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author of FANGIRLS: SCENES FROM MODERN MUSIC CULTURE and writer-editor of good things.
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lana del rey: she does it for the girls
i interviewed lana for the cover of
@RollingStoneUK
!!!
we spoke about her finally feeling excited about life and her career, her new album, being a girl’s girl, romance and men 🎀
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one of the most british opinion pieces you will ever read in a newspaper (naturally the comment section is united with me):
i wrote about deciding to tell people playing content on their phone out loud on public transport to put their headphones in
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I wrote about why 50 percent of teen boys and young men in the UK might think feminism has gone too far.
But mainly this is an article about the radicalisation of boys online and how to de-radicalise someone who hates women.
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The deaths of Joan, Eve and the other geniuses is another occasion to feel morose about skeletal editorial teams, books that read like blogs, editors who can’t edit (as they were never edited), editors without time to edit, profiles that read like press releases blah blah blah
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The more negative stuff aside, it is wild that Britney fans knew there was something sinister going on and fought for her all this time. They have been relentless campaigners. Years of time, energy and passion at the risk of looking like dangerous conspiracy theorists
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I'm leaving VICE soon after seven+ years of working with the company. I spent my whole twenties there - the good, bad and the ugly. A fearless little freak went in, a very different person is coming out. Seven years is a lifetime!
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rolling stone uk’s digital cover with charli xcx has just dropped 💔⚰️🩸 on stans, celebrity and her upcoming album ‘crash’
words by me and photos by jack bridgland
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the hands (and media organisations) that this has gone through to be legally tight and publishable in the uk…
you wouldn’t believe unless you work in the british media.
glad to see this story finally out via bbc and guardian.
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i wrote this feature about k-pop group monsta x and my experience of a promo trail
We followed
@officialmonstax
on the promo trail for their second English language album ‘The Dreaming’ to find out what it takes to be K-pop giants 💥
Read the full interview now:
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Personal news ~ a UK edition of Rolling Stone is launching and I'll be joining as features editor across print (!!) and online in October! I'm so excited to write & edit for something new (but with the wild, rich legacy RS has).
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it would be good if the women so obsessed with ideas of biological sex and so on could focus on issues facing all women today like domestic violence and the fact it’s basically illegal to be single in this economy. no! we must keep things bad for everyone, it is the british way.
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second substack post live!
it’s a bts of the lana del rey rolling stone uk profile / a q&a with lana about ‘fingertips’, that second poetry book, her hopes and dreams and not going where angels fear to tread.
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olivia rodrigo x lily allen performing ‘fuck you’ to the supreme court is now in the glastonbury hall of fame - the best moment of the 2022 festival so far
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this is an attack on millennial women who like a little birthday treat
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i interviewed
@maisiehpeters
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@RollingStoneUK
about romance, fantasy, making men into the people we want them to be, taylor swift and her new album, the good witch ✨
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The best thing you could do as a writer in this climate, I think, (once you’ve learnt the basics being milked like a content cow) is to work for brands for proper money and find a few editors who believe in you and work as closely as you can with them to make a few pieces a year.
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Poly Styrene was too innovative, advanced in both her thinking and feeling and frankly too cool for the music scene she was affiliated with 🖤 a legend
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it’s giving penguin modern classics, corporate lawyer bf since sixth form, matisse on the walls, feminist in the streets, whorephobia in the sheets
This is the new “the dress” that everyone has. I have seen at least two every day for the past few weeks. Anyone else?
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i wrote about turning 30, break ups and similarities i’ve noticed between the recent work of female pop artists like adele, hayley williams and florence. this is emotionally intelligent music made to mark the second puberty of that era of life
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issue iii cover drop!
i wrote the
@RollingStoneUK
cover story on
@bmthofficial
, a band who have had a trajectory like no other.
read the full interview now:
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People trying to cancel Peter Bradshaw for acknowledging that Scarlett Johansson is a sex symbol in a review will not be happy until life is sterilised and totally sexless. And in their heads, safe! This is a warped, puritanical take on addressing male dominance in culture crit
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📣 music press is not just a nice jpeg for an artist’s instagram!
covers are not as important as the right writer, publication and vision!
there is merit and power in storytelling!
there is hope if the music industry trusts journalists who love music and good writing! 📣
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"The ego won't get what it wants, which apparently is an email from my agent which says: “Congratulations, all the other performers have died – you've won."
