Sports betting and other forms of gambling have long been intertwined with our popular culture. Even the tuxedo, for our example, was firmly engraved onto our collective consciousness by gambling culture.
Cinema is obviously one of the most popular expressions of pop culture, and this is another area closely connected with sports betting. The effect has worked both ways – sports betting has significantly impacted the stories of plenty of films, and films have also impacted how we see betting, and use online bookmakers, today.
There are tons of popular movies and TV shows related to sports betting. We believe these, however, to be some of the most famous of all.
Uncut Gems
This is comfortably the most impactful such movie of recent times. Released in 2019, Uncut Gems received rave reviews not only for Adam Sandler’s uncharacteristic performance, but also for its gripping plot.
That plot, of course, revolved largely around sports betting. The gems in question get inextricably linked with Sandler’s character’s gambling habit, which grows to such high stakes that it even draws in real-life NBA star Kevin Garnett. While an extremely fun and enjoyable movie, this is certainly a cautionary tale on taking betting too far.
The Gambler
Released in 2014, this compelling Mark Wahlberg movie – as the name suggests – is all about gambling. As with Uncut Gems, our main character here has a gambling habit which he takes too far. His debts with illegal bookies become so great, in fact, that he’s given only seven days to pay them off before he’s killed. Talk about high stakes…
The Gambler admittedly didn’t exactly receive critical acclaim. It’s still a fun and fairly tense movie, however, which Wahlberg’s name alone drew plenty of people to see.
Silver Linings Playbook
Speaking of critical acclaim, this was easily one of the best-received movies of its time. Silver Linings Playbook was nominated for 12 Oscars in 2012, with Jennifer Lawrence taking home the Best Actress award.
The plot doesn’t ‘revolve’ around sports betting here. It’s a more realistic portrayal because of that, however, since – instead – betting is shown as a popular pastime that draws together an ageing father (Robert De Niro) with his son and friends. Questions are certainly raised, however, as to whether that father takes his amateur bookmaking a little too seriously.
The Sting
We’re going back a way here, all the way to 1973 in fact, but it’s absolutely worth it. The Sting will always be an iconic movie, since it reunited Paul Newman and Robert Redford after their brilliant turns in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. While not quite as famous as that movie, this is still not only a classic, but one of the most popular sports betting movies ever.
In short, Paul Newman plays a hustler looking for revenge after his friend gets murdered. He decides to set up a fake horse racing bookie to trick his enemy into betting – and losing – everything he’s got. Watching the betting scenes nowadays gives a fascinating insight into how gambling used to be conducted (secretly, and relying on the use of tickers, phones, and so on), and how much it’s changed in the intervening decades.
The Hustler
This is another classic, once again featuring Paul Newman, who seems to have had a penchant for gambling-related roles. It differs somewhat from the other movies on this list, since it involves betting on the character’s own sporting performance, rather than that of others.
Regardless, it carries plenty of tension, and the plot holds our attention nicely as it evolves. That plot would be continued over two decades later, of course, in the semi-sequel The Colour of Money, with Tom Cruise starring alongside Newman.
Diving into the world of fragrance for the first time is an adventure, but some avoid it due to cost. Fortunately, affordable brands, such as Carolina Herrera perfume, allow newcomers to try the latest trends without breaking the bank.
With hundreds of scents at your fingertips, where should you start? The first step is learning fragrance basics.
What Are the Different Fragrance Types?
As you look through cologne selections, you may notice abbreviations following perfume names, such as Hamptons EDP from Bond No 9. What does EDP stand for?
EDP is short for eau de parfum. You may also see EDT, which stands for eau de toilette. These are two of the most common fragrance types, but there are several others on the market:
Perfume
Perfume oil
Eau de cologne
Eau fraiche
Perfume oil is a recent addition to the list and does not contain alcohol, which can dry the skin. The other options utilize alcohol to disperse fragrance oils in traditional sprays.
The biggest difference between fragrance types is the percentage of oil they contain. The higher the oil concentration, the longer the scent lasts. While external factors can impact individual longevity, you can usually guess how long a cologne will last by looking at the label. For instance, an eau de parfum like Good Girl from Carolina Herrera lasts longer than an eau de toilette like Invictus from Paco Rabanne.
What Are Scent Notes?
Scent notes are the individual oils that make up cologne formulas. Some are chemically created in labs, but most are distilled from natural sources, primarily flowers. Scent notes fall into one of four categories:
Floral: These scents are powdery, flowery and fruity.
