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My Jeans is probably the best of its kind â by which I mean the batch of 2010s crappy electro teen pop a la Friday and Chinese Food. Completely cheap but perfectly catchy beat, utterly frivolous concept, kinda goated outfits, some weirdly incredible lines (feels like heelies are racing down my spine), but for me the best part is Baby Triggyâs TWO verses that sandwich the songâs bridge. Itâs a take on the hip hop feature craze that was taking pop music by storm at the time, an honestky underrated aspect of the era, but its outsider nature lends it Some really fun quirks. theres so much: the structural weirdness already mentioned, where he low-key goes bar for bar with Jenna before he gets into his verse proper; his hype man who honestky could be twice his age; and the repetition of the line âwoah, Trigg got a new blackberry?â perfectly dating the entire piece. thatâs not even mentioning his basic but smooth flow, and the way his lyrics referring to male celebrities (MJ, Jay-Z) wearing his jeans parallels Jennaâs own comparisons to Hannah Montana and Ashley Tisdale
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listen, love "espresso" by sabrina carpenter. but my specific cocktail of mental neuroses will not let me let this go
And I got this one boy and he won't stop callin / When they act this way, I know I got 'em
that's the end of verse 1 right?
this is the end of verse 2
My twisted humor make him laugh so often / My honeybee, come and get this pollen
...shouldn't the end of those two rhyme schemes be switched?
like shouldn't it go somethin like:
And I got this one boy and he won't stop callin / My honeybee, come and get this pollen
and then
My twisted humor make him laugh so often / When they act this way, I know I got 'em
although this is not NEARLY the most egregious example of this. anybody remember that song "gold" from a while back?? that one with the line:
I missed you in the basement / But your brother was a good substitute for you
....."REPLACEMENT" WAS RIGHT THERE
I missed you in the basement / But your brother was a good ̶s̶u̶b̶s̶t̶i̶t̶u̶t̶e̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ replacement
LIKE IT WAS RIGHT THERE YYYYYYY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO MY BRAIN
Apr 19, 2024
I donât remember exactly when or how I stumbled onto Push Ups, I want to say it was Jake Lazovick of the band Voyeur's fabulous no-notes âdowntown emoâ playlist. This is the kind of music I'd play for you if I was outside of your window with my radio. I caught them open for untitled (halo) a few months back, and twice since then, making Push Ups my most attended act this year. Angsty, pining, nostalgic but still inventive, play it in your Skull Candy headphones, long sleeve t-shirt under a short sleeve. These tracks make me feel so âlovelornâ âyou wouldnât get itâ âI am so young and so misunderstoodâ which is not intended to be reductive, itâs more complex than that. All that to simply sayâ these tracks make me feel exactly how I want music to make me feel (most of the time). Grey is also the best. I walked up to him at a function super intensely, youâre my fave band in NYC rn blah blah I Am Number One Push Ups fan love the tunes and he handled it real nicely (sent me a shirt that I will treasure 4ever/ you should totally cop one for yourself). It is rare that I am inflamed enough to do the fangirl public humiliation thing, but hey⊠DraG Ur TIGHtROPE ThrOugH my wiNDPiPE XxX
Dec 30, 2024
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The first single from Winter Boyfriend from the upcoming album set a, frankly, very different note. 'anx/bodies' is an outlier for us, musically and lyrically, but when putting the final touches to the album it was one of the songs that people seemed instinctively to engage with if they weren't broadly invested in our main thing, essentially indie/indie-punk made by a would-be emo band. At the very least it provoked a reaction.
It's a song inspired by a very specific series of events but is not specifically autobiographical. Outside of the world of this song i am much less forward about sex. I enjoy being 'too much' with friends but i really don't want it going anywhere my family might hear it. Repression is fun! I often wonder if that's similar to what actors feel when doing nudity or whatever. It's a case of, "I don't want to know you've seen me experience that?" Anyway, honesty can help in art, but also maybe so too does a little internal repression.
It was written about a memory of going to a university disco, arriving at the club where everyone was looking hot and cool, and i suddenly becoming very aware of my inability to be calm. It is essentially about over-stimulation and amorousness and the confusion of that smashing like a wrecking ball through any semblance of chill i might have had.
The verse bass riff is really old, easily over 10 years old. I wrote it for a different project, a Death From Above 1979 rip-off thing, and my pal Martin played bass, while i sang and drummed. The song was unremarkable but the riff was cool. There was no way i wasn't keeping it. Also, it explains why it's the only song that uses a fuzz bass tone. Yet.
I have no idea when i came up with the guitar riff but it's one of my favourite parts i've written. It's rythmic and a little bit dissonant, but i think the G# implies an E Major chord, making it A minor natural (sorry music theory experts, probably butchering this).
I was also unsure if i could allow myself to write the chorus which used power chords. It always feels too basic. But it worked in the context of the song. I finished it years ago aside from a few lyrical tweaks and the introduction sound (chord played, tremolo arm depressed as it fades out, recorded and reversed). Also when mixing the song my references were very different and included a lot of 00s and 10s music, including bands that have been grandfathered into the whole 'indie-sleaze' thing, and it made me realise the second verse needed, nay demanded!, a cowbell and some percussion (the other percussion is drumming on glass bottles fyi).
I feel like 'anx/bodies', and the song that follows it, 'on our way home', are two sides of the same coin. One uptight, repressed yet explosive, and the other unrelenting, desperate and flailing. You could almost imagine the latter being later in the same night, getting existential when worse-for-wear. More on that one later.
Jun 19, 2024
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get da NTS app or whatever radio station u fuck with and just put that on in the morning. ya your brain might want stimulation before u can get out of bed but it doesnât need instagram reels level shit. Just some fresh music is sometimes all u need
Feb 20, 2025
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separate your to do list into what does and doesnât require a screen, and do those lists separately
means you arenât constantly bouncing between a screen and the material world. Bonus points if your screenless list is completed without any music or podcasts or anything at all. Youâre hiding your true power level by blocking all your thinking with consumption!!
posting a neoluddite rec on pifyi is basically reaction farming Iâve realised but Iâm NOT that cynical I promise
Jan 15, 2025