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Punch Up the Jam is a stellar podcast on a regular day, but this week’s episode was near and dear to my heart, dissecting a Good Charlotte song and the shame of GC fandom. It made me miss pop-punk a lot. I know it is not dead, but there was nothing like the heyday of the genre in the early ‘aughts. When I was a fan and WAS A FULL GROWN ADULT. No shame.
Inspired by the episode, I made a playlist for a friend of all my faves and if you want a nostalgic trip down a semi-crucial wave of music drama, that, in retrospection, glorified white male privilege and appropriated oppression, check it out.
I cannot express how much The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is a game-changer. I think it will cross genres to be the sublime postmodern masterpiece of our era. All HW franchises have a dark undercurrent, but this one is right out of a David Lynch universe. The world of Housewives is always an artificial, hermetically sealed world, but this one may as well be alien. Mix the weirdness of Salt Like City with characters that seem to never interact with humans in a regular manner. It will be a work of art. We’ll be talking about it in textbooks for hundreds of years.
Other things to read this week:
America Will Sacrifice Anything for the College Experience
Pricks in Public: A Microhistory
Here's a thread of examples of rhetorical devices in Taylor Swift lyrics
Kill Your Idols Before Empty Platitudes and Capitalism Kill You
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