kinda cool in hindsight that Vampire Weekend's "Capricorn", a song that celebrates things that come into being at the very end of the year and considers the challenges they face, happened the same year that Cameron Winter released "Heavy Metal" on December 6 a full 25 days before the end of the year AND YET was excluded from many "Best of the Year" ("BOTY") considerations AND is now awkwardly being shoehorned into some of this year's lists instead out of a sense of regret for not recognizing its impact, partially because of the work itself and partially because of the way it was leveraged into an increased sense of hype for Cameron's band's incredibly hyped record Getting Killed, which will also surely earn many accolades in this year's considerations

"Birdbrain" is a song of the year contender, for me, someone who is not at all invested in the vocaloid or larger(?) anime community, except possibly in the most general of senses (is a nerd). Thank you for your consideration

do you ever just sit and think about how talented kelela is

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