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[ɳყαɦ! @JINKIESBTCH]

and to my grandkids i leave 64 playlists i curated based on a specific feeling or experience

[Adele Bloch @adele_bloch]

how to avoid becoming a soulless adult:

> stop making everything productive - not every hobby needs to "go somewhere"
> it’s ok to try something new and be bad at it!! you’re not being graded anymore!!
> say yes to spontaneous plans even when you're tired - some of the best nights are unplanned
> hang out with people who make you laugh, not just people who "make sense"
> stop asking yourself "what do I want to do with my life" (too overwhelming) -> START asking "what would make me feel alive THIS MONTH?" & go make it happen
> cap venting to 30% of your total hang time; your friends aren't free therapy
> plan ONE thing each week that you'd look forward to
> you can start simple - work somewhere new, walk somewhere new, eat something new
> take a random class just for fun - pottery, dance, improv, cooking
> do things that make you feel like a kid again - dance in the rain, run through the sprinklers, game night
> surround yourself with people who make you feel lighter - your time and energy is precious
> be 5% more silly in your life. sing badly in the car, dance in your room, crack a bad joke. let's grow the silly muscle
> talk to strangers - at coffee shops, events, literally anywhere. serendipity maxx
> don't forget the basics: move your body, get sunlight, take your vitamins, eat well, sleep
> your time to live life is happening NOW so stop saving it for later!!

we forgot that life is supposed to be FUN ya'll

lets go PLAY!!!

you got this!!!

[✒️ @Literariium]

How lucky we are to experience boring, ordinary, uneventful days. Somewhere in the world, that kind of safety is unimaginable.

[roobz 🌙 🌸 @tishray]

Every country has an energy. And that energy rewires you whether you notice it or not. People move to Japan and become minimal. People move to Mexico and their entire relationship with time softens. People move to New York and suddenly they can't sit still. Your personality is far more malleable than you think. We treat it like something fixed, but new surroundings give you new defaults. New pace. New habits. New values absorbed through proximity instead of effort. You're not just the average of the 5 people closest to you. You're the average of the 5 places, the 5 routines, and the 5 inputs you're exposed to most. Your commute shapes you. The weather shapes you. Every space you occupy is voting on who you become. That's why I believe choosing where you live is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make. More important than your job title. Maybe more important than your five-year plan. Because the place shapes the plan. The place shapes your energy, your habits, your relationships, your default state. Get the place right and half of the other decisions start making themselves. Get it wrong and you'll fight yourself every day.

[Karen Davila @iamkarendavila]

“What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?”

Kung makapag-deliver ng BILYONG PISO sa bahay… “basura” pa ang code name?

Aanhin niyo po ang bilyong nakaw, hindi niyo naman po madadala yon sa kamatayan?!

Mga kababayan, kapag kayo po ay binabaha, hindi makapagbayad sa ospital, hindi ma kapag-aral ng anak, hindi makabili ng gamot… ito ang dahilan.

Hindi mahirap ang Pilipinas, ninanakawan lang po tayo.

[꩜ @adorewordss]

virginia woolf's 1931 new years resolutions: “to have none. not to be tied. to be free & kindly with myself. sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. to go out, yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. as for clothes, i think to buy good ones”

[caio* @mclr4n]

@spotify_data @taylorswift13 @theweeknd @Drake @billieeilish @sanbenito @_PesoPluma @trvisXX @kanyewest @Eminem @rihanna @BrunoMars what happened to the 21st centurys biggest artist? i cannot see her despite her fans claiming she ended lots of artists 💀😭

[victor @40sqft]

have yall ever had vietnamese coffee like ofc they won that war

[Marx @cospisces]

past lives (2023) & niki ‘paths’ (2024)

[cate @cheesecate]

this mashup is the loss of my life waaaahhh 😭

[Eggsquisite Armantè M.F.A 🥚 @ExquisiteWill]

This changed lives

[The Eras Tour @tswifterastour]

🚨| Taylor Swift performing a mashup of "You're On Your Own, Kid" and "Long Live" at today's show! #LisbonTSTheErasTour

[☔ @Whotfismick]

"tomorrow i’ll wake up early to do it"

me at 10am:

[𝓝𝓮𝔀𝓼 Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 @DanScavinoTNews]

who’s afraid of well you
little old me? should be

[jess @jesshakeitoff]

humans are not built to process 31 lyrically dense taylor swift songs at once

[music struggles @musicstruggles1]

i feel as if i’ve listened to Midnights and Evermore back to back

i think jack and taylor have pushed each other as far as they can as collaborators in regards to a whole album, and certainly in this musical direction. taylor certainly seems to write a lot of hits with jack—fortnight and the title track are destined to be huge—but over the course of a whole album his production for taylor has become washed out, repetitive and limp—despite a few new synth flourishes added to their audible pallet along the way

in spite of what twitter might have you believe, jack antonoff is a great producer and taylor swift is a great songwriter, but neither are pushing each other to reach their best work anymore, a fact which becomes particularly noticeable when contrasted with the primarily aaron dessner produced “anthology” tracks; this is when taylor comes closest to reaching the heights of folklore and evermore, and the beautifully subdued production of Evermore—all but one track of which was produced by dessner—is a far better fit for taylor than the often limp synthpop of the non-deluxe Midnights. taylor’s lyrics and songwriting seem far less overwrought and far more natural on the “anthology”, and dessner’s production brings out a beautiful quality in taylor’s voice that jack’s production often can’t. jack tends to wash out taylor’s vocals with his preferred reverb effects, where as dessner’s subtle production allows taylor’s voice to float effortlessly over the instrumentation. disappointingly, jack’s production on the florence & the machine collaboration Florida also seems lacking, with florence’s vocals on the second verse seemingly being levelled too quietly in comparison to taylor’s on the first. i like the collaboration for the most part, but it does sound a little disjointed, as if all three of them were in three separate locations while piecing it together. it is a bit of a disappointment to me after florence and jack’s great work together on Dance Fever

in simplistic terms, i view producers like camera lenses that capture the beautiful work of an artist, sometimes highlighting things about an artist’s work that they themselves couldn’t see. no camera is able to capture the beauty of every scene. a camera suited for concert photography will not serve a deep sea photographer. disposable film cameras can take beautiful candids, but they wouldn’t be of much use to a nature photographer. lately all of jack’s best work as a primary producer has been on *more* guitar-focused albums, such as Sling, Folklore, Dance Fever, and Ocean Blvd; that’s the kind of music that his “lens” best captures. i think taylor and jack can push each other further as a collaborative duo, but not purely under the label of synthpop. i think taylor can make a great “synthpop” album, but not with jack as the primary producer; ultimately he should be brought in as a guest producer on such an album. if we were to have another album with jack as a prominent producer i think it should be in service of a more guitar-focused “rock” album, as i think it’s one of the only directions taylor can move to stop her sound becoming stale and repetitive, as any great artist’s sound would become if they (or their collaborators) failed to push their sound. or else i think she should continue making beautiful folk-tinged pop music with aaron dessner, with jack coming in as a guest producer to bring out the hit singles

taylor is the biggest artist in the world and has full agency over her songwriting and musical output, i just think she needs to try out a few more “cameras”

a full list of tracks i liked the most on the first listen:

fortnight
tortured poets department
so long, london
florida
gulilty as sin
loml
but daddy i love him
clara bow (my favourite)
the albatross
chloe or sam or sophia or marcus
how did it end?
i hate it here
cassandra
peter
the bolter