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I can't stand burnt toast. And I loathe bus stations - terrible places, full of lost luggage and lost souls. And then there's unrequited love, and tyranny, and
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And here's my #theTwen2ie5 flag parade (only for the top 50 I'm afraid):

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🇳🇱🇳🇿🇵🇹🇵🇾🇸🇩🇹🇭🇹🇿🇺🇦🇻🇳🇽🇰

And finally, the traditional playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/3Xp...
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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I should post my #theTwen2ie5 honourable mentions. Well, here's my whole 100 in fact. Almost all of my HMs were already picked by other voters, and several were exciting new discoveries. Thanks all!
My #theTwen2ie5 top 55! We Live Here - Bob Vylan Skeleton - Early Riser Uwa - Pongo Ya Habibi [يا حبيبي] - Mohamed Ramadan & Gims Komplicerad - Miss Li Vai Tu - Baiuca & Leilía Esmerim Güzelim - Altın Gün Dark Gethsemane - Burial Sports - Yunè Pinku Sever the Blight - Hemlocke Springs La Macarena - Janie Black Hole - Griff Library Card - Janani K. Jha [formerly known as J. Maya] Chalé - Sho Madjozi Dodonpa [どどんぱ] - Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Bounce - Rema Broke My Heart - Caribou Looking at Your Pager - KH Los Ángeles - Aitana Sukari - Zuchu Ngifuna wena - DJ Yessonia feat. Boohle [11 points] Perra - Rigoberta Bandini [11 pts] Anywayz [Avalon Emerson's 14th life version] - Austra [11 pts] I Go [edit] - Peggy Gou [11 pts] Gå bara gå - Klara Andén [*12 points*] Kwaku the Traveller - Black Sherif [5 points] Feisty - Smerz [5 pts] Kuud kuulama [Noëp remix] - Maarja Nuut & Ruum [5 pts] Darbuka - Eftalya Yağcı [5 pts] Hoes Depressed [left cheerleader remix] - Thot Squad feat. Sophie Hunter [5 pts] Renaissance [The White Lotus season 2 main title theme] - Cristóbal Tapia de Veer Jump [뛰어] - Blackpink Are You Alive? - Orbital feat. Penelope Isles Asabone - Lord Paper × Bosom P-Yung Paprika - Japanese Breakfast Éad - IMLÉ le Róisín Seoighe Golden - Huntr/x [Ejae, Audrey Nuna & Rei Ami] The Spark - Kabin Crew & Lisdoonvarna Crew Ditto - NewJeans Lavender - Biig Piig Zaman Zaman - Santi & Tuğçe Please Please Please - Sabrina Carpenter Crying in the Carwash - ARXX Days Like These - Low Good 4 U - Olivia Rodrigo Point and Kill - Little Simz feat. Obongjayar Guess - Charli XCX feat. Billie Eilish Nashville - CMAT Everything Blooms Around Her - Anish Kumar Meherbaan [मेहरबान] - Reet Talwar I Don't Really Care for You - CMAT [11 points] All Too Well [10 minute version] [Taylor's version] [From the Vault] - Taylor Swift [11 points] Shum [Шум] [Eurovision version] - Go_A [11 points] Somewhere near Marseilles [マルセイユ辺り] - Hikaru Utada [11 points] Osama - Zakes Bantwini, Kasango [*12 points*] My #theTwen2ie5 honourable mentions! 2020: John Vuli Gate - Mapara A Jazz feat. Ntosh Gazi & Colano Levitating - Dua Lipa Think about Things - Daði Freyr Wildfires - Sault 2021: Good Ones - Charli XCX Introvert - Little Simz Meet Me at Our Spot - The Anxiety [Willow Smith & Tyler Cole] Real Groove [Studio 2054 Initial Talk remix] - Kylie × Dua Lipa You Could Be - Anz feat. George Riley 2022: Anti-Hero - Taylor Swift Happy New Year - Let's Eat Grandma Hurts to Love - Beach House Party Time - The Northern Boys Qué Fue? - J Noa Saoko - Rosalía Simulation Swarm - Big Thief 2023: Baddadan - Chase & Status and Bou feat. IRAH, Flowdan, Trigga & Takura Si Te Portas Bonito - Sofia Kourtesis 2024: Angel of My Dreams - Jade Apoteósica - Verito Asprilla × Li Saumet × Cerrero Apt. - Rosé and Bruno Mars Girl, So Confusing - Charli XCX feat. Lorde Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan Ko'k jiguli - Ozoda Kongolese sous BBL - Théodora feat. Jeez Suave Lost in Blue - Rianne Downey Mfana Wase Dobsi - Atmos Blaq Mum Does the Washing - Joshua Idehen Sharaf - Sahra Halgan Supernova - aespa Underground - f5ve 2025: Amanda [remix] - Zuchu feat. Spice Attitude - Ive Burstintotears - Eev Frances Eat It Up - Tinie Tempah × Skepsis; Carla Monroe Faki Beer - Blaq Major and B Yember feat. Mzamo Ngcobo & Sphiwe Got to Have Love - Pulp Hands Up - Meovv Home Again - Confidence Man Never Enough - Turnstile S.M.O. - Amaarae Sports Car - Tate McRae Sunset Blvd - Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco Tra - Tayl G Tuolileikki - Lyyti
November 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Name your top 4 80s films:

