The Lizard Review

RED is famously one of Taylor Swift's greatest fall records - to some, it is one of the greatest fall records OF ALL TIME. In the spirit of season, here's a lyric analysis of the bookends of that album, State of Grace and Begin Again.


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In 2010, there was perhaps no one more famous on planet earth than Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, the stars of the Twilight series. After trying to keep their relationship a secret in spite of the magnifying glass on their lives for nearly a year, the truth finally came out...and ruined everything.


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One of my absolute favorite kinds of videos to watch on YouTube are ASMR videos - they're how I relax, unwind, calm down, and fall asleep. In celebration of the announcement that the Lizard Review will begin posting on YouTube this next week, I decided to pay tribute to my favorite YouTube videos by doing a little bit of pop girl ASMR for you all.


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Since the launch of Nielsen Soundscan in 1991, A LOT has changed about the way we consume music, which means that a lot has changed about the way music consumption is reflected on the Billboard chart which has purported itself to be a fair aggregate of the music that MOST people are generally listening to and the music that MOST people like since its inception.
With the influx of digital music downloads, streaming, TikTok virality, and the massive sociopolitical divides that seep into every corner of culture....do the Billboard charts REALLY represent the "most popular" or "most liked" songs or artists in music anymore? Does it matter?


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With the influx of reality television, the media's obsession with female celebrities reaching a fever pitch, and the digital era all converging at once....there were some pretty interesting public weddings that took place in the y2k era. Before we had celebrities like Tom Holland and Zendaya wisely choosing to keep their nuptials private, we had people like Kim Kardashian and Jessica Simpson turning their weddings into reality television and tabloid spectacles.
Here are FOUR of my favorite messiest celebrity marriages from the archives, each more bizarre and shocking than the last.


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