Monday Music
Monday Music: Mythologies of the self
June 15, 2025There is a strange beauty in the in-between. We often resist it — when life doesn’t offer clear beginnings or endings, where you are neither who you were nor who you will be. But as cultural theorist Homi Bhabha has explained, it is in this third space — the borderlands between identities, cultures, and selves — that new meanings emerge. This “in-between” is not a void, but a fertile terrain where hybrid selves are formed, where contradictions coexist and evolve. It’s where the rigid categories of identity begin to blur, allowing space for transformation. That’s where this playlist begins, in…
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Monday Music: When soft weather brings hard feelings
May 14, 2025Driving through X̱wáýx̱way (Stanley Park) this morning, I noticed something that jolted me out of my usual daze of cherry blossoms and sunkissed daydreams: trees, felled and fallen. The ones standing didn’t look much better, thin and brittle with decay.…
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Monday Music: Filipino music of the 2010s
March 24, 2025“Ride Home” by Ben & Ben In Ben & Ben’s 2017 single, the narrator goes on a morning drive to a place that reminds him of an important person in his life. The lyrics, “So, I’m coming home to…
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Monday music: Twee love songs
February 10, 2025 “P.U.N.K Girl” by Heavenly Twee was originally British slang for sweet to a “nauseating” degree. Heavenly was one of the bands who emerged in the ‘80s in opposition to the “increasing harshness in the post-punk music scene” under the…
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Monday Music: Original Pilipino Music (OPM) classics
November 6, 2024“Manila” by Hotdog International students can surely relate to the feeling of missing home, and “Manila” by Hotdog perfectly encapsulates this. Released in 1976, this Manila sound (a genre blending rock and roll, jazz, funk, and disco) track talks about…
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Monday Music: ‘90s romcom soundtrack
September 23, 2024 “Give Love a Try” by Twilight Sometimes, love feels hopeless and you want to completely give up on searching for it. Perhaps give Twilight a listen and you’ll be excited to “give love a try.” Opening with a funky…
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Songs from the silver screen
March 19, 2024Movies and music go hand-in-hand like peanut butter and jelly. Whether it’s a multi-layered uplifting score, a scary synth track, or a rhythmic pop song, music can add value to film by reflecting the feelings of what’s seen on screen.…
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Monday Music: The stages of a love affair
February 14, 2024“FMF” by Uncle Strut Sometimes, that person you’ve been waiting for has been by your side or in your circle all this time. Perhaps it’s the sexual chemistry or the butterflies you get from being next to them —…
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Music Monday: Asian women in indie
November 9, 2023As someone who doesn’t stick to one genre when it comes to music, something I’ve noticed is in the indie scene, Asian women don’t typically get the spotlight, despite the fact that there are so many talented musicians innovating within…
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Monday Music: Commuter jams
October 10, 2023Whether you commute to campus by car, bus, or . . . a helicopter, for all I know, Monday mornings can sometimes be a drag. A cure for this early inconvenience are songs calm enough to be played in the…
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