Taylor Swift praises Charli xcx for New York Magazine:
“I’ve been blown away by Charli’s melodic sensibilities since I first heard ‘Stay Away’ in 2011. Her writing is surreal and inventive, always. She just takes a song to places you wouldn’t expect it to go, and she’s been doing it consistently for over a decade. I love to see hard work like that pay off.”
playing the NYT mini crossword as an Australian is so difficult. every clue is like "quarterback in strife?" "to be sitting on the sidewalk at junior prom" "get a hall pass, informally." nevertheless I persist
i need an edit of dua lipa's new song that just goes "you think i'm gonna fall for an illUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuUuuusion"
Well, no. As a quadriplegic, I want AI.
I want AI to identify treatments for my terminal illness.
I want AI to reduce the workload on nurses.
I want AI to find cures.
I want AI to enable me to use robotic arms to give someone a hug since mine don't work.
I don't want AI to steal jobs.
I don't want AI to scrape content and rob artists.
I don't want AI to replace creativity.
We have a tool (AI) that we could be used to help scientists figure out how to make people walk again, and instead, we're using it to increase profit margins.
Whoever in Hoyoverse came up with the phrase "Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale" is an absolute fucking god tier genius.
Like on the surface it's the most esoteric deep lore name for some stupid obscure bullshit in an anime game from China, and yet there are people who DON'T EVEN PLAY GENSHIN that know that 12 syllable phrase like the back of their hand.
But it was deliberately designed to be memorized because there's an 'i' sound at the end of the first 3 sets of 3 syllables, creating a vocal pattern that also encourages rhythm.
AND THAT RHYTHM HAPPENS TO BE THE SAME BPM AS ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST?????
Am I just high or is that not actually extremely fucking clever? You're making something so easy and fun to memorize that it becomes an indirect advertisement. That's crazy!!
"water should be free at concerts" y'all might think I'm crazy for this but I think water should be free everywhere all the time. Idk. That might be too far.
Watching @kendricklamar create and record his verses on the Bad Blood remix was one of the most inspiring experiences of my life. I still look back on this collaboration with so much pride and gratitude, for the ways Kendrick elevated the song and the way he treats everyone around him. Every time the crowds on The Eras Tour would chant his line ‘you forgive, you forget, but you never let it… go!’, I smiled. The reality that Kendrick would go back in and re-record Bad Blood so that I could reclaim and own this work I’m so proud of is surreal and bewildering to me. I’m overjoyed to say that the Bad Blood Remix (featuring Kendrick Lamar) is available everywhere on the 1989 Deluxe Edition. 🫶🩵
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