My name is Iz Divine, and I am a brand new R&B Pop singer from Denver, CO. On November 13th, I released my first single ever called "Gone". "Gone" is a vibrant mix of everything I love about retro sounds coming together with modern production. At its core, “Gone” tells the story of the turning point in my life when I became so tired and resentful at living a life that wasn’t true to who I wanted to be. I wrote this song as a declaration to myself and the world, freeing myself and stepping into the authentic life that had always been waiting for me. To me, this song is freedom, being absolutely untethered and liberated. I wanted “Gone” to sound like all the most euphoric and completely present moments in a person's life like driving down the highway, blasting music with windows down, not a care in the world.
We’re halfway through 2023 and critics are slouching towards their Best Records Of The Year So Far lists. They’re rarely happy about it. If dicing releases every 12 months is arbitrary, then six months is labor on a factory line, wood chips for the content mill. But this year, I feel like they hate these lists more than usual. They’re having a hard time picking much. And maybe you are, too. P...
At the close of 2022, Bitcoin wasn’t just down—it was so down that its precipitous fall was breaking records. One report from Bank of America suggested that the collapse in value was the fifth-worst for any asset in financial history. Despite steady gains this year, it hasn’t even come close to its November 2021 peak, and now things are about to get shaken up like a bead in a baby’s rattle w...
In Ari Aster’s 2016 short film C’est La Vie, Chester Crummings, a homeless man, speaks directly and combatively to camera about his life and society at large as he wanders the streets of LA, surviving, begging for change and casually murdering people. At one point, he says: “You know what Freud says about the nature of horror? He says it’s when the home becomes unhomelike. Unheimlich.”
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