@yasisalek He donated a bunch of money to the fund the Kerouac Center in Lowell, MA and now, hilariously, Jack's official estate has to post "new heat 💯🔥" on their Instagram every time Zach drops a single.
@misterminsoo SOTY is 'Elderberry Wine' or 'Taxes' if they take the indie route, 'Headphones On' if they take the poptimist route. Don't necessarily agree with either, but I think they're likely. Personal choice that definitely won't happen is 'total euphoria' by caroline.
@ok_but_still Realized about 20 minutes into Yellowjackets S2 that I’d only been watching to hear them drop a Massive Attack or Liz Phair song every episode
Very funny to talk about ‘authenticity’ for this song in particular because it came out pretty quickly that this guy was a trust fund baby doing a faux-cult leader shtick after getting chewed up and spat out by… Virgin Records!
I don't want to defend clap stomp hey music, its kitsch. But there was a certain honesty to it that quickly vanished in the layers of irony of the late 2010s. It was like a teenager's corny poem to their crush. People now don't sing about love in this immediate way anymore
is kamala brat? is taylor swift my community? is my bank a democrat? is that corporation my friend? how am i driving? how does an engine work? how could a loving god cause such agony
Hot take: Pop's recent trend towards 'country' aesthetics is an obvious & cynical cash-in on alt-right nationalism. Beyoncé's the least problematic of these as she's explicit in her critique of the American myth, but if you think there isn't a profit motive afoot, you're a mark.
Fair play: I do see myself as a Bourdain-esque figure. Less because of the gonzo-style food tourism though, and more because I will let a beautiful and problematic Italiana ruin my life.
“The cult of personality Anthony Bourdain left in his wake is frankly insufferable,” says The FP’s @SnoozyWeiss.
“He broke how a generation of men eat.”