Melissa Kacar

"serena joy" by Olivia Rodrigo As the theme song for her inaugural all‑female music festival, Daisy Chains Fields, Olivia released the incredible "serena joy", which is a cautionary anthem meant to inspire action and change for women around the world. All proceeds from the song, and from the festival itself, are going to numerous charities focused on advocation for and funding women's causes globally. She's already raised over $20 million, which is such an extraordinary feat. There aren't many artists with the guts, conviction, or foresight to pull off something this massive, especially something rooted entirely in helping people around the world on such a massive scale, but Olivia has always stood firmly on her morals and used her platform to make a difference. I've always admired her for that. Named after a character from The Handmaid's Tale , the song carries the mantra "if they do it to them, they'll do it to you", which is a re...

"I Love You" on the surface comes through as a love song, one that is drenched in passion, but also anxieties and fear. As so many great love songs are, Fontaines D.C. carries a sense of underlying hesitation and the sense of loving something, or something, so deeply that you're terrified of losing it. The desperation in the repetition of "I love you" over and over throughout the song allows for all of these feelings to shine through. The passion in the lyrics, paired with Grian Chatten's delivery, is what makes this song so powerful. "I love you, I love you, I told you I do, it's all I've ever felt, I've never felt so well," he sings in the opening lines. "And if you don't know it, I wrote you this tune, to be here loving you when I'm in the tomb".  There is a deep melancholia running through this song, as well as undeniable political undertones that become more pertinent after fully dissecting the lyrics and their me...