Blade Runner [Ridley Scott, 1982]
The Breakfast Club [John Hughes, 1985]
Kiki's Delivery Service [Miyazaki Hayao, 1989]
Twin Peaks [pilot] [David Lynch, 1989]
A flying car passing a giant advert featuring a Japanese woman. Blade Runner [Ridley Scott, 1982]. Five teens (?) sitting in a school library on a Saturday morning. The Breakfast Club [John Hughes, 1985] A flying Japanese girl, riding a broom over a Scandinavian (?) city. Kiki's Delivery Service [Miyazaki Hayao, 1989] A teen (?) girl sitting in a school classroom, who's just heard some very worrying news. Twin Peaks [pilot] [David Lynch, 1989]
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
burnt-toast-and.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:

Dave Clarke [Fabric, 2000]
Pulp [Magna, Rotherham, 2002]
Orbital & Doctor Who [Glastonbury, 2010]
Eurovision 2013 [Malmö, Sweden - we stayed in Copenhagen, er, Denmark]
ABBA [London, 2022]
Pulp at their final ever gig at their Auto festival at Magna Science Adventure Centre, Rotherham, 2002. Yep, definitely their final ever gig, I've absolutely never seen them since then. Orbital at Glastonbury 2010, playing keyboards and wearing their special headtorches. Wait a second, who's that coming onstage... Emmelie de Forest at Eurovision 2013 in Malmö, Sweden. ABBA at their Voyage residency in London, 2022, looking pretty good for their age, and sounding it too. Apparently Little Boots is in that band onstage somewhere.
November 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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The I Feel Love of our times. The sun rising, the speaking in tongues, the emergence from isolation. The times, the places, the world, the future, the now.

✨🌟12 points🌟✨

#theTwen2ie5 #50
"Osama"
Zakes Bantwini, Kasango
Sep 2021 🇿🇦
youtu.be/CNUnzNLEkKA
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The single art for "Osama" by Zakes Bantwini and Kasango, which is also the album art for Zakes Bantwini's Ghetto King. A photo of Zakes, a slim black man with cropped black hair and a faint moustache, with his eyes closed. He is wearing no shirt, and he is framed by a bright orange rectangle, which is framed by an image of a (very) starry night over a South African town. A photo of Kasango, a black man with a shaved head and cropped beard and moustache, with his eyes closed. He is wearing a beaded and lattice-woven cape over his shoulders.
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I'm in London. You're in Paris. Let's pick a spot with easy access. Like - Marseilles!?

But it's not about the destination, it's about the journey.

