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So this Music Monday is coming at you a little later than usual, which mainly is because I wasn’t going to post anything today BUT I cannot get this song out of my head. I have been obsessed with Jessie Reyez since her song “Figures” first came into my life. She recently released a remix…
My relationship with my Mexican culture has been complicated for most of my life. I have struggled to love my skin color for as long as I can remember, I constantly wished my mom would speak English and I detested the yearly summer vacations to Mexico. When I say detested, I mean it was a…
She’s enchanting. That was the running thought in my mind when I first watched AURORA’s music video to “Runaway”. Now, it’s a few years later and I still find her as enchanting as ever. Her latest single, “Forgotten Love”, was released last week and I’ve already danced and sang along to it for a better…
If you follow me on Instagram (@juliexplores) then you’re fully aware that I spent most of last week proclaiming my love for Alejandro Fernandez, so buckle up because I’ve prepared an entire blog post on the subject. When I was younger, I avoided Latin music like the plague. Juan Gabriel? “Mom stop”. Los Angeles Azules?…
It’s here! The new Jason Mraz album has officially dropped and Know contains every fuzzy and magical feeling you can think of. If Mr. A-Z is good at something, that thing is making people feel good and this latest album proves just that. This collection of love letters has every single good vibe you could possibly need…
Last Saturday night my best friend and I were trying to decide what movie to see on Sunday morning, the strong contenders were Blindspotting (my choice) and Sorry To Bother You (her choice). It was after four games of rock, paper, scissors (four, because she cheated once) that I finally won. So on Sunday morning at 10:45AM we sat…
I have been lucky in the friendship department, even the short-lived and the treacherous ones have been magical. Though of course, it’s the long-term ones, the ones that you feel will never end, those are the ones I thank The Universe for as often as I can. High School was a complicated adventure and though…
I have had quite a week and though it’s only the early hours of Monday morning, I can already tell this week is running the risk of being excruciating. I could sit here and explain all of the terrible things that have transpired over the last week, but I’ll save that for later in the…
Sometimes being an obsessive fan completely pays off. (Let me be clear, when I say obsessive I mean it in a respectful and non-threatening way.) Okay, I am fully aware that this site often feels like a giant (and adorable) on-going ad for Spotify but I am being completely genuine when I say that it…
True story: The band NEEDTOBREATHE kept popping up on my recommended music in Spotify for the longest time but I continued to actively avoid them. Why? Well, because I had somehow convinced myself that NEEDTOBREATHE was Never Shout Never. Remember them? “I’m in trouble, I’m an addict. I’m addicted to this girl” … ring a…