Music

Internet culture

Audio Templates as Identity and Intimacy on TikTok

It is the last day of Digital Intimacies 6 (#DigInt20), and […]

Internet culture

K-pop social media, (Anti-)fan labour, and Networks of (mis)information

I am an anthropologist of young people’s internet cultures and […]

Internet culture

Pen Pineapple Apple Pen and the Lifecycle of Internet Virality

This is the Pen Pineapple Apple Pen (PPAP) song that […]

Heritage

Growing Up With Jerry Murad of ‘The Dukes’.

Crystal Abidin is an anthropologist, ethnographer, and percussionist who grew […]

Music

I am a YouTube binger.

Beep: This post is video heavy. If you’d like to skip to the GOOD part, watch all the Game of Thrones covers at the end. End beep. There has been […]

Heritage

Singapura Musica: Popular Music in Singapore

This is a compilation of all my favourite things about music in Singapore. Inspired by an awkward 8-minute conversation I held with a senior Singaporean lady five mornings ago. (It turns […]

Academica Dramatica

Musical ambience and intellectual writing.

I am physically unable to write without being plugged in to some form of music. And I also listen to my favourite tracks to death. I feel like my yet-to-be-written […]

Music

How to critique music

This page has now been updated here: https://wishcrys.com/critiquing-music/

Heritage

Uniquely Singaporean music?

Written in early 2008 for an undergraduate class on South East Asia. “I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, […]