Walkman

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Vecna preyed on Max for much of Season 4, and in the final episode, playing Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” on repeat from her Walkman is not enough to save her.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

By 1987, music was on the radio, on my Sony Walkman and on MTV.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025

The show stays almost entirely true to the 1995 film, with everyone sporting the latest 90s fashions, carrying a glitzy pager, and listening to angsty teen bangers on a Walkman.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025

Every new media invention has caused moral panic: radio, TV, the Walkman.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2025

I would buy tapes of Malcolm’s speeches—“Message to the Grassroots,” “The Ballot or the Bullet”—down at Everyone’s Place, a black bookstore on North Avenue, and play them on my Walkman.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates