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Make sure to share it if you beat it outta him I wanna bang to it at my birthday party in July thnx.

I agree. Charli has a history of new songs debuting with movies/shows as well (Hot Girl for Bodies, Boom Clap for Fault, Miss U for 13 Reasons, etc.) so I don't see why this'd be any different. 1. She absolutely could make better, 2. she's not.

Because I went to college and I can spell Prague. Anyway come on July 21st gimme new Charli on that soundtrack.

Can a mod or someone update the text under my profile name to say "mouth diarrhea" or "Author of the Encyclopedia Britannica" or something? I do be talking.

You've activated my "here she comes with a 4-part book series" trap card. First off, it's all subjective. Music tastes are often a "our glorious leader/their shitty despot" thing. But second - no, the best didn't come before, and yes, I definitely can stand fire and grit. It's one of the reasons why I'm actually so dismissive/quick to down-rank several mainstream pop artists - there actually is NO grit and fire from some of them, and if it's there, so much of it feels manufactured and try-hard as a result of capitalism's takeover of the industry. A lot of artists just seem content to stay in their little lane, and produce yet another little love song, yet another little club bop, yet another little ballad, yet another song about snow up their nose yet another little track to throw on the pile of tracks being chucked at the "attention economy" in an attempt to pull little dollars from little pockets with increasingly little songs (looking at you, TikTok-ification of music with your sub-3 minute fetish). However, whatever modern mainstream is lacking, doesn't suddenly make older music great by comparison for me. Sure, yes, there's a few older songs and artists pre-80s that I do truly love and enjoy - Carly Simon, for example. 'Legend in Your Own Time' and 'You're So Vain' are absolutely stellar. There's a few disco hits and divas that I can nod along with. ABBA, Donna Summer, Bee Gees - there's some bops there. I respect the force of nature that was/is Debbie Harry and Blondie (but 'The Tide is High' is the worst song ever and you have to be on drugs (derogatory) if you think it's good). ELO's "Evil Woman" is a fucking BANGER. That fucking piano at the start fails to foreshadow the energy that's about to smack you. (For the children - PCD's "Beep" sampled this song). Elton John's Crocodile Rock stands out in my mind as well. But....those are all part of a very thin layer of cream floating to the top of the times for me. I don't connect with the bulk of it from that era. I understand, and respect, that a lot of artists at that time were 'revolutionary'. I understand, and respect, that they brought new sounds, new concepts, new instrumentation, new chord and key progressions, new genres, new themes to talk and sing about, to the table. I understand that a large sample of music at that time was also protest rock of sorts, when looking at America and the Vietnam War. I understand and respect that there was a whole punk scene that came up in London that influenced art and fashion and music for several generations. But the thing is - I just don't care. Something being "revolutionary" and "their best work" isn't going magically make something sound good to me. I don't care about prestige. When I listen to songs and music, there's certain auras that different songs bring to the table for me. There's certain emotional tones I'm looking for. There's a certain color in the air that I'm after. A lot of songs pre 80s (and in some cases, pre 90s), FOR ME, lack the sweetness in their ear candy for me. I'm after SweetTarts, but those songs are selling Neco Wafers. At some point in my life I've gone through and given probably all of these bands and artists a listen. And it just didn't stick. Didn't connect. Nothing in the music jumped out and grabbed me and said "THIS. THIS RIGHT HERE." Or if something did, it was a SINGLE song, a singular moment. For example, I love Kate Bush's 'Running up that Hill'. I loved it long prior to the Stranger Things exposure. (One of my favorite covers of that song is by the Chromatics - it pulls the energy down a key into this more subdued, painful, sorrowful place for me.) But the rest of Kate Bush's work? To my ears she just sounds like a flock of shrill birds that was chirping loudly got turned into a person. Wutherhing Heights is just shrill noise and it makes me want a lobotomy. I get that people love her, and go them for it, more power to them all. But for me? She's a singular person with a singular song that I enjoy. I won't go into the Beatles. Thanks for whatever they did or did not do for music, so happy or so sad that happened or w/e, please go away discourse around them causes me to dissociate from my surroundings. I'll admit that for myself, in a lot of cases, I am dismissive. (Partly because if I don't just flick my wrist and shoo something away, by my nature as a person I'm going to feel the need to instead explain and elaborate and defend ) But the bigger reason why is that I've already got my go-to artists or go-to songs for certain genres. I'm not always looking to add "yet another XYZ" artist to the rotation. I know where I'm going when I'm angry, and I want energy and loudness and grit and rock to help me work it out in sweat and screams. I also know where I'm going when I'm angry, and I want to be soothed out of it instead, and mellowed out of it, and gently bled of the emotion. I know where I'm going when I want a ballad. I know where I'm going when I want to dance. I know where I'm going when I need to focus. I know where I'm going when I'm depressed. I know where I'm going when I'm happy and I want to swim in that. If/when I'm ready for it, and if I feel like certain playlists or genres are starting to get stale for me, THEN I'll go digging into a certain artist if people keep hammering it that they're just. that. good. But in terms of the "age" of music, most of what I'm looking for, and the music that has served me THE BEST in terms of how I enjoy/consume it and why I enjoy/consume it, has ultimately been more modern artists, with more modern takes, on what I'm looking to lose myself in.