⭐It really is 11 points long⭐

#theTwen2ie5 #49
"Somewhere near Marseilles [マルセイユ辺り]"
Hikaru Utada
Jan 2022 🇯🇵🇺🇸
youtu.be/_FL7ahAmdp8
NK✔️IS❌
The album art for Bad Mode [BADモード] by Hikaru Utada, which includes "Somewhere near Marseilles [マルセイユ辺り]". A photo of Hikaru Utada, a Japanese person wearing a light brown tracksuit, standing with crossed arms in their hallway while their son runs past at the edge of the frame. They look kinda exhausted, but they're also looking you right in the eye. A photo of Hikaru Utada performing "Somewhere near Marseilles [マルセイユ辺り]" live in an aquarium somewhere near Marseille; that is, at the Yokohama Hakkeijima Sea Paradise. They are wearing a black dress and big furry arm warmers, and they are almost silhouetted against the blue. Inside the aquarium is a large shoal of silvery fish, and a few sharks.
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Lest anyone thinks I've gone all folksy.

(Wait. What? Ukrainian what? Ukrainian fo-!?)

Now, more than ever, Слава Україні. Героям слава!

⭐11 points⭐

#theTwen2ie5 #48
"Shum [Шум] [Eurovision version]"
Go_A
Mar 2021 🇺🇦
youtu.be/U7-dxzp6Jvs
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The single art for "Shum [Шум] [Eurovision version]" by Go_A. A black & white photo of Go_A walking out of the snowy forests of Chernobyl. Behind them the word SHUM is written repeatedly in varied large red letters. A photo of Go_A performing "Shum" at the Eurovision Song Contest in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on 22nd May 2021. They are formed of a white woman with short black hair, wearing a neon green feathery top and singing, and three white men in white, black & transparent outfits playing instruments. There are also two white male dancers, also wearing white, black & transparent outfits and holding circular lights. They are surrounded by bare, white treelike forms and the stage is lit by blue lights and projections.
November 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Is it the critics' choice because it's long and autobiographical? Dunno, I just know the telling holds my attention so well that I don't notice it's been going on so long.

⭐It's 11 points long⭐

#theTwen2ie5 #47
"All Too Well [10 minute version]"
Taylor Swift
Nov 2021 🇺🇸
youtu.be/tollGa3S0o8
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Art for "All Too Well [10 minute version] [Taylor's version] [From the Vault]" by Taylor Swift. An autumnal photo of Taylor sitting in a convertible roadster wearing a long camel coat, red hat and vivid red lipstick, looking at - ? A screenshot of Taylor Swift singing "All Too Well" on Saturday Night Live in November 2021. She is a skinny white woman with long brown hair and vivid red lipstick, wearing a black off-the-shoulder top and playing an acoustic guitar. Behind her is a large screen projecting "All Too Well [the short film]", starring Sadie Sink as Taylor and Dylan O'Brien as Jake Gyllenhaal.
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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The ABBA-esque piano and the ohh-oh-ohs tell you it's all about to go wrong, and then the gaslighting begins and the self-recrimination but where could you turn now? May as well keep on for

⭐11 points⭐

#theTwen2ie5 #46
"I Don't Really Care for You"
CMAT [#2]
Feb 2021 🇮🇪
youtu.be/maxmLGDbqBQ
NK✔️IS✔️
The single art for "I Don't Really Care for You" by CMAT. A drawing of CMAT wearing a yellow outfit, sitting in a bar, while another woman holds her down, a bouncer gesticulates at her and a man in a matching yellow outfit stares at her. A screenshot of CMAT from the music video for "I Don't Really Care for You". She is a red-headed white woman wearing a snakeskin jacket and skirt, cowboy boots and one of those tasselled country shirts. She is standing in a traditional-looking pub, with a red phone in the extreme foreground and just off-screen is her partner walking away from her. Maybe you can see how her shoulders have just slumped. Video directed by Eilís Doherty.
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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And yet more of my favourite things!
* Female singers!
* Not in English!
* Gorgeous, glittering electropop!
* People's pop!

#theTwen2ie5 #45
"Meherbaan [मेहरबान]"
Reet Talwar
Feb 2023 🇮🇳
youtu.be/3pro1m-bRJw
NK✔️IS✔️
The single art for "Meherbaan [मेहरबान]" by Reet Talwar. A montage of photos of Reet and her co-star Kima from the "Meherbaan" video, where they play a young couple watching TV in a bedroom, a glamorous singer on TV and a fantasy couple dancing in white outfits. A photo of Reet Talwar, a northeast Indian woman with long black hair and dark lipstick, wearing a sage green chiffon top and looking away from the camera.
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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As we enter the final week, I think I still have time for some of my favourite things:
* Female vocals!
* Not in English!
* Techno drone and bass!
* New music (to me)!

