Audio Templates as Identity and Intimacy on TikTok
It is the last day of Digital Intimacies 6 (#DigInt20), and today my collaborator and friend D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye and I presented some initial thoughts form our project on ‘Audio…
Category: Music
K-pop social media, (Anti-)fan labour, and Networks of (mis)information
I am an anthropologist of young people’s internet cultures and have spent the past 13 months learning (from scratch!) about K-pop fan practices on social media through intensive reading of…
Pen Pineapple Apple Pen and the Lifecycle of Internet Virality
This is the Pen Pineapple Apple Pen (PPAP) song that started amassing virality around 25 September 2016, despite being published on YouTube a month earlier on 25 August 2016. This is…
Growing Up With Jerry Murad of ‘The Dukes’.
Crystal Abidin is an anthropologist, ethnographer, and percussionist who grew up in Singapore and now lives in Perth. She used to play classical percussion in orchestras and now sings harmony…
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…
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…
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…
How to critique music
This page has now been updated here: https://wishcrys.com/critiquing-music/
