Like, personally, the worst song ever cannot be described as “8 pompous minutes with Satan,” that’s a plus over a lot of stuff.

I used to hate it, but now I appreciate how it creates a rollicking cornball epic out out of an incoherent sense of rock nostalgia. One of my big Worst Song Ever criteria is “did the same artist have worse less famous songs” and this is a big yes, his other hit is about how few get him or Van Gogh.

a man in a suit and tie is standing in a doorway with his arms in the air . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in a doorway with his arms in the air .

I can only hope the book is like this for 400 pages, but it’s probably lower key than that.

“Do I wish I stuck around, demanding articles about how Conor Oberst is back or that Pop has gone too far? Not really, I’d just have to lay people off myself now. But it would be nice if kids were more impressed that i rolled with Paul Banks and our zeroes put fear in the heart of PR agencies.”

Schreiber, another great example of a Gen X figure having a big cultural mark, deciding to retire early instead of milking it like boomer precedents (sad Pitchfork never made its Perfect), then watching the world and their perceived victories collapse around them but still wanting that cred.

That IS a killer line, but I find them almost as uncharismatic as glass tiger. sticking with flock of seagulls!

I just did my due diligence and sorry, this song is only for people getting the DTs waiting for the next Human League album. With just a touch of orientalism to make my disdain more noble.

This is fucking terrible, btw. If not for the One Ballad You Still Hear, I’d have no idea how these guys were a chart presence.

Thompson twins’ “Revolution” video on YouTube with key & peele’s “when the a capella group already has one black guy” suggested next.

I do watch a lot of key & Peele, so this might be coincidental, but OH SHIT, algorithm!

Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) (Official Music Video) YouTube video by MeatLoafVEVO

Tfw she thinks you got red wings just cuz you’re a vampire youtu.be/9X_ViIPA-Gc?...

lol had to google that. Honestly disappointed it’s not an original deep cut that holds up better than every hit of theirs that doesn’t end with a falsetto round.

“Ew, blood.” - Edward Cullen

Ballad Of Dorothy Parker
Sometimes It Snows In April
Shockadelica
Kiss
Gett Off

When I heard Brandon Flowers’ “don’t fence me in” I was relieved to realize he too could have easily learned it from Byrne.

The Thompson Twins second finest moment?

“can you separate the art from the artist?” isn’t even what’s up for discussion when you create hagiography for an artist accused of deplorable, monstrous behavior. You’re not trying to separate the artist from the art. you’re selling both, and trying to separate the criminal from the crime.

I’m A Virgo is only available on Amazon Prime. Has never had a physical release. Any talk about “just torrent it” or “isn’t it subversive to have political art hidden by algorithms” is just half-hearted cope. Dude made art for Jeff Bezos, who then sat on it. This is the issue.

I just hope Riley is on top of who *owns* and has the right to provide - or not provide - access to his work. Because, all false binaries and whataboutism and “better this than that” rhetoric aside, Megan Ellison IS on some “Common People”/ Connor Roy shit. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...

The whole movie is amazing (the riding crop! the drill! The diabolical architecture critic who openly hailed mediocrity!) but that monologue is the most transparent case I’ve ever seen of a major actor having no idea what the words coming out of their mouth mean.

“I wrote a little song about everybody online getting all hot under the collar about I HAVE TO GO NOW MY PLANET NEEDS ME *slide whistle*”

He’d get canceled FAST

Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Chrysalis Records

Closest I’ve come up with for a song that defines America Today as opposed to America Always, with the related caveat that Ive been thinking about Craig Finn’s “living through the 80s for a second time” line, itself 20 years old. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWLd...

Kinda wanna challenge most of them to explain if the song that defines America now defined America when it came out, and if not, what changed.

Reminded of how my deep Brooklyn born & raised extended family did NOT get what was to like about Seinfeld.

lol I didn’t get into always sunny until my 30s, but I’d just moved from the east coast to the west and really missed my unlikeable characters back home.

People will bend over backwards to dignify him walking like a duck, quacking like a duck, surrounding himself with duck iconography, continuing to compulsively act like duck even after settling multiple lawsuits accusing him of being a duck, while swearing he couldn’t POSSIBLY be a duck.

I saw basically a minute of this while flipping past HBO at the time of its release. I was already at outrage level Katt Williams on the matter, but that minute (involving art drawn by Jackson) managed to make me even angrier about the delusion people live under regarding his crimes.

I flipped by this absurdity once. I know he has a bunch of Emmys for entourage, but so does John laroquette for night court and he didn’t get to play lord bigglesby

Fun fact: Billy Joel was 40 when he made the “we didn’t start the fire” video. Julian Casablancas is 47.