Announcement!!! Big news!!! 📢📢📢 My book, The Racialization of Print, has a cover (!!), and a webpage, and pre-orders are now available! Coming in Spring, 2027, from @uncpress.bsky.social and @oieahc.bsky.social Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30% uncpress.org/979889313492...

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Bruno Mars feels like a pivot point before Spotify fully subsumed everything--for all his old-school showman talents, he's a recombinant robot, a yassified New Edition

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Shaboozey is also generic country mashup mush, just not nearly as soporific as the other (white) people of recent vintage Robin's post: www.its-her-factory.com/2026/09/slop...

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looking at the songs that Ella Langley surpassed and I think @robinjames.bsky.social is very correct vis-a-vis why the song got so popular. After Old Town Road, it's not stardom, potent novelty or old-school power balladry that drive staying power: Wallen, Styles, Langley are Spotify-core sonic mush

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Excited the Rubber Soul remix/special edition is finally out but if you really want to get weird & look at the songs in a new way listen to just Paul & Ringo - www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSgF...

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