I loved interviewing
@SimonAmstell
about ego, work and spirituality. Read it all, to the end! 🌀
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the calories rule: it’s near impossible to not be influenced by the numbers. we all know what they mean. we honestly must do our best to say “fuck the tories, i’m eating it” while continuing to do our worst. please don’t let them take more pleasure from you. they’ve taken enough!
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the british feminine urge to sign off with a kiss at the end of work emails to americans knowing they don’t understand it, rate it or appreciate it
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Return to the grey UK and self-isolation alone: no pcrs or lat flows available, plans with people I love cancelled and my new neighbour introducing themselves by knocking on my door to complain about my singing - that’s amore x
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Got a fun opportunity for an 18-21 year old who wants to get into writing. Send me an intro about you and some writing samples! Or just a funny email about...music, the pandemic, life, anything. Email address in my bio.
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Put my OOO on because I’m officially on sabbatical, baby. Five years down at VICE, one month off. See you in March when I’ll have read 80 books, had a glow up and started a podcast or absolutely none of the above.
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i wrote about how the energetic circuitry of fandom has changed now we're in this post-pandemic content era. and artists are the ones who can feel that.
it's making me think that words like fan and fandom are not doing an adequate job anymore.
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The first issue of Rolling Stone UK I have worked on is out soon (!!) and the team said it’s great but quite dark and sad? yes, I have arrived
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30s is same as 20s, you just care far less what people think about you and ‘what am I doing for a job?’ is replaced with ‘am I starting a family?’. Both questions very intellectually boring!
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camp, funny, self-referential! accomplished musicianship! gerard in the best mood and with perfect vocals! 5* from me &
@RollingStoneUK
for mcr’s first show back in the uk at
@EdenProject
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Channel 5 should never have made the doc about Charlotte Crosby's cosmetic work when she and her team originally asked producers not to because it would be detrimental for her mental health. I feel sad for her. It was genuinely grotesque programming.
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decades of stinky columnist culture in the uk has been undone in a single moment by my discovery of
the only Good columnist
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i wrote about the rise of progressive masculinity influencers & coaches - it became a story about why masculinity is still such a contentious concept
it took a few months of reporting & was in the sept issue of
@BritishGQ
. it’s online now - read here:
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Just booked my driving lessons with a new instructor. If he’s good enough for Adele x
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finally the alts treated with the respect and reverence (and line ups!!!) that they deserve, i feel SICK 😭😭😭🖤🖤🖤
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a man has sent me a long email detailing everything in my book he disagrees with quoting my Lines with page numbers and honestly it’s the greatest sexual thrill i’ve had in years. thank you to this man.
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i went to matty healy’s house and we spoke about love, mostly
loved writing this on matty and the 1975 for our new
@RollingStoneUK
print issue
you can read it here:
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new hayley williams interview!
she’s hosting a bbc sounds podcast series about emo so we talked about why she’s agreed to do this now, how camp twilight is and why teens today still embrace the sub-genre.
for
@RollingStoneUK
.
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i passed my driving test first time!!! vroom vroom, me and the girls going 🏎 mcdonald’s breakfast
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With respect what has a (successful, rich) man on the benefits of leaving Twitter having been off for...a few days got to do with teenage girls social media usage and mental health.
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i wrote about intuition - how important it is to me, what it is, why it gets lost and how to find it again. in the observer magazine today:
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Had a stunning 10/15 minute audience with The GC last night - just a couple of good girls setting the world to rights
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The levels of abuse and manipulation involved in Britney's conservatorship couldn't have been guessed by anyone, though. The whole situation is dystopian. That poor woman.
