iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Seems JADE-like, ton of promise, we’ll see how it goes

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Nicole Kidman is great though

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Yes but the album is a little juiceless

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Yeah I guess “morning zoo goof” is closer to how I heard it than “rap crossover”

This also at the time fit in the same lane as the Dynamite Hack Boyz in the Hood

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refusing to listen to songs -- loser behavior refusing to watch movies -- a necessary condition of modern life

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As a longstanding Iñárritu hater I had to look up a full description the plot of the new movie, and I feel great about this decision.

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Hell yeah bsky.app/profile/othe...

Yeah, it peaked in the Billboard Global Excluding US at #33, which is pretty low considering how big it got in the UK

was wondering if it was based on that!

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what I find weird is people knocking Taylor for things like melodic tics she's had since 2008 and have comprised the vast majority of her melodies for over a decade. "why does this sound like baby shark" ....because it's a Taylor Swift song written after 2014

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(that said I am also pre-"Like a Virgin" Madonna truther)

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keep reading TLOAS Encore takes about a "regression" or embarrassment or whatever and I just genuinely don't understand what artist people have been listening to for the last 12 years

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that said if at this point Taylor went full country with a live backing band and blue notes in the melody critics would probably eat it up

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"genius/show-off" quadrant analysis, who's in the "yes genius / no show-off" quadrant?

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there are bad episodes of DS9 but they're normal 90s television bad, not "how did anyone ever watch this" bad

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It’s been many years and I’ve never been hooked by TNG

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The best way to approach TNG is to watch DS9 and then watch a couple TNGs for background when something comes up

omg they were only there to meet eminem??

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meanwhile ashe is slipping into the uk charts under the cover of raye x elton john

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Yeah, a lot of good stuff that really dropped off the map afterward (and was replaced by.....basically nothing)

The US wins 2020-22, then UK takes over

"see, this is SUPPOSED to sound like musical theater"

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yeah, her best one I think, it's really grown on me

I'm not big on Olivia generally but her big singles are usually pretty good. don't mind "drivers license" tbh, like it more than her sprechgesang

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there is a lot of "*one* generally shouldn't be expected to know this but *you specifically* should know it" online

at some point we're going to have to get it together with pax earth, prob not this lifetime

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The YouTube RIYL algorithm is also really good for certain pockets of the world outside of the Anglosphere if you dedicate a channel to only that stuff and never click anything else; this is usually much more reliable to find things than streaming is (I just don't really use Youtube this way)

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"AKRIILA’s copious Auto-Tune use starts to feel emotionally limiting and exhausted by the album’s end" this is where we disagree

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My life keeps getting harder for a September round-up of albums the more I re-listen to albums I put in my "this is probably pretty good" pile. New AKRIILA album is a v good alt-rock alb, even got a polite Pfork 7.5

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"sorry, can I get back to you in six minutes while I just sit here with my eyes closed?"

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I liked "Too Easy"! Just didn't really suggest everything else

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yeah the pre-release stuff I heard feels like a fakeout, really scrambling my september roundup at the eleventh hour

Songs in the Key of Life: The Encore

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Stevie Wonder is good at writing songs

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she doesn't choose it either!