compare it to cupertino's "parents with 30 million dollar net worth will disown their children if they don't get into stanford" vibes and it's total night & day

"norcal culture is based around success/prestige while socal culture is based on image" is my main takeaway.

irvine is an attempt to import silicon valley culture into socal, but because of socal's image culture, it's instead the land of gamers with a semi-popular twitch account and an egirl gf

this isn't a derogatory thing. i like all the baddiecore bands except sleep token, and they're far better than the previous generation of octanecore

for those who inevitably will go "wtf is baddiecore??????" it's an internet joke about hot girls with no metal background listening to sleep token, bad omens, and spiritbox. and from there it took off as fast as those bands' careers did. i would nominate BMTH and poppy as baddiecore too

i always say that the best timeline is not bluesky overtaking twitter. it's a general decline of social media usage across the board

for my major's capstone project, several people had upwards of 12+ hours worth of work just suddenly disappear because of onedrive shenanigans

fortunately she's not cool at all on this new album. she just looks more insecure and insincere than ever

in a way, the right-wing takeover of our media, and both its suppression of mass shootings combined with extreme outrage over any violence vaguely directed at the right, has encouraged attention-seeking violent nihilists to open fire on republicans instead of schoolchildren

i feel like it's validated my outright judgment of "background listeners" who only care about vague vibes set at 10% volume. this shit is a choice, so why do you choose to be this boring and soulless. you are an actual NPC.

tl;dr drake is not music

it sneaks its way onto playlists. people who aren't even listening, just using it as background noise, don't register anything wrong.

that's the key word: none of this is music. unless we consider my evening 12 Hour Smoothed Brown Noise For Focus/Sleep/Meditation to be music as well.

at the same time, however, it made me realize: slop has always existed. this entire subgenre is infamously generic and formulaic and filled with low-effort imitators. the difference is it's made by AI now.

i've heard it's even worse in other genres: jazz and more ambient stuff especially.