sydney n. sweeney 🕵🏾‍♀️

Sydney N. Sweeney is a culture writer and editor based in Los Angeles. She's a staff writer at Elite Daily, where she writes about music and celebrity stuff. She was formerly the sex + love editor at Adolescent.net and you can stalk her MuckRack here. Her freelance work, which covers everything from identity to pop nostalgia, can be found in publications including i-D, Popdust, HelloGiggles, FLARE, and LA Record. Sydney also self-published original essays and other stuff on her Medium. She has a BA in Journalism and Creative Editing/Publishing from San Diego State University, loves small, fluffy dogs, and always forgets to refill the Brita pitcher. 

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Third Time’s the Charm with Sam Smith’s "Love Goes"

On Sam Smith's third LP, Love Goes, the singer excels at exploring the LED glow and disco ball glitter of dance pop and electronica. Although Sam Smith has made a name for themself in today's pop game as the chieftain of soulful, the multi-platinum singer-songwriter has best showcased their talent when their voice travels across enveloping, electronic soundscapes made for endless dancing rather than elegiac ruminating. Case in point: Despite its release prior to the pop singer's 2014 debut f
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LANY Reveal Their Most Authentic Selves on "mama's boy"

According to Wikipedia, LANY is an alternative rock band. This classification feels wrong, even in consideration of how hazy and debatable the term "alternative" is in the context of music. But the pop group, based in Los Angeles by way of Nashville, do make songs most fervently loved by melomaniac teen girls fond of labeling things as alternative or "counter" for the sake of feeling quirky or different—so a superfan's editing of their Wikipedia page likely explains this inaccurate categorizati
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