The New Pop Canon According to AngeLa³

Each day I will share one song that I love. This is what my life sounds like. I hope you enjoy what you hear.

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Lily Padula, Recent Illustrations.

Recent, excellent illustration work - including some great gifs - by artist Lily Padula (Previously on Supersonic).

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some of my favorite moss embroideries 

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this is stunning 

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IT Workers Share the Most Idiotic Things Non-Techies Have Told Them

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Janese Talton-Jackson was killed because she said no

At about 2 a.m. on Jan. 22, Charles McKinney, 41, reportedly approached 29-year-oldJanese Talton-Jackson at a Pittsburgh bar to ask her for a date. Police say Talton-Jackson rejected McKinney’s advances, then left the bar. When she did, McKinney followed her outside, shot her in the chest and fled. Talton-Jackson was pronounced dead at the scene. McKinney was later apprehended after being shot by police and has been charged with homicide. Janese Talton-Jackson’s death is not an anomaly.

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Male entitlement strikes again.

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The struggle is so real.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yDP9MKVhZc

Sorry I haven't posted in a long time. Life has been crazy. Lots of changes. But who cares about that? A lot of great new stuff has come out since the last time I posted. Right now, I can't stop listening to FKA Twigs. She actually started out as a backup dancer for pop artist, Jessie J. Insane. This girl has the voice of an angel! It's hard to imagine her being a back-up anything. I think if this girl started dating The Weeknd, r&b would spring back to life and the gates of hell would explode open at exactly the same moment. Haha. 

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Midweek Playlist-Quirky Female Singer-Songwriters edition

Music might be a boy's club to some extent. It seems that women don't get a fair shake. When they are able to get attention, they seem to have less creative control than their male counterparts and become more product than artist. Somehow, these girls seemed like they maintained their artistic integrity and were able to let their freak flags fly.

1. Settle Down- Kimbra

2. Real Live Flesh- The Tune-Yards

3. Primitive- Roisin Murphy

4. You've Changed- Sia

5. I Follow Rivers- Lykke Li

6. Hide and Seek- Imogen Heap

7. Stars All Seem To Weep- Beth Orton

8. Get Along With You- Kelis (pre-Milkshake)

9. All Your Gold- Bat For Lashes

10. Bubblegum Bitch- Marina and the Diamonds

Enjoy!

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Song #20 is by How To Dress Well. The song is called Words I Don't Remember. This song is so beautiful and haunting. This is a song you would listen to while you are holding onto the person you love and looking into their eyes. It seems hopeful and hopeless all at the same time. It's true that there are no promises in love--that you can only know that you love a person with all you've got right now. All that you have to hold onto is the hope that maybe this time it will last...  

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Song 19 is by a Canadian electronic duo, Purity Ring. I don't know why I love Canadian music so much, but I do. Maybe I need to move, eh? Haha. Megan James has an extraordinarily sweet voice. Usually when someone has a voice like that, everyone's instinct is to pair it with sleepy, boring instrumentation. Corin Roddick took her in the opposite direction, creating a very compelling, interesting sound. I feel like Purity Ring are pretty well known, particularly among all the hipsters I know... haha, but I don't feel like they are overrated in any way. I will be listening to this song for the rest of my life. 

And guess what?! It's my birthday... I am old as fuck.

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When I was in high school I was obsessed with a Seattle band called Harvey Danger. (My son's middle name is Harvey--although I will admit I first encountered the name Harvey at a veteran's graveyard... this band just solidified my fondness for the name though). Most people know them from that stupid Flagpole Sitta song, but they were much better than that. I would describe their music as sarcasm set to song. Haha. Song 17, Carlotta Valdez, is probably their most rockin' song. It's awesome to listen to when you're angry. Little known fact, you wouldn't know about Death Cab for Cutie if not for Harvey Danger. They broke them. :) 

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Song 16 is Moving in Stereo. The Cars is one of my favorite bands. Listening to them always reminds me of my dad because he used to listen to them a lot when I was growing up. I remember all of their album covers. This song is older than I am, but somehow the song still sounds relevant. Bands nowadays wish they could write songs like this. 

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City & Colour is one of my favorite acts of all time. I was totally unfamiliar with the Yukonic genius that is Dallas Green until about a year ago, when my friend and former bandmate, Patrick, initiated me. A few months after my first taste of City & Colour, I had all of his albums. Patrick developed this habit of sending me songs and the very first one he ever sent me was "We Found Each Other in the Dark." My observation at the time was, "it sounds churchy." Haha. Anyway, here is a list of my favorite songs that Dallas Green has ever done (in no particular order because my obsession level for each song varies day by day):

1. Day Old Hate by City & Colour

2. Two Coins by City & Colour

3. Little Hell by City & Colour

4. Love Don't Live Here Anymore (Madonna cover) by City & Colour

5. Happiness by the Kilowatt (Alexisonfire Cover) by City & Colour (find the live version... it is amazing)

6. We Found Each Other in the Dark by City & Colour

7. Like Knives by City & Colour

8. Casey's Song by City & Colour

9. The Northern by Alexisonfire

10. Unthinkable (Alicia Keys Cover) by City & Colour

  Let the mangelic voice wash over you! 

  Note: The Golden State and As Much As I Ever Could are disqualified because they appeared in another playlist. :)

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24 hours is too long to live without my best friend.

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These are ice sculptures by Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo melting on the steps of Berlin’s Concert Hall at the Gendarmenmarkt.

The particular medium of melting ice seems to capture some of the essential fragility and vulnerability of being human that might otherwise be lost. 

Beautiful. 

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High school, it seems, has changed. It has become competitive. Young men and women — 13 to 18 years old — must work more or less tirelessly to ensure their spot at a college deemed worthy to them and their families. So rather than living their adolescent lives — lives brimming with desires and vitality, with vim, vigor, and brewing lust — these kids are working at old age homes, cramming for tests, popping Adderall just to make the literal and proverbial grade. And for what? So they can go to a school that puts them in debt for the rest of their lives. School has become a great vehicle of capitalism: it quashes the revolution implicit in adolescence while simultaneously fomenting perpetual indebtedness.

Daniel Coffeen (via illumiinate)

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welp, i know how i’m spending my sunday

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This is funny because I didn’t hold a door open for a guy yesterday at the train station and he muttered “rude bitch” at me

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wait, what the fuck? seriously? i guess i missed that Dude Memo, then.

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Ah, that explains why when I held the door open for a guy today, he totally grabbed a hold of the door and waited for me to cross first. Weeeeird.