#theTwen2ie5 #44
"Everything Blooms Around Her"
Anish Kumar
Sep 2024 🇬🇧
youtu.be/_1DnLzABQGU
NK✔️IS✔️

(Vocal credit in reply!)
The single art for the Hymns of a Flowergirl EP by Anish Kumar, which leads with "Everything Blooms Around Her". A vintage black & white photo of a white woman holding a bunch of flowers, with several more flowers photoshopped around her. (Hoping this is photoshopped rather than AIed.) A passport-style photo of Anish Kumar, in black & white and bleached out to appear vintage. He is a young British Asian man with messy dark hair, thick eyebrows & moustache and a cleft chin; he is wearing a t-shirt and jacket, but they are faded to be almost indistinguishable from the white background.
November 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Terrible mistake leaving my CMAT bonus choice till the end: big vote split, and my pick has... no points. Should I stick it out and split the vote, or twist and promote this slow burner from my HMs? Well... why not both?

#theTwen2ie5 #43
"Nashville"
CMAT
Feb 2022 🇮🇪
youtu.be/fIZsMMbJlCU
NK✔️IS✔️
The album art for If My Wife New I'd Be Dead by CMAT, which includes "Nashville". A drawing of CMAT wearing a denim wedding dress, standing at the front of a church, crying, while a man in a black suit runs out of the door. The congregation are various surreal (or country music) figures, including the Mona Lisa and a flayed man. A photo of Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, a red-headed white woman standing in front of a blue-painted chapel and gazing into the distance. She is wearing vivid red lipstick, a white silk blouse, a white bodice and a cameo bolo tie with a painting of Jesus, and her initials are spray painted on the front of her bodice.
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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My fave Charli tune, route one banger "Good Ones", has... no points. My fave Billie tune is... wait, wrong decade. Guess we'll have to work it out with a remix.

#theTwen2ie5 #42
"Guess"
Charli XCX feat. Billie Eilish
Aug 2024 🇬🇧🇺🇸
youtu.be/huGd4efgdPA
NK✔️IS✔️
The album art for Brat and it's Completely Different but also Still Brat by Charli XCX, which includes "Guess" feat. Billie Eilish. The title is written in elongated, back-to-front, lower-case, very slightly blurry, right justified letters on a neon green background. A screenshot from the video for "Guess" by Charli XCX feat. Billie Eilish. Charli and Billie are perched on top of a literal mountain of underwear; Charli is an Indian-British woman with long curly black hair, wearing a t-shirt and miniskirt; Billie is a white woman with long black hair, wearing a baseball cap, glasses, baggy t-shirt and baggy jeans. Video directed by Aidan Zamiri.
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Things are getting a bit tactical now. Looking at my favourite Little Simz songs and thinking "Which song do I love... which song do I marry... and which do I... 10 point and kill?"

#theTwen2ie5 #41
"Point and Kill"
Little Simz feat. Obongjayar
Sep 2021 🇬🇧🇳🇬
youtu.be/tvY31eN3gtE
NK✔️IS✔️
The single art for "Point and Kill" by Little Simz feat. Obongjayar. The same image as from Little Simz's Sometimes I Might Be Introvert album: a photo of Simz huddled up (introvertedly?) on a wooden chair, wearing narrow glasses, but also wearing a flashy orange & blue checked suit and with an extravagant bunched ponytail, all against an orange background. A screenshot from the video for "Point and Kill" by Little Simz feat. Obongjayar. Litle Simz, a black woman with a Princess Leia braided hairstyle, a pink floral shirt and blue jeans, is sitting in a plastic chair. Standing next to her is Obongjayar, a black man with dreadlocks, sunglasses, a white vest and cream trousers, holding a machete. Video directed by Ebeneza Blanche.
November 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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What's your favourite song about rain?

