Frank Kogan
@koganbot.bsky.social
Fan of MC Pipokinha; currently thinking about how the Chad Mitchell Trio foreshadow both punk rock and adult contemporary music. The people united will never be defeated.
https://koganbot.substack.com
https://www.youtube.com/@koganbot
https://koganbot.substack.com
https://www.youtube.com/@koganbot
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APT Thai
Contains the word “motif” and the word “viral” and (REVISED VER.) a couple thousand other words added on Dec 26, 2025
koganbot.substack.com
2nd viral riff discovered lurking behind 1st, so I rework my APT Thai substack post, adding edits, updates + 2,000 words of brand-new footnotes. I use the phrase "stitched-together Frankenstein creature" and somehow don't mean the piece itself. Think I've improved it
koganbot.substack.com/p/apt-thai
koganbot.substack.com/p/apt-thai
"Bota Elas Na Garupa" I'd boosted during Challenge Week but I hadn't heard it earlier, which makes this entire match a Platinum Beat (Platinum Beat is a match where all 4 tracks are Golden Beats, i.e. favorite tracks we hadn't heard before the competition). So good work nominators – and boosters!
#PeoplesPop25 MATCH 30
1 BROKEN BY THE SCREAM! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PzH...
2 LA NONNA GO &c! www.youtube.com/watch?v=23RR...
3 EEV FRANCES! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIAc...
4 JEGO! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYVV...
Vote! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
1 BROKEN BY THE SCREAM! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PzH...
2 LA NONNA GO &c! www.youtube.com/watch?v=23RR...
3 EEV FRANCES! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIAc...
4 JEGO! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYVV...
Vote! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
January 13, 2026 at 7:02 AM
"Bota Elas Na Garupa" I'd boosted during Challenge Week but I hadn't heard it earlier, which makes this entire match a Platinum Beat (Platinum Beat is a match where all 4 tracks are Golden Beats, i.e. favorite tracks we hadn't heard before the competition). So good work nominators – and boosters!
Reposted by Frank Kogan
Midnights and TTPD felt increasingly like Taylor trying to take as much actual "music" out of her music as possible, and The Life Of A Showgirl brings those elements back and lets her interact with the production - I like the kitschy, Disco Tek & The Sexolettes-ish vamp in the chorus to Ophelia lots
January 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Midnights and TTPD felt increasingly like Taylor trying to take as much actual "music" out of her music as possible, and The Life Of A Showgirl brings those elements back and lets her interact with the production - I like the kitschy, Disco Tek & The Sexolettes-ish vamp in the chorus to Ophelia lots
Reposted by Frank Kogan
Rebecca Black's great song is "Trust!"; Katherine St. Asaph says it's like a Britney demo singer (complimentary), I say it's like Rebecca has power-stained Britney and Gaga into herself, all the scheming and desperate sluttiness just *there*, not even forced.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGj0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGj0...
TRUST! - Rebecca Black (Lyrics/Legendado/Tradução Pt-Br)
YouTube video by A.A.
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Rebecca Black's great song is "Trust!"; Katherine St. Asaph says it's like a Britney demo singer (complimentary), I say it's like Rebecca has power-stained Britney and Gaga into herself, all the scheming and desperate sluttiness just *there*, not even forced.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGj0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGj0...
Reposted by Frank Kogan
I appreciate how *two* New Zealand-born musicians end up playing key roles in the story. We're everywhere!
January 6, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I appreciate how *two* New Zealand-born musicians end up playing key roles in the story. We're everywhere!
"It is a cowboy ballad this time, and blared in an adenoidal tenor which, happily, is inimitable."
--Frank S. Nugent, "Will Rogers, Politician," New York Times, Jan. 19, 1935
--Frank S. Nugent, "Will Rogers, Politician," New York Times, Jan. 19, 1935
January 5, 2026 at 8:33 PM
"It is a cowboy ballad this time, and blared in an adenoidal tenor which, happily, is inimitable."
--Frank S. Nugent, "Will Rogers, Politician," New York Times, Jan. 19, 1935
--Frank S. Nugent, "Will Rogers, Politician," New York Times, Jan. 19, 1935
"The able music masters, Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein 2d, have written for it a variety of numbers which are nostalgic and humorous as the occasion demands, and also neatly undistinguished, which also may be in the rules."
