Moonlight and Blonde gave Black boys a rare kind of quiet. Ten years later, we ask how that quiet became subsumed within a louder argument about what Black masculinity should sound like instead. 

Heartbreak narratives continue to dominate our cultural imagination. Do destructive R&B love stories, embraced by the likes of Mariah The Scientist, hold us back or set us free?

Chris K is back for another timely think-piece on whether we should listen to sad or emotive music when we feel happy.