Get in on this, great thread so far!

Best album you've heard this year that no one else seems to have written anything about?

When Pitchfork decided that they were going to give Six Sex a polite and well-informed review that did not make any waves it behooved them to give her a 6.9. this was a real dereliction of duty.

Free VIP ticket available to any mutual in/around Philly that wants to go to the CBB show here on Thursday...

I should see if I still have the scene from the movie I made in high school where I play a pretentious music critic with the title card "PRETENTIOUS CRITIC"

“First true crossover success” everything is a-pop theory

“Why am I trying to do this a full ten times slower” is what I think every time I watch a YouTube essay video *even when the visuals or audio adds something*. I feel like I’m watching an awkward form doomed to be of obscure scholarly interest to someone 100 years later, like a lecture travelogue.

man I am NOT paying my therapist money to talk about this shit

Someone needs to mean girls voice him and let him know that EVERYONE talks about what a terrible critic he is behind his back

Olivia Rodrigo's next move for cred with one very specific subset the rock critic demo (me)

Maybe it’s time to introduce the Peoples Pop pollectorate to Anti-Flag’s “Die for the Government”

The answer to this question is “yes”

so what does the TADC band with Pomni up front on keyboard sound like? I think the only band I ever saw with that setup was Hot Hot Heat

Broke: Geese is a psyop Woke: Olivia Rodrigo is a psyop Bespoke: Geese and Olivia Rodrigo are the same psyop

Mute bonanza today

2023 and 2024 songs all backed up — only completely lost 1 or 2 though a bunch are off of streaming now

Really struggling with 1996 noms for People’s Pop. Maybe it was the children who were *right* that year

Important Taylor emo/rap update: CD collection at 14 includes Simple Plan, Yellowcard, Eminem, and D12 along w Kelly Clarkson and Tim McGraw m.youtube.com/watch?is=3XM...

CAPDY/GAPDY direct comparisons update: I have A spoken for and maybe Y, but remains to be seen whether Slayyyter is Grizzly Bear or Dirty Projectors (Charli’s Wuthering Heights is Phoenix but could change if there’s another album)

On the Dave Annoying Evangelism scale, Alizade is only a 3/6sex (A Cannelle 5 is a lock but I’ll be on vacation). I think “she couldn’t she sustain her lightning in a bottle (‘Immigrant’) for a whole album” but that didn’t stop Myaap, not to mention what’s her name open.spotify.com/album/73Tida...

Come on Wordle, that was dumb

Thinking about the most structural explanation for musical abundance of the '20s -- it's the delayed impact of connectivity. Global internet connections don't pass 50% until 2018, and are now up to closer to 70%. The period between 2010 and 2020 is a story of exponential connectivity.

oh no asked "what are you listening to this summer" on a work call

I have activated so many A.I.-foiling hacks to my Google search on desktop that it is fully worthless now (but it does not give me actively counterproductive info)

New mix: 1988 recommendations in prep for the next @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social tournament, then return of the moth!!!, Nia Archives' day job, and Fyore of "Fyore" from FYORE, plus Egyptian Ken dolls and Wheatus drone www.otherdavemoore.com/p/invite-me-...

<DuckTales theme voice> Backrooms! Woo-oo!

Olivia Rodrigo is dad-rock now, which means that Wilco have been advanced to granddad-rock

<solemnly> this is as it should be. nice.

I’ll keep this post and the follow up around the original post but really don’t want the original to break containment. Would rather get retweeted next week when I’m banging on once again about how good something is (the Cannelle album)

A Lovage upset here would be about as funny as Lovage is (a little) think of how much fun Missy Elliott will have stomping all over it

You all see way more discourse on this site than I do. I have a group of Full Discourse accounts that I do not follow and check in on only after I've put my hazmat suit on

Lovage hive activate 🍷

I dunno what do YOU want me to write about this week

Gotta warm up the LOVAGE hive

A-pop

Just got a news alert "Six surprising ways ADHD might affect you" and I wonder if "I read that as 'Six Sex is a surprising way ADHD might affect you'" is one of the six

More than an important argument, I think this is an important cause. I have a different angle on it I think — the abundant present makes me re-frame the revolutions of the past rather than recognize “revolution” in the present. But I don’t think this gets you to a substantively different place

Peace and love peace and love but interaction settings go to followers only when something gets even a tiny bit of discourse heat...

As an experiment just tested how long it would take me to find a song that reminded me of Olivia Rodrigo (and I kind of liked) by an artist I didn't already know only by refreshing the algorithmic recommendations on one Olivia Rodrigo song. It took 30 seconds (Florence Road - Rabbits Can Swim)

I think most thinkpieces about algorithms could be stopped if writers were forced to simply describe what an algorithm is and how it actually works for whatever subject they're talking about. (I probably could not do this!)

There is a 16-year-old daughter of a fairly well-known DJ who just put out a Billie Eilish-type song that KEXP played (it's good, going to be on a mix in a few weeks). As a reminder for people of median Bluesky age, that means that she was born in 2010.

Rye Rye: still good! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B2n...

The only thing sadder than making A-pop the core of your identity by affirming it to the exclusion of everything else is making it the core of your identity by disavowing it to the exclusion of everything else

A child is demonstrating the four forms of aura-farming on bike

Had one of my worst plausible nightmares last night (couldn't fit a ton of luggage in suitcases but had to leave a hotel, had to carry in loose plastic bags and in my arms, then lost track of where the kids were and couldn't remember where I parked)

Hm forgot I wrote this but should probably return to it at some point because “*sounds like* the first time” is doing a lot of load-bearing asterisk work here

Best song on the new Olivia Rodrigo album www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIVb...

ah didn't realize La Sécurité finally put out a full album. brb

When I was writing about the rarity of strong melodies in US pop music atm, this is the kind of strong melodic pop I was talking about. Perfectly constructed, sounds ABBA-esque, but isn't leaning on a specific ABBA song. (In fact sounds more like a Marit Larsen song.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoTb...

Listening to Baauer to escape CAPDY (it’s good)