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Messaging every cis male YouTuber I watch, “You know you can just be a girl, right?” until I hit the jackpot

G-Eazy’s verse on Britney Spears’ “Make Me…” is still one of the worst rap verses I’ve ever heard on a hit song.

Building luxury hotels and especially in Israel is one way we can all help Mother Gaia, thank you Leon

I’m so good at dating apps

Me when I hear a U2 song

Art history: *loads of religious imagery, including lots of damnation*

AI: *steals millenniums’ worth of art to create images*

“OMG, HOW IS IT SO GOOD AT THIS??”

(Also, making scary drawings of Hell isn’t hard? Metal bands have doing it for 50 years now.)

Can’t believe that Black Sabbath wrote a song about I Saw the TV Glow, The Matrix, and Rob Zombie’s Halloween II (director’s cut)

I can’t stop listening to my own album.

Is that a good sign, or just what making music is like?

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Melody on Music: Hyper - Pop Heist Melody's takes on recent releases from Food House, gabby start & Knapsack (same person), and GFOTY. It's a week of winners, y'all.

Music critic Melody Esme (@idalupenis.bsky.social) gives us the low-down on some of this week's album drops. Super clean — or super dirty — hyperpop, including her pick for best of the year (so far).

Melody on Music: Conscious - Pop Heist Music critic Melody Esme analyzes releases from insightful and incendiary artists Backxwash, Billy Woods, Little Simz, and McKinley Dixon.

Music critic @idalupenis.bsky.social analyzes releases from insightful and incendiary artists Backxwash, Billy Woods, Little Simz, and McKinley Dixon.

Melody on Music: Breakups, Breakdowns, Breakbeats - Pop Heist Music critic Melody Esme reviews new releases from the Cali sound of HAIM to the British pop and electronic beats of aya and PinkPantheress.

Music critic @idalupenis.bsky.social reviews new releases from the Cali sound of HAIM to the British pop and electronic beats of aya and PinkPantheress.

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hi it would mean the world to me if you listened to my band Ekko Astral’s debut album “pink balloons” & if you like it tell yr friends ok thanks love u 💞✌️

I’m so good at dating apps

When mom lets you pick out your own outfit for the first time

Trans women are just better at music than everyone else (yes, I am listening to Backxwash today)

Das Kapital (Country Version)

YouTube video by The Morbid Zoo The Philosophy of Final Destination

New video finally up! OSHA Violation: The Movie is more thoughtful and complicated than you think

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Am I allowed to say I’m pan because I’d fuck Mads Mikkelsen?

It’s not important, but the pansexual flag has all my favorite colors and I wanna hang it in my room.

Autistic cavemen must have been so confused. Like, “What?”

They didn’t even have trains

Melody on Music: Post-(post-)punk (punk) - Pop Heist Music critic Melody Esme gets into the groove with new releases from post-punk bands M(h)aol, Model/Actriz, and FACS.

Then @idalupenis.bsky.social reviewed new releases from M(h)aol, Model/Actriz, and FACS. That's a lot of punctuation and capitalization for just three bands!

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NSYNC's Weird as Hell 'No Strings Attached' Turns 25 Long before Sabrina Carpenter, NSYNC were singing smutty pop songs to an all-ages audience. What did you think "Digital Get Down" was about?

Sabrina Carpenter is being slut-shamed by puritan freaks again, so reminder that I wrote this article that connects her embrace of sexuality in pop to both NSYNC and filthy R&B from the early 20th century

Melody on Music: Post-(post-)punk (punk) - Pop Heist Music critic Melody Esme gets into the groove with new releases from post-punk bands M(h)aol, Model/Actriz, and FACS.

Get into the moody groove with these new post-punk releases from M(h)aol, FACS, and Model/Actriz. @idalupenis.bsky.social weighs in —

Against Me!'s 'White Crosses' Turns 15 Against Me!'s 'White Crosses' is the rare "I need to transition or I'll be dead soon" album. What was subtext now reads as a bold declaration.

Against Me!'s 'White Crosses' is the rare "I need to transition or I'll be dead soon" album. What was subtext now reads as a bold declaration. Read this look back from @idalupenis.bsky.social‬ —

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What sets American thighs apart from other thighs such that Brian Johnson felt the need to specify?

Just thicc, I’m guessing?

Not to brag or anything, but my therapist says I’m resilient. 😏

Music critic @idalupenis.bsky.social breaks down new releases from #JasonIsbell, #LucyDacus, #JulienBaker & #TORRES, and more.

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