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Making Sense of the Alt Lit Sexual Misconduct Scandal

When art mimics life, what should we be allowed to get away with?

culture / Literature

Social Anxiety: FKA Twigs, Robert Pattinson and the Ethics of Clickbait

Today’s music artists are finding creative ways to resist being reduced to an SEO-friendly headline.

music / R&B

Social Anxiety: Hood By Air Dreamed Up The Perfect Wardrobe For Life After The Apocalypse

style / Clothing

Social Anxiety: Sam Smith and the Complicated Matter of “Normalizing” Gayness

The British pop singer says his sexuality is a “non-issue,” but what does that do for the queer community?

music / Pop

Social Anxiety: What’s Really at Stake in the Jezebel vs. Gawker Affair?

Emilie Friedlander reflects on how cyberbullying, freedom of speech and page views share an uneasy relationship in the digital age.

culture

Social Anxiety: Should Artists Be Paying Journalists to Listen to Their Music?

As a new site professes to connect musicians to “influencers” for a fee, Emilie Friedlander wonders what’s been lost in the democratization of music.

culture

Social Anxiety: Yung Lean, the Sad Boys and the Evolution of the Outsider Stance

Like Odd Future before them, Swedish rap crew Sad Boys have built a cult fan base. But what they’re selling is bafflingly familiar.

music / Hip-Hop

Social Anxiety: Rihanna, Scout Willis and Why Nudity Can Be a Potent Weapon in Our Post-Internet Times

Emilie Friedlander on how the power of voyeurism can yield surprising results.

culture

Social Anxiety: The Tragic Necessity of YouTube Star Bethany Mota

Emilie Friedlander on what the mega-successful, 18-year-old haul vlogger tells us about the female condition today.

style

Social Anxiety: Why The Closure of Kim’s Video Marks the End of the Hipster Era

In the second installment of her new column, Emilie Friedlander charts the demise of America’s snobbiest video store.

culture

Social Anxiety: Sky Ferreira, Avril Lavigne and the Price of Oblivious Appropriation

In the first installment of her biweekly column, Emilie Friedlander weighs in on the recent racism allegations against Sky Ferreira, Avril Lavigne, and other pop stars.

culture