gonna vote 2002 cos that would mean it's ages before it would be polled and if we're lucky we might all be dead by then

"festive 50 is for life, not just for christmas" vibes

i see, that guy is the art yes yes

nme list is reliably good, i doubt it gets very far into all yr scenes but there does seem to be a sense of engagement that you don't always get, esp in the songs list (NMIXX made it in which felt very novel)

i love that one, mystifyingly only on the deluxe album as well

yes i always feel like that after i've listened to *checks notes* little deuce coupe you don't know what i got

music magazines 🤝 the uk parliamentary system

i remember in the period just before i decided i liked pop music i had a moment of "what if it could be pop music but a bit plausible deniability alt as well?" and i hated most of that stuff cos it seemed to be working so hard to not quite be pop music but i guess some people will fall for that?

tweaking the viewpoint of the wire readership by making gracie #1

can't believe you just created a whole new tier and didn't invite mark, he's gonna be so mad jel

i quite like plastic box but it speaks my issue with it, which is that she has songs which sound a bit more spikey (angel, it girl) and i like those, yet a lot of it seems to slip into the lanes of other recent popgirls w/o anything v distinct about it and i can always just listen to them instead

i listened to JADE once and i thought it was alright but the LM ladies are staples on radio 1 so i'm steeped in this stuff already. i probably judge jade a bit harshly cos she's talked up a lot so "this is perfectly fine pop music" feels like someones being kidded, you know what yr getting w/ perrie

ok it's fine, absofuckinglutely is a banger, we're back on track *phew*

ngl this goes on a bit, did she really need 50 minutes here? to be clear, i have reached the wistful, myles smith styled country stomp and i think some choices have been made (tears was better than this)

rihanna rn

other than blackpink and bts i tend to find out about kpop either from here or streaming algorithms (deezer are very good at playing random strings of kpop girl group hits after i play, like, TWICE or something), good case for getting these critics to follow jel imo (sickos. jpg)