As a Brit, I feel that I have to reply to this. Though this may not actually be about rain.
November 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Sticking with the guitars and the anger/anguish. But I guess this is less post-apocalyptic, and more... Glastonbury headliner.

#theTwen2ie5 #40
"Good 4 U"
Olivia Rodrigo
May 2021 🇺🇸
youtu.be/gNi_6U5Pm_o
NK✔️IS✔️
The single art for "Good 4 U" by Olivia Rodrigo. A photo of Olivia dressed as a cheerleader, standing next to a trophy in a high school locker room, and also wearing long black rubber gloves. The photo is stained & torn, like it's been involved in some kind of flooding / petrol / fire scenario. Probably taken during the video filming; video directed by Petra Collins. A photo of Olivia Rodrigo on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, 29th June 2025; she is a Filipino-American woman with long dark hair, wearing a short white dress and long black boots. She's holding a mic, but also looks like she's just dropped the mic. Photographed by Kevin Mazur.
November 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Moving from a banger in a carwash to sticking an old banger in a car crusher. Low are wreaking havoc. Or emotionally wrecked. Why not both?

#theTwen2ie5 #39
"Days Like These"
Low
Jun 2021 🇺🇸
youtu.be/d8QiSZRX8dA
NK✔️IS❌
The album art for Hey What by Low, which was also used for "Days Like These". A black & white image of... static? A close-up of vinyl grooves? A belt sander or a woodwork bench? A photo of Mimi Parker (RIP) and Alan Sparhawk of Low, a white woman with dark hair in a black shirt & trousers and straw hat, and a white man with blond hair wearing blue denim dungarees and no shirt. He also has a moustache, but you can hardly see it because his hair is covering his face. They are standing in a coppiced wood, and accompanied by a black dog. Photographed by Nathan Keay.
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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My favourite film at this year's #LFF London Film Festival was the gender-swap trans teen comedy She's the He! (trailer in reply). And this torrential banger reminds me of it, which seems a good reason to pick it.

#theTwen2ie5 #38
"Crying in the Carwash"
ARXX
Mar 2024 🇬🇧
youtu.be/v4_Jr1FGLE8
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The single art for "Crying in the Carwash" by ARXX. A photo of ARXX standing in a dark car park, with CRYING IN THE CARWASH written in large formal white letters. A screenshot from the video for "Crying in the Carwash". ARXX, two white women, one with short blondish hair and many tattoos, the other with a dark pixie cut and round glasses, being... carwashed... by a group of carwashers. Video directed by Rosie Powell. The single art looks very stylish; the video is very silly.
November 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Me picking my #theTwen2ie5 top 50:
I know I have good judgment,
I know I have good taste,
It's funny and it's ironic that only I feel that way.

#theTwen2ie5 #37
"Please Please Please"
Sabrina Carpenter
Jun 2024 🇺🇸
youtu.be/cF1Na4AIecM
NK✔️IS✔️
The single art for "Please Please Please" by Sabrina Carpenter. A somewhat out-of-focus Polaroid-esque screenshot of Sabrina sitting on the hood of a black car, wearing stockings, a short skirt and a large, Käärijä-style neon yellow furry coat. Taken from the video for "Please Please Please", directed by Bardia Zeinali. Another screenshot of SabCarp from the video for "Please Please Please". She is a short, tanned white woman with long platinum blonde hair and plum lipsick; she is holding Barry Keoghan's face in her hands like she's about to crush his skull like the Mountain and the Viper, or Roy Batty and Eldon Tyrell, or... did anyone do a skullcrushing in the Sopranos? Video directed by Bardia Zeinali.
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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And speaking of letting yourself go. Not quite sure what this is - transatlantic desert rock? Earthy techno? Or maybe just a sensuous, spiralling groove, exploding into life like a sunstorm, like a whirlwind.

