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when are people going to start doing hyper realistic paintings to look like AI generated art

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loved your performance in baby reindeer, really compelling

this is some sort of cultural reference i don't get so im not sure if im supposed to be upset

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“Ricardo never concerns himself about the origin of surplus-value. He treats it as a thing inherent in the capitalist mode of production, which mode, in his eyes, is the natural form of social production” do you agree with marx here?

i agree that ricardo doesn't concern himself with marxs categories (the first sentence). i disagree that he treats it in terms of marxs categories (the second sentence). this is a classic marx move of being mad at others for not using his analysis before him.

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Why tf are u reblogging that Taylor swift spotify screenshot so many times jfc

i was repeatedly adding onto a post to liveblog my reaction to the album rather than making a bunch of separate individuated posts. also that isn't spotify. i am a pretentious apple music doer so why don't u jot that down

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i should add. give me a vocalist singing good lyrics and a string instrument. i don't need crazy guitar solos or synths or anything like that. maybe a well placed bass riff or some brushes. something that brings you along with it rather than subjecting you to itself. i want to be carried off, not assaulted by sound

i am, of course, a snob about lyrics. i think they're basically the most important part of any song and that anything else which isn't supporting them is probably too much if not an outright distraction. just give me a vocalist and a string instrument and i'm happy

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i am, of course, a snob about lyrics. i think they're basically the most important part of any song and that anything else which isn't supporting them is probably too much if not an outright distraction. just give me a vocalist and a string instrument and i'm happy

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the biggest takeaway of the night is that taylor swift and i have a very similar writing process in terms of the necessary structure of the song and how it develops, although the aesthetic judgements are very different and i would not write half of the words, much less half of the phrases/sentences. i have, for years, expressed a principled opposition to what i call "proper noun songs", which is to say, i don't think lyrics should be overly specific (although, admittedly a bit of a misnomer, since i'm not allergic to any and all proper nouns in lyrics). i prefer to write and listen to what i have, in the past, talked about in terms of "concrete universals", where any amount of specificity is just a stand-in for something which can be felt by the listener and related to, even if it has never been experienced (this is also, for the record, what draws me specifically to country music). i can't relate to her words, because so much of the album is about being taylor swift. she's writing this for and about herself. there's nothing wrong with that, per se, but i think her earlier work was stronger specifically because she took on the role of a story teller (not as a narrator, necessarily, but as character in a story she was writing). nowadays she's writing autobiographical reflection and it's not nearly as interesting or hard-hitting.

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i don't think i can finish tonight. i don't have the mental fortitude and it hasn't been kind to me so far. i guess if i had to give compliments, id say this is probably her most interesting release *musically*, although im not a tswift expert so maybe im off the mark there. i dug the acoustic sadgirl vibes pivot of folklore and i think this retains some of that (maybe not quite enough for my taste), but the lyrics ruined the earlier album and seem to be doing everything they can to do the same for this one. but she's doing some interesting music-y stuff i dont really expect to get from her. i don't know if she lands it, but its ambitious and i can appreciate it on a technical level. the instrumentation and mix have been mostly fine (aside from a couple weird spots which are so off-putting i can only imagine they're deliberate). that "so long, london" tune is pretty solid. "loml" and "i can fix him" are i think lyrically and vibes-wise approximating good. just about everything else has been, i think, a waste of studio time. this should've been a 4 or 5 song EP.

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i'm only halfway done. i'm going to k

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WAIT FUCK I JUST REALIZED I NEVER HESRD THE GTA LYRIC AND FOUND OUT THERES A WHOLE NOTHER ALBUM BASICSLLY IN SOME DELUXE VERSION OR SOME SHIT

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the album ends with her sublation. she's aufhebung'd. ok that's all folks

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"the alchemy" is 3rd song in a row that hurts to listen to

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this reads like the poems my emo friends wrote in middle school. which isn't a good thing

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this song should've never been written

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this opening bit and the vibes of the song are quite good (mostly). but it sorta goes down hill after the first chorus. however this is the *kind* of structural song i tend to write, so i can both appreciate it for what it's doing well AND criticize it extra ruthlessly for falling short. it's very hard to write multiple verses to these kinds of songs! because it has to achieve the same level of tone throughout the differences introduced in the lyrical repetitions, otherwise it becomes lopsided. also this is how i realize that tswift and i both write very similarly in that sense bc i suppose she writes this way fairly often. we are both immanent songwriters. but her weakness here is that she quickly pivots into a sort of slapstick style when she should be making me cry. rookie mistake, really.

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this song is terrible but musically kinda neat. sorta wish she would've leaned into the accidentals a little more here by going for the major 2nd or 6th on the highlighted phrases bc i think it might've complimented the verses better. but oh well

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"whos afraid of little old me" is musically fun. some neat stuff going on there instrumentally etc. the lyrics are actually awful once you realize that she's being sincere but if you can suspend your disbelief for a minute it's not bad. i think my ludo analogy above is the only way to listen to this kinda lyricism in a way which protects your mind. it's ironic! she's doin a bit! does that save it? no, because i think that can be very corny and has limits. but its better than being a bad song!

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