--Andre Sennwald, "The Night Is Young," NY Times 1/14/1935
--Andre Sennwald, "The Night Is Young," NY Times 1/14/1935
January 3, 2026 at 5:24 AM
"The able music masters, Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein 2d, have written for it a variety of numbers which are nostalgic and humorous as the occasion demands, and also neatly undistinguished, which also may be in the rules."
--Andre Sennwald, "The Night Is Young," NY Times 1/14/1935
--Andre Sennwald, "The Night Is Young," NY Times 1/14/1935
Reposted by Frank Kogan
Discovered that DJ Joecel was on the Xangai case on behalf of budots in Dec. 2024.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfsf...
(Joecel also did a budots mix of "APT Thai" back in Nov. 24 when it was still Noi Chernyim, before Silvy Kumalasari had superseded Chernyim.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfsf...
(Joecel also did a budots mix of "APT Thai" back in Nov. 24 when it was still Noi Chernyim, before Silvy Kumalasari had superseded Chernyim.)
HOJE EM DIA ( TIKTOK VIRAL MIX ) DJ JOECEL REMIX
YouTube video by Dj Joecel Exclusive
www.youtube.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Discovered that DJ Joecel was on the Xangai case on behalf of budots in Dec. 2024.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfsf...
(Joecel also did a budots mix of "APT Thai" back in Nov. 24 when it was still Noi Chernyim, before Silvy Kumalasari had superseded Chernyim.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfsf...
(Joecel also did a budots mix of "APT Thai" back in Nov. 24 when it was still Noi Chernyim, before Silvy Kumalasari had superseded Chernyim.)
2nd viral riff discovered lurking behind 1st, so I rework my APT Thai substack post, adding edits, updates + 2,000 words of brand-new footnotes. I use the phrase "stitched-together Frankenstein creature" and somehow don't mean the piece itself. Think I've improved it
koganbot.substack.com/p/apt-thai
koganbot.substack.com/p/apt-thai
APT Thai
Contains the word “motif” and the word “viral” and (REVISED VER.) a couple thousand other words added on Dec 26, 2025
koganbot.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
2nd viral riff discovered lurking behind 1st, so I rework my APT Thai substack post, adding edits, updates + 2,000 words of brand-new footnotes. I use the phrase "stitched-together Frankenstein creature" and somehow don't mean the piece itself. Think I've improved it
koganbot.substack.com/p/apt-thai
koganbot.substack.com/p/apt-thai
"Although the English comedians have a habit of displaying the comic understatement of a Keystone cop, they manage to be occasionally hilarious."
--Andre Sennwald, review of Evergreen, NY Times, Jan. 11, 1935.
--Andre Sennwald, review of Evergreen, NY Times, Jan. 11, 1935.
December 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"Although the English comedians have a habit of displaying the comic understatement of a Keystone cop, they manage to be occasionally hilarious."
--Andre Sennwald, review of Evergreen, NY Times, Jan. 11, 1935.
--Andre Sennwald, review of Evergreen, NY Times, Jan. 11, 1935.
Listening to Skinner. Is the only one nominated for PeoplesPop25 who could conceivably have heard my music (not that that's *likely*, mind you). My pick to click would be "Calling In Sick."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy-J...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy-J...
Calling in Sick
YouTube video by Skinner - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Listening to Skinner. Is the only one nominated for PeoplesPop25 who could conceivably have heard my music (not that that's *likely*, mind you). My pick to click would be "Calling In Sick."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy-J...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy-J...
#PeoplesPop25
DAY 7
BOOST
La Nonna Go, MC Topre, MC Lukinhas 011 "Bota Elas Na Garupa" [Brazil]
Like a miniature marimba made of tongue depressors and bits of plywood, w/ a couple of youngsters trying to capture their own thoughts. (La Nonna Go mix by far the best.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=23RR...
DAY 7
BOOST
La Nonna Go, MC Topre, MC Lukinhas 011 "Bota Elas Na Garupa" [Brazil]
Like a miniature marimba made of tongue depressors and bits of plywood, w/ a couple of youngsters trying to capture their own thoughts. (La Nonna Go mix by far the best.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=23RR...
