How we all create art and find meaning in it is as unique as a fingerprint.

In visual art, that fingerprint impression is called having "a style". It develops in 3 parts:
1) your influences
2) what you enjoy
3) your special brand of laziness

Anyways stream Depression Disco

Like I get why the "it's not a love story" arguments took off bc of the importance of the 2nd gen, brutality, and general structure but it feels weird to be all "they're totally rabid and unsympathetic" when you see these kids try so hard to be kind when the world is never kind to them

Need to reread the text to make sure I don't go too "my pookies uwu" about them, the rancid vibes are key to the story, but it is one thing for Nelly to recount everything secondhand and another to watch these young kids be abused and beaten as they try to scrape by the smallest bits of piece