The Billboard Artist of the Year stats are interesting for questions like “how big was Madonna at the time.” She was the #1 artist of the 80s, beating Michael Jackson for placements.

Pretty good album! “Empire” is amazing

it's important for me to ruin this for people, like how I tell everyone that the countdown timers on reality shows are all fake

oh no I watched some youtube reels and saw another video of charlie puth faking a "live" songwriting demo on the tonight show :(

Song of Storms by Sounds Good! with Josh Harmon YouTube video by AgentPothead

Have confirmed that I can play this 👍 (can even do a decent solo because it's in D minor/Dorian, thanks Koji Kondo)

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No it’s definitely that one but might be the will dot i dot am version for Madagascar

I just mean the guy in the video provides some music criticism I like, b/w a hyperbolic adjective. I think the same thing of the gorilla that plays phil collins drums

Technologies often take longer to reach full adoption than the discourse around them makes it seem, even in wealthier countries with more technology infrastructure. E.g., cable television finally got to 80% of US households only in 2000, with its peak at 90% in 2010. Global internet connectivity (hugely boosted through smartphone adoption) finally passed 50% in 2018, still very unevenly distributed between urban and rural areas, and smartphones have also been one of the most rapidly adopted technologies ever. But widespread global connectivity is a pretty recent phenomenon, its impacts are less than 20 years old, and it will still take a long time to reach true universal internet adoption.

load-bearing footnote for most of the things I write about music

I think it's more descriptive than people framed it as at the time, I do think he's pretty easy to spot

I'm no hater of the sequencer, just don't like the formula that emerge around in the early '10s for it (and yes, listening again, CHVRCHES sounds more like patient zero and like Antonoff is figuring out how to do his version of it)

undefeated music criticism

CHVRCHES one to look at again. I always absolutely hated the sequencer turn in pretty much all guises so am not really well versed in it!

The metastasizing of it might be from several places all coming out of that moment. You can sort of hear the sequencer emerge as push push push on stuff like “Ribs,” would need to listen to a few other things

I think Swift probably got it from Lorde/Antonoff

Addison Rae is this for Paris Hilton

curious about the live performance element for all three of these, who sound much closer to a TikTok-aided demo to superstar slip n slide than slicker industry types, not that I actually know, just sort of what it sounds like

also a monkey's paw for mid-aughts teenpop fans (I think the two things are connected. she and goose guy are perfect for each other)

Feel like a bunch of people have been sneaking up the charts with basically zero commentary — Sienna Spiro, Dominic Fike, Bella Kay

Lolo Zouaï - Les Mots ft. Dinos (Lyric Video) YouTube video by LoloZouaiVEVO

She’s been great this year…album out in a week

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Justice for all Lolos

(This is good)

The real L0Livia

Staying mum about this one

In an insane world, the sanest lyrics are the most insane

google search for the letter b leads to an AI overview of Cardi B

congratulations to Cardi B for being the predicted subject when I google the letter "b" accidentally

My phone does not want to type FAIRUZA

It’s a very minimal plot movie, easy to watch as a style guide or Fairiza Balk Appreciation Tone Poem

I guess I sort of "saw it" in its impact? Was amazed at how influential the style seemed, no idea if it was 1:1

I have finally seen "The Craft." I'm kind of surprised I had not seen it before!

"oh no I forgot about the airline exclusives, that's another three months"