BOTA ELAS NA GARUPA
YouTube video by La Nonna - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
#PeoplesPop25
DAY 7
BOOST
La Nonna Go, MC Topre, MC Lukinhas 011 "Bota Elas Na Garupa" [Brazil]
Like a miniature marimba made of tongue depressors and bits of plywood, w/ a couple of youngsters trying to capture their own thoughts. (La Nonna Go mix by far the best.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=23RR...
DAY 7
BOOST
La Nonna Go, MC Topre, MC Lukinhas 011 "Bota Elas Na Garupa" [Brazil]
Like a miniature marimba made of tongue depressors and bits of plywood, w/ a couple of youngsters trying to capture their own thoughts. (La Nonna Go mix by far the best.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=23RR...
#PeoplesPop25
DAY 6
@onefive - Kibidango [Japan]
BOOST
First I've heard @onefive; remind me of Oh My Girl breaking supposed sonic and emotional unity of so-called "song." Also strike me as "neocute," i.e., claiming to reclaim cuteness as empowered choice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MPP...
DAY 6
@onefive - Kibidango [Japan]
BOOST
First I've heard @onefive; remind me of Oh My Girl breaking supposed sonic and emotional unity of so-called "song." Also strike me as "neocute," i.e., claiming to reclaim cuteness as empowered choice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MPP...
@onefive「KIBIDANGO 」**Official Music Video**
YouTube video by @onefive
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
#PeoplesPop25
DAY 6
@onefive - Kibidango [Japan]
BOOST
First I've heard @onefive; remind me of Oh My Girl breaking supposed sonic and emotional unity of so-called "song." Also strike me as "neocute," i.e., claiming to reclaim cuteness as empowered choice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MPP...
DAY 6
@onefive - Kibidango [Japan]
BOOST
First I've heard @onefive; remind me of Oh My Girl breaking supposed sonic and emotional unity of so-called "song." Also strike me as "neocute," i.e., claiming to reclaim cuteness as empowered choice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MPP...
#PeoplesPop25
DAY 5
MC Laranjinha, Wesley Gonzaga ft. DJ Gvzinho Tralha - Próxima Parada [Brazil]
They try to look like criminals, Laranjinha wants multi-partner sex, the sound is a total ache of mystery.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=twql...
DAY 5
MC Laranjinha, Wesley Gonzaga ft. DJ Gvzinho Tralha - Próxima Parada [Brazil]
They try to look like criminals, Laranjinha wants multi-partner sex, the sound is a total ache of mystery.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=twql...
PRÓXIMA PARADA - Mc Laranjinha, Wesley Gonzaga feat. Dj Gvzinho Tralha
YouTube video by TROPA DO LJ
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
#PeoplesPop25
DAY 5
MC Laranjinha, Wesley Gonzaga ft. DJ Gvzinho Tralha - Próxima Parada [Brazil]
They try to look like criminals, Laranjinha wants multi-partner sex, the sound is a total ache of mystery.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=twql...
DAY 5
MC Laranjinha, Wesley Gonzaga ft. DJ Gvzinho Tralha - Próxima Parada [Brazil]
They try to look like criminals, Laranjinha wants multi-partner sex, the sound is a total ache of mystery.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=twql...
#PeoplesPop25
DAY 4
Nelly Furtado - Corazón (DJ Arana Remix) [Canada, Brazil]
The original was choppy but joyous, a breakout, self-acceptance. This year's remix pares it down, darker, descending riff, I'm here now, now, I can't stop, I can't stop, I can't stop.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bd-...
DAY 4
Nelly Furtado - Corazón (DJ Arana Remix) [Canada, Brazil]
The original was choppy but joyous, a breakout, self-acceptance. This year's remix pares it down, darker, descending riff, I'm here now, now, I can't stop, I can't stop, I can't stop.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bd-...
Corazón (DJ Arana Remix)
YouTube video by DJ Arana - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
#PeoplesPop25
DAY 4
Nelly Furtado - Corazón (DJ Arana Remix) [Canada, Brazil]
The original was choppy but joyous, a breakout, self-acceptance. This year's remix pares it down, darker, descending riff, I'm here now, now, I can't stop, I can't stop, I can't stop.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bd-...
DAY 4
Nelly Furtado - Corazón (DJ Arana Remix) [Canada, Brazil]
The original was choppy but joyous, a breakout, self-acceptance. This year's remix pares it down, darker, descending riff, I'm here now, now, I can't stop, I can't stop, I can't stop.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bd-...