Fresh: This family is incredibly diverse and includes citrus, oceanic, green, clean and bright notes.
Amber: Notes in this family are spicy, herbal and rich.
Woody: Woody notes smell powdery, dry, woody and mossy.
Most fragrances use a combination of these families to create a complex profile that evolves as you wear it. Of course, some notes are more common than others; about 80% of women’s perfumes include powdery scents.
What Is the Best Way to Apply Fragrance?
How you apply fragrance has a significant impact on how long it lasts. If you want to get the most out of your Carolina Herrera perfume, here are a few tips.
First, moisturize. Colognes stick best to oily skin, so apply lotion liberally to pulse points, such as your neck and inner wrists. For best results, stick to unscented moisturizers to avoid mixing fragrances.
Second, it’s best to apply directly to your skin. While some people like the even distribution of the “mist” method, this gets perfume on your clothes and hair. Potent colognes can stain clothes, and the alcohol in sprays can dry out your hair, making this method more trouble than it’s worth. Additionally, colognes are designed to activate with body heat, so you’ll end up using more spray for a diminished effect.
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‘NSYNC are back with their first new single in 22 years. Chris Kirkpatrick, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone, Justin Timberlake, and J.C. Chasez made the song for the upcoming movie Trolls Band Together. Listen to it below.
Timberlake returns to the character of Branch in Trolls Band Together, which arrives in theaters on November 17. The movie follows Branch as he reunites with his brothers, voiced by Troye Sivan, Eric André, Daveed Diggs, and Kid Cudi.
Earlier this month, ‘NSYNC reunited at the 2023 MTV VMAs, where they presented an award to Taylor Swift. It marked the first time they appeared together since earning their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2018 and coming together for Timberlake’s VMAs Video Vanguard Award performance in 2013. In 2002, they released ‘Girlfriend’, off their 2001 album Celebrity, as a single featuring Nelly.
Another Michael started out as the solo project of singer-songwriter Michael Doherty, who recorded 2016’s Sans EP on his own before bringing in multi-instrumentalists Nick Sebastiano and Alenni Davis. Rounded out by drummer Noah Dardaris and longtime engineer Scoops Dardaris, the band released its warm, enchanting debut LP, New Music and Big Pop, in early 2021. As soon as they finished that album, they began working on a new batch of songs, which took shape over the course of three years at Headroom Studios in Philadelphia and the Ferndale, NY house where they tracked their debut. With over 20 songs to play with, Another Michael decided to split them into two sibling records, each with a distinct sonic identity. The first, a 29-minute collection called Wishes to Fulfill that showcases the band’s knack for hooky, playful songwriting, was released last week, while the more experimental Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down is set to arrive early next year. Whether leaning into familiar indie folk tropes or expanding into new territory, Another Michael’s music remains big-hearted, funny, and full of subtle left turns because it’s rooted in the same musical and collaborative instincts. It’s just a pleasure to hear them continue stretching them out.
We caught up with Another Michael’s Michael Doherty and Nick Sebastiano for the latest edition of our Artist Spotlight series to talk about their relationship with New Music and Big Pop, what makes a good song, the making of their two new albums, and more.
How has your relationship to the songs on New Music and Big Pop changed since its release?
Michael Doherty: Something I really love about touring is getting to watch the music essentially live in all these different spaces as we go along. That really helps grow my relationship with the music, alongside seeing how they sit with the newer songs we write and how they communicate with each other. And a lot of the songs really just feel better to me as time goes on, which is a really good feeling.
Nick Sebastiano: Putting out more music does definitely shed a different light on the previous work that we’ve done, like New Music and Big Pop. A lot of times, when you finish making something, you have a wide range of emotions about it; some of them good, some of them frustrated – it depends how much of a perfectionist you are. As a producer, I do some mixing as well for our stuff, and from a technical standpoint, it’s easy to be finished with something and be like, “It’s good, I wish this could have been a little different.” And I do think that that is, in this case, a wound that time does heal when you come back to an old record. I haven’t listened to New Music and Big Pop in a minute, but last time I did listen to parts of it, I just found myself letting go of those sorts of things and appreciating that little time capsule that was us. I think definitely we’re more forgiving in hindsight on stuff that we’ve done than maybe we would be immediately after making it.
I assume that making this pair of records, Wishes to Fulfill and Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down, forced you to think about how they relate to and are different from each other. Did you also think about how they tie into your debut album and the identity of Another Michael as a band?
