At the end of “Melodramatic,” the opening cut to the album of the same name, New Haven MC Siul Hughes lays back on a bed of tango-inflected strings that seem to weep for the modern society Hughes ...

Purple is typically a divisive color—you either love it or hate it—but the muted quality of melodramatic purple makes it read more like a neutral, causing less of an emotional upheaval. That's ...

I just came across this great February piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the current "melodramatic" strain in mainstream feminist politics. In it Laura Kipnis, a cultural critic and ...

Ever since Pantone declared that 2018 was the year of UltraViolet, the shade has been trying in vain to make its presence felt. However, for most of us, it is a deep purple shade too far to wear every ...