#PeoplesPop25
DAY 3
Simona - Cocon [Argentina]
Siren in all senses of the word: seducer, warning blare, power in making people want you and the desperate vulnerability of needing to be wanted. (IRL she's a rattle-clatter art experimentalist - unless *this* is IRL.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oqn...
DAY 3
Simona - Cocon [Argentina]
Siren in all senses of the word: seducer, warning blare, power in making people want you and the desperate vulnerability of needing to be wanted. (IRL she's a rattle-clatter art experimentalist - unless *this* is IRL.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oqn...
SIMONA - COCON (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by SIMONA
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
#PeoplesPop25
DAY 3
Simona - Cocon [Argentina]
Siren in all senses of the word: seducer, warning blare, power in making people want you and the desperate vulnerability of needing to be wanted. (IRL she's a rattle-clatter art experimentalist - unless *this* is IRL.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oqn...
DAY 3
Simona - Cocon [Argentina]
Siren in all senses of the word: seducer, warning blare, power in making people want you and the desperate vulnerability of needing to be wanted. (IRL she's a rattle-clatter art experimentalist - unless *this* is IRL.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oqn...
#PeoplesPop25
DAY 2
DJ Danz - Sugdan Na Ang Pag Budots [Philippines]
Budots, from Davao City. The big bubbling bass on the offbeats is so easy to compulsively move to that it makes the silly xylophone riff and the space-invader whooshes seem almost stately on top.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTUJ...
DAY 2
DJ Danz - Sugdan Na Ang Pag Budots [Philippines]
Budots, from Davao City. The big bubbling bass on the offbeats is so easy to compulsively move to that it makes the silly xylophone riff and the space-invader whooshes seem almost stately on top.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTUJ...
Sugdan Na Ang Pag Budots
YouTube video by DJ DANZ - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
#PeoplesPop25
DAY 2
DJ Danz - Sugdan Na Ang Pag Budots [Philippines]
Budots, from Davao City. The big bubbling bass on the offbeats is so easy to compulsively move to that it makes the silly xylophone riff and the space-invader whooshes seem almost stately on top.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTUJ...
DAY 2
DJ Danz - Sugdan Na Ang Pag Budots [Philippines]
Budots, from Davao City. The big bubbling bass on the offbeats is so easy to compulsively move to that it makes the silly xylophone riff and the space-invader whooshes seem almost stately on top.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTUJ...
#PeoplesPop25
DAY 1
Silvy Kumalasari - APT Thailand X Culik Aku Dong [Indonesia]
Thai love-spell, extensively memed & mashed, got interpolated into Indonesian song; this lovely talent-show *cover* of intermix was so popular itself that *it* got even more memed&mashed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRe...
DAY 1
Silvy Kumalasari - APT Thailand X Culik Aku Dong [Indonesia]
Thai love-spell, extensively memed & mashed, got interpolated into Indonesian song; this lovely talent-show *cover* of intermix was so popular itself that *it* got even more memed&mashed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRe...
Silvy Kumalasari - APT Thailand X Culik Aku Dong (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Berkah Talenta
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:12 AM
#PeoplesPop25
DAY 1
Silvy Kumalasari - APT Thailand X Culik Aku Dong [Indonesia]
Thai love-spell, extensively memed & mashed, got interpolated into Indonesian song; this lovely talent-show *cover* of intermix was so popular itself that *it* got even more memed&mashed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRe...
DAY 1
Silvy Kumalasari - APT Thailand X Culik Aku Dong [Indonesia]
Thai love-spell, extensively memed & mashed, got interpolated into Indonesian song; this lovely talent-show *cover* of intermix was so popular itself that *it* got even more memed&mashed.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXRe...
APT Thai. I hitch a ride on a motif as it swims from nation to nation.
koganbot.substack.com/p/apt-thai
koganbot.substack.com/p/apt-thai
APT Thai
Contains the word “motif” and the word “viral”
koganbot.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
APT Thai. I hitch a ride on a motif as it swims from nation to nation.
koganbot.substack.com/p/apt-thai
koganbot.substack.com/p/apt-thai
"A bit nonplused by the question, if not exactly minused, he stammered so badly that..." Frank S. Nugent, "Sound And Fury In Remote Astoria." NY Times, Dec. 30, 1934.
