New type of pope dropped. Harry was in apparently in Vatican City for the announcement? But streets are saying Leo is more of a second wave emo fan.
papa’nın ilanını San Pietro meydanında izlerken yanımdan Harry Styles geçti göz göze geldik hemen fotoğrafladım bu anıyı what a day ya pic.twitter.com/XhkyaY3UYR
— niss (@NisaKanat18) May 8, 2025
let’s just pretend
— Stereogum (@stereogum.bsky.social) May 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Take a Look at the Four Popes Who Have Charted on Billboardhttps://t.co/jnqovlDq4k
— billboard (@billboard) May 9, 2025
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 | FilipNest |
| May 7th | |
Protest songs usually hide behind poetry because being clear and obvious is really hard to do when writing a song and not coming off as awkward. This totally faces it head on and pulls it off. She's so utterly raw and human but does it in some superhuman way like a god that's been stripped of all power and forced to live and understand life as a human. This is up there with that "Why do people have to live outside?" thing by Chat Pile, or going back some of the Woody Guthrie protest stuff. Sometimes you just need to be really clear to get a point across. Wasn't aware of this issue and bang now I am. | |
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Yep. They have no arguments, and when you back them into their corner they either concern-troll, tone-police, or resort to a shroud of ironic detachment, all while creating false equivalences between imperial genocide conductors/profiteers and resistance groups fighting against them.
There's a difference between governments using their power to censor artists, as in the Kneecap case, and individuals exercising their right of free association and choosing to not be associated with certain other people, which is what's happening here.
They could, like, call it Lady Gaga-GHOST!
She can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad
I do so enjoy reading Pissy Tom. This was too funny, he just seems exasperated to even write this column today.🥰
"Sucker" isn't bad.I do hear it often out in the wild still.Never realized how similar it was to that Portugal the Man song, now I can't unhear it.
Every 10 years a new boy band gets unleashed onto the tween girl demographic. I don't mind it.Let the tweens have their fun.I can ignore it all easily enough.But aren't we overdue right now for the next 'boy band'?
"Sucker" is a 7/10
"Cake by the Ocean" is a 9/10
And hot damn, we got a Muppet Babies name drop!!Been awhile. Woo-hoo!
And Flying Up The Modern Rock charts on its way to peaking at No.11… it’s “Closer’ by Nine Inch Nails.
Trent Reznor was apologizing to his record label.
Apologizing that his new album – “The Downward Spiral” – did not possess a single hit.
Apologizing that it was just an hour of deathly-serious mechanical rock noise, a dreary depiction of a descent into suicidal depression. That it was an hour of music recorded in the same Hollywood mansion where Sharon Tate had been murdered by members of the Charles Manson Family - no relation to Marilyn Manson, although he’d be hanging around with Trent soon enough – an hour of music soaked in supernaturally bad vibes.
Trent was apologizing. He felt pretty sure that there was not a single party starter or singalong radio song on the album. Trent Reznor clearly didn’t understand just how sick and twisted 90s kids were. The A&R guys at the label however, they understood. They called him back up and shouted “WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? THIS IS GOING TO GO THROUGH THE ROOF!!!”
And it did: from sea to shining sea, and across the sea as well, parties were filled with everyone from Goths to jocks, screaming out in unison “I WANT TO FUCK YOU LIKE AN ANIMAL!!!!! I WANNA FEEL YOU FROM THE IN-SIDE!!!!” It may have been the one thing that Goths and jocks could both agree on.
“That’s the all-time fuck song”, Tommy Lee of Motley Crue would claim, before adding “Those are pure fuck beats”
The last time that we reached virtual 1994, the Stereogum filter didn’t allow the video to be shown. Or even, I think, the post.
So as not to fall into that trap again, I shall describe it:
“Closer” begins with a shot of a dismembered heart, sitting in a designer chair, plastic tubes sticking out of it. The heart beats in time with the acidic drum thuds, smoke blurting out of the aorta as though it were a steam train.
There are bugs. Lots of bugs. Lying on their backs, waving their little legs in the air, trying to not be on their backs anymore.
There’s a naked girl spinning eggs on the tips of her fingers, a skill I have never seen anyone else display in any other medium.
There’s a monkey tied to a crucifix. The director has spent much of his life reassuring people that the monkey was not in pain, and that off camera it was eating a lot of banana chunks.
There’s a shot of a toilet, with no seat.
There’s Trent looking like a Flemish Renaissance painting.
There’s Trent, looking like a steampunk Bono.
There’s Trent is floating in the air and spinning.
There’s Trent dancing in front of two pig carcasses.
There’s a pig’s head, spinning on a spike.
There’s a bunch of old guys hanging around in the background, each one with a furrowed brow. Somehow they are the scariest thing of all.
All of this was filmed inside of an abandoned and haunted hospital.
All of which was decidedly freaky. But it wasn’t exactly sexy was it? I dunno, maybe you did find it sexy. I’m not going to judge.
“Closer” is a 10
I hate guns so much. This is just fucking stupid.
The easy "joke" has already been made, but all that can be really be said is that this is fucking disgusting and shameful.
I don't like children gettingrelentlessly bombed personally.
seeing so many Stereogum commenters on the spectrum of Zionism has been really discouraging
so many cool ppl are part of the “progressive except for Palestine” club