Album review: Lady Gaga Chromatica
While Chromatica may suggest her early work’s spikier edges may have been sandpapered off for good, this was probably part of Lady Gaga’s game-plan all along.
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Book Review: Genre Fluid by Dan Webber
Jake Basford reviews the book of Dan Webber’s show, Genre Fluid.
Book Review: Wonderland by Juno Dawson
The classic ‘Alice in Wonderland’ if the acid-trip was turned into a mix of MDMA and viagra in Juno Dawson’s ‘Wonderland’ – exceptionally well put-together.
Interview: Divina de Campo: ‘A clash of cultures’
Hot off the heels of a sell-out tour and a top 40 release for her EP Decoded, Vada Magazine chats to RuPaul’s Drag Race star and Manchester legend Divina de Campo.
Divina de Campo asks you to ‘lip-sync for your life’ for charity
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK runner-up Divina de Campo is asking the public to ‘lip-sync for your life’, and star in a music video raising funds for the NHS and the York LGBT Forum.
Book review: Camp by L C Rosen
Camp is a well-known narrative thread retold with modern experiences on sexuality and gender, but fuck me gently with a chainsaw does it do a number on you emotionally.
Interview: Kristen Bjorn and the evolution of the porn industry
Kristen Bjorn talks to Vada about the changing porn industry and how a misunderstanding around a porn film led to an international media scandal.
Album review: Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia
Future Nostalgia takes a longing glance back at dance music and tries to reassemble it into something befitting of a more contemporary mood.
Vada presents The Übervision Song Contest
Hello Europe this is Vada calling. We will be taking the last four years of Eurovision and holding a contest to find an ultimate winner. Follow @UbervisionSC on twitter to get involved.
Poems for Your Fridge: ‘Gansevoort Street’ by Jeffery Sugarman
Jeffery Sugarman is an American-born poet living in London and a Jerwood/Arvon mentee with Hannah Lowe for 2019-20