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Today's Charity Shop Haul: Two Professor Layton Games, a heart-shaped Tealight Holder made of recycled aluminium and a collection of Promo Only Music CDs from 2000.
Lady Gaga into Huey Lewis and the News is a CHOICE.
i have seen many times with my eyes that Fun’s “We Are Young” features Janelle Monae, and yet I have literally never heard that version of the song?
Break-up songs dominate the mainstream...
It seems nowadays, the only way to be successful IS to simply write a radio-friendly break-up song or club song. The glorification of hook-up culture is evidenced in the collective assertion in mainstream music and POP Culture that unrequited love can be seen as somehow good and/or desirable because of the collective ideology expressed in concurrent art: we can “get whoever we want as long as we wait long enough,” ultimately implying that attraction, and therefore love, can be a one-way street. Love does not operate with singular affections, but rather with a mutual expression of attraction, effort, and caring, along with a multitude of other factors.
The public feeds into the mainstream media and vice versa. The public, in my honest opinion, must step away from break-ups and unrequited love as something to dwell in musically and therefore internally (as music and art influence the subconscious in varying degrees); as something “desirable.” All it really does is feed the ego and gives a “reason” to those fools who consider themselves martyrs due to their unrequited feelings.
Cue the typical (hetero) Hook-Up Culture Formula:
- (OPTIONAL): boy and girl are dating beforehand then break-up. Music probably plays an influential role during this time as well (as a subconscious reason/justification to hold onto feelings or move on, etc.)
- boy meets girl at club or house party.
- boy and girl flirt/makeout/probably have sex that night.
- boy and girl confess to each other within the first week of dating.
- boy and girl date for a few months, then one of them says something along the lines of “this just isn’t working out” or “I was mistaken” or even “I lied when I said I loved you to get into your pants.”
- boy and girl break-up.
- girl goes out with friends and gets wasted and listens to sad love songs (mainly that she’s heard randomly on the radio) and cries and almost calls her ex but decides not to because “she’s stronger than that.”
- boy does the same thing or tries to “act tough” about it.
- boy & girl keep going out separately, eventually meet another person, hook-up with said person but still think about their ex (reinforced by radio break-up music as being inescapable as it permeates society, whether it’s on your playlist or not), and the cycle repeats.
The music has only been occasionally heard a few times, yet is subconsciously registered and accessed by the majority when their “love goes sour.” Upon accessing these songs, one may find a variety of topics, such as “I still love you,” “I hate you lol,” “I’m over you,” etc. All topics feed into the toxic collective (normalized) mentality that love is awful and it probably doesn’t exist or isn’t worth anything if hook-up culture is all it is, only furthering the idea that “true love does not exist.”
The consequences? We are witnessing an age where love may become obsolete, and if Phillip Sidney is right in his major work The Faerie Queen (love being the center of all things), then we are doomed.
THEY JUST PLAYED PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE ON THE RADIO do you guys know how huge that is? They haven't played anything but Adele on that station for years I'm so happy ;-;
I just heard "stressed out" by twenty one pilots on mainstream radio and I'm still shocked and really excited.
Hip-Hop changed my life and the way I view the world significantly. I'm forever grateful for these individuals who put their views, thoughts and raw emotions out there for the youth. Music is one of the most powerful mediums and especially in today's generation with all the negative music on the mainstream radio; it's critical for us to support the real MC's & artist.
It's too mainstream to be a hipster and listen to indie/underground music so instead I listen to Top 40 songs that go for weeks in the top five on the Hot 100 and get played adnaseum on all radio stations even those that don't even appeal to the target audience
