It’s summertime once again, which means it’s scorching hot, Dubai is a ghost town, and I missed the memo about the whole world and their mothers going to Italy on holiday. My music taste always seems to take a turn towards mainstream pop tunes during the summer months. Maybe it was my effort of emulating…
Category: Music
What Came First: the Chicken or the Mahraganat?
Picture the British population, with all their glories, their English Breakfast teas, their Harry Styles and Sam Smiths, their queens and princes, and of course, their frequent holidays to Spain. Now picture that same population, but instead of 20% of it below poverty line (not a great statistic to begin with), make that double. Now…
The Songs that Shaped Me – Pt. 1
For my 14th birthday, I asked my parents to get me my very first shiny black electric guitar, at an age where all the other girls were asking for Blackberry smartphones. For my 16th birthday, my bestie, who had just moved away from Dubai, sent me a hand-painted A3 canvas of my favourite album in…
The Power of Playlists: Why You Need to Share Your Music With the Ones You Love
Everything about meeting this new, wonderful, interesting person was like a breath of fresh air I had been craving for longer than I would care to openly admit; but it wasn’t until, one evening as we drove back from our favourite late night Açai spot, he asked, “I’m thinking of getting Apple Music, do you…
Coffee & Chaos 