i only heard about it two weeks after it happened but her death was so sudden and shocking, and it felt as if she was leading a shift in music culture with so many genuinely innovative ideas. then she died, and so did all of those cooler ideas bubbling under pop music for the second half of the 2010s.
Feb 9, 2024
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There’s several artists who have passed away too young and their deaths still hurt us years later. For me it’s the late and great Avicii. He was someone I looked up to because I always found it amazing how his tracks made me and so many others feel better/good. I remember when the news broke out about his death I was in my final month of my senior year of high school. It was the first time that someone’s death who I didn’t know hurt me as if I did know them. I can’t listen one of his final tracks “Heaven” without getting emotional. I miss you Tim Bergling ❤️
Sep 25, 2024
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every time i hear a harry styles or dodie song i am immediately transported back to my bedroom in 2020 and it's just insane to me how much power music has to provoke memories and bring back emotions - i always am reminded by my teenage loneliness and insecurity when i hear these artists bc that's what dominated my life at the time i listened to them nonstop but it's fun realising that i still know all the lyrics and i can look back fondly on the person i used to be
Mar 3, 2025
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prolly when i had to learn who jojo siwa was
Sep 13, 2024
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i know that most people cool enough to post here probably know this by now, but wired headphones are the best. for audio quality, yes, but also cos i’m wearing jeans with rly small front pockets, so my phone is in my back pocket and my wired headphones tell me that my phone hasn’t been stolen again
Dec 7, 2024
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substacks are the modern blogs now, right?
i've got my own substack linked in my profile under 'website' (i need to post more often, working on that). and of course, rayne-fisher-quann's substack is top tier. i read her stuff and i wish i could write nearly that well.
as far as traditional blogs (ie, dedicated websites), dangerous minds is a cool music blog that posts (or at least used to post) about random things in the world of 70s and 80s art rock and post-punk. again, not sure how active they still are but it's got that loose writing style and primitive design of the late 00s/early 10s blog era that i wasn't really around for but get nostalgic over nonetheles.
Feb 1, 2024
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young people (people of my generation) are AWFUL at picking up the phone when you call. even when they're your best friends, they'd rather text and not have to actually generate and communicate their thoughts in real time except when they're forced to irl. it really irritates me, especially when i know they're not actually doing anything significant when i try to call. cmon guys, a good phone call goes a long way!!!
Feb 2, 2024