my "youtube algo" just went from a straight playthrough of MC Paul Barman's "Paullelujah!" into the Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You-era Tiny Desk Concert

KRAMER: the kids have revived indie sleaze, jerry. They're making crystal castles interpolations.
JERRY: what about Sleepyhead? I miss Sleepyhead! It was a good song! Maybe Passion Pit could just come back and do that again?!?
KRAMER: (desperate) there's no time to worry about passion pit, jerry! It's only a matter of time before they find out about lil debbie!

twitch chatter radstache, asking "is that a ps1 game?", when confronted with the existence of drakeo the ruler and his 2017 album cold devil

I haven't gushed about Velvet Negroni on here yet I guess. One of my favorite artists, especially relative to the acclaim that he gets overall? an absolute all-timer pop songwriter imo. I can feel the paint on the walls of the room this video was filmed in

to me, Track Star* is one of these kind of broad celebrity interview brands that are kind of interesting to me but that I am wary of, along with Hot Ones, Chicken Shop Date, The Terrell Show, Therapuss, Ziwe, Nardwuar, and apparently SubwayTakes now?

For me the central problem with Track Star* is that I am unable to watch it without trying to decide how much of it, for this particular guest, is a "work". I'm even pretty sure that no matter how much of a work the central trivia concept is, it probably is more of a work than that.

BUT DESPITE THAT I do find myself enjoying both of these fairly recent videos from this channel. Check these out, first the one with Spike Lee and A$AP Rocky, then the one from yesterday with Mark Ronson:

Like... pretty fun!

I remember having a complicated relationship with this song when it came out in (checks notes) 7th grade. It was a weirdly compelling banger to a random white kid in sort of the "strip mall belt" of the midwest? the costuming was not of interest to me, a kid terrified of a) sex and b) the occult, which is funny to say on the other side of the grimes experiment. I did like that there were stringed instruments (I was a self-identified Suzuki Kid, so violins felt like representation). unfortunately, thanks to my NPR-listening ass, I had the gall to suggest that the vocal melodies were derivative of Enya. but like, this moment exists:

I first learned of MJ Lenderman via people who were comparing him to Jason Molina but, while I do like much of the Lenderman stuff I have heard, I feel like this cover very efficiently demonstrates why I think that is not an apt comparison

like not technically but conceptually

I did think we were going to get a Robyn album this year, but at this point it seems unlikely?

I have discovered the kind of YouTube React video that I actually like and it's "random hip-hop fans discovering underground rappers I love". I actually found Black Hole Superette underwhelming within the Aesop Rock discography but videos like this make me appreciate it more!