#theTwen2ie5 #36
"Zaman Zaman"
Santi & Tuğçe
Apr 2022 🇵🇾🇹🇷
youtu.be/S3lbLoX3iDw
NK✔️IS✔️
The single art for "Zaman Zaman" by Santi & Tuğçe. A colourful collage of patchwork animals in front of a black & white horizontal striped background, with the artist and song names in bold rounded letters. A photo of Santiago Ferreira and Tuğçe Kurtiş in the bright sunlight in a Mediterranean garden. They are both wearing sunglasses, and she is reaching up to touch a blossom in a tree.
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Feeling so woozy, so whispery, just want to crawl away into the dark. Into the dark where you can let yourself go, where you can come back to life. Into the dark, where your other senses are heightened.

#theTwen2ie5 #35
"Lavender"
Biig Piig
Apr 2021 🇮🇪
youtu.be/odsC_PL-538
NK✔️IS✔️
The single art for "Lavender" by Biig Piig, which is just the art from the The Sky Is Bleeding EP. A photo of Biig Piig silhouetted in front of a red sky in the morning. She is wearing bunny ears and no top. Dammit, is this going to get me blocked again. A close-up photo of Biig Piig [Jessica Smyth], a white woman with brown hair and what seem like very big eyes.
November 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
burnt-toast-and.bsky.social
Youthful enthusiasm? Same again.
Super shy? Same again.
Adam F!? Same again.

Ditto, ditto, ditto.

"I love you."
"Ditto."

#theTwen2ie5 #34
"Ditto"
NewJeans
Dec 2022 🇰🇷🇦🇺🇻🇳
youtu.be/pSUydWEqKwE
NK✔️IS✔️
The single art for "Ditto" by NewJeans. A low-resolution, screenprint-style cartoon of a jogging white bunny rabbit, printed in red ink. In front of the rabbit are the letters NWJNS. A photo of NewJeans taken from the "Ditto" music video. They are five young Korean women, dressed as schoolgirls for the nostalgic theme of the video, wearing tan blazers, tan striped ties, white shirts & black skirts.
November 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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You're only as young as you feel. And this feels unstoppably rejuvenating.

(Resists temptation to pick the Northern Boys.)

#theTwen2ie5 #33
"The Spark"
Kabin Crew & Lisdoonvarna Crew
Jun 2024 🇮🇪🇳🇬🇸🇩🇽🇰 + more
youtu.be/njE3EknkkBY
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The single art for "The Spark" by Kabin Crew & Lisdoonvarna Crew. A multicultural group of youths at a party; they are all wearing bright outfits, and in the centre of the group is a hula-hooping girl with a neon yellow t-shirt that reads "I am the future". A photo of Kabin Crew and Lisdoonvarna Crew at the Electric Picnic festival. An even larger group of young people posing at a music festival on a cloudy day.
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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I wonder if this is a good pick to represent K-pop? It's just so up, up, uplifting, so bright, so shiny.

(I dunno, I may still pick more Korean songs...)

#theTwen2ie5 #32
"Golden"
Huntr/x [Ejae, Audrey Nuna & Rei Ami]
Jun 2025 🇰🇷
youtu.be/yebNIHKAC4A
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The single art for "Golden" by Huntr/x. A 3d animated image of three Korean women with extremely long legs, all wearing white, gold & black outfits. They are standing on top of a plane, flying out of the sunset. A photo of Rei Ami, Ejae and Audrey Nuna, three Korean women with normally-proportioned legs, all wearing black outfits. They are naturally making heart signs with their linked hands.
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Drifting out of the mist like some kind of Gaeilge TLC, but the waterfalls are drizzle and even on a soft day tá mo shaolsa ar thine, my life is on fire without you.

#theTwen2ie5 #31
"Éad"
IMLÉ, le Róisín Seoighe
Nov 2021 🇮🇪
youtu.be/8Kieb6PAPaI
NK✔️IS✔️
The single art for "Éad" by IMLÉ, le Róisín Seoighe. A portrait photo of Róisín Seoighe, a brunette white woman facing to the left; she is wearing octagonal yellow-tinted glasses and a white wool jumper, in front of a white background. A photo of IMLÉ, three white men with dark hair and beards standing on a backstreet at night, illuminated by a streetlamp. One of them is holding a cigarette, and blowing smoke into the air. (I think their line-up may have changed since this photo, and Róisín may essentially be a permanent member of the group now.)
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM