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I can't believe JK Rowling was a Holocaust this whole time.
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Apr 16, 2024 15:50
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Failed Imagineer posted:I laughed hard at this bit. But it was in the movie Amsterdam, not See How They Run - both kind of twee period romps so understandable confusion. This is how I viewed her but recently I have gone a bit deep end. Got into her kind of backwards - from Folklore with Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) and Aaron Dessner (The National) - through to the earlier stuff. She could always sling a hook and is a very good lyricist imo, but I don't think you really appreciate her until you start to see the journey she's been on from bible belt country pinup to beatlemania level superstar. Red and 1984 are the key nuts to crack, when I understood how autobiographical they were they become a lot more impactful and you could see the themes running through from earlier and to later records. Warning - understanding this may require you to listen to a Swifty go on about Jake Gyllenhaal a lot! She has improved a ton over ten albums as well. I honestly think she'll be remembered as a feminist icon - akin to Boni Tyler or Joni Mitchell - in retrospect. Zalakwe fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Apr 16, 2024 |
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Apr 16, 2024 15:51
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When I listen to music at work it's usually an audio assault on me to cover the sound of the CNC Mill. It made for a very quiet time last week when I turned it off because of a contractor working in the area, I figured some people probably find a cacophony of Swedish death metal a bit distracting to work around. I mean probably still better than the same songs each day on Absolute Radio that the rest of the factory has, but ya know
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Apr 16, 2024 16:02
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Zalakwe posted:This is how I viewed her but recently I have gone a bit deep end. Got into her kind of backwards - from Folklore with Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) and Aaron Dessner (The National) - through to the earlier stuff. She'll certainly go down as a feminist icon of some description, but a musical comparison to Joni Mitchell (maybe the most talented songwriter of the 20th century?) is a bit fanciful. I appreciate the irony of what I'm about to say shortly after praising Stephin Merritt's 69 Love Songs, but there's a kinda upper limit for how many fairly-similar midtempo pop love songs I can hold up as genuine classics. They all blend together a little bit, particularly as a concert experience. I have a fair bit of background on Swift minutia and Jake and scarves and friendship bracelets and whatnot - my friend DJs Swiftogeddon nights and my wife worked with Joe Alwyn and met Swift a while back. So I appreciate the craft, and certainly the graft, but I can't cosign this weird groupthink that every Swift album is a life-changing event that needs to be pored over under an electron microscope. She's very good, but it just gets a bit much. That being said, nothing wrong with fan/stan culture poo poo when it's not toxic - people's brains like to latch onto stuff and it doesn't really matter if it's Swift or Warhams or whatever, go nuts.
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Apr 16, 2024 16:04
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Zalakwe posted:This is how I viewed her but recently I have gone a bit deep end. Got into her kind of backwards - from Folklore with Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) and Aaron Dessner (The National) - through to the earlier stuff. Fun fact. I have kissed Boni Tyler
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Apr 16, 2024 16:18
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Failed Imagineer posted:She's very good, but it just gets a bit much. I can appreciate that and might have recently reached my own saturation point with her. Done it with plenty of other artists as well. That said I think it's very hard to compare backwards and say definitively who is or isn't an amazing songwriter. Her songs mean a great deal to a great number of people and she is probably the most high profile voice of this generation of women. I wouldn't say she is as good as Joni Mitchell either but who am I to say really. Time will tell I'm sure. In the meantime I am going to continue to annoy my obsessed mate by telling him the best thing The National have made in the last decade is a Taylor Swift album. smellmycheese posted:Fun fact. I have kissed Boni Tyler This is an excellent fact.
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Apr 16, 2024 16:21
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lol
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Apr 16, 2024 16:22
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Calling the IKs on everyone in this thread who doesn't recognise our lord and saviour T Swift
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Apr 16, 2024 16:28
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MP discovers the concept of 'crime'
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Apr 16, 2024 16:36
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I think I could probably recognize Taylor Swift unless she was wearing a disguise.
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Apr 16, 2024 16:36
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Apraxin posted:MP discovers the concept of 'crime' Wait is this MP coming to the conclusion that drug prohibition is futile?
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Apr 16, 2024 16:38
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Honest Davion posted:When I listen to music at work it's usually an audio assault on me to cover the sound of the CNC Mill. It made for a very quiet time last week when I turned it off because of a contractor working in the area, I figured some people probably find a cacophony of Swedish death metal a bit distracting to work around. When they put on capital or kiss instead it felt like they had 4 tracks on repeat and one of them would be a remix of whatever one was already the most overplayed. I could have done with out listening to that loving happy song every 15 minutes of my working life for a year.
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Apr 16, 2024 16:38
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Apraxin posted:MP discovers the concept of 'crime' He appears to be advocating to allow everyone to legally schnozz a bit of chop
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Apr 16, 2024 16:40
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Rarity posted:Calling the IKs on everyone in this thread who doesn't recognise our lord and saviour T Swift 
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Apr 16, 2024 16:44
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sinky posted:A billionaire cannot be good This. Especially Taylor Swift with her over the top private jet use and her melty politics.
