Prickle Me Pink!

so i enjoy the song, "american pie" quite a bit. its a fun little folksy tune in my humble opinion. i was listening to it on my way back from class and was like, "is this whole song about the facade that was broken with vietnam and watergate in the 1970s? how the american public faced the bitter truth that we can't actually trust the people who are suppose to have our best interest in mind? was this all a scam, a ball that was just waiting to drop? suddenly the america you grew up loving was just one big farce -."

no

apparently the song is just an ode to the 50s. its literally just:

"guyyyyyssssss why is everyone so angry:( cant we just go back to the 1950s when there was peace and segregation was still legal and it was more acceptable than it already is to be racist to black people:((((( cant we all just get along:((((("

oh no cool.

so its actually a bunch of bullshit that only a white cishet man would write, because what do you mean can we go back to the 1950s.... also don, buddy, maybe it isnt that youre nostalgic for this particular time period, but rather a time when you were a child? is that possible. maybe thats why things were so good??? because you didnt have any responsiblities and were able to stay blissfully ignorant because of your status as a white man. genuinely such a dumb thought.

like was 2012 the pinnacle of human existance? no. do i sometimes wish that i could go back in time to 2012? yes, but you want to know why? because i was 5 years old. i didnt even have to worry about pissing and shitting if i didn want to, it was still somewhat acceptable for me to wet the bed. but does that mean i think life would be better for everyone if we went back to 2012, hell no. shits horrible now why would going back make it better. i was just a child so i was able to not to worry about politics like most other (white, upper-middle class) children.

i watched a video of him talking about the song on an australian news site for some reason???? he was basically like, "yeah, i predicted woke"

...

what are you talking about you old fart, and the boomers in the comment, oh my god.

" yeah, i was a kid in 71' what a great time in america "

" they dont realize how good they had it in 71' "

insane takes, like tell me youre white without telling me youre white. also the whole point of the song is that he doesnt like the current state of america and wants to go EVEN FARTHER BACK, are you guys this dense???? like congrats, you missed the entire (stupid) point of the whole song, but are too stupid to recognize that. but theyre all in the comments like "FINALLY AN ARTIST WHO SPEAKS THEIR MIND" geniunely what are you talking about. the only thing stopping an artist from aligning with racist and 'traditional' values is themself. yeah maybe people of color and queer people might not want to listen to your music anymore because you actively refer to them as "the woke mod" (at least the ones who disagree with you) sorry thats kinda on you, bud. like insane. if you want to talk, talk. but you cant be mad when people say, yeah its kind of ignorant and racist to be nostalgic for a time when a large chunk of the population werent even treated as human beings. like youre all for freedom of speech but when someone calls you out, you piss and shit and cry. political correctness isnt why you cant be openly racist, your fear of getting yelled at by teenagers online is why you cant be openly racist, you wuss puss.

anyways this was a rabbit hole i fell down today, instead of starting an essay thats due in a week, whoops. but i found this is to be infuriating and kind of ruined the song for me.

so i watched inside, bo burnham's special, for the first time since i was 14. When i had first watched this, i was obsessed, like obsessed. i was so annoying about it. i watched it like 11 times the summer it came out, bought it on itunes and would listen on it on the bus ride home from school after getting called a loser for sitting by myself in the cafeteria freshman year. then i listened to it again on the school bathroom floor, trying to avoid getting called a loser again. but yeah anyways i wasn't expecting it to hold up but... i actually quite enjoyed it. it might just be the nostalgia which is a silly thing to say because it was only like 5ish years ago.

I found the beginning to be how as i remembered it, a little corny, millenial and self-aware. But its bo burnham and i think thats like the general consensus on him. Aside from that, i enjoyed singing along to the songs because of course i know all of them word for word. Who do you think i am? someone who doesn't know bo burnham's inside special word for word - now thats just silