The Dead South – Chains & Stakes | Nuance Lives
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Welcome to Lyric Shrink, an album review series with a psychological slant. I am Ryan McCann, a licensed...
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MAHA Music Festival: Meet Me In The Middle
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Flyover Country. That’s the areas on the map that have nothing of interest to the cultured crowd. However,...
Album Shrink | Paramore – This Is Why
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Decades ago, spinoffs were the television equivalents of today’s shared movie universes. A popular character or characters from...
Lyric Shrink | Vulnerability: A Lyrical Analysis of Sara Watkins Tenderhearted
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Welcome to Lyric Shrink, my semi-monthly breakdown of lyrics from a psychological perspective. I’m a licensed independent mental...
Lyric Shrink Plus: What I See In The “Mirror” of Dr.Superfall
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Welcome back, dear readers, for another installment of Lyric Shrink. With this series, I engage in the lyrical...
Lyric Shrink | The Gestalt of Metric
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Can you see the forest for the trees? Is the whole more than the sum of its parts?...
Lyric Shrink | Getting Attention with The Pretenders’ Brass In Pocket
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With so many people, places, and things vying for our attention, how does anything stand out above the...
Lyrics Shrink Analyzes Haim “Up From A Dream”
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The latest client on the Lyric Shrink’s couch, “Up From a Dream” by HAIM. If you’ve ever been...
Lyric Shrink | The Killers and Bruce Springsteen – “Dustland”
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Life’s heartaches are many but the resolutions produce new and helpful experiences. We find hope, strength, and people...
Lyric Shrink | A Closer Look At Dio – “All The Fools Sailed Away”
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Lyric analysis, like dream analysis, isn’t an exact science. Of course, we’re allowed to make individual interpretations. And...