I called defending Twenty One Pilots the final boss of poptimism and I'm fairly convinced this next review is like when you realize there's a secret, even more evil final boss you have to defeat and it's a character from the first level

Alt-Gay? I loved their song Breezeblocks in 2012

I love the moment in the new Knocked Loose song where it sounds like they're going to incorporate trap hi-hats like every other rock band and then Brian goes lol just kidding *screams* and then they bring those back at the end! this is what a rock-rap crossover should have been all along

Still amazed that it makes perfect sense in context

fuck discord I'm going to Club Penguin

I had the strange urge to listen to O Superman bc a dear friend recommended Agnes Varda's Ô saisons, Ô châteaux

so glad the Muppets show revival exists and I want eleventy more seasons DIANNE WIEST!

This was unbelievable boxd.it/d2n1dX

keep in mind this was during the Obama administration too when pop culture and politics got increasingly enmeshed (they always have been but it got to a uniquely bad point in the early 10s)

I did it I fully deactivated my Xwitter burner please clap

the main problem with tme and tma is that i can never remember which is which

plenty cowards were all too happy to get right in line with his racist agenda and claim they were bullied into compliance. FOH. Fix this shit.

He's racist, we been knew that. That's what the conniptions over "woke" and "DEI" and immigrants and everything else has always been about. You wanna be useful? Rebuke this shit with deeds and hire us. Stand with us. Respect us and our leadership. I don't need pity or condolences. I need a job.

I would love to not hear the words TME, TMA, amab, afab, theyfab, theymab, socialization, and repper ever again

It’s gotten worse: now we’re at “trans women must atone for male privilege because misogyny didn't affect them”, something with pretty nasty implications if you think about it for TWO SECONDS

something I remember from the big tech layoffs of a couple years ago is seeing coworkers with excellent performance reviews - even some who had literally just been promoted - getting thrown overboard for completely opaque reasons and realizing that was part of the point

they’re doing ”what puberty is worse” discourse over on the other site so I’m glad I’m here (having a uterus does, in fact, uniquely suck in this society but it’s all the same fight for bodily autonomy)

when your public moment of vulnerability undergoes memetic semantic degradation

god she rules massive, operatic chamber pop and also she's trans www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-jP...

Alex Warren's in-ears falling out... I kinda feel bad

reviewing a certain modern folk act for P4k so I watched O Brother Where Art Thou for the first time “DO NOT SEEK THE TREASURE” and “WE THOUGHT YOU WAS A TOAD” are instant vocal stims I fear

If I ever made a video essay it would be about rewatching the Good Place to see if it holds up

boomer take incoming: the whole appeal of LCD Soundsystem to me is that it was the brainchild of one guy (however corny that guy is now) and I just don't feel that knowing Kid Harpoon is doing all the work for Harry Styles, it's not as impressive to me

nine years old

you know what song has grown on me Where Is My Husband specifically the part that goes iwoudllikearingiwouldlikearingiwouldlikeadiamondringonmyweddingfinger

this is pretty fantastic, great work from Mark!

can someone recommend a book about Third Way I want to better understand the chokehold they have on dems

yay Xtra!!!! one of the best queer media sites we have honored to write about Gordi and Lucy Dacus for Xtra last year and Orla Gartland and the Ophelias the year before :)

have never felt older than hearing songs from Melodrama come up on shuffle and realizing it hasn't aged well Green Light or Liability are obviously still great but it doesn't hit nearly as hard when you're not 19 or on fire

another thing about Pluribus is that it does everything it can to put you in the character's mindset - is the character depressed? this isn't a show to do a montage, it will center half the episode around Carol's depression

"ok now let's do a silly one!"

Pluribus blew its entire budget for this episode on music licensing bravo vince

Dove Ellis... close enough, welcome back Travis (complimentary)

I sometimes make playlists to convince my best friend certain acts are good (anything from Young Fathers to Ariana Grande) and the titles are "[this act] Is Good I Swear" today they told me they don't know any U2 songs beyond Beautiful Day and Where The Streets... just called this one "U2 Is Good"

I am fascinated by Pluribus the pacing is so slow yet I'm captivated and rarely bored

TURN THE VOLUME UP!!!!!

Close enough, welcome back Animusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0-k...

it grew on me

I'm having trouble writing about this album it's not inherently tradwife to want to marry your bf and have kids and the cultural messaging that wanting a family is tradwife is leading to a lot of shame instead of liberation when Taylor does it it just feels wrong and I don't know why

what I will say is that Wi$h Li$t reminds me of Somewhere That's Green re: wanting a simple life

Apparently the clean version of Father Figure is “I can make deals with the devil cause my *check‘s* bigger” and that’s like a 20x better line

file under: music journalism, in general

you couldn’t pay me to have an opinion about t-swift’s new record. or i mean, you could, but you won’t, and no one has enough money anymore to make the opinion worth having, so here i stand, opinionless

this is like if every song on Lover was as bad as ME!

so can we accept TTPD is an unsung masterpiece

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog. Patients with brain fog may have disrupted AMPA receptor (AMPAR) expression—key molecules for memory and learning. Imaging of Long COVID patients showed elevated AMPAR density tied to more severe cognitive impairment.

it's my birthday everybody say happy 28th birthday hannah