MD: If we wanted to make a pop song, we made a pop song; if we wanted to make a folky country song, we made a folky country song. We tried not to worry about how it would all fit too much. We just really focused on how, well, if it’s us doing it in our voice, then I think it should technically be able to sit well with the debut.
NS: I don’t think that New Music and Big Pop was something that was presently on our minds when working on the new music, and I don’t think measuring up to it was something that we ever really thought about. I think that maybe shows in the departure from it in some areas in sound, but there also are naturally elements on Wishes to Fulfill and beyond that are just going to sound like Another Michael. There are some songs that sound more like New Music and Big Pop than others, and it’s not necessarily by design that it happened that way. I do think that when working on the new music, our gaze was pretty much completely just forward and not really looking back at our last thing. But in hindsight, it is cool to compare and contrast and see what happened in that gap of time between making both. You read between the lines and fill in the gaps, and that part of it is cool.
MD: We’re also lucky, some of the songs we recorded and wrote even before New Music and Big Pop came out. Like ‘Candle’, I look at it as the first song we recorded, and that was very much soon after we truly finished everything with New Music and Big Pop. Making ‘Candle’ kind of felt like a celebration of the new music that we can make. It was our first time working on a full song in a studio setting and really tried to broaden the scope of what kind of music we could make and how we could use a studio.
NS: That’s actually a really good point. ‘Candle’ is the first thing that we recorded post-New Music and Big Pop, and it sounds nothing like New Music and Big Pop stylistically. I think we finished New Music, we knew what that was supposed to be, and then we’re like, now we are free to do whatever we feel like doing next. I don’t think we ever really felt attached to following up New Music and Big Pop in a linear way.
Michael, you’ve said that the idea of a good song is always changing for you. What I like about the way Wishes to Fulfill opens with ‘Guitars’, though, is that what that means sometimes is that the idea of a good song individually, or the evolution of a band more broadly, can seem a bit funny and absurd to think about. Is it something that often gets to you when you’re writing?
MD: Yeah. I think you’re pretty spot on with ‘Guitars’ there – the lyric that I have, “It’s gonna make my voice sound different,” that’s kind of me nodding at the idea that every time I make music, I’m technically getting older.It’s cool you picked up on that kind of thing. Especially in the present, when you’re making a record or a song, where it’s very trapped inside you, it’s hard not to have like thoughts of, Oh man, is what I’m making good right now? Especially in the process of working on one song and then working on another song like a year later, and then trying to relate those two together.
Is there something you look for in your own songs that helps you determine whether they’re worth keeping or revisiting after a long period of time?
MD: I guess I’m always looking for there to be some small imprint of surprise. I do see songwriting as a very meditative kind of thing; sometimes I’ll be doing it and it’s very much a Zen moment with myself, so I really look to be able to see that after working on something, I’ll listen to it and be like, Wow, I can’t believe that’s something I did. I can’t even really remember the space around me when I was happening. I guess I try to look for moments like that in the songs that, and even the recordings themselves. When we were recording ‘Guitars’, that’s a whole day that we spent just back and forth layering the song, and I remember listening to it so much more when it was getting close to being completed than the moments of actually recording it. So I’m looking for any kind of sign that there was that sort of thing happening during the process.
NS: I think I understand what you were saying when you’re asking about the song ‘Guitars’ and the lyrics being like, “Guitars get acoustic sometimes, guitars go electric sometimes.” It’s just kind of a vibe. There’s such a fine line between what makes a song good and maybe a song we’re not as interested in or I don’t resonate with as much. It’s hard to pinpoint and create a rubric in your mind about what makes it good or what is making it speak to me the most. There’s all these different forks on the road when you’re making a record; you can have acoustic guitar, you could have electric guitar, but ultimately is that going to make or break the whole thing? I guess you don’t actually know until it’s all put together and it all makes you feel something. But it’s definitely a funny concept that music can be good and bad, and it’s definitely funny that we have no idea really why that is [laughs]. At least I don’t.
MD: I feel like a finished song or finished record, it’s really just the set combination of everything that we ended on. It’s like, we could have worked on this forever if we really wanted to, or we could make so many different versions of this if we really wanted to. But you always gotta be honest with it and move on to the next thing.
How did you decide to separate these two albums?
MD: The big thing was we knew we wanted to finish at least 20 songs before we decided what we wanted to do with them, whether we pair it down or make it a whole big record or make it two records. What we decided on with making two records kind of came out of trying to sequence things.
