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Janet jackson - "You can be mine"

From Control. Sure, sure. I was using Spotify before the Like feature was introduced, so but I guess I was going through a Janet phase when it launched. Nothing wrong with that.

@fightwithknives

Apr 6, 2024

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alanis morissette - supposed former infatuation junkie

the way i could write a world-changing 33 1/3 about this album!!! oh my goodness. (this is the kind of album you write after achieving meteoric pop success if you are a serious person, in case any inescapably famous singer-songwriters are taking notes.) but for real -- this album is at once a perfectly-preserved late 90s time capsule (neurotic, stylish, a hint of a sneer, but real hope underwriting it all) and also secretly about us, right now, in the year of our lord 2024. it's fierce and smart and darkly hilarious. it's about going to therapy and getting your dad to go to therapy, and then feeling weird imagining the kind of dark shit your dad must be working through in therapy. it’s about trying to search for the divine while watching a bunch of idiot rich people get influenced into paying $2000 for like past life regression readings or whatever and feeling weird about the idea that they’re searching for the same divine you are, because if they’re looking for it too then it can’t possibly be the real thing, can it? it’s about being the bright young thing who wrote jagged little pill and suddenly finding all of your interpersonal relationships totally unworkable because everybody is too blinded by the brightness of the young thing who wrote jagged little pill to let you also be a human being. it’s about feeling so old already at 24 and looking back on your teenage self at a tender distance as if those days were a lifetime ago, as if you’re actually any wiser now. it’s about wondering if anything you will ever do is ever, ever going to be good enough. alanis’s lyrics here are biting and precocious and the songs are just so chatty (witness “front row” in which she layers four entire extra verses behind the chorus, effectively writing a whole bonus song because the situation is just too complicated to explain in four minutes) and they’re talking about all the same things we talk about now, in the same way we talk about them now, except without all the self-serious posturing so many of our contemporary songwriters fall prey to. (“the couch” is somehow both the most earnest and the least corny song anybody has ever written about therapy.) i know this album must have hit properly when it came out because it was the only thing my mom played in our house for the entire calendar year of 1999, but it feels so preternaturally tailor-made for the moment we’re in now that i can’t believe it hasn’t had one of those improbable tiktok renaissances or whatever that seem to keep happening. highly recommend a revisit or a first acquaintance if you haven’t made one.

@wholeworldsgirl

Feb 6, 2024

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What I have been listening to!

I’ve been listening to a variety of things lately. I discovered the song “MY HOUSE” by Beyoncé, which played at the end credits of her documentary film of the Renaissance tour. I started listening to Tyler the Creator’s newest album (a bit later than everyone) and have enjoyed it. I have also started listening to Imogen Heap, which I’ve learned that I have grown up with her music without knowing it. With my best friend, I have been listening to Kesha, and appreciating the songs she made when I was young. And of course, xmas music for the holidays.

@maryclare

Dec 29, 2024

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Road trip movies

I’ve got a big list of road trip movies that I’m tryna knock out. There’s a lot of titular road trip movies I haven’t seen: National Lampoon, Almost Famous, Fear and Loathing, etc. I realized though that if the definition of a road trip movie expands to being about getting from point A to point B, then so many more movies can fit under that. Like it’s not just Thelma and Louise, but like Mad Max: Fury Road, or Brüno. The SpongeBob Movie. I just watched Planes, Trains, and Automobiles for the first time; that might be objectively the best one.Another related thing I’m obsessed with at the moment: fonts designated for road signage. Highway Gothic in particular is incredible. I’m not crazy about the other font, Clearview, though; a bit too round for me. Those are both the American fonts, though. I just went to Europe for the first time recently, and Transport — the font used for most UK/EU signage — blows both of these out of the water.

@underscores-

Oct 13, 2023

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SEA-TAC

Since I was young, I’ve been obsessed with the airport. Over the past couple years, I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to see a lot more airports due to shows and stuff. I’m currently working on a mental tier list of airports that I’ve been to in the United States. LaGuardia in NYC is kinda up there right now; I love the silly water feature. I also think the Salt Lake City airport is gorgeous, even if the way they handle transferring between concourses is kinda inconvenient.I flew in and out of Seattle for a show recently and I was super impressed by it. They seemed to have recently renovated the central terminal, so now there’s this super open food court. I went to one of the new restaurants there and got lobster mac and cheese (definitely a risk; don’t get seafood at the airport). I’m not proud of how much I spent on it, but it was realllyyyy good. They’ve also got a really reliable tram for transfer between gates. SEA-TAC: A tier.

@underscores-

Oct 13, 2023

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Freestyle singing to imaginary girls

This might just be ‘cause of the Justin Timberlake diet, to be honest. Me and my friend Gabby Start were hanging out last week and I think we had run out of things to talk about. We just started freestyling, but like singing as if we were members of a boyband trying to serenade the same girl.Like “Girl, just give me a cha-ance / May I have this da-ance?”

@underscores-

Oct 13, 2023