bringing the zara larsson gif back out of mothballs for today's nomination

#PeoplesPop25 day 5 pinkpantheress/zara larsson - stateside "never met a swedish girl you say?" - me to all the people who suddenly like zara larsson this year smdh www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEQw...

Just too many people who can't imagine the future not looking like the (often surprisingly recent) past. (Of course, aided by parties being overly sentimental about traditional voters and a political-media elite ridiculously incurious about anything beyond surface level election analysis).

BIFFY CLYRO

hadn’t heard the Sam Ryder Xmas tune since it was out til just now and it’s still horrible, like every Xmas cliche blared directly into yr ears via megaphone, luckily he lost his spot in pop to Sam fender and we can look fwd to a special festive version of people watching (turkey watching?) instead

idk about the quality of the outgoing new music shows or otherwise but it’s interesting to me that radio Scotland defends replacing them with a radio 2 style format by bleating on about a competitive marketplace: you get public money not to bother about that! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

#2025AOTY day 16 TWICE - this is for (july) open.spotify.com/album/02dUOP... first of 3 TWICE albums in about 4 months, surprisingly lengthy, unusually "mature", highly consistent, "their version of "the wall" i said at the time and i stand by it www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtKQ...

listening to the jack saunders programme from earlier and he talks about cameron winter having "not necessarily the prettiest way of delivering a vocal...not always a pitch perfect voice" and just say he can't sing jack, this is taking forever

#2025FaveSingles day 16 15. doechii - anxiety classy www.youtube.com/watch?v=riCP...

i think they have a few songs about that

#PeoplesPop25 day 4 tate mcrae - sports car i think you know what this is* www.youtube.com/watch?v=7InT... *an attempt to sneak my fave into the competition off the back of an uncharacteristically fashionable hit

just discovered that there's a deluxe version and am asking myself a key question: can there ever be too much "a very trainor christmas"? (tho tbf i do consider her rudolph the red nosed reindeer a bridge too far)

Navigating the year-end best album lists

it's time 🎄 ☃️ 🎅 link.deezer.com/s/31TAIrDa9C...

noticing that one of the lyrics is "i wanna get close to your face" and now i'm imagining the pov of ed sheeran getting close to yr face

don't care what it means, i'm reading TILF as trots i'd like to f- *whisked off stage*

I think it's important not to misunderstand what these social media platforms are. They are not public arenas where we bravely take on reactionary forces in honorable combat. They are apps that expose you to stress and thereby simulate the feeling of having done something useful

“Oh you should be online to try to provide value to your political side” fuck that that’s nerd shit you should be online because you’re unwell and need to tell people about weird animals you saw

#2025AOTY day 15 kesha - . [period](july) open.spotify.com/album/0kjnLv... kesha's final break from her unhappy lost decade was characteristically unhinged, emotional and as filthy as ever, with added jaunty accordions and t-pain rapping on a country song www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqf9...

#2025FaveSingles day 15 16. ravyn lenae - love me not faux motown, slightly misleading sleeper hit that remains a bop nonetheless www.youtube.com/watch?v=cswf...

having spent my walk listening to nmixx i am now sitting down to read my classic novel with exile on main street playing on vinyl, now pausing momentarily i consider my fundamental adaptability

I call this "The Lying Screen"

i stumbled on this looking for something yesterday and i have not stopped laughing

I am not going to watch a youtube video about why something I like sucks on the command of someone I don't know. If that confuses you, maybe go find a youtube video that will tell you why

think i've put down enough markers for #PeoplesPop25 and sense that now is the time to push existing picks. instinctively feeling like i haven't got enough spots but ofc actually i can just throw 2 more no hopers into the bonus pot on nominations day so actually it's fine

She was always my favourite Spout Girl

listened to the taylor album today! it's quite good i thought, ended up with the clean version and my understanding is that's a good choice (i enjoyed wood a lot which i think is the marker of this). actually romantic is quite funny, entirely demented but that's fine

when you’ve been waiting 18 minutes for the shredded cheese for your fajitas

#PeoplesPop25 day 3 LISA, RAYE, doja cat - born again 🇹🇭 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 no picks so far for this highly popular bop idk what the world is coming to smdh www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbEC...

seeing that #5Albums25 is on the tl i have decided to make this important contribution of everything i picked up this year to sway the voting. it might just be the only one that places these new puritans in-between taylor swift and TWICE

coming for christmas #1! the payola dream lives!

more waffling about videos manysmallhands.tumblr.com/post/8029337...

elton at #7 for the midweek christmas chart, a modern high tide for glam christmas?

listening to this again and reflecting once more about how i was right and everyone else was wrong link.deezer.com/s/31SAfEdg1B...

#2025AOTY day 14 lorde - virgin (june) open.spotify.com/album/28bHj2... didn't trouble myself with this much at the time but returning to it i think it's terrific, full of dramatic flair and weird intensity www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji2f...

#2025FavSingles day 14 17. doja cat - gorgeous me 🤝 doja cat understanding that it is a crime to be gorgeous www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBJR...

#2025AOTY day 13 karol g - tropicoqueta (june) open.spotify.com/album/0yY0fT... mix of reggeaton bangers and trad sunset sways, a bit overlong maybe but kaz has that sultry, (tropi)coquettish delivery locked down www.youtube.com/watch?v=p72n...

#PeoplesPop25 day 2 japanese breakfast - picture window 🇺🇸 thought their 4th album was patchy but this was easily my highlight, we can have some guitars as a treat www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2BY...

#2025FavSingles day 13(?) 18. JENNIE ft dua lipa - handlebars i like the way they rotate lines in this, it's like the girl is mine but good www.youtube.com/watch?v=seAR...

prepare to stroke that chin, it's the observer's best albums of the 21st century! (you'll have to register but it's free and what a reward eh) observer.co.uk/culture/musi...

the little cord that connects the camera to the computer has gone missing in one of those 'it has inexplicably vanished from the face of the earth, we will never see it again in this lifetime' incidents

#2025AOTY day 12! (catching up) HAIM - i quit (june) open.spotify.com/album/2Ub8XB... not as good as women in music but when i could be bothered to listen to it i always found it to be largely solid and better than i remembered it being (which i'd promptly forget) www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkwC...

I need urgent medical attention

Every 50s housewife / NWOBHM singer

this is important

Me: so listen. I dont think youre getting the spirit here. I am saying "keirstmas!" Its a keir starmer christmas song. It would bring cheer to voters and show a fun side of him. Morgan mcsweeney, crying: please let me go o beautiful clown i promise i wont tell anybody where you live Me: KEIRSTMAS