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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 1h

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 17

#34
billy woods & Kenny Segal - Soft Landing (2023) (USA)

Beats like wading through treacle (complimentary), low-key interpolation of 'Feeling Good', and the best use of an easyJet inflight announcement in any song.

youtu.be/KyYQcms0Shg?...

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 16h

Garden mushrooms are back (no fairy ring)

A group, and a couple of lone, brown mushrooms in some quite long grass.

Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 18h

I'd have loved to have seen them live. Will give Orange Deluxe a listen and see if I can hear the Five Thirty DNA

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 20h

ah Abstain, yes that definitely should have been on the album! (i enjoy them most being noisy and raucous)

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 20h

... holding up amazingly well is Bed by Five Thirty - the true initiators of britpop ;)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKsB...

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 1d

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 16

#35
ROSALÍA - SAOKO (2022) (Spain)

This song is a whole load of booming fun (... and it's taken me up to now to find Wison's/ Daddy Yankee's Saoco which is also fabulous).

youtu.be/6o7bCAZSxsg?...

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 1d

probably my most-viewed film (peak watching age = 17; set unrealistic expectations for grand romantic gestures at New Year)

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 2d

🙌 billboard Japan hot overseas🙌

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 2d

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 15

#36
Paramore - This Is Why (2022) (USA)

Always up for a bit of pop funk catharsis.

youtu.be/xIYJ7VaSxYY?...

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 3d

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 14

#37
Charli XCX (2/2) - forever (2020) (UK)

Charli is one of five artists with two tracks in my top 50. First off is this gloriously bitter sweet, sad banger.

youtu.be/TbJE-KVZvTA?...

Charli XCX - forever [Official Video]

YouTube video by Charli xcx

youtu.be

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 3d

Beau's original C'est La Vie was a poppelganger discovery and - apologies to the Nevil version (one of my first singles) - I do prefer Beau's slinkier version.

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 3d

wow, that's still a while away - I hope all goes smoothly (and as swift as it can)

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 4d

oh no, I hope you've been able to get everything sorted/ protected

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 4d

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 13

#38
Mei Semones - Dumb Feeling (2025) (USA)

Splitting the Mei vote (all her songs are great!) - I'm going for the mellow bossa-charms of this ode to her life in New York.

youtu.be/wsdFtAyWP80?...

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 5d

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 12

#39
Mitski - Love Me More (2022) (USA)

Ah, the grand drama!

youtu.be/P4J3Z9xgjWQ?...

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 5d

Rammellzee & K Rob's track is so charming (love the discordant violins and the rambling vibes) that I felt robbed by the six minute version. (Also props to Jean-Michel Basquiat's production.)

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 6d

oh me, oh my! (this is the good XS)

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 6d

Yes! (love this song, it is coming up on my list too...)

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 6d

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 11

#40
Rina Sawayama - XS (2020) (Japan/ UK)

I am always going to love chunky guitar riffs in the middle of superb pop R&B, that is also taking a long hard look at ourselves.

youtu.be/TO2c06p6m5w?...

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 7d

I enjoyed One Battle (really good, not seminal), may revisit Red Lantern as I think I put unfair expectations on Songlian, Tenet was so much men saying nonsensical stuff to each other in very important tones.

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Recent activity (films watched):
One Battle After Another - 4 stars
Raise The Red Lantern - 3.5 stars
Tenet - 2 stars
Starship Troopers - 3 stars

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 7d

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 10

#41
Jeshi - 3210 (2022) (UK)

Come for the inventive video, stay for the woozy, bad trip, club beats. My PPP pick for '22!

(Am reminded again that there is a Ross from Friends Remix, and that sadly this is not actually by David Schwimmer.)

youtu.be/zesWPYv-wbE?...

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 7d

snap! :)

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 7d

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 9

#42
Eslabon Armado y Peso Pluma - Ella Baila Sola (2023) (US/ Mexico)

There's not been enough brass in my list so far so here's a boatload of the catchiest, hookiest horns going and some fabulous vocal interplay.

youtu.be/lZiaYpD9ZrI?...

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 8d

me neither! I thought DNA had just given it a bit of a funky zhuzh, and it's much more than that (I like the quite long pauses between verses)

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Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.social · 9d

I was toying with 'Summer In New York', but I think this may be the better Tom's Diner-ing ... (now going down a 2020s TD rabbit hole)

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