Time Lorde

Bad Songs on Great Albums.

I read this but have no real opinion on it because I do not listen to nor care about albums. But I did read it all because I love music.

This bit made me laugh:

Britney Spearsโ€™ 1998 debut album, โ€ฆ Baby One More Time, is a journey through the mind of a heartbroken teenage girl as imagined by a small team of male songwriters and producers, hailing largely from Sweden

That’s the whole problem, too, with Lorde’s albums after her first one. Stupid-ass Jack Antonoff and company took over songwriting and she lost her authorial voice. Lorde went from sounding like a tetchy, bratty but intelligent young woman to what an unimaginative and unexceptional 36-year-old man’s idealized version of what such a person would sound like.

And that worked about as well as you’d expect.

If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown.

On David Lynch’s Revenge of the Jedi.

The Sony FX-300 Jackal: A Holy Grail technological marvel of the late 70s.

Why canโ€™t we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?

Trump administration fires thousands for โ€˜performanceโ€™ without evidence, in messy rush.

Terror on repeat. A rare look at the devastation caused by AR-15 shootings. Worth reading again.

Whatโ€™s a spy novelist to do in the age of Trump? John le Carrรฉ had it easy during the Cold War. But how do we write espionage thrillers now?

Dedekind cuts.

Vanceโ€™s real warning to Europe. Europeans need to reduce their dangerous dependence on an adversarial America.

The Futility of the NLRB.

Ukraine is fighting because Russia is trying to wipe it off the map, and Ukraine is doing everything humanly possible to survive as a free, independent nation.