NS: It’s true, we just started making songs – sometimes we would go into the studio to make a song, sometimes we’d have a block where we’d try to record three tracks. We didn’t have all of these songs written in advance, we were demoing and recording as we went along. I think the reason we didn’t want to just make one album is because when we finished a new song or two, there was always another one coming up and we didn’t want to leave any behind. At a certain point, we had to be like, “Alright, we need to cap this somewhere.”
And then sequencing into two albums – hilarious. Behind me right now is a whiteboard in my room, and we had all of the people involved in making the record – myself, Michael, Scoops, Alenni, Noah – rank songs from our favorite song out of the 21 that we ended up with to our least favorite. We literally tried all sorts of things, we collected data, and we were really trying to figure out what to do with this music. Ultimately, in conversation with people we trust – ourselves, our label, management – we came to the conclusion of a format: We’ll make two albums, but we don’t want to make the same album twice. We don’t want to make two albums that feel the same. We want to make a relatively shorter album, one that’s longer. We want their energies to be different, even though we made all the music over the same sort of period of time. It took a second –we swapped in stuff, and there could easily have been changes. But this is what we ultimately felt good about.
MD: It really mirrors the process of the song-making itself – it really is seeing what’s going to come out next through the demoing process, and then coming together in the recording process, it all could have been so many things. And with that being said, the sequencing and the types of records they could have been individually could have been so many different things.
The rollout has also been interesting. You announced them together, but you didn’t reveal the tracklist for the second album or the exact release date, though you released singles for both. It definitely frames the two albums as being connected in some ways, as opposed to announcing Wishes to Fulfill and then surprise-releasing Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down.
MD: It feels nice to not have it feel like a complete surprise that we made two albums. It was Run for Cover’s idea to release a different single from each one, and it feels good to know there’s more music coming that is related to this music.
NS: I feel like it’s an honest way to do it. When you put out two records and there’s time between both of them, people assume that there’s time and space and growth and progression between each one, and we did make these at the same time.We did curate, I think, two very different records, but it felt like an honest way to be upfront about what you’re going to get from us over the next year or so.
You’ve said that Pick Me Up is the more experimental record, but there’s definitely hints of experimentation on Wishes to Fulfill songs like ‘Research’ and ‘Piano Lessons’, which feels particularly significant as the closer. Were you intentional about their inclusion and placement on this album?
MD: I guess I see ‘Research’ as an intermission track in a way, and ‘Piano Lessons’ at the end feels like a finale/wink sort of thing.
NS: Including songs like ‘Research’ and ‘Piano Lessons’ on Wishes to Fulfill was definitely intentional. It could serve as a taste of a different sound, but it’s kind of like, if you have Wishes to Fulfill and Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down, I feel like ‘Research’ and ‘Piano Lessons’ are like the yin within the yang.I think when you get to Pick Me Up, Turn Me Upside Down, not to spoil too much, the inverse will be true, too, where there will be songs that sound like Another Michael traditionally.
How did the “memes” part in ‘Piano Lessons’ materialize?
MD: ‘Piano Lessons’ came out of two different demos that got spliced together to be one new song that we would record in the studio. The “memes” part – I mean, really boring answer, kind of, but that’s something that I wanted to just really jump out at the listener. Like I say, I like when songs have little surprises in them, especially to kind of just be like, “Are you still listening?” [Nick laughs] I don’t know really where that came from aside from just being in that meditative state of songwriting and feeling like that was the thing that needed to be what jumps out in the song.
NS: The next logical step in the road of the song. Yeah, Mike had made two GarageBand demos, I liked both them, they were both kind of incomplete on their own. I was bugging Mike constantly to send me the stems from GarageBand so that I could put them together and make it into one thing. I’m like, “I want this to be one song.” I immediately loved the “memes” part. I love the lines, “You’ve gotta have a sense of humor/ I’m not talking about Know Your Memes,” and then it keeps repeating – repeated for emphasis is the way that I think about it. I think at some point there was maybe question as to whether or not we should do that. Maybe it subconsciously for Mike speaks to – you can scroll “memes, memes” non-stop, you know.
There’s a lot of humour on this album, but on the song ‘Angel’, it almost sounds like you literally can’t force it. It’s grounded and there’s a lightness to it, but it also feels personal and moving. Do you remember what it felt like as it came out?
MD: That’s the only song I can think of from this whole batch that dates back to the New Music and Big Pop writing. When I hear it now, I definitely think of a certain time of my life that I connect a lot to when we moved to Philadelphia and transitional phases of my life and always asking myself if I’m on the right trajectory. Do I know what makes me happy? That song came out of a lot of that kind of questioning.
