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Social Media and The Artist Image

Pratika E Prabhune — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000

This article addresses how over the years, people have begun creating an ‘image’ or online portrait of themselves. They’ve mastered the art, but many suffer repercussions, developing issues with their own identity and place in the world. I’m scrolling through my feed on Instagram. I see amazing pictures, every single one of them. In almost every image, I pick up on a few central themes.

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Can You Debate or Dislike Freely?

Pratika E Prabhune — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 12:30:30 +0000

The actual question is, can you debate or dislike freely anymore? From curbing the sight of dislikes on YouTube, to feeling guilt for expressing an opinion, how receptive are people to feedback and constructive arguments these days? I am a millennial. Even though I was born in the early nineties, it seemed like the perfect time to be exposed to the internet and everything it entailed. By 1997…

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The Plus in My Size Is Positivity

Pratika E Prabhune — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 12:30:41 +0000

It is only in self-acceptance and self-love do we see the positives of just being who we are, and not fighting to achieve what the world deems as ‘perfect’. We’ve been run down, let’s be honest. Across the world and through pop culture, we’ve always been taught the idea of what perfect is. The biggest media conglomerates across the world, along with the biggest shopping franchises…

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Crawling Back From Our Sedentary Lifestyles

Pratika E Prabhune — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 12:30:57 +0000

While most effects have worn off, we’re still waltzing with ‘lockdown time’. Some of us still enjoy the comfort of the ecosystem we’ve built at home. Will we ever get out of this daze soon? COVID-19 hit the world really hard. There was no turning back from the consequences, and life in general had pretty much come to a standstill. The lockdown here in India started off in a very extreme way.

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Psychological Impact of Pressure from Older Generations

Pratika E Prabhune — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 12:30:11 +0000

We explore the impact on young kids and adults when dealing with life, making choices, and the effect of pressure from parents and elders. The article also discusses how tradition, society, and elders’ life experience doesn’t always help where we are now. Spoken from the mind of a confused adult, who continues to deal with the effects of many fundamental childhood decisions and unlearning them.

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The Working-Class Musician

Pratika E Prabhune — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:30:42 +0000

Many of you reading this might have come through from my social media. Many of you don’t know me at all. So to add any context to this article for first-time readers, I’d have to introduce myself. My name is Pratika (Pratika Evangeline Prabhune), often known as MC PEP (abbreviates my name) and I am a 28-year-old singer and rapper from Mumbai, India. Music for me came from playing piano…

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How Traveling Changed Me

Linden Reeves — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:30:15 +0000

A profoundly significant and enriching travel experience for me was my first visit, and associated performance, over in São Paulo, Brazil. More from a personal perspective than a professional one, actually. See, here in London, with me being a teenager in the mid to late nineties, a little of the music and movie culture of the time would filter through in the collective consciousness of us young…

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Glory

Linden Reeves — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 10:15:58 +0000

I thought I’d go in a slightly different direction for this one. That direction is actually backward — that is, to the past — which I’ve done before, though not like this… Allow me to set the scene. A good decade ago by now, not long after starting up a working partnership with a DJ and producer of the genre (I’ll spare you all the name-dropping, as it’s neither here nor there really)…

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The Pros and Cons of Being a Recognizable Face

Linden Reeves — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 09:56:40 +0000

Stamina MC shares some of his experiences as one of the more recognizable faces in the UK music scene. For a large part of the time that I’ve even been aware of such things, I realized a lot has been made of both fame and success as concepts, and what they mean for those people whose lives they affect. For me personally, having a life of music really gave me a sense of what either of those…

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Getting It Done: A Creative’s Appraisal

Linden Reeves — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:43:43 +0000

Have I finished it? Is it complete? What more does it need? These are questions I’m constantly asking myself when I feel like I’m on the brink of creating something of worth. Did I hit all the points I wanted to when I started? Has it turned out the way I wanted/hoped, or is it something else now? As a so-called creative, I wrestle with this quite a lot. Reading and rereading…

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