j.r. leonard

I'm trying to listen to the new Taylor Swift album so I can remain part of society or whatever. How does anyone get past the first track? It's a petulant, immature idiot bragging that she once forgot a person existed, TO THE PERSON. Peppa Pig is more emotionally sophisticated.

The production is actually really good, but then there's this obvious child saying such dipshitted things that it's actively embarrassing. It's the musical equivalent of writing LOL at the end of a text when you're fighting to show that you're SOOOO LAUGHING RIGHT NOW

One of my eternal soapboxes is pointing to the post-irony embrace of pop music by hipsters as the canary in the "late stage capitalism" coalmine. Figure out how and why this happened and you'll have figured out elite culture.

I'd also voraciously read something long-form about why, instead of embracing electronic music like Europe, Americans absorbed it into pop music and other genres, as if we simply cannot support anything that doesn't allow us to verbally pontificate banalities to the universe.