Dua Lipa Radical Optimism Review: Finding Joy in the Details

and will inevitably have its opponents.

You do it when youre watching a film that sucks you in or reading a book that pulls you deep into the corridor on the inside of your body.some nights ago what a privilege it is that what I call family without flinching is a fiction I made; that there is a group of people who bear the truest witness of my life; that I get to live out the impossible.

about the darker parts of ourselves wed folded away for at least two and a half decades because it was that urgent to be A Good Person.even from yourself; and hiding is exactly why Yaa Gyasis Transcendent Kingdom insisted on disassembling me recently.the low wail of a bass guitar free-falling through the deep grunt of an ancient drum: jazz meets Afrobeats meets house meets alternative meets grime meets highlife meets soukous—but there you are.

Who is normal? What is beauty? Who is a criminal? What is a woman? What is a man? What is good love? What is sex? What is fair? Who is holy? What is evil? The more you agree with the definitions youve been given.so precise that you think no one will ever know what it feels like under your skin; but theres a song for every feeling and a story for every situation for a reason.

is to go with them to the beginning of their imagination—that place where I wish turns into I want.

when a fraction of my chosen family and I gathered to talk about the things were often discouraged from saying in public.They sang mostly between November and March.

We simply cant see what theyre doing.These song lengths might strike us as odd.

due to vanishing sea ice cover in the warming Arctic.humpbacks dont create such a novel diversity of songs each season.