In an age where social media and government surveillance makes completely starting over almost impossible, Orville Peck—name unknown and face obscured–personifies the anonymity of the Old West. A persona he uses in his 2019 debut album “Pony” to reclaim the cowboy as a figure of loneliness on the fringes of society.
While we were baking banana bread, learning tik tok dances (cringe), and tie-dying sweatshirts in quarantine, Taylor Swift was writing the best album of her entire career. The best part? No one had any idea.
Fate, kismet, destiny. It’s got a smorgasbord of different names, but countless people seem to believe in it; this idea that everything happens for a reason.
