Tag: music
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The Wild Rush
I want a deep-dive article, podcast, or documentary on a virtually unknown country singer named Britni Hoover. Hoover was an entrant on the Nashville scene who released one album and, despite her best efforts, made almost zero impact to the point where she doesn’t even have a Wikipedia entry; hence the lack of links. And…
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The death of community and MAGA
Note: this is effectively a preabmble for a forthcoming series on the Eighty Year Crisis. A while ago ago, professional internet troll Matt Yglesias touched off a bit of a public debate on that one emotion that only grows in power starting in our mid-20s or so, nostalgia. It’s what has everyone from politicians to…
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Top 5 Productions presents: Pop Stars
This was meant to be in honor of the 25th anniversary of the High Fidelity movie which inspired the show (that was never given a chance), and which I could have absolutely sworn was released in 1999… but today I learned it’s actually the 24th anniversary. Oh well; let’s roll with this anyway. One of…
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Narratives
Every NFL season brings its narratives — some true, some made up by pundits or the league’s marketing department, a few sounding like the latter but belonging to the former like the made-for-Hollywood rise of Brock Purdy, the last-place, Mr. Irrelevant of his draft class. Another happy story is the Lions serving as the scrappy…
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There is a place for elevator music in this world.
Writer Heather Havrilesky offers this verbal blitzkrieg against Katy Perry that is awe-inspiring in its unprovoked aggression against the music world’s least-offensive pop star. Even Donald Trump would read this and go, “Hey lady, maybe you should play a bit nicer.” Some choice lines: “Her brand is the very essence of reassuring, non-threatening stagnancy.” “She’s a…
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