Just thinking about going spring breakers....

ME THO. There's just something fun about being a dismissive hag who's quick to bin a song or body of work just because you didn't like one little cymbal in the instrumental, ok?

I'm a Born to Die local. Say Yes to Heaven is a light little bop tho.

This shit also tires me like, is there *nobody else* you could compare it to? Does it *have* to always be some comparison or tie back to some artist or band from ye old days? Is the sound really *that* exact? Call me curmudgeon but whenever I see people constantly referring to old bands and dead music movements it just gives me like, "dude in his 60s who only listens to vinyl and thinks musical evolution stopped in the mid-80's and anyone new and any genre new is just mid compared to <insert aged coked out rocker/musician here>"

My hot take is that anything originating pre-80s that isn't the voice of some powerful operatic singer is pure shit. I do not vibe with the music. I do not vibe with the energy. I do not vibe, period. My library starts and diversifies in the 80s and moves forward, and that's the line of musical and cultural demarcation for me.

I can't speak for others, but if it's an artist that I like and want to support, I enjoy purchasing the physical media, even if it is 'mid' content wise. CD's are great to have a lossless audio master of - rip it to FLAC/ALAC and it's as good a quality as we're gonna get (barring a 48khz or higher studio leak), but vinyls highlight the art and packaging and bring something else to the experience that I personally enjoy. There's something about tangibly interacting with the material; art decorates space, music decorates time, and having the cover sit on the pedestal while the record spins accomplishes both. I've heard rumors that COVID is causing prion diseases - Sis I'm begging you to schedule a checkup with your Dr.

80 other artists ain't got a problem dropping an album and the vinyl coming a decade later. I don't see why it'd matter.

Signed CD ordered. Just because. (But like, where's the vinyl sis)

I don't think I saw direct links so I went and scoured the usual places and I think I found em - they're alright. They're not bad. I'm not crying and puking and throwing up like I was with IJWAR so.

Ding ding. I saw it. I bought it. Didn't care if it was boot or leaky product (which we now know to be the case), I had to have it.

literally threw the record on the player last night after my party was over and just vibed to it while everyone staying late was sobering up and it was just a whole ass mood

I don't need the rest of the context to be mad. This fucking trend of "omg shorten the fuck outta shit for replays cause streaming unfgdfkjghkdsajhgakjsdsdf *jizzes in corporate bean counters who only get off on numbers*" is just pissing me off. Finish the damn song. Hit a 3 minute mark. I don't fucking wanna see the future keep moving back to fucking HitClips.

I like the Stargate remix.

I think I've seen this one before, and I've got a strong inclination that it's an upscale/remaster. Idk. Someone prove me wrong. Sounds a little muddled, still some artifacts in the highs to my ears (although it could just be the production) - the cymbals or hi-hats or whatever especially still sound like tin nails on a tin chalkboard rotating in a tin can. Nothing I couldn't EQ tweak on my own I suppose? Such is the fate we must suffer for dabbling in the enjoyment of unofficial material.

Name them. Shame them. Be Problematique and leak OG Problematique files. Lets go.

Whatever this emoji is, it's serving me at 3am when I decide to be drunk and do drag (badly). Anyway, someone find me Choker in lossless/320k pls/thanks.

If he wasn't an absolute shit gibbon as well, this would have been awesome.

It's like a 2.9 out of 5 for me. I don't hate it, but it doesn't shine like her other bodies of work for me. Caught in the Middle, Break the Rules, Doing It, Body of My Own, Famous - those are the ones that I roll with the most. The rest I'm kinda neutral on. I'd argue that the Fancy feature with Iggy might be a contender for the intro, honestly. I remember hearing that song WAY more on radio and it getting way more exposure than Boom Clap. Boom was big but at the same time I feel like it was a little bit of a flash in the pan by comparison? I feel like Fancy stuck around longer. Tumblr sad girls addicted to a tragic love story may have different opinions since it was a soundtrack song, but ymmv. Also I'm exempt from this statement as I've been a fan since TR days.

I hate that these words are accurate.

That's the portion of the show I cut out from my initial reply - I have lived a interesting life, and seen and done some interesting things, and while I personally have not engaged with that kind of material, or content that is of a similar nature (very abusive), I know several people who have - watching it, producing it, and/or being the subjects filmed in it. In their cases, all participants were consensual (and I don't want to kink shame but also like?????), but regardless of all parties willing involvement - that kind of content/activity is still souring to my stomach, to put it nicely. I've gently put distance between myself and those folks because of it. I guess the point I wanted to make with all of that is that there are a LOT of folks. Like, a lot. That kind of content that depicts very violent/abusive acts? There's a lot out there. And a lot of people consume it. A lot. Like. A. Lot. And I've seen it/bumped against it firsthand. It's icky.