#FreeBritney
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As a member of
#TeamBimini
I loved writing this profile of the UK's punk rock drag queen
@biminibabes
for
@TheFaceMagazine
🖤🌈
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Spanish Rolling Stone just launched with Rosalía on the cover 🔥❤️
You can read the cover interview with her in English here:
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omg finally
brat theory, jealousy, album campaigns, relationships with women, lorde, undetected sarcasm and some other fun moments in my cover piece on charli
read the brat interview now on
@RollingStoneUK
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for the gently delusional women who live valentine’s day 365 days a year
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a beautiful essay on the reality of the last 12 months for single people.
a strongly recommended read about the pandemic, sex, love & loss by
@shonfaye
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No one should ever work somewhere long enough that they clear out their desk and find American Apparel dresses, out of date supplements and banal notes-to-self from pre It's Time To Talk About MH era that basically read 'don't drink coffee??' and 'go walk and breathe'
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really enjoyed speaking with suki waterhouse about her upcoming role in daisy jones and the six, her debut album and what it was like coming of age in the british modelling scene
@sukiwaterhouse
@jamiemacphotos
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@TedKessler1
i don’t mean to be rude or facetious but this is rife in digital first media where staff are young and rise the ranks without being mentored properly. not knowing how to steer a piece. i think it might be similar in publishing
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The pandemic has accelerated the problem of boys and young men being radicalised online – isolation, boredom, unemployment, untreated mental health issues – and experts say work will have to be done around youth unemployment post-pandemic to resolve this.
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This Adele cover interview is such a great example of Just Telling The Story when it needs to be told plainly and clearly.
The photographs are beautiful too 🖤
adele’s ‘30’ is way more than just a divorce album and none of you are ready for it!!
thrilled to have spent some time with her in late september to dig into the journey that made it happen 🪐
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‘and I don't talk shit about you on the internet / never told anyone anything bad’ was my most impactful lyric of 2021. billie eilish knows the universal heartbroken impulse to make scrappy public comments & the lack of self-respect in indulging it. wasn’t bad for a 19 year old!
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Eve Babitz made being a writer seem glamorous. She showed you can be a chronicler of culture and place and find pleasure and joy, not just dirt and darkness. I already wish she’d have written more but that would mean a boring life and she was one of a kind! Hungover icon.
RIP Eve Babitz, the L.A. Woman incarnate, the insider-outsider whose books & life reveled in the absurd, flamboyant, and technicolor. A genius in a feather boa, poet laureate of Tana's & Musso, all dissolute Hollywood glamour & gilded insight, who said all the wrong things right.
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how are supermarket falafel still this bad! dusty lil balls. a mystery.
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i wrote this
@RollingStoneUK
digital cover with rina sawayama. we spoke about the concept of re-parenting yourself, turning 30 and her second album, hold the girl.
To hell and back ❤️🔥
@rinasawayama
is our latest digital cover star.
Read the exclusive interview and see the shoot:
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Live laugh loving the Jennifer's Body references in the Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u video. Good to see the goat 00s high school movie brought to the children.
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Just been asked to print forms off to get paid for a job. Not getting paid, am I. Good to accept that.
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Avril, Freaky Friday, Fefe Dobson, nostalgia culture, major labels vs the alt world!
Wrote this week's Guardian F&M cover about the new wave of pop punk & you can read it online here 🎸
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For the latest Noisey cover story I spent some time with Bad Boy Chiller Crew, a group now so regionally infamous they've had to leave their hometown behind & can't go to the shops without getting mobbed.
Come and have a laugh with them for ten minutes.
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This ”music journalist” makes good money, has a dog and hobbies. I don’t know them.
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So pop punk/emo/rock is popular again! I have waited 100 years.
I’ve been writing about this music for a decade and if any mainstream publications want to commission me to profile Machine Gun Kelly, Yungblud, Olivia R or whatever the heck, I am willing and free to translate.
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I wrote this
@melissabroder
@PolyesterZine
digital cover! We cover: mommy issues, bisexuality, monogamy, fantasy desserts, spiritual living, writing advice…& other juicy topics related to Melissa Broder's new novel Milk Fed.
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Currently have full time roles available for rich benefactor and generous and successful mentor. Unpaid. DMs open.
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The Billie Eilish doc is out today!
I wrote about how seductive it is to view the film as evidence of living in a post-Britney era and the pressure teen pop stars face today, hinted at in the film.
