Why subscribe???
LET ME COUNT THE WAYS:
because music publications refuse to cover Asian or Asian-American pop comprehensively
even though Asia has a population of four and a half billion
and as a result, produces the majority of the world’s music
and yet, pop music critics refuse to take time off from writing the world’s 122i334th T-Swift thinkpiece to throw Hoàng Thùy Linh (etc.) a bone
despite the fact that the latter probably has something more valuable to say about feminism than the former.
The young audiences usuk music journalists serve increasingly encounter Asian pop, or are of Asian descent themselves.
The artists they cover increasingly listen to and collaborate with Asian artists.
And yet they have constructed a critical edifice where Asian pop is set outside history, canon, and the parameters of good taste.
LET’S CHANGE THAT, STARTING WITH:
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