imagine a Katy Perry song where Katy's not straining her vocals and isn't working with Dr Luke and you have the best pop song l've heard this year (sorry Drop Dead) pitchfork.com/reviews/trac...

Slayyyter: “Brand New Chanel$”

Read Hannah Jocelyn’s review of the track.

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I’m still thinking of Mile End Kicks Like it’s fascinating that she doesn’t want to be a music journalist she specifically wants to be a MALE music journalist why else would she long to talk about Minutemen albums with guys

it's Alligator/Boxer/High Violet sorry

Mia Murphy 🏳️‍⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d ago

What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)

"separate the criminal from the crime" !!!!!

Anthony Cougar Miccio@anthonymiccio.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s also the ultimate case of people saying “separate the art from the artist” when they mean “separate the criminal from the crime.” A massive global blockbuster biopic is the opposite of separating the art from the artist!

oh the new Slayyyter song is great they let Serban Ghenea off the leash!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=542_...

brand new chanel$

YouTube video by Slayyyter - Topic

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don't think I've posted this yet but here's my review of Charli XCX's new record! Definitely took a big swing here xtramagazine.com/culture/char...

Music, fashion, film, mess | Xtra Magazine

Charli XCX’s new album is infinitely more fun to talk about than to actually hear

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turns out the font that all vibe-coded sites have is literally called Roboto

the funniest thing about James Cameron to me is that the MOVIES are his sidequest

Cat Manning@catacalypto.bsky.social · last wk.

just a real all timer moment

I keep thinking about how often the mass layoffs in media, government and big companies, especially women and people of color, will lead to poorer outcomes for years because the people who would point out potential problems or blind spots were deemed non-essential, a "bad fit", and/or too expensive.

This (very androgynous singer!) sounds so much like me and this song sounds so much like me and this is a personal attack especially because they're a Christian-rock-affiliated band www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTkJ...

Should You Return

YouTube video by Copeland - Topic

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close enough welcome back Lil Brudder

Aryeh@aryehcw.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Jimothy" is very first Obama term–coded. Don't know what that means for the vibes watch.

this is phenomenal and honestly mirrors my feelings on Music Fashion Film how countercultural can a pop star really be? and at the same time, is that limitation what makes the moments of sincerity work?

Lola Sebastian 💜@lola.nebula.tv · 2w ago

finally available on YouTube 💚 youtu.be/cRrVhUP62wM?...

review of Tortured Brat Department coming next week

Wink Wink reminds me of "Flesh Without Blood"

Charli XCX made a Dry Cleaning album but forgot to send it to a mixing engineer

I feel this about the first two acts versus the final act tbh! But I’m just glad anyone else defends Disclosure Day (I definitely DEFEND it rather than love it though lol)

andy™@andylevy.net · 2w ago

boxd.it/fo3lcz

“more muscular military options”

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2w ago

The U.S. is surging forces, medics and weaponry to the Middle East to give President Trump more muscular military options as he considers expanding the conflict against Iran, according to people familiar with the matter.-WSJ

so if the agency that propped up Geese was called Chaotic Good is this one Chaotic Evil

Niko Stratis@nikostratis.com · 2w ago

the second piece on this one VERY specific indie artist that used Suno to make his music with the same tone as that Hearing Things piece "AI is bad BUT I hate how I liked this one", and look I'm not one to yell conspiracy, but this is starting to feel a LOT like some marketing money got spent

Millennial working their way through John Carpenter's filmography: Sooooooo I just did The Thing

Sarah Z@sarahz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Millennial who finished having sex with someone with it/its pronouns: Soooooo I just did a thing

Also someone with xy chromosomes CAN get pregnant, there are cis women whose chromosomes just happen to say XY

m@keptsimple.bsky.social · 3w ago

key difference is that no one claimed that someone with xy chromosomes can get pregnant. the question arises out of conservatives pretending to be stupid (or sometimes just being stupid). whereas the election question is a straightforward question they won't answer because of trump cultism.

Specific policy matters way less than just being a white guy (or, sometimes, terrible white gal!) who is angry and resentful about having to tell fewer rape jokes or make fewer sexual comments about your coworkers. Platner was for people who want to "restore masculinity to the left," ie, sexists.

I'm struggling to keep up to what We can and can't be contrarian about - the Boygenius people got backlash because they're Biden-era relics, Olivia Rodrigo is sucking up to Gen X rock critics so she's good, but Carly Rae Jepsen is Important so nobody is saying how terrible "On Wires" is, but

how different is this post-Mumford song from "Right Back To It", really? www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFFD...

The Arcadian Wild - Spinnin' - OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

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there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w ago

what a fucking asshole

it’s almost like someone who won’t take no for an answer won’t take no for an answer

Colin Dickey@colindickey.com · 4w ago

I'm sorry, lol at this job posting: Graham Platner for Senate (urgently!) hiring a Research Director, listing posted today www.daybook.com/job/research...

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

AdotSad@adotsad.bsky.social · last mo.

Oh its OVER OVER

I really wish there was a way to distinguish between “the left” (completely correct about Platner, actually leftist) and “the “left”” (dirtbag podcast dipshits, the remains of Bernie Sanders, red/brown weirdos, etc.) because I’m sick of being blamed for that Nazi war criminal sexual predator fuck.

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

Looking for full-time work is so challenging! Any ledes in podcast/audio engineering work are so appreciated <3

Lauren Theisen@laurentheisen.bsky.social · last mo.

speaking generally, I think the no. 1 thing you can do as a cis ally is help a trans woman get a job

A small example here but history really is going to judge this whole era as a revolt by very wealthy, important people against the idea that they too are subject to the law, and that there are limits on the level of criminality they can get away with without consequences.