Billie Eilish's film shows post-Britney pop pressures are as tough as ever
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This was my favourite profile I wrote at RS UK. It’s of Matty Healy (The 1975). Expert profile writers you probably respect are rumoured to have said that this is one of the best in years. If you want me to do something like this for you then hmu! 💌
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i have started a substack!some posts will be music-related/bts of interviews i’ve done, some will be personal essays about life, love, spirituality etc.
the first post is about feeling seen or unseen, why i love interviewing people and how i do it.
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For the final number of my closing act at
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I went on a date with Yungblud. We had a drink next to some stuffed dead animals and tried to get to the bottom of the YB phenomenon.
You have to read it.
Goodnight x
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Lauri from The Rasmus lives in Hawaii with a model wife and wears white linen and paddle boards. Biggest suffering goth turnaround I’ve seen yet.
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cover drop !💥
our
@RollingStoneUK
issue 5 cover star is florence and the v special interview by
@tara_dwmd
is a beautiful introduction to her new album, dance fever
on newsstands tomorrow!
.
@FlorenceMachine
covers Rolling Stone UK's June/July issue🌷
See the full cover shoot and read the cover story now:
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A beautiful end to the year with the best of Rolling Stone globally and thoughtful work on UK music, culture and politics from writers incl
@eleanormorgan
@Ffranciscodgf
@ameliargh
@noirchristine
@christinalefou
@hiyalauren
@adellestripe
@ChrisCatchpole
@GuyLodge
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i profiled pinkpantheress for the spring 2022 cover of
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! a story about the elusive qualities of being cool
be cool and read it:
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this isn't me saying that fans are bad or that being a fan of someone can't be a pure and fun thing anymore. but that people are engaging with celebrities via so many conflicting motivations and projections now that it's more complex a field to understand than it has ever been.
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i interviewed some musicians about who can afford to make music in 2023 (very few) and particularly liked what Billy Lunn of
@thesubways
said about what happens to us and our wellbeing when our methods of self-expression are blocked
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taking a black cab across central london to go to an all bar one
maybe she’s born with it… maybe it’s pay day weekend.
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Can't believe 2020 began with this blog about hating open plan offices and ended with me having lived in five different places with most of my work done on a bed or floor.
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Fangirls is in Pitchfork's EOY music books list!! 🎉💥
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@TedKessler1
by the way, i definitely felt like this when i started, no one showed me how to edit. i think people who have written a lot “for online” will recognise this - seeing their pieces hacked a little or with typos put in etc
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the lust with which gen x loves to talk and write about the death of the music press! don’t dispute the obvious (she dead) but it always seems to negate the fact that non cis male writers and editors are left doing the cool stuff with no budget or structural support
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everything closes at 11 like it’s a countryside hamlet. relatedly, no bodegas… give us deli sandwiches at 3am.
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an illustrated timeline: the evolution of the millennial influencer
...come for the trip down memory lane and stay for the jeffrey campbell litas, probably
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“you’re either a mom or you’re a fuckable girl in the scene”
i interviewed le tigre about their reunion, feminism and everything they’ve been up to in the past decade or so
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Leading de-radicalisation organisation Exit UK said they've had an explosion of referrals over the pandemic. Unfortunately due to COVID restrictions they've been unable to meet people IRL, where the best work to help people and their families is done.
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yungblud: how to win fans and influence people
my
@RollingStoneUK
cover with dominic harrison is here!
if you’ve ever wondered what it takes to be a gen z rockstar - and what that even means - then read this. it rocks hard.
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“I feel grateful to have a choice in whether to be hyper-visible or not. Overfamiliarity breeds the capacity for people to rubbish your creativity.”
Met with the brilliant Jade LB, the anon author behind Keisha the Sket, out today with
@MerkyBooks
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‘There’s a form of minor resistance in merely good enough at your job, and not having to try to constantly get better and constantly do everything faster.’
Lots of great lines from
@AmeliaHorgan
in this Q&A I did with her ahead of the release of her book ‘Lost in Work’.
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Me and all my millennial girls from broken homes listening to Family Portrait by P!nk in 2001
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the first date of the vegas emo festival was just cancelled the day of and 35-year-old scene kids are roaming the casinos absolutely fuming
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