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Bannon, in his evil genius way, saw this coming, and helped make it happen. There’s some kind of cycle of socio-economic evolution and reactive populism that he has an understanding of. IMO he and Trump are agents of disruption, deception, who smell opportunity, while finding other like-minded, collaborative organizations also smelling…[Read more]

I saw this when I was on YouTube yesterday, and recognized I had no clue about the German economy. (That’s what I should be embarrassed about.)

On a seemingly different topic, I have to say that I’ve left Google Search as my primary search engine, because it has become so bad, prioritizing extra clicks over linking to the most relevant…[Read more]

Superwoman Pau. Less than a minute.

https://youtube.com/shorts/mq3jfiMIpSg?si=VpXHbiv0OYWJGICw

Humble, fun, talented, creative, technical, professional, not a lame song out of over a hundred. I still get goosebumps, now even before the actual goosebumpy part because I know when it’s coming.

I ran into a one minute short, and just watched and re-watched it over a couple dozen times or so:
https://youtube.com/shorts/f18lcHWri_M?si=OFZPG3PKnia-Ntg8

This voice teacher/reactor calls her reaction “emotional”, and I don’t think she’s faking it. She started with TW from third grade level and jumped right to a post-grad level in under 20 minutes. (That’s my lame metaphor.) Maybe it was too much, too quick, but I like when reactors unexpectedly tear up.

This reaction is fun, shorter, and they decipher the plot much sooner.

Unseen wrote:
I wonder if the trend to highly processing the vocals and cranking up the distortion on the guitar and bass might be in response to their producer’s wishes.

I wonder too, but I’m putting my bet on the band just having fun with it. Pau’s smiling a lot, and I really love her fills in Sun. In any case, their audience mostly loves it, a…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
It’s the girls’ personalities. They are just fun to watch. Maybe it’s part of their latina-ness, but their are all very animated and effusive.

I think it also speaks to their incredible parents and other chosen support structures, including their absolute insistence on keeping final say on everything. It’s like they were train…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
And they are not half bad.

Per YouTube reviews and comments, I expected they’d be pretty good. I’ve not looked into them because I need to limit my rabbit holes. Good song, this one. I estimate it’s about 150 bpm (if it’s time signature is written in 4/4 time), bannable in Chechnya. I wonder if/how the law defines time signatures,…[Read more]

Did you guys notice the eclipse backstage near the middle of Automatic Sun? I didn’t. Just watch for a minute if you can, where I jump into it.

Unseen wrote:
having a gorgeous lead singer

Ok, I’m unintentionally imagining, behind every gorgeous performer, Unseen dancing with arms up in the air.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Let’s see how their new album does.

I don’t love the song you first suggested, a lot because of the mono-tonality of the singer, but that shouldn’t be a minus in every case. A lot of hit songs pushing the tonic a lot, i.e. the root note of the key that the song’s in. BB King comes to mine, in a few of his iconic h…[Read more]

I accidentally ran into their newest release that’s only three hours old. I like it. It’s the 3rd video below. I looked for lyrics and lucked out. (I’m not impressed by the lyrics. Am I missing something?)

I’ll present the live fancam-quality video first. The audio is unsurprisingly awful (IMO), but you can see the professional video cameras on…[Read more]

I eat babies all the time. (Before they’re actually babies.) IIRC, Japanese eating chicken and eggs call it Mother and Son, or something like that.

Another side note, I only recently learned that cheeseburgers are not kosher. Although this belief might depend on which flavor (err, I mean interpretation) of Judaism one adopts, it’s a violation of…[Read more]