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Can't beat the real thing.

The Real Crow

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Morning Earworm: Listened to this for the first time in a while and now it's on my brain this morning because it's perfect.

#morning earworm #2010s music #lucius #Spotify

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Morning Earworm: I have not been as obsessed with an album start to finish as much as this one in a long, long time. I'm making an effort to listen to more new music this year, rather than new-to-me music (which has value but for years I've been lost in a haze of '90s shoegaze I missed as a teen) and holy hell, thank you KEXP for introducing me SPRINTS. Here's their Bandcamp.

#morning earworm #sprints #irish bands #garage #Spotify

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Don't surrender.

Did you know?

Democrats have won the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections going back to 1992? The only time the GOP has won the popular vote in the last 36 years in a presidential election was in 2004, and it was a pretty narrow margin. This was a wartime election and the first election post-9/11. The Democratic candidate was the unfortunately uninspiring John Kerry, who had been lied about. You know how in politics we say someone has been "swiftboated" when a successful lie is told about them? That term originates with the 2004 election because a bunch of people concocted an elaborate lie about John Kerry's military service. He wasn't super inspiring as a candidate, but that was the worst thing he did. He wasn't a bad guy. He was just running in a very gross, jingoistic time after the worst terror attack in American history, and had a bunch of successful lies told about him to the point where a whole word about a specific kind of lie was invented about it. THIS is the only time since 1988 that the Republican party has won the popular vote. George W. Bush did not win the popular vote in 2000. The Supreme Court ordered that votes stop being counted in Florida and handed the victory to Bush.

Donald Trump has never ever won the popular vote. The electoral college handed him the victory in 2016, less than 15,000 votes across three states decided the election. Hillary Clinton in total won about 3.7 million more votes than Donald Trump. Trump HATES hearing this number. He hates even more that Joe Biden got about 7 million more votes. He hates even more that you bring up the fact that he lost his midterm elections for his party in 2018, badly. And that the "Red Wave" in 2022 did not happen because of backlash at his Supreme Court. Or that in 2023 voters continued to reject his Supreme Court at the polls.

He knows, the Republicans know, that if more people vote, they lose. They don't want small d democracy. They want authoritarianism. They want to suppress it.

So when you get cute about not wanting to vote, you're not doing activism. You're surrendering.

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Morning Earworm: Listened to this five or six time yesterday. It's catchy as hell so of course it's on my brain this morning.

#morning earworm #beyonce #lyric video #Youtube

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Morning Earworm: Like anyone else post-Saltburn watch, I have this song stuck in my head. I didn't like it when I first heard it weeks ago, but now that I've actually seen the movie, it's sticking with me whether I like it or not. But I like it enough.

The movie, however...I'd heard mixed things from friends but I was a sucker for that pretty trailer. But I ended up not liking it despite wanting to. Spoiler alert (I know the zero people reading this are here for movie critiques), but reviews kept mentioning how the main character was like Tom Ripley, and I think that's a big spoiler! Says a lot about the character and what he gets away with. And I finally read The Talented Mister Ripley for the first time last month, so it was really on my brain while watching. Not this movie was an adaptation. I'm not dinging points for that. I'm dinging points for it being hollow.

But Rosamund Pike's line about how she knows "Common People" was not written about her was fantastic.

#morning earworm #sophie ellis bextor #saltburn #2000s music #Youtube

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Morning Earworm: I love the drama of this song. Been in my head for a day now. My favorite off of the newest Bad Veins album

#morning earworm #bad veins #cincinnati bands #indie pop #Spotify

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The writer's blessing:

May you write 1,500 words with ease.May your characters be lively and not cardboard.May you need little editing. May your muse visit you as soon as you sit. May the Internet not distract you much. May your phone lie dormant while you write.

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Morning Earworm: I hadn't heard this nearly 40-year-old song until this year but now I hear it on KEXP occasionally. Whenever I do, it's stuck in my head for dayyyssss. I like this song but the staying power makes me weary to listen.

#morning earworm #80s music #the watermen #Youtube

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Days-long Morning Earworm: Listened to this album while studying days ago. This song has been on my mind for ever since. I cannot think of anything more sad-cool than Dummy.

#morning earworm #portishead #90s music #trip hop #Youtube

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Morning Earworm: No idea why this was on my brain this morning. I could babble on about how I find California mythologizing silly but then again I love the PNW and would probably buy into any mythologizing of the region so I'll shut my mouth.

#morning earworm #katy perry #2010s music #Youtube

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Morning Earworm: No idea why this song with on my mind when I was in that fuzzy place between sleep and waking, but this song is so goshdang beautiful that I don't care, I'll take it.

#morning earworm #1990s music #u2 #achtung baby #Youtube

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I remember that ended because she fell asleep during a therapy session. And then she told me I was boring her. So if you get a therapist and it's not the right one, try again. Eventually you'll find one. Some people are just pieces of shit and there's nothing you can do about that.

-Rob Thomas

I love this interview, here's the link to the whole thing:

https://www.gq.com/story/real-life-diet-rob-thomas?fbclid=PAAab23ktvhHhjP64WH8scNRR4Qd7YwzfcRPpOawpfAMPvkB-paVBCr_0Sm2w_aem_AfnlY8l5Rn25vd27X0_XDQF9-RLjXbJQzrtPt7vIVHt7NpRM_IUhgeiUvj_5Xkk2Tq8

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Morning Earworm: I haven't listened to this in a while but it's popping up often in the IG stories the band posts after each show on the Slow Dream tour. Clips of it must still be lurking in my subconscious and now my brain has conjured this up. The tour is ending and I'm going to miss all their live videos night after night.

#morning earworm #matchbox twenty #favorites #2010s music #kyle cook

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Morning Earworm: Whenever I listen to this song, it gets stuck in my head. Thanks to KEXP for introducing me to it. This album cover is kinda basic and feels very early 2000s indie rock; I think high school me woulda loved it had I known about it.

#morning earworm #highspire #2000s music #kexp #Spotify

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Morning Earworm: As soon as I heard there was an acoustic rendition of "Push" in Barbie, I thought of this version. I heard this version on some fan site in the nineties and ~lOVeD~ it (so moody, so acoustic), hunted down which single it was off of (the Australian import of "3am," I think? I still have it).

Because these non-label-sanctioned uploads tend to get taken down, even though there is no label-sanctioned upload of this song, here's another link just in case.

#morning earworm #favorites #matchbox twenty #push acoustic #push #barbie movie #90s music

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Morning Earworm: Of course. Haven't listened to this in a week, but this incredibly sweet song Paul Doucette wrote for his kid is on my mind.

#matchbox twenty #paul doucette #favorites #where the light goes #morning earworm