Iāve been obsessed with this post-chorus?? Outro?? Since I was in my sophomore year of high school. And Anthony Fantano can debate me irl--just because an album/EP isnāt for miserable people doesnāt mean itās bad. ā¤ļøš§·š
I donāt think pop music has historically ever had a moment like her āGirl, So Confusingā remix verse. Itās not a joke. Itās a triumph for literature. Everyone remembers where they were the first time they heard it. This was a serious revolution and took us out of her usual fever dreaminess of controlled poetic syntax (which I love) , to just unmasked, raw, chaotic feminine brutality and I donāt think we appreciate the prose switch-up enough. I also have said āletās work it out on the remix?ā to many people Iāve fought with since the song dropped. Sometimes I even write a verse mimicking the song taking accountability of what Iāve done and I send it to who Iām in a conflict with, it actually helps! Iām obsessed with the new singles off her upcoming album Virgin and Iām already studying the cadence of epigrams like āMDMA in the back gardenā,. Iām someone who struggles with severe summer depression, which is taboo in the world of seasonal sadists but taking my discman for a walk by the ocean as āThe Pathā starts up on my (files purchased on ITunes!) burnt CD-R copy of āSolar Powerā is natureās SSRI. Suck on that, Saint Johnās Wort.
itās crazy to think sheās been around 15 years and this is one of the best songs sheās ever put out. Itās silly itās outrageous the lyrics read like a tumblr post and sheās just out here trying to be that girl. Itās been stuck in my head since I heard it. following up a poetry book which Iām sure not a lot of people read with this unhinged masterpiece is the energy I want to see in the world.
I absolutely rinsed this album when it came out and again when brat dropped but wow - it was really such a moment in time - side note : you must never let your favorite songs get ruined for you after they become a tiktok sound.
āGoogle isn't great at finding [old webpages], its focus is on finding answers to technical questions, and it works well; but finding things you didn't know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web surfing, no longer happens.ā -Wiby about page I love Wiby.me! Iāve found some amazing old websites using its random page feature, but I know it also works as a search engine for these older pages. It really brings back that sense of wonder you used to have for the internet as a kid in 2012ā¦
In my stint as a student of the University of Pittsburgh, one of the most common complaints I heard was of the massive schoolās sprawling, depressing, almost-Soviet architecture. From the sharp corners of Posvar to the looming Litchfield Towers, spending grey winter days at the schoolāsurrounded by sallow-faced boys smoking cigarettes on the cornersāreally could make you feel like you had passed through the iron curtain. Thanks to the eccentric tastes of my father, though, I was more captivated than these buildings than depressed. Also, when youāre 19 and desperately sad, it can feel pretty poetic to have that bleak essentialist mood projected into the landscape around you. Really, my only complaint is that Pitt should be taking better care of its concrete. It looks like itās melting all the time. My favorite buildings at Pitt:
⢠Posvar
⢠Lawrence Hall
⢠Chevron Science Hall
⢠Litchfield Towers
⢠Frick Fine Arts Building