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Music stuff. Minimal non-music stuff. 20 new songs a week or your money back at: www.otherdavemoore.com

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 6d

New mix: Hyper- and hypopop loosely riffed upon over the course of many songs that are very interesting but don’t work and others that are less interesting but do work. Is “working” overrated?

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I threw myself right into the crowd

2025 Mix 39: Riffing on hyper/hypopop, then songs that don't work but in ways that are really interesting, followed by songs that do work but in ways that aren't.

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 4h

Whenever my partner texts me for a OTP I send the access code along with a gif of Mulder and Scully

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 4h

"Can Avatar fend off End Game" vibes, I guess Adele needs to release her Way of Water

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 5h

Update: I have every song from the album stuck in my head now (derogatory)

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 5h

Not all of us...

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 8h

Just what everyone was asking for -- more words about this!

Taylor, Fearless, "White Woman's Instagram," "Earth Song," and blessings that are curses

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 1d

Whatever, I'm posting through it, just like Taylor Swift would

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How You Get the World: Reflections on Taylor Swift, Postscript 2

PS 2: How you lose the girl

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 8h

kombucha girl

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 9h

I would never unleash “Taylor Swift is Kate Bush” discourse on the timeline but I’ll accept “Taylor Swift is Freddie Mercury.”

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 16h

@otherdavemoore.com's exegesis of Swift today, though technically it's more like Kate Bush (who's the only artist to go through literally comparable circumstances), instead reminded me of Freddie Mercury (as quoted in @bowiesongs.bsky.social's 64 Quartets entry on Queen)

Taylor Swift really didn’t have the sort of child stardom experience that you so often hear recounted bitterly in celebrity memoirs or, worse, captured in tabloid casualties. From what I can tell, she wanted all of this more than anyone else in her life. You can decide how deep into the biographical rabbit hole you’d like to go to see for yourself, from early interviews to old MySpace pages to court documents, but what you get out of all of them is someone who had a very definite idea of her strengths at a startlingly young age and fought for her own idiosyncratic vision the whole time, pushing back on stifling label straitjackets at 14 years old. I can’t think of many comparable young stars who weren’t either manipulated by ghoulish parents and svengalis or else cosseted by some children’s media mega-corporation (provided they weren’t housing still more abusive creeps).

That means that any early traumas in her life are mundane ones, a seemingly inexhaustible well of relatable feeling she can return to even when she’s writing about people who have probably vomited on her private jet. The big shocks happened later: you can almost hear her trapped like a deer in the headlights of her rollercoaster ‘10s, ruminating on a previous era’s internet trolls and spitting outdated slang like bile in the throat on “Eldest Daughter” and “Cancelled!”

I’ve created a monster. The monster is me. I can’t blame anyone for this. It’s what I’ve worked for since I was a child. I would have killed for this. Whatever happens to me is all my fault. It’s what I wanted.

Freddie Mercury, ca. mid-Eighties, to Lesley-Ann Jones.

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 18h

Am I right that this hasn’t really taken off in critical convos despite being amazing? Don’t hear anyone really talking about it but could be missing it

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 19h

I am probably the biggest "Wi$h Li$t" defender you're going to find, but I will tell you that she's VERY much lying that she doesn't want an Oscar. And she will never get one (NEVER!) unless it's as a producer.

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 20h

She wasn’t wrong but this only made Lil B stronger

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 20h

“Honey”

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 20h

Surely we can identify which song on the album is Lechonk the pig

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 20h

The only problem with Lil B was always Lil B

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 21h

#TheTwen2ie5
Day 8
MC Pipokinha: Fala Fala (2022, Brazil)

This isn't the one song I'd point to for the ferment and demented house party (you burn it down while you're still inside) of 20s funk--there are ~100 other Pipokinhas to choose from--but I listen to it a lot

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

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 21h

Thank you!

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 1d

Thank you!

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 1d

includes the extended edit of my Michael Jackson "Earth Song" musings for @annkpowers.bsky.social among other things

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 1d

Whatever, I'm posting through it, just like Taylor Swift would

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How You Get the World: Reflections on Taylor Swift, Postscript 2

PS 2: How you lose the girl

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 1d

Hot October: Mosquitoes last stand

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 1d

Certainly they won’t find any more Beatles content

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 1d

I think the tech explanation is real. But although almost all generational discourse is bullshit, there really are just a fuck-ton of millennials driving American/western pop trends

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 1d

The Rise (or Fall) of A-Pop, Pt. 5

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 1d

this group is none more death

Peoples Pop Polls: Black Pop History 82-85 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · 1d

#BPHM8285 Match A8

1 CELESTIAL CHOIR/JOUBERT SINGERS! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9UV...
2 DIONNE WARWICK! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xHQ...
3 GRANDMASTER FLASH AND THE FURIOUS FIVE! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYMk...
4 ROCKERS REVENGE! www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9c4...

Vote! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Joubert Singers - Stand On The Word - artist name on stripey painting background

Dionne Warwick - Heartbreaker - A short haired woman sitting cross legged in a black and white robe

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - Seven guys hanging out in early 80s hip-hop gear

Rockers Revenge - Walking On Sunshine 82 - Title on a rainbow background

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 1d

"the answer may surprise you!"

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 1d

decline call