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Playlist #12: The only constant is change, yada yada yada

Hyperfocus #6: Pursuing 'purity' in pop is futile, so stop. Just stop.

Heavy Rotation 2023: An hour of my favorite songs from the past year

Playlist #11: We are like parallel lines

The Summer I Turned Pretty is... just okay. So why the vitriol from some fans?

Playlist #10: No one cares about your confessionals, Nicksy

Playlist #9: The month that slipped away

What Voltes V: Legacy says about Philippine television in transition

Hyperfocus #5: A Good Day, but not a lucky one

Playlist #8: Nicksy battles the rejection robots

Playlist #7: A reboot in sixteen songs

Playlist #6: A summer playlist for rainy days

Hyperfocus #4: How the Itchyworms' Noon Time Show points a mirror at all of us

Playlist #5: Hey, Google—is my English not American enough for you?

Hyperfocus #3: Twenty years of Keane's "Everybody's Changing", my musical North Star

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Playlist #4: The little girl was starving for entertainment

Playlist #3: It's later than you think

Welcome to my weirdest weekend ever

Playlist #2: Set adrift on thoughts of domestic bliss

'Shot puno!' How Mamamoo's Manila concert is objectively a spiritual experience

Hyperfocus #2: Revisiting Mamamoo, one album at a time

Hyperfocus #1: Bocchi the Rock! and how language affects our response to foreign pop

Playlist #1: This shouldn't be about a break-up, but...

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