Dylan's Deep Dives

  Playboi Carti Becomes The Torchbearer of The Atlanta Sound By Dylan Barbee Courtesy of @playboicarti on Instagram  Release date: March 14th, 2025 After four and a half long years of waiting, Playboi Carti’s highly anticipated album MUSIC is finally here. Yes, for real this time. No more delayed release dates and no more disappointed listeners.  The Atlanta rapper’s album consists of 30 songs that span across an exhilarating but long 77-minute listen. On MUSIC, Carti pays homage to Atlanta, boasts a dream team lineup of surprise features and most importantly displays his creative versatility stylistically, making the album well worth the wait.  MUSIC is Carti’s most accessible album yet as it serves as a canvas for Carti to blend all of his styles together in one project. Carti effectively combines his baby voice simplistic approach from his 2017 self-titled album with the mainstream but brash sound of past projects like Die Lit and Whole Lotta Red to tote the perso...

A Sci-Fi Satire That Takes Icy Jabs To The Elites  By Dylan Barbee Courtesy of @mickey17 on Instagram Released: March 7, 2025 Spoilers Ahead!!! “What does death feel like?” This seems to be the burning question everyone is asking Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) after he has been forced to die sixteen times. For Mickey, death has become a form of abuse, as he is used as a real-life crash test dummy under the command of power-hungry colonial moron Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo). “I hate dying,” Mickey responds despite being a volunteer expendable, a job where he must die repeatedly.    Parasite director Bong Joon-ho’s strange new political satire sci-fi film, Mickey 17 serves as a fun watch despite taking place in the year 2054 on an apocalyptic snow planet named Niflheim. With captivating cinematography and storytelling, Joon-ho explores relevant themes surrounding authoritarianism and the importance of heroism during dark times. However, Joon-ho’s jabs at politics feel...