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understanding the hype

i used to base my personality around rejecting what everyone else liked in favor of more obscure, more niche, less likable stuff. but i then i grew up. and i realized that pop music is good.

@mcbean

Nov 14, 2024

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1977-84

I think I am on board with your assessment @ACTUALLYASLEEP Four reasons: * stylistic diversity: punk was born and commercialized at one end, hip hop at the other. We take this for granted today but at the time the jaggedness of going from the Clash to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, the Treacherous Three, and ESG (all of whom they collaborated with at one point) was exhilarating. The sheer confluence of everything was unprecedented. * MTV as a cultural force: I mean, it was called Music Television 😉 and this was its finest hour. The assumption was that music mattered more than everything else, otherwise why would you watch it? * legacy icons: Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Bruce, Bowie. I could go on. You may not like them all but you’ve gotta respect the bodies of work over decades. * the roots of indie culture were born then: bands like R.E.M., Husker Du, Replacements, the Smiths and a million others were blazing a trail (radio, live DIY tours, etc) that created “College Rock” and ultimately indie and here we are today staring in awe at what they made from scratch. The Reagan era sucked to live through but a lot of great music came out of the struggle. 💞

@coreydubrowa

Mar 14, 2025

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Acknowledging pop culture before 1970

@bitter_nuance

Feb 3, 2024

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Popcorn on the stove

It’s not much harder than the bag kind, tastes better, and it makes you feel like you cooked. Bought a big jug of kernels at the apple-picking farm in the fall and it lasted me about two months of eating popcorn basically every day. I like to burn mine a little bit on purpose

@eyvinnie

Feb 1, 2025

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getting your shit together

That thing you’ve been putting off? Do it. Do it now. You will feel such a profound relief when it’s done. Got caught up on my math homework and now I feel like a person for the first time in months

@eyvinnie

Feb 3, 2025