December 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"A bit nonplused by the question, if not exactly minused, he stammered so badly that..." Frank S. Nugent, "Sound And Fury In Remote Astoria." NY Times, Dec. 30, 1934.
MC Xangai, cjnobeat, etc. "Menina do Job" (2024). Still *doing* 2024 (well, still doing 2018...) but just found this, and what's almost as good as the song itself is that I discovered MC Xangai's vocal as part of an Indonesian DJ mashup (to appear soon on my Substack)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJFr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJFr...
December 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
MC Xangai, cjnobeat, etc. "Menina do Job" (2024). Still *doing* 2024 (well, still doing 2018...) but just found this, and what's almost as good as the song itself is that I discovered MC Xangai's vocal as part of an Indonesian DJ mashup (to appear soon on my Substack)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJFr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJFr...
Gutenberg Bible hits 500 exactly! Not choosing for words themselves (which obv pre-date this, & I doubt Latin Vulgates's Psalm 136 beats KJV 137's "they that wasted us required of us mirth"). But this ed opens era making Bible widely available for future remixes and mashups. And's a good-looking P.
December 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Gutenberg Bible hits 500 exactly! Not choosing for words themselves (which obv pre-date this, & I doubt Latin Vulgates's Psalm 136 beats KJV 137's "they that wasted us required of us mirth"). But this ed opens era making Bible widely available for future remixes and mashups. And's a good-looking P.
Wouldn't know how to choose between, say, "Give My Regards To Broadway" and Mahler's 5th, and can only imagine Isadora Duncan's debut in St. Petersburg, dancing to Chopin; but I love the flat expression on the face of the mustached bkgd musician in Max Slevogt's Portrait Of The Dancer Anna Pavlova.
December 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Wouldn't know how to choose between, say, "Give My Regards To Broadway" and Mahler's 5th, and can only imagine Isadora Duncan's debut in St. Petersburg, dancing to Chopin; but I love the flat expression on the face of the mustached bkgd musician in Max Slevogt's Portrait Of The Dancer Anna Pavlova.
"But despite its picturesque and spirited misuse of the King's English, the film is too anemic for the Broadway area."
--Andre Sennwald, review of "I Sell Anything," NY Times, Dec. 27, 1934.
--Andre Sennwald, review of "I Sell Anything," NY Times, Dec. 27, 1934.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"But despite its picturesque and spirited misuse of the King's English, the film is too anemic for the Broadway area."
--Andre Sennwald, review of "I Sell Anything," NY Times, Dec. 27, 1934.
--Andre Sennwald, review of "I Sell Anything," NY Times, Dec. 27, 1934.
AI knocks it out of the park:
"The number sequence 44-422-2 typically represents a specific offensive formation in football, where '44' indicates the number of running backs, '422' indicates the number of tight ends, and '2' refers to the number of wide receivers on the field….
"The number sequence 44-422-2 typically represents a specific offensive formation in football, where '44' indicates the number of running backs, '422' indicates the number of tight ends, and '2' refers to the number of wide receivers on the field….
November 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
AI knocks it out of the park:
"The number sequence 44-422-2 typically represents a specific offensive formation in football, where '44' indicates the number of running backs, '422' indicates the number of tight ends, and '2' refers to the number of wide receivers on the field….
"The number sequence 44-422-2 typically represents a specific offensive formation in football, where '44' indicates the number of running backs, '422' indicates the number of tight ends, and '2' refers to the number of wide receivers on the field….
Then there are Ross Alexander, Nick Foran and Robert Light as the three chums; Jean Muir and Ann Dvorak as the young wives and Margaret Lindsay as the charming and patrician girl who makes the mistake of deciding to marry into the newspaper business.
--Andre Sennwald, Gentlemen Are Born, 11/22/1934
--Andre Sennwald, Gentlemen Are Born, 11/22/1934
November 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Then there are Ross Alexander, Nick Foran and Robert Light as the three chums; Jean Muir and Ann Dvorak as the young wives and Margaret Lindsay as the charming and patrician girl who makes the mistake of deciding to marry into the newspaper business.
--Andre Sennwald, Gentlemen Are Born, 11/22/1934
--Andre Sennwald, Gentlemen Are Born, 11/22/1934