Listening past
the spectacle.

Vishwjeet Chavan is an independent writer and creative practitioner interested in music, cultural criticism, and the relationship between artistic expression and the social forces that shape it. His work explores how albums and performances can be understood not simply as collections of songs, but as complex artistic constructions shaped by sound, imagery, identity, and cultural history.

In Inside Is Not an Exit, he reads Bo Burnham’s Inside and Inside Outtakes as more than comedy specials: a layered work on digital confinement, creative labour, and the uneasy relationship between vulnerability and performance. In A Caterpillar’s Requiem, he follows Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly through its questions of freedom, identity, and transformation. In Can We Get Much Higher, he examines Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy through close musical analysis and a broader inquiry into celebrity, power, ambition, and artistic self-representation.