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Apr 16, 2024 16:46
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Taylor Swift has a few banger songs but on the whole she sucks. And she betrayed Olivia Rodrigo
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Apr 16, 2024 16:54
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Mr Phillby posted:When they put on capital or kiss instead it felt like they had 4 tracks on repeat and one of them would be a remix of whatever one was already the most overplayed. I could have done with out listening to that loving happy song every 15 minutes of my working life for a year. Had the same problem just before Covid but with Heart FM. Just my luck it was loving Galway Girl by Sheeran or that Lizzo song 6 times a day. The only Taylor Swift song I know most of is Shake it off by pure osmosis. I tried the Dessner acoustic ones because I like The National a few times before realising it was the musical equivalent of an air freshener blast. it just evaporated from my memory 5 minutes later. Nothing against her, her stuff just floats in one ear and out the other. I don't know why people confuse 'selling large volumes of music to teens' with being 'the greatest singer/songwriter'. Heh Dua Lipa went to Sylvia Young Theatre School, you'd think they'd have a few acting classes then but I guess not everyone can be a triple threat.
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Apr 16, 2024 16:59
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Apraxin posted:MP discovers the concept of 'crime' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcbcNNF8aTs keep punching joe posted:And she betrayed Olivia Rodrigo Goldskull posted:Shake it off by pure osmosis
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Apr 16, 2024 17:02
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Honest Davion posted:When I listen to music at work it's usually an audio assault on me to cover the sound of the CNC Mill. Assume the sound of a CNC Mill is 'Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm'
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Apr 16, 2024 17:06
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Guavanaut posted:Wait what happened here? There's a compelling fan theory that Vampire is actually about Rodrigo/Swifts friendship, and subsequent falling out over Swift sueing her for songwriting credits on a couple of tracks on her first album.
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Apr 16, 2024 17:11
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https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1780215571327451265?t=ahCOjadjZN6VMMJd1-GrdQ&s=19 Perfection.
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Apr 16, 2024 17:22
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liz truss do a bible version
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Apr 16, 2024 17:23
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Lobster God posted:https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1780215571327451265?t=ahCOjadjZN6VMMJd1-GrdQ&s=19
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Apr 16, 2024 17:26
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More Truss gold https://twitter.com/damocrat/status/1780247850527387905?s=46
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Apr 16, 2024 17:42
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A better PM than Liz Truss:
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Apr 16, 2024 17:52
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keep punching joe posted:There's a compelling fan theory that Vampire is actually about Rodrigo/Swifts friendship, and subsequent falling out over Swift sueing her for songwriting credits on a couple of tracks on her first album. Tay and Liv are pals again, they turned up for each other at the Grammys
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Apr 16, 2024 17:59
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Did this guy lose a bet or something? quote:In the smoking debate the Conservative MP Alexander Stafford (Rother Valley) compared supporters of the government’s bill to Roundheads. He explained:
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Apr 16, 2024 18:04
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1989 is mid and shake it off is a war crime. i only have room in my heart for one big pop star and that is carly rae jepsen
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Apr 16, 2024 18:25
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From the descriptions I read earlier l thought 100 gecs were going to sound like Lightning Bolt or something, but I gave them a listen and they do not.
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Apr 16, 2024 18:34
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Nuclear Spoon posted:1989 is mid and shake it off is a war crime. i only have room in my heart for one big pop star and that is carly rae jepsen Agreed. Saw The Jep last summer and nearly cried she was so good lol
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Apr 16, 2024 18:46
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Just noticed, on the bbc.com site, they have removed the UK politics page. So can't even see what is happening internally now with the Tories and parliament. Can't even read about NI politics either.
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Apr 16, 2024 18:51
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happyhippy posted:Just noticed, on the bbc.com site, they have removed the UK politics page. It's still there. The BBC website has a habit of occasionally dropping random topics off the top menu bar. You should still be able to get it through the More tab.
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Apr 16, 2024 18:53
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The British Broadcasting Corporation no longer recognizes the legitimacy of the so-called United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Apr 16, 2024 19:07
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Soylent Yellow posted:It's still there. The BBC website has a habit of occasionally dropping random topics off the top menu bar. You should still be able to get it through the More tab. Can't see 'More' any more. Maybe need an account to read it.
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Apr 16, 2024 19:13
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1. Some people need to listen to Getaway car 2. If we do start conscription they won’t be able to smoke em if they got em, because they don’t got em.
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Apr 16, 2024 19:17
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Lol, pathetic https://twitter.com/FT/status/1780249486322712955?t=dWcggixxTGZ-vpmtWjqs5g&s=19
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Apr 16, 2024 19:31
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Easy solution there, be too busy to respond to the next one. Next question?
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Apr 16, 2024 19:55
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Nuclear Spoon posted:1989 is mid and shake it off is a war crime. i only have room in my heart for one big pop star and that is carly rae jepsen call me maybe is still a banger and i regularly exercise to it lol
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Apr 16, 2024 19:55
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Failed Imagineer posted:Lol, pathetic i sent you jet fighter please respond
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Apr 16, 2024 19:56
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Lobster God posted:https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1780215571327451265?t=ahCOjadjZN6VMMJd1-GrdQ&s=19 I love the way she seems so happy she 'wrote' a book.. (by 'wrote' I mean got someone else to to do it for her).
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