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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 17h

I am super excited for the start of the season. The lack of an extension for Hutson is at most a mild concern. It would be nice for it to be done so we could all stop thinking about it. But no one should be getting worked up about it at this point.

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 23h

Born in Kenya, raised in London, Ontario, Shad has forged a successful career as a rapper and innovatorz he even had a stint as host of CBC’s “Q”. Number 868 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=ExOC...

SHAD - The Old Prince Still Lives At Home (Official Video)

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 1d

Patrik Laine: shutdown winger.

Selke Trophy coming up.

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 1d

assessing her motivations etc. But before we accuse her of promoting white supremacy I think we should have strong evidence for that claim.

Like an accusation of antisemitism, it’s serious stuff. This might just be a throwaway line in a song about her sometimes wanting to blend in with the crowd.

Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 1d

… “got the whole block looking like you”. What does she mean by that? I’m not sure but jumping to the conclusion that she means she wants to be surrounded only by white people seems a little ungenerous as an interpretation.

Anyway, we can agree to disagree. Like I said, I’m all for critically ...

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 1d

If you look at the lyrics to that song it seems clear she is talking about a desire to pull back from the glare of celebrity. She wants the world to “leave” her and Travis “alone.” Which is fair enough and understandable as something she must feel fairly often.

But that one line is a bit odd…

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 1d

… on “wokeism” as anti-white anti-heterosexual hysteria. It’s a stretch at best.

Anyway, maybe I am totally wrong and she’s a crass opportunist who is embracing MAGA to sell more records. I just think it seems more nuanced than that.

Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 1d

And the stuff about a white woman wanting to produce white babies… I mean… as a white woman is she not allowed to sing about totally normal feelings about wanting to have a family? It seems to me that’s all she’s doing. And attacking her on these grounds likely plays into the conservative attack…

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 1d

So yeah. Cynicism about a multi-billionaire monetizing everything she possibly can is totally fair. Suspicion that she might be tacking rightward to win back some conservative fans she probably lost is warranted. But the breakdown of the lyrics this commentator offers seems a little slanted.

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 1d

… like a fairly obvious commentary on Trump’s and conservatives’ attempts to cancel her. And she’s saying that in this fascistic context, it’s cool to be cancelled.

Similarly her reference to people wanting to own three dogs etc again seems like an obvious sneer re: the cat lady comment.

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting.

Well, my take would be this.

I totally agree with viewing this all cynically re: the announcement of her wedding being packaged with the album etc. I also don’t think the album is very good.

But conservative messages in the lyrics? I’m not so sure. “Cancelled” for example, seems..

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 2d

Skye Sweetnam is from Bolton Ontario. Her 2000s solo career owed much to Avril Lavigne in terms of her pop punk sound. She is currently the singer for a band ccalled Sumo Cyco. Number 867 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=h0dV...

Skye Sweetnam - Tangled Up In Me

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 2d

I mean the lyrics specifically. Which lyrics do you find problematic?

I’m not a huge fan or anything, I’m just curious.

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 2d

If those of us on the left spent as much energy trying to defeat fascism as we do policing each other and tearing potential allies down, we’d be a lot better off. Take a lesson from History: the Popular Front brought centrists together with social democrats and communists. That’s what we need.

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 2d

What are you referring to?

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 2d

Haha. No I remember that sequence of events.

Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 2d

That must be what I am thinking of I guess.

Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 2d

Stu, did Gilmour not come back to the Habs at some point at the trade deadline, play a period and get injured or something like that? Or is my memory playing tricks on me?

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 2d

Sugar Jones was the product of a Canadian TV show Popstars that saw women compete for spots in the band. They had just one album in 2001, which enjoyed some modest success before the group disbanded in 2003. Number 866 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=NrbW...

Sugar Jones - Days Like That

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 3d

That fourth line will not be fun to play against as they say.

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 3d

Rexdale, Ontario’s Jelleestone released two studio albums in 2001 and 2005. This was his biggest commercial and critical success from his debut album. Number 865 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=iSBL...

Jelleestone Money Can't Buy Me Happiness MONEY PART 1 (Offical Video) HD

YouTube video by Jelleestone

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 5d

Serial Joe was from Newmarket, Ontario, and enjoyed commercial success from 1998 until 2001. They were dropped by their label in 2002 and broke up shortly thereafter. Number 864 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=6C1d...

Completely

YouTube video by Serial Joe - Topic

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 5d

I just wasted a solid hour of my workday because of problems created by the new Outlook. This was after wasting half an hour because of problems created by the new photocopier/printer. #Technology

Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 5d

The Dears are from Montreal, Quebec, and have been a successful indie rock band since forming in 1995. This particular track makes me think they were likely fans of the Smiths in their youth. Number 863 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=u0zR...

The Dears - Lost In The Plot

YouTube video by The Dears

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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @drgeoffread.bsky.social · 6d

For at least one game, it seemed Laine got the message. He was noticeable out there in a good way and may have been our best playmaker on the night, which is saying something given how well Demidov and Hutson both played.

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