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That kind of thing always makes me feel like some kind of unintentional con artist

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That fourth movement hits every single time

I have gone too long not remembering that Shostakovich’s second trio exists

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Omg a non-music friend sincerely invited me to a candlelit concert thinking it was something I’d be really into and I was like “bro I don’t even know where to begin”

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It may be harder than ever to actually be a classical musician in this country, but it’s never been easier to impress normies who have never been inside a concert hall, so, you know, pros and cons

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My self-perception just constantly oscillates between “I am talented and special and no one does it like me” and “I only impress people because arts education and access has been so hollowed out in this country for the last few decades that people are now floored by baseline musical competence”

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I have not responded to the email that you sent me and which you probably spent awhile writing Forgive me it was so long and my executive functioning is completely shot

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 18/09/2026

Apparently it is!! bsky.app/profile/kenj...

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These are not the only examples of such topics but I wanted everyone to know I was not making this up French pop artists are something else

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YouTube video by Aloïse Sauvage - Topic

Likewise with this song about a guy named Jimy www.youtube.com/watch?v=SidB...

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Jimy

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YouTube video by Eddy de Pretto - Topic

My French is not good enough for me to understand what this song is about other than a guy named Jimmy www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Quw...

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YouTube video by Aloïse Sauvage - Topic

Maybe not a banger per se but a song telling cancer to go suck it youtu.be/17ZpfQMiCHs

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A banger about the futility of gender bsky.app/profile/dood...

Oh and how could I forget the number of French pop songs about depression

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Pop artists in most countries: I love dancing and falling in love :) French pop artists: absent fathers cause unfathomable pain, society is failing its children, the gender binary is stupid, cancer sucks, here’s a song about a guy named jimmy

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I’m also relistening to a bunch of his catalogue and he’s done the “calling out famous and powerful guys before it was cool” thing enough times that it’s like, guys, this is just kind of his thing

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It’s so funny because I skip Same Love every time (it is actually too cringe for me!) so I keep forgetting he did that! But so many of his other songs about artistic and moral integrity speak to me very deeply and I appreciate his general lack of shame about being authentically silly so

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This is not me doing the "I am virtuous because there is a connection between morals and artistic preference" thing this is just me being confused about all of this

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"How did he of all people become a voice for justice in spite of societal pressure?" Me in the corner with my headphones: oh ummmmm yeah so he's always been like this

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 05/09/2026

Uhh truly do not know what to do with the development of everyone suddenly going "wait, we like this guy now?" about an artist I have quietly enjoyed for years

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Sometimes when I have a bad experience somewhere I just start frothing at the mouth for the survey to come in I have definitely written opinionated essays in several “if you have anything you’d like to tell us about please tells us here” boxes

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I have so many questions about the absence of a bridge alone

Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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love to bow the open strings on my bridgeless violin, and my ruffed collar works so much better than a chin rag

Dior Facebook ad for winter 2026 eyewear. A man in a shirt with a very elaborate pleated collar holds a beat up violin with technique that makes it pretty clear the model has never touched a violin before

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henselpushers @henselpushers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whoever is throwing this is the right kind of insane, props to them

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Tomorrow is Mantissa the Dishwasher Cat’s birthday and all she wants is for you to donate to Henselfest ! www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

A tabby cat sitting proudly on the open door of a dishwasher

A cat sitting next to an open dishwasher, looking eagerly at the camera

A cat lounging on the door of an open dishwasher

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Ummmm so there is going to be an entire music festival dedicated to Fanny Hensel!!!!

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 01/09/2026

If you want to have the busiest, most bonkers year of your life, start a yearlong project like blogging a chapter of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables every day, guaranteed that will act as a lightning rod delivering events into your life that keep you from having time for your silly little project

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Yeah I thought it was REALLY rich of them to be so aghast

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That is what I thought EVERY TIME

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I think that as a little treat to me the people who voted for [gestures] all of this should be made to sit through punishing inquiries by randomly selected juries of extremely judgmental Europeans

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Reminds me of when I was in the UK shortly after the 2016 election and upon hearing my American accent, British people would go “so how did you let that happen”

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“You are much safer here than in America, we don’t have the guns here” “We have problems but nothing like your income inequality where people with good jobs cannot afford a place to live” “Don’t worry you can eat the food here”

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 21/08/2026

There is really nothing like international travel to gauge precisely how embarrassing your home country is at any given point

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I have lost so much of my life to drilling the differences between expositions and recapitulations

Why is the Beach C# piano concerto so good and why have I never heard it in person You don’t have to answer that it was a rhetorical question

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Then why did you point out something completely unnecessary like you were adding something to the topic

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Some of you didn’t learn basic if-then logic proofs in school and it shows

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Thesis: WA Mozart was a tremendously talented kid who only became “Mozart” bc his dad created the conditions for him to succeed Reply guys: oooOOOOH but what if a kid ISN’T talented, then they CAN’T become Mozart even with the right conditions and your thesis is wrong! I am very smart!

Wheeeeeee starting to get replies from guys going “but if you give a kid access without talent then they won’t become great” and that is 1) so fkn obvious, guys, good job, and 2) irrelevant if the dataset you’re working with is talented kids. On this topic we are operating with talent being a given!

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I realize this is on me for not like, posting the entire research paper, but what I was getting at was that talent without access won’t go anywhere. The existence of talent, when your pool is purely “child prodigies/geniuses *who succeeded*” IS A GIVEN bsky.app/profile/dood...

The talent is a given in these cases (you can’t take a mediocre kid and turn them into a genius prodigy), but the access is a much rarer commodity

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