Molly Cavanaugh Studio

People use the importance other subjects to undermine the necessity of the arts in public education - but thanks to a musical, my students REQUEST to literally recite the life of Alexander Hamilton and his role in American history. Without arts education... well, you know.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - a woman who loved pushing boundaries and going against the status quo. Learning about her story in all of my vocal music classes today and tomorrow.

Armstrong County! I will be in Worthington every Monday and I just blocked off time to add new students:

2-7pm

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Perspective is everything.

""I mean, they can say that all they want. Those are real feelings that every single person goes through. I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you. I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.”

“I’m a songwriter,” surely, is the apt response. The tradition of musical score-settling stretches all the way back to medieval troubadours and lyre-plucking ancients; it’s been a mainstay of American song at least since the first bluesman aimed an acidic twelve-bars at the woman who’d done him wrong. Bob Dylan is an incorrigible, at times malicious, kisser-and-teller; for decades, rock critics have been quoting with admiration Elvis Costello’s famous dictum: “The only motivation points for me writing all these songs are revenge and guilt.” Drake’s new album Nothing Was the Same is, as usual, a vérité catalogue of his “bitches” and b***y calls, in which he goes so far as to name one of his civilian exes, “Courtney from ­Hooters on Peachtree”—a creepier move by far than Swift’s sly swipes at her famous former beaux. It’s hard not to detect a sexist double standard in the policing of Swift’s confessions, especially when you consider the routine misogyny in the songs of rockers, rappers, and woebegone beardy indie balladeers. Taylor Swift is a young woman who dates guys, falls in love, falls out of love, and writes some songs about it. Must we begrudge Swift her muse?"

Platinum Underdog: Why Taylor Swift Is the Biggest Pop Star in the World Sitting with Swift in her homebody Nashville penthouse, it’s not hard to see how her perpetual insider-outsider persona has helped make her bigger than any of her peers with records this fall.