Can you share one thing that inspires you about each other?
NS: Michael and Michael’s relationship with music is unlike anybody that I’ve ever met, and I think that’s really inspiring. Michael listens to more music than anybody I’ve ever met in my life and appreciates not necessarily in a way that manifests in tangible reasons. Like, something that Mike will resonate with in a song that he’s listening to or working on will be something that maybe doesn’t even make any sense to me, but it works for him, and he really enjoys it. A funny way where this manifests is, Mike will play something and be like, “I’m about to show you a new song, but I think it sounds too much like this.” And then he’ll play, and I’m like, “Dude, I don’t even hear at all what you’re talking about with what it sounds like. It just sounds like Another Michael music to me.” Or he’ll be like, “This sounds so much like my other song,” and then I’ll be like, “There’s nothing about this that’s the same, actually.” But through his lens, it means a similar thing to him, and that’s all that matters. I definitely think the way Mike experiences and understands a song is very unique and inspiring.
MD: That’s really sweet. I think the biggest thing that inspires me working with Nick is, I see so much calmness and relaxed feeling in you and the way you work on things. That definitely just helps calm me down when I feel like I’m getting really crazy about a certain process of the work, and obviously traveling together, and moments on stage. I mean, who doesn’t need that in their life?
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.
The Rolling Stones have released their new song ‘Sweet Sounds of Heaven’, which features Lady Gaga and Stevie Wonder. Gaga sings and Wonder plays keys and piano on the track, which will appear on their upcoming album Hackney Diamonds alongside the previously released ‘Angry’. Check it out below.
In an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Mick Jagger said of working with Gaga: “She’s a really great singer and I’d never heard her sing quite that style before. Not exactly. We did it live in the room and that was a great experience, her just coming in the room and her just opening up and seeing her bits and feeling her way and then getting more confident. And then we came back and then did some extra parts that we hadn’t done on the day and then we did some tidying up and we were just in the overdub room, really face-to-face, getting them really tight, the parts really tight, and then being slightly competitive and screaming.”
Of ‘Sweet Sounds of Heaven’, he elaborated:
It’s all played live. And of course we did overdubs, but it’s all played in the room. Yeah, there’s that moment, especially in that session where we had Stevie, and you’re feeling your way out a little bit and then you do that soul ending, which is you do sometimes on stage where you stop and you start. It’s very kind of tried and tested redoubling thing. But, yeah, I mean, it really feels like, yeah, it is played live… it was a good moment… we played it with Keith and Ronnie when we were in The Bahamas when we more or less finished everything. But we hadn’t mixed it then, so then we mixed it, I mixed it with the mixer and Andy [Andrew Watt] and we were in three places. And then when we finished mixing it, we had a sort of three-way playback. And, yeah, it’s a really good moment when you play something. And it’s always a great moment when you play it back like that. And, “Wow, we finished it and it sounds really good, and we’re pleased with it.” Because if we hadn’t been pleased with it, we’ve had to have change it. You’ve got to choose the right songs because we recorded a lot more songs than this. And then to choose a set of songs, these aren’t necessarily even, you might prefer one than the other, but they will come out. The other ones will come out. But choose a good balance of the songs you’ve recorded.
Hackney Diamonds, the band’s first full album of original material since 2005’s A Bigger Bang, comes out on October 20.
Marnie Stern has released ‘Believing Is Seeing’, the second single from her first album in 10 years, The Comeback Kid. It follows lead offering ‘Plain Speak’. Check it out below.
“‘Believing Is Seeing’ is about trying to build a world of music through different sounds, and how you can create your own cohesive universe through these sounds,” Stern said in a statement.
The Comeback Kid is set for release on November 3 via Joyful Noise Recordings. “It was so great to be able to start being myself again and when I would think, ‘Oh, is that too, too weird?’ I’d remember I’m allowed to do whatever I want! This is mine,” Stern reflected. “I’m trying to go against the grain of this bullshit that when you get older, you lose your sense of taste. I want to empower people to not be so homogenous and go against the grain a little bit.”
“Inspired by It Came from Outer Space and alien encounter movies like Galaxy Quest, District 9 and ET,” the band’s Myles McCabe explained in a statement. “‘Infinity Worm’ sees monstrous angels descending, leaving a fragmented sky behind, creatures that are torn to pieces regenerating anew and trying to find a place in the world. It’s a song about affirming humanity and inherent value.”
