#TheTenX5 Day 42 Bali Baby: Backseat (2018) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxKD... Brb eating seven bars of chocolate and declaring Bali Baby should be a bigger artist (an artist deserving of seven bars of chocolate no less)

respond to this with something I can write about for my newsletter this week and next and maybe the one after that (I have to write three in rapid succession)

#TheTenX5 Day 41 Lil Uzi Vert: XO Tour Llif3 (2017) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf0O... I will never forget watching the original visualizer of this on a loop for what felt like hours.

lol I put on a play in high school that was basically the "Casablanca" skit from the Oscars (about a director who wanted to do a stage production of "Casablanca" but thought it was too confusing)

#TheTenX5 Day 40 Charlotte Gainsbourg: Deadly Valentine (2017) m.youtube.com/watch?v=LkyI...

#TheTenX5 Day 39 Young M.A: OOOUUU (2016) You call her Stephanie? www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVf_...

the latest Mac update appears to have just ended the ability to search for files easily?

Oh no the new Jack Harlow album is good

#TheTenX5 Day 38 WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA: Aladdin (2016) m.youtube.com/watch?v=4jWL...

2001 best album prediction bracket seems kind of tough to shake out, especially in the end rounds. In doing my "which album is better" listening for round one predictions I have determined that Jim O'Rourke reminds me of Barenaked Ladies and that he is still probably going to win the round

New mix: Searching for Saudi Arabian pop, then finding more in Brazil, Mexico, Poland, Japan, and from US rap’s golden age of women having fun www.otherdavemoore.com/p/the-americ...

This is now true for two different songs!

#TheTenX5 Day 37 Vershon: Mercy A God (2016) A time and place heartsong, caught a bit of it on a college radio station in the car and it totally knocked me out www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F6C...

Having people make fan art for the Best Albums tournament was an inspired touch (participants had about 2 minutes to make a version of the album from memory) but WOW

#TheTenX5 Day 36 Taylor Girlz: Steal Her Man (2016, year of impact 2017) Maybe the most vitriol in a song otherwise laser-focused on teaching you a dance, feels like the dance is part of the insult www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwTL...

Addison Rae is Vocaloid

#TheTenX5 Day 35 Reniss: La Sauce (2016) Does indeed have the sauce m.youtube.com/watch?v=fDSa...

#TheTenX5 Day 34 RAYE: Shhh (2016) My pick for massive modulation-pop banger of the decade, apologies to Beyoncé www.youtube.com/watch?v=06ai...

My parents were failures, I had to fuck MYSELF up

Saudi music search has improved the YouTube algorithm on the one browser I haven’t extension’d to oblivion m.youtube.com/watch?v=xA1T...

As best as I can tell this song was uploaded at the wrong RPM to streaming sites and it sounds great as a result m.youtube.com/watch?v=YdAP...

Bookmarking this one

#TheTenX5 Day 33 NEIKED f. Dyo: Sexual (2016) *** 11 POINTS *** RIP diseased electrodolphin shriek, we hardly knew ye. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuIc...

The Chalamet opera/ballet stuff isn’t A-pop, but A-Pop is part of the Chalamet stuff

This is win-win because either people like the music or they don’t and I still make several million dollars

#TheTenX5 Day 32 Mike Larry: Such and Such (2016) Will never forget the indignation of an old student of mine hearing this song for the umpteenth time: "He's just rhyming everything with 'such and such'!!! That's not even rhyming!!!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=9weo...

ok found my saudi nom

Preemptively researching Qatari and Saudi pop in the event of managing one of these teams, good luck to future me

Someone is ready to activate the Tigress of the East

hate it when an otherwise good and informative essay gets Grinch Goop all over it

The time has come…to RANDOMIZE

Ratboys and Wednesday both made very long (8 minutes) songs in 2023 I liked better than any other song they made even though they got better as bands immediately afterward. Maybe I just like chrysalis shit

every "post an iconic horror movie still" meme is just an elaborate ploy to make me relive my trauma seeing [redacted] when I was 10

tfw you hear a great late-period Weezer song and immediately check to see if it showed up on the @colourfulsevens.bsky.social list yet (afaict it did not) bsky.app/profile/colo...

#TheTenX5 Day 31 Mike Posner: I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Seeb Remix) (2015) Another '15-'16 entry in the "why is this song so good??" files. So many terrible things had to happen for this to emerge from them, maybe thee story of this little micro-era of chart pop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=foE1...

This, but for “here’s the thing” in “Since U Been Gone”

Nailed it

Did some light stats on my mixes so far, and a region US is in third place for number of tracks, which I think hasn't happened before?

New mix! K-pop and J-pop eclipse A-pop’s ambitions, best of February, plus 3-step, hyperpop, and nervous wheezing as death threat www.otherdavemoore.com/p/a-bloom-yo...

#TheTenX5 Day 30 Melissa Carper: Christian Girlfriend (2015) A great discovery I nommed for the @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social 2015 poll -- almost gave this spot to my other nom, Inna Modja's "Timbouctou." Just pre-dates the Obergefell decision. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDTi...

(There's Gotta Be) Master of Puppets

No major American artist big in the 2010s will be properly mythologized in narrative because they won’t stop making music and capturing attention. You’ll get endless “documentary series.”

Ahhhh I have other things I have to do this morning

#TheTenX5 Day 29 Maliibu N Helene: Figure 8 (2015) Mustaaaaaaaaaaaaaard (again). I sometimes compare Mustard to Max Martin (singular & simple genius that seems like you should be able to replicate it but can't) but this is one I bet Martin actually wishes he wrote www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBOf...

Not sure if this is a record, definitely have not gotten under 10 seconds

Some day I will figure out why random 90-second Brazilian phonk-not-funk tracks go hypermegaviral without just going "eh, Tiktok" in a vaguely French fashion

Jeff Goldblum's character is wrong in Jurassic Park, the real problem was just That One Fuckin' Guy, and it turns out that this is true of the world's problems more often than it probably should be

2026 Albums I Liked in February HANA: s/t Whodamanny: Onda Biloba Liz Cooper: New Day Hemlocke Springs: The Apple Tree Under the Sea Willow: petal rock black Magic System: Doni Doni Dina Ögon: Människobarn Natoxie: Cout Scrub Riddim EP Eem Triplin: a love song for u EP Luka Salam: Hassasa EP

Willow immediately following up her weird jazz album with a feature on a Les Claypool song...I approve www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9wR...

#TheTenX5 Day 28 Kiiara: Gold (2015, year of impact 2016) I really wouldn't have told you that 2015-2016 contains some of my absolute favorite songs of this decade but the stats don't lie. I still can't tell you why this song is so good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO9c...