low-fi socialist junk

Chris Thile teasing his Volume 2 album of Bach sonatas and partitas finally arriving is absolutely huge, get ready for the best Bach recording this century.

All day every day I dream of Berner Platte

It's extremely shameless, he was berating everyone for months for replying to him with "still voting labour tho are you?"

My hot take is that Trump won't do anything to clear out Gaza and turn it into a resort or whatever because that would be a somewhat complicated and difficult thing to do and he is extremely lazy. Gave up on regime change in Venezuela within what, two days? Don't see it.

Actually pretty terrifying that so many British people saw someone's therapy notes and thought "yep that's a murder confession"

Country of soulsick empathy deprived losers

You're telling me these are all different men??

The Downton Abbey storyline for Tom Branson is one of the most egregious examples of self satisfied fart huffing English nationalist onanism I've ever seen put to screen

Wrt the viral corpo-babe video, what I think I now find the weirdest about it is... Why are they all wearing oversized clothes that make them look like toddlers?

The more I hear what passes for modern metal the more I feel like the universe is trying to force me into starting a metal band out of sheer spite

Rewatching Downton Abbey (dont ask) and there's something exceptionally weird about seeing Literal Aristocrat Rose Leslie put on a northern accent and say things like "I was born to the a maid, I'll never amount to nothing"

Don't, you'll become the most annoying dude at the venue

a right wing influencer might enjoy, because the right winger is saying things they know their audience will all agree with.

Liberalism's anti-communist tendencies are so entrenched their own propagandists suffer.

unemployment, underemployment, precarity, general poverty etc, she focuses exclusively on identity issues that are highly susceptible to different passionate subjective interpretations and arguments. The very nature of her topics excludes any attempt at achieving the same kind of of mass outreach

the "left" or "the tankies" of doing- sidestep any attempt at serious mass outreach in favour of circular navel gazing and morally posturing arguments over who has the high ground. This is because instead of focusing on things that can easily all be agreed on, like spending power, stagnation,

Been thinking about "leftist content" stuff and alternatives to Rogan or whatever and I keep thinking of someone pointing out that we have plenty of liberal ones (contrapoints etc) they just suck. I think there's something funnier going on- contra's output is designed to do exactly what she accuses

Ah yes the Dave Matthews Band approach to civil disobedience

I mean I guess we could simply decide that yes the entire population is neurodivergent, at which point being divergent is typical, and we can just do away with the terms entirely.

This happens to everyone frequently to the point that it is a common talking point or joke reference in much of media.

Oh and if you want something specific to the music yeah that makes me mad too because it's fucking everywhere and it sucks but that's hardly gonna convince anyone now is it

What is it about cultural industries, especially music, that makes everyone forget every single they've learned about modern economies and how current capitalist mechanisms work? Even movies get more criticism of the Disney/MCU slop shit, what is it about pop music that evokes this harsh naiveté?

It's unbridled poptimism and I think it's completely fair to be angry at people defending the PR obfuscations of an increasingly predatory industry. Taylor Swift is simply the strongest example we have atm. Might as well dismiss a criticism of techbros because it focuses on one single company.

You're fixating on one single aspect of the entire discussion, and if you read further into some of the other points made it might make more sense to you?

I haven't heard bootleg Dylan in ages so I'll take your word for it. I think it's interesting to imagine just how important "sounding like Guthrie" would have been to his actual success, did the audience really respond, etc.

Bob Dylan to be a pretty funny development in its own right

I thought the chat was he was basically shadowing van Ronk and then moved ahead of the curve a bit, found out how to make the songs more popular with those audiences?

I don't really begrudge it all that much if you're writing stuff like shelter from the storm but I also find the many voices of

Eh?

I care because this massively affects the degree to which the industry in which I work is then regulated, or funded, or anything else relative to its health. Much easier to pass deregulation and allow monopolies to flourish if the average voter still genuinely thinks music is a meritocracy.

I care that a massive industry like pop music still somehow passes as a meritocracy because unlike most other industries it successfully fosters weird parasocial connections between consumers and retailers. No one defends the origins of say Microsoft because they have a similar relationship.

Ok you are a deeply unserious person, thank you for letting me know I can ignore everything you have to say

I'm sure it's possible, but she also dropped it like a hot potato as soon as she realised she could be a pop success and not just a country support slot