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Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) [Official Music Video] YouTube video by Gotye

#TheTenX5 day 37
14. gotye ft kimbra - somebody that i used to know
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released - december 2011
charts - uk #1, us #1

one of the truly great one hit wonders
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVN...

i feel like marquis cha cha was based on some topical thing from the era? i should look but i can't be arsed

i've remembered now but i'll let you figure it out

yeah you'd think this stuff would have died with the thick of it at the latest but it just keeps coming, i think politicians aren't really capable at reckoning with how transparent they are

some real poe's law shit right there

imagine that being a scandal now, hating america is a baseline

having completed my ariana vinyl collection, is there anything to be said for buying an illustrated biography of her? more than you might expect i fear

80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

The 3 genders

the vital crossroads from which the 90s was formed

this is great punning 👏

Every year the news slouches closer to an all clickbait model, where every article is called “this will make you mad”

like, every time they do something like that it just confirms the suspicion that they don't really understand the country that they govern, don't really like it and are throwing around a lot of patronising trash to disguise the fact (badly)

i don't think it's a bad thing for labour politicians to say they like things about britain (and some people on the left will insist on being weird about that) but there's a sense that it always feels like a scam, either flags and racism or weird shit like all the 'silly sausage britain' stuff

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic 🎼
#MusicChallenge 🎶
day 11 - a song about a book
hand habits - book on how to change (2017)

i too would like this book
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxUv...

I had that last year. I was talking to someone on here about John Le Mesurier and someone who doesn't follow me posted "Hattie Jacques was a sex addict" and then disappeared.

facial/biracial rhyme is the peak

JAYLEN INVASION (Mobile Music Video) YouTube video by RAINEY

I can't stop thinking about this

Fabulous were a British rock band formed in 1991 by NME journalist Simon Spence (a.k.a. Dudfield) and NME photographer Martyn Goodacre, initially under the name Baggy.

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i like it esp when music writers do this stuff because there's no sense of them just creating a hype train like birdland, i feel like they believe all this bullshit? it's the same trash they wrote week in week out which makes the lack of a notable omelette at the end all the more funny

i've always thought it owed a lot to girls just wanna have fun to the point that i'd assumed it was an actual sample but it's not, it's a kind of all-purpose updated mid 80s bombast

greater albania surely...

ngl new song is growing on me, could harry be an album's artist?!

it's going to be massive here, not quite as big as harry's house in america but still huge, breaking from a sheeran/dua type situation where the brits smash at home but flop internationally 🧐

looking thru first week numbers for the last harry styles album to determine whether his career is still in the ascendency, sometimes you just have to do the important jobs yrself

melody maker really took an pop at it (see the 'dogshit/diamonds' kingmaker/suede review) but tbh we were moving into an era where that feels a bit rich in retrospect, they weren't as bad but there was still a marked conservatism about them (see: suede)

i think if you limit yr attention to one specific thing that's often not intrinsically all that good then yr going to end up saying "i guess that'll do?" quite a lot. which is fine if that's what you like, not so much if yr the nme in 1991

Slow Release YouTube video by Joyride! - Topic

#TheTenX5 day 36
15. joyride! - slow release
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released - september 2014 on the album 'bodies of water'

perfect tweepunk banger, 75 seconds, video lost to time (an example of LOST MEDIA OF THE 10'S!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzz9...

my impression of lacan is that he's one of those wilfully obscure people whose theories are fun to play around with but they don't actually mean anything, which makes him an ideal vehicle with which to approach kung fu panda 2

my way into reading zizek was his lacanian dissections of popular culture and i remain convinced that it's just a really good bit

i think this is the one that slavoj zizek had something to say about so maybe they're pitching for the post pub marxist crowd?