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pop music in the 2020s: a hopeful future

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in the 2010s, pop had gone through a notorious and infamous " difficult transition to 3d" . because of the internet and its influences on how culture works, the mainstream failed to maintain or create timeless icons in the way every other decade did. not for a lack of trying, though. the 2010s gave us Lorde, Charli xcx, and later, Billie Eilish. but the internet made time have a disgustingly fast pace where something that happened a month ago feels like it happened ten years ago, therefore, pop artists had a hard time keeping a momentum. a few artists, mostly from the 2000s, kept their relevancy by default, but when i say the 2010s failed to give us great icons, it's because like, my parents know who Bruno Mars is, but they have never heard of Halsey. non-flattering artistic rendition of the writer of this article in their room besides the cultural, the musical also stumbled. in the 2010s, something that was present in the 2000s became the norm, ...

Simon Interviews Samlrc

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Samlrc is a brazilian musician, visual artist, filmmaker and more. She recently released her album "A Lonely Sinner", changing her sound entirely from electronic shenanigans to majestic and grandiose post-rock. Yesterday I interviewed her, which you can check out right below, as well as a link to her newest album on bandcamp!   SIMON : hey Sam!! thank you for accepting the interview! how are you feeling tonight? SAMLRC : been overwhelmed but im just chillin rn :3 good night SIMON : good to hear that :D SIMON : so, going straight to the first question, what music are you listening to recently? SAMLRC : hmm been diving into some trip hop groups like massive attack and some QOTSA albums, very glad i gave them a chance its so peak SIMON : i love massive attack!! never listened to QOTSA though, but i might give them a chance too SAMLRC : quite hard for me to recommend something from them but i love Like Clockwork more, very good mix of emotional and ...

cave story and me (about december 20th 2004)

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 today is my birthday. around five in the morning, after i woke up, a friend said we should play club penguin together. i felt like i was seven again. i remembered my tenth birthday, in which some classmates came to my house and we played club penguin. we watched scary videos and it was fun.  at noon, i had lunch with my parents. my dad had told me before we left home that he was going to take me to the bank, to create an account to me, which he would deposit money. i remembered july 2020, during the best two weeks of my life, when i was at my dad's house in the city he lives in. he took me to see a place, a lot. he had bought this lot with the intention of building a little cottage, and my sister bought the lot right aside that. he said, "when i die, this lot will be yours. this will be my inheritance to you". anyone who doesn't know my dad would think this is amazing, which is exactly what i thought. my dad to this day has no idea how amazed i felt right then, given...