PREGAMING GRIEF is officially out today 🪽⛓️💌 my first book. some have called it my diary. it also has autofiction allegations. see for yourself. you can order it here:
actually so bleak that the internet's memeification of music is manifesting irl... it's impossible to enjoy anything while also taking it seriously, everything has to be some sort of joke
“All of a sudden, you start to feel like you can’t turn off the memeable internet personality thing.” this trend of turning every earnest piece of art into a joke on the internet is maybe idk a bad thing
i would hate being a musician because i would pour my heart and soul and trauma and pain into a song just for spotify to throw it on their playlist called 'sad girl starter pack' and i would have to be like grateful for it
music journalism is dying because criticism is not viewed as valuable but thank god we have these inescapable memes that reduce the complexity of music taste into one-dimensional stereotypes 👍🏻
Adrienne Lenker singing about putting the family dog down here a meandering, hookless track, who wants that. There are so many more earned, enjoyable ways to feel something.
there's something to be said about the way the internet promotes individualism and makes us think all of our thoughts are important and need to be shared. then chronically online people show up to concerts — which are supposed to be communal experiences — with that same mindset
It’s odd to me that coquette-ish aesthetic reading has turned to like Didion and Babitz and not Anaïs Nin and Colette who did that kind of thing in a much less tersely American, “dreamy, tender” way. Seems few young ppl read Anaïs Nin without whom we could not have e.g. Ernaux
the idea of networking is essentially viewing people as a means for social capital and using them to climb the ladder and for some reason (capitalist propaganda) that has been ~normalized~ and i do not like it
olivia rodrigo’s ‘guts’ is out today and nobody commissioned me, a notable 22 year old female journalist currently going through a breakup, to write about it… this industry is broken
i just signed a contract so i think i can tell everyone .... i will be starting at SPIN around the end of the month ! less premieres .. more features / interviews ! ✏️✏️✏️
aside from tom being one of the best writers out there (who i am privileged to work with), he also knows that fearless is taylor’s best album. he is quite possibly the best taylor swift critic there is
waiting for the 2014 soft grunge Tumblr nostalgia festival with the 1975, arctic monkeys, and the nbhd headlining and venders selling cigarettes and knockoff American Apparel tennis skirts
the absurdity of tiktok fame & the music industry & streaming services can be captured by the fact that a band whose top song has 250 million listens (surf curse) is opening up for a band whose top song has 25 million listens (joyce manor)
wrote about how disingenuous and boring this whole "pop-punk revival" has been and how we should redirect our attention to where passion really is, such as the emo scene which has lots of cool stuff happening right now!
rolling stone reached out to me about contributing to the 500 greatest songs list but then told me “no we will not put constant headache by joyce manor at
#1
” so i declined
today i thank god i no longer work at a publication where i would have to be churning out “which songs on taylor swift’s new album are about matty healy?” seo articles 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@savbrads
feels like she’s trying to be a part of the candid, confessional lyricism trend but it doesn’t work for her because she’s always been dramatic and cinematic! not casual
i was so lost earlier this year i interviewed for a job at a consulting firm … idek what a consulting firm is or does. happy to be back at stereogum 🫶🏻