It’s Eurovision Finals Day! We’ll be liveblogging the final later today, and you can catch up on our live coverage earlier this week of the first and second semifinals. But you might need something to pass the time before the final. Or you might be boycotting Israel and/or Madonna and/or Graham Norton and/or overly enthusiastic Australians. Or Eurovision may just not be your thing. Regardless, here are some creative outputs by our writers for you to enjoy!
- For In Review Online‘s Lou Ye retrospective, Iris Xie reviews Spring Fever: “…the film lacks any genuine emotion or fluid lyricism, leaving Yu Dafu’s prose, which is plastered all over the screen, feeling more desperate than poignant.”
- For Spin, Hannah Jocelyn reviews The National’s I Am Easy to Find EP: “…what first makes the record baffling is also what makes it fascinating.”
- For the Stanford Daily, Jacob Sujin Kuppermann talks about “Old Town Road” and the myth of the cowboy.
- For The Young Folks, Leonel Manzares de la Rosa details why Proyecto Uno’s “El Tibuerón” turned out to be so important to the development of Latin urban music.
- Finally, Kat Stevens’s band, Foxcunt, has released its new single, “Anxiety Dream” (complete with video!).