Penance as spectacle is nothing new. Recall the ancient Greeks, who, in times of calendrical disaster, would torment a human sacrifice, a pharmakós, to bring about purification to the wider community; think of the struggle sessions of China’s Cultural Revolution, in which victims were forced to plea their guilt as …
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Lil Nas X continues to enjoy the Number One spot on Rolling Stone‘s Top 100 chart, handily out-streaming this week’s runner-up, Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello’s duet “Señorita.” No new songs made it into the Top Ten last week, so the ranking was mostly populated by familiar titles from Drake, …
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In less than two years, Nav ascended from the Weeknd’s opening act to Billboard 200 chart topper as the Toronto rapper’s latest Bad Habits debuted at Number One. The second album from the rapper-producer born Navraj Goraya sold 82,000 copies, including 24,000 traditional copies, to give Nav the first Number …
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