona last Friday, March 17th for her new album ‘Eras’. Covid took a hit to our beloved Taylor on her last albums, ‘Lover’, ‘Folklore’, and ‘Evermore’; due to the pandemic, she did not go on tour for these albums. So we are all overjoyed about Taylor going on tour for ‘Eras’. Five years felt like a lifetime.

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BLACKPINK Become the Most Streamed Female Band on Spotify

BLACKPINK has done it again, but this is not the group’s first time in the spotlight. According to the Guinness World Records, the popular K-pop girl group has reached the new high-water mark with 8.8 billion individual streams on Spotify, beating out previous titleholders Little Mix, a British-based group. Their most popular hits contributed to the record included “How You Like That” (2020) with 746 million streams, “Kill This Love” (2019) with 672 million and “Ddu-du Ddu-du” (2018) with 575 million.

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Childish Gambino & Kirby Share New EP to Amazon Show “Swarm”

The EP is inspired by and arrives on the same day as Glover’s new Amazon Prime series Swarm, a story of a young woman, Dre (played by Dominique Fishback), who is obsessed with a fictional pop star that’s eerily similar to Beyoncé. The fictional pop star, Ni’jah, is voiced by KIRBY both in the show and EP.

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PJ Sin Suela’s Latest Album is a Mirror of Puerto Rican Culture

With the name of Chinchorreo, Puerto Rico’s rapper Pj Sin Suela releases an album full of Puerto Rican party traditions such as the act of chinchorrear. Which is driving through the mountains hopping from “chinchorro” to “chinchorro” to drink, eat street food, and dance.

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Top 5 Songs That Already Went Viral on TikTok in 2023

TikTok has become one of the most used apps of this century. What started as a platform primarily for entertainment purposes, has turned into a money-making business for lots of people all across the world.

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De La Soul Rises Again: “3 Feet High and Rising” Among Prolific Catalog Released for Streaming

Hip-hop aficionados, casual fans, and curious listeners have reason to rejoice. De La Soul’s back catalog is finally available for streaming on numerous streaming platforms. The date chosen to reintroduce their six studio albums, previously absent amongst the plethora of classic hip-hop cuts available to streaming platform users, was March 3rd: the 34th anniversary of the release of their debut album, 3 feet High and Rising.

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