Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The pain of correcting predictive text when typing apostrophe-less its in a sentence 010
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 04/10/2026‘90s hits with the same Hot 100 peak as their titles: Prince - 7 Barenaked Ladies - One Week 020
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If my calculations are correct then I am one year older than Seven who would be 29 in the present day based on the information in A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre released in 2003 when I was 7 years old Allcomingtogether.gif 000
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 04/10/2026He implied his opinion matters 2993 times more than his through name 110
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Most popular number to name your child after (Andre 3000, George Costanza, plus a former study mate of mine also named Seven) 210
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think my band’s drummer is having a furry awakening from Buck the Kiwibank sheep 001
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Happy October 1st to everyone except for people making that one Green Day joke at this time of year 112
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 29/09/2026They should invent a way to italicise words on social media 000
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 27/09/2026When they were showering Green Day with awards in 2005 they should’ve given them that award then 010
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Wow the guy who was an unbearable asshole to XTC when producing Skylarking sucks 010
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 22/09/2026His second 20/20 installment in 2013 wasn’t nearly as well-received as the first, then a few years later the Britney/Janet controversies turned him into an easy target for people who think disliking celebrities is political praxis 030
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The emotional appeal of their music to me has always felt like a kind of “straight male bromance” that inspires a sense of solidarity in the reciprocating audience. “We’ll see things they’ll never see/You and I are gonna live forever” 020
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Musicianship? I always thought their early working-class appeal was that they played like a competent bar band with the layering and volume of shoegaze but without focusing on soundscaping beyond being big and loud. “A sound so void of finesse it turned out unstoppable” 000
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 20/09/2026They’re one of the last rock bands I can’t imagine someone my age who grew up on pop music *not* knowing about and at least a few hits of theirs. AM was EVERYWHERE and in many ways still is with multi-billion streams these days, it’s probably the biggest album of 2013 these days 012
Reposted by Marxist-Poptimist🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸 @dean-tane.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Best kākāpō fuck season ever! 💚 0193
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 18/09/2026None of their songs outnumber “Seven Nation Army” in Spotify streams but they have at least 4 or 5 well about “Fell In Love With a Girl” which is what I mean by The White Stripes feeling less “canonised” than The Strokes in the present 000
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Most of “the last big rock bands” of my adolescence were shaped by The Strokes (Killers, Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys) or wouldn’t even exist without them, fans of those bands getting back to the source material has made the Strokes bigger in the streaming era 341
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Not really, I actually think The Strokes are bigger *now* than they were 20-25 years ago when rock critics really wanted Is This It to Nevermind the mainstream rock landscape, it somehow feels like it did in hindsight 111
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Yeah maybe I’m wrong since Is This It’s “classic” status with the public feels stronger with every passing year, I am a bit surprised that it’s up against the Stripes instead, since their following actually feels weaker now than the Strokes despite being the biggest garage rock band at the time 121
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Part of me wishes YHF was held off until a 2002 round because without it in the picture the 2001 aoty feels just a bit less obvious, it’d still be my #1 for ‘02 but feel like it could more easily lose to another rock critic favourite I find overrated like Songs For the Deaf, so worth more of a fight 141
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I can confirm that I find their 1999-2002 work the easiest to appreciate seperate from my annoyance at the overplay of “Can’t Stop” and “Californication” in my life, with the only song of their I’ve always loved even when I hated their existence (“Otherside”) 020
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Just Add Reverb-music got really out of hand in the ‘2010s after people over-corrected on Slowdive and that War on Drugs album came out 020
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 18/09/20264 Beatles biopics are in the works but so far they’ve only shot John 000
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Feels unaware of how anti-art-but-woke its own framework is. We can all want to and sometimes even need to move on from a peronally- formative artist but whatever you latch onto next will offer you different thrills and insights and that’s also a very good thing 000
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“There’s always another artist just as talented who can fill this role your cancelled fave does” has always irked me a bit because people’s artistic skills and worldviews are always going to be different from one another independently of their own morals and politics 100
Reposted by Marxist-Poptimist I don't know how any of this works @hamburglarshelper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ok well some are serious. 1914
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 16/09/2026One of the least erotic songs about sex ever written 000
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I can only hear the name Ed in Mrs. Bighead’s voice 000
Reposted by Marxist-PoptimistDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 16/09/2026More people have pulled out of Ed Sheeran's opening act than pulled out of Aella 2543268
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Days when celebrities get cancelled are great for limiting social media use as I get bored out of my mind reading a thousand variations of the same call-out post, even when I completely agree with it 000
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I remember when the only chart columns in their discography’s Wikipedia article were US and NZ 020
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I doubt the band gives a Fork about that though 130
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 15/09/2026That same week I saw people hyping up the new Superman movie as anti-Israel by some of her critics and thought “yeah watching the newest popcorn superhero movie is the real praxis, isn’t it?” 010
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 15/09/2026And none of the worst things she said about the left in that post were as damning as her correctly describing the Israeli public after 10/7 as obsessed with “unstoppable lust for revenge” 100
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Like I would have to tried not to have sounded like I was blaming people for being too outraged about it too, but I also have a very low gore tolerance and don’t think self-harming oneself or spamming another’s mentions as punishment is a good idea either 110
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It’s like how the re-ignited backlash to ContraPoints last year was erupted from her responding to the fandom-as-politics crowd demand that every essayist must make ContentTM about the worst moral catastrophe of our lives to be proven non-complicit in genocide 110
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Honestly I’d be feeling more schadenfreude if it were a decade ago and he still felt like the pop star for people with stodgy Real Instruments mentality but he was last my musical nemesis in 2018 100
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The closest social media felt like today in the past was my 19th birthday in March 2015 when everyone I knew on Facebook was scolding the bullying X-Factor judges 100
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Everyone on Instagram is amazingly angry at Ed Sheeran today 110
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Country remains the genre everyone is way weirder than they need to be about it 100
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It’s why that album is named after a large animal, you see 🐘 000
Reposted by Marxist-Poptimisteminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026If I described someone as being a combination of Eminem and Kanye West you would probably think they sound like a good rapper. But actually, the person has Kanye West's politics and Eminem's race, and it's Adolf Hitler. And the fact you thought they sounded cool shows how normalised fascism is 3251
Marxist-Poptimist @theben52s.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Tonight my favourite moment on Miss E… goes to the titular “Scream” hook that reminds me of Diamanda Galas for a split second 010
