Marxist-Poptimist

This was the first 2Pac song I ever heard, on the first CD I ever owned (Now Vol. 19 NZ series)

Pitchfork about to see in real time which artists they review have the most annoying fanbases

YES Chappell Roan was domming a virgin. But that doesn’t mean you have to be mean.

Ordered a Jorge Ben CD on discogs for a much cheaper price than I was anticipating

A pervert goes to a Radiohead concert after being told they perform Nude and is sorely disappointed to see them all fully clothed on stage

D’Angelo is one of the few musicians where I can confidently say I’ve never heard a bad word said about his music from anyone, everyone remotely into R&B adored his body of work, and studying music in Porirua meant knowing a lot of said R&B fans.

Voodoo is a 10 and my Aoty for 2000, “Africa” is the best song to listen to lying in bed on a sunny morning holding your partner.

very sad waking up to learn D’Angelo has died, one of the most significant musicians from my years studying music at tertiary. RIP

Also a good artist’s bad music does not speak ill of their good music by existing

Peak “making up someone to get mad at” criticism

Some boys are bigger than others

Threads is most certainly a film, one I was shown at age 14 by my social studies teacher

and I feel fine

It is a criticism that is ultimately worthless because it restricts art to mere tool of The Revolution and art isn't that and The Revolution won't happen because of art.

Also there's a strain of Leftist criticism that ends up feeling like it's saying "art that doesn't tell you to do The Revolution is 1) bad, 2) immoral, 3) capitalist propaganda" as if people aren't interested in non political topics and art can be meaningless a lot of the time.

“I’m smarter than dumb pop lyrics” memes are the hottesr they’ve been since the early ‘10s, all they’re missing is the comparisons to Queen and Led Zeppelin

What I find comforting about the backlash to that album rollout is that it proves you can’t force the masses to like music on sheer force of marketing alone if a mass audience doesn’t feel included by it

Saw the thousandth post quoting a lyric clearly meant to be camp and tongue-in-cheek while trying to act smarter than it, I fear the strawman arguments I will have to push back against looking totally undignified in the process yet to come

Well I just listened to that album and surprise surprise it was like listening to a wildly different album than what all the posts of people yelling at lyric screenshots would have me believe

[Listening to the Taylor Swift album at 2.5x so I can get this review out before everyone else] I have to say, her pitch is too high on every single song. Disappointing. Incredible breath control singing that fast though

If what I heard about the content on the new album by whatsherface is accurate the internet is going to be unusable for months. Consider filtering her name and the name of the pop artist last year who released an album with a green cover

I’ve never seen “I’m embarrassed to be from this country“ quite as commonly expressed as I have the past few days

The level of embarrassment and shame me and everyone else in NZ feel about our government’s complicity with Israel is the first time it’s felt like how I’ve imagined the way US left-liberals feel about Trump and Bush

I could be really creative if I hired people to demand me to finish things, though having 2 bandmates can suffice for now

Genesis’ “Mama” is the best song written about scaring away the hoes

Lady Gaga and The Clean are 2 acts who’s most acclaimed album is an EP

Definitely-not-the-most-ragebating-platform-ever-made advertising itself with some random person smol bean defending genocide

Thank you Threads for reminding me why I’m never downloading your app as long as I live

It really bugged me how people would reduce female pop stars to sex objects while thinking they were pushing back against sexual objectification, viewing them with disgust while their most passionate male fans were often gay men who viewed their sexual confidence with admiration

It was easy to mock “Love Story“ for all its “cliché” images of princes and princesses but nobody had ever textured them in such a way that it could make you feel like a great romantic story is one you can create and preserve in the very world you inhabit