RaveHyphen...provocative ... Reading Pham feels like scrolling through classic Tumblr (a post-Facebook, pre-Instagram microblogging website founded in 2007). She has the unselfconscious, unsure, divulging style of early-aughts internet sites that monetized the bleeding-heart confessional at a time when being unfiltered was a rarity. However, she proves far more sophisticated than these posts as she experiments with style and weaves in probing commentary on everything from Frank Ocean’s Blonde album to the experimental essays of American poet Brian Blanchfield ... It can be difficult to write about sexual power dynamics in a way that’s not overripe, but Pham approaches the subject with both scrutiny and softness ... In the lurch of new love, it is easy to get lost. Everyone knows the feeling of wanting what evades you; what is youth, after all, but intense yearning for something you’ve yet to actually experience. Pop Song is an electric exploration of this emotion. It is about the art of feeling and the feelings art provokes.
