North West EP opens with Meg & Dia... it is very good

My team’s in this one and everything needs votes! (I do not care if you vote for my team, just want to help get the numbers up)

I find it very amusing to think that the one thing that could have derailed Taylor Swift’s music career is getting a supporting role in the 2007 Nancy Drew movie.

Don’t think too hard, list your favorite 300 characters

Elementary school dance update: so far only song after 2014 is “Golden.” Oldest child here born in 2015

—being/becoming —waking/dreaming —idea/action —Nostalgia by Hollis Frampton —That thing in Pac-Man where you disappear for a millisecond leaving one side of the screen before appearing on the other side

You know the amapiano is good when a truck starts backing up outside in the same key and it sounds 👍

I didn't realize that Melanie Martinez made her own "Army Dreamers" to open her new album www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFaN...

Finally giving the RAYE album a proper listen. It’s pretty remarkable, need to think about it for a while.

New mix: Taylor Swift talks “little phonetic things,” then pop infiltrators, Brazilian funk imitators, bouyon defibrillators, and art-pop obfuscaters www.otherdavemoore.com/p/working-th...

Friedmanposting: One Direction still sounds good on the radio

Advertise your account using one (1) Simpsons image

A lovely find from @jesperhaglund.bsky.social to round out the KSA squad — of the two songs here that hang around and are in no hurry to go somewhere specific I’d rather hang with the psych band. No idea how the match will go!

schadenfreude szn

Just responding to every statement with “it didn’t really even happen like that though” without further elaboration to save time (and adding “it’s probably not the end of the world though” to avoid brain worms)

I feel like Alex Horne would appreciate the subtitled version of Taskmaster on YouTube I am watching that begins with the caption "[eerie crescendo]"

Dark Side of the Honeymoon

The Taylor Swift interview at NYT is very vindicating for me personally, very "she just tweeted it out"

@radosh.bsky.social “talk real slow” in “Our Song” explained — she hates starting a word with a letter the previous word ended in, so “real low” was unacceptable

Noticing “candle ash on the cuff of the shirt” is a perfect no notes Taylor Swift image. Her mind…

“What happened to the music industry between c 2004 and 2014” an important data point in any understanding of streaming, I think. Streaming decimated many media industries but it basically “saved” the music industry (lots of asterisks and scare quotes)

Now that I regularly get eye injections “I’d rather stick a needle in my eye than…” has lost its oomph as a rhetorical device

It is kind of wild how few good songs Diane Warren has written given how many songs she has written

One thing convos about popularity within pop culture remind me is that it’s just very hard to visualize the scale of things that are very big. In a descriptive not judgmental way, it’s just hard to think about and talk about coherently

Currently on an iGod shuffle streak — that’s where shuffle sequences a mix perfectly

You all hurt geese’s feelings :(

Argentina can’t keep getting away with it m.youtube.com/watch?v=_4vk...

I miss being able to turn on a television and see the middle of a Supermarket Sweep episode

New mix! The rise(?) of US regional music and a look at which Hot 100 songs don't cross over to the rest of the world, then a bunch of indie rock and Golden Beatology vibes for unpredictable weather. www.otherdavemoore.com/p/looking-fo...

cute

First nom: Asayel started as Asayel Slay, was hassled by authorities over the video shoot for her video “Bint Mecca” in 2020. Reports said she was targeted for blasphemy; she has said she was questioned about permits. Takes a huge blast of sunshine to be hottest in the city, which is EXTREMELY hot

Konpa in the coffee shop 👍

Not a lot of “most normie music opinions” etc prompts lately but “Love and Theft” is good

Ordered the LØLØ CD, that’s a lock for year-ends. If it still sounds bricked I might give it bonus points for period fidelity

Leo pointing at every chromatic note on the LØLØ album. Would the album be improved if her voice contained even a speck of grain? Probably! Also weird to heartily recommend the words in something

I think LØLØ finally actually released the mid-aughts confessional rock throwback album I've been waiting for (as opposed to Pale Waves, who released the one I did *not* realize I had been waiting for). Only @jelbugle.bsky.social knew she'd be the one to crack it

Sounds like my printer is having a panic attack when it runs out of paper

So it's come to this (coming up with criteria to rank every Taskmaster series in a spreadsheet for no reason)

I have committed pop chart analysis (sorry) but I think it’s for a good cause — defining regional US hits that don’t travel (spoiler alert: it’s mostly country music)

It is happening! Join in, a TON of good songs that it is very unlikely you have heard before.

We’re all staying home today because we’re sick <cough cough> no seriously it’s a pretty nasty respiratory virus

Genuinely anxious about my team’s first Pop World Cup round, my kid voted for the other one and I might too

How does this have three digit views on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyh4...

New song with Bomba Estereo, Baha Men, and J Noa doesn't really use the balance I would have preferred, but I also don't see how else they could have made all the pieces fit together so kudos to them I guess

No point in naming whose song just made me go "jesus CHRIST that's boring" (it's not anyone obvious or interesting, just not a reaction I have very often)

After geese....frog. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m4p...

what is sentience if not a series of psychological operations

psyops are bad but psyflops rule www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hHi...

Cerulean is a psyop

The Billboard Artist of the Year stats are interesting for questions like “how big was Madonna at the time.” She was the #1 artist of the 80s, beating Michael Jackson for placements.