Debby Friday has shared a new single, ‘let u in’. It follows her debut album GOOD LUCK, which recently won the Polaris Music Prize. Friday co-produced the track with Australian electronic producer and vocalist Darcy Baylis. Listen to it below.
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Here we explore some popular games among students that provide entertainment, relaxation, and a way to build connections among peers.
Video Games
Students have long turned to video games as a source of relaxation and entertainment, from engaging in epic adventures to competing in online multiplayer battles or solving intricate puzzles. Popular titles like “Fortnite”, “League of Legends”, and “Among Us” have quickly captured students worldwide with hours of entertainment as well as opportunities to connect with peers worldwide.
Board Games
Though digital gaming has grown increasingly popular among students, traditional board games remain popular choices among them. Such classics as “Settlers of Catan”, “Cards Against Humanity”, and “Risk” provide students with a chance to relax with friends while engaging in competitive play against each other in friendly competition. Board game nights have become cherished family traditions across many student households that foster camaraderie and laughter.
Card Games
Card games hold a special place in student culture. From high-stakes poker, strategic rounds of Magic: The Gathering, or casual “Uno”, card games offer students a great way to socialize and unwind while engaging in stimulating brain teasers! Card games require strategic thinking and quick decision-making abilities, which makes for mentally stimulating leisure activities that students may find both stimulating and relaxing.
Sports and Outdoor Games
Sports and outdoor games are popular choices among students who appreciate physical activity. Activities like basketball, soccer, ultimate frisbee, and even capture the flag can provide students with an excellent way to stay active, reduce stress and build lasting friendships through team sports, and recreational activities.
Multiplayer Online Games
Students of all ages are drawn into virtual realms through online multiplayer games like “World of Warcraft”, “Counter-Strike”: Global Offensive”, and “Overwatch”, where they can team up with friends or challenge rivals worldwide. Games such as these provide ample opportunity for both cooperative play and friendly competition – providing students with a compelling educational experience!
Virtual Reality Games
Latest tech for students is virtual reality (VR) gaming, offering immersive digital worlds where students can become fully immersed and interactive with them. From exploring fantastical realms to solving puzzles in three-dimensional spaces or experiencing heart-pounding action sequences, VR games have captured students’ attention like never before.
VR gaming not only provides entertainment but can be an excellent form of exercise as well as offer unique social interactions.
Puzzle Games
Puzzle games offer students an excellent mental workout to strengthen their cognitive skills. Classic Sudoku and crossword puzzles such as Sudoku can help develop problem-solving and critical thinking capabilities while providing hours of intellectually stimulating playback! Many students find puzzle-solving to be both relaxing and intellectually engaging pastime.
Social Deduction Games
Social deduction games such as “Mafia” and “Werewolf” are popular choices for large gatherings or parties, testing players’ ability to read others, strategize effectively and make persuasive arguments. Social deduction games provide students with an enjoyable way to socialize while engaging in some friendly competition.
Students understand the significance of finding balance between academic responsibilities and leisure activities, such as student games. Popular student games provide an avenue of relaxation, socialization, and mental stimulation – whether through video games, board games, card games, sports mobile apps, or tabletop RPGs – that create lasting memories among their players and lead to an enriching college experience overall.
Philadelphia-based band Sweet Pill have signed to Hopeless Records, marking the announcement with the new single ‘Starchild’. It’s their first new music since their debut album, Where the Heart Is, released last year via Topshelf. Check it out below.
“I believe myself to be an awkward person trying really hard to have a strong backbone,” singer Zayna Youssef said in a statement. “I sometimes catch myself putting others first, leaving none for myself. Ultimately, ‘Starchild’ sums up what it feels like to having the burden of someone else’s responsibilities with a million eyes on you at the same time. Through out it all, i just dont wanna fuck up, ever. This lame idea of being perfect always swims in my head and I can never get over on it. All in all it leads to burning out and failing. What do I owe to the people around me that have done nothing but take what I have?”
“We spent a week in the Poconos recording in seclusion in a cabin – like middle of nowhere Blair Witch vibes,” Youssef continued. “It was so secluded that I was VERY freaked out. I was so scared that I refused to go to my room to sleep that had these large windows in it and since it was pitch black out you couldn’t see a thing. So I opted to sleep on the floor at like 2am where the boys were still up tracking just so I wouldn’t be alone. I believe this track is a good transitional song from our debut, Where the Heart Is. It has some ‘dancey-ness’ that our first album didn’t really have.”
