Happy Black Friday Caroline Polachek

[line b]

Thx but I never need exonerating—I heard a Polachek song playing at Newark Airport, that's all I ever needed to know

that kinda proves our original point though. that polachek is a fake thing forced upon us from above to make other wise boring institutions fundamentally incapable of identifying whats cool seem hip. Tik tok is naturally outside this system as its core demographic is the youth, pedos, and china

 

[sus]

that kinda proves our original point though. that polachek is a fake thing forced upon us from above to make other wise boring institutions fundamentally incapable of identifying whats cool seem hip. Tik tok is naturally outside this system as its core demographic is the youth, pedos, and china

This fundamentally misunderstands the dynamics of corporate marketing b/c it views the world with an "us v them" anti-capitalist mentality where it's "the people" against "the corporations"

The Newark snack stand has no interest in "pushing a cultural agenda."

Their programming is dictated bottom-up rather than vice-versa

Snack vendors chase trends, rather than make them

 

[version]

 

[line b]

This fundamentally misunderstands the dynamics of corporate marketing b/c it views the world with an "us v them" anti-capitalist mentality where it's "the people" against "the corporations"

The Newark snack stand has no interest in "pushing a cultural agenda."

Their programming is dictated bottom-up rather than vice-versa

Snack vendors chase trends, rather than make them

no youve misunderstood our point. its not about a man behind the curtain. its about cybernetics. its in the water like flouride. its about the culture biting its tail, the rocket gone ballistic. there is no bottom up to distinguish from the top down. corporations are people and people are corporations. theres no distinguishing you from the newark snack stand gus, thats what were trying to tell you.

 

[sus]

OK I suppose I stand corrected... What to do with this new info...

 

[shiels]

This weeknd album is realiy good

 

[wektor]

This weeknd album is realiy good

as much as I despise the weeknd and I consider that project harmful, I do like it as well.

 

[woops]

harmful

good policy

 

[Corpsey]

I need to listen to the Weeknd album properly, at high volume. I wasn't taken with it at first.

I do find it a bit depressing how a lot of music (even the good stuff) is now a pastiche of some old thing or other.

But that's news to nobody!

 

[luka]

as much as I despise the weeknd and I consider that project harmful, I do like it as well.

This is exactly why I won't listen to it

 

[Corpsey]

Rilke.

I like imagining the Weeknd somehow running into Luka on the Southbank and falling under his sway.

His next album is narrated by JH Prynne and features no music (because music is dead and emotions aren't possible).

 

[Corpsey]

Actually "emotions aren't possible" was kind of his schtick in the House of Balloons days -- albeit because of cocaine and stripper addiction.

 

[sus]

Really clumsy awkward lyrics but otherwise I like it. I like all of this pretend eighties pop.

 

[sus]

@Corpsey thisll cheer you up... it acknowledges the fleeting effervescence of life, consciousness, feeling... while also reveling in it

 

[luka]

That one just makes me wish Prince was singing it

 

[luka]

That's the problem with straying too close to someone else's territory. Best to keep it vague and suggestive.

 

[sus]

That one just makes me wish Prince was singing it

What's a Prince song that sounds like this, so I can get into Prince

 

[luka]

When you were mine

 

[sus]

When you were mine

This is great, though I wish it were a bit more "epic" feeling like "Saturdays" you know?

 

[sus]

I like music where i'm like EPIC! maybe we should have a thread about EPIC tunes