“I am just so bored by everything. You might say bored to death. Did you know I couldn’t last. I always knew it. I wish I could meet you all again.” Candy Darling can only be described as an icon. A lifetime lover of old Hollywood, Candy moved to Greenwich Village in the mid-1960s and …
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Here’s a challenge: write a Carly Rae Jepsen review that doesn’t mention “Call Me Maybe” in the first paragraph. To be fair, the single, which remains a high water mark of 2010s pop, is far from a bad epitaph. But no one wants to go down as another one-hit-wonder, be it A-ha or Baha. Spanning …
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Lorde has always been ageless. On some of her songs, she expresses wisdom well beyond her years — on others, she has the giddiness and joie de vivre of a bubbly tween. She’s a cipher, unwilling to be pinned down, flitting between posh and poptimistic. It’s a strength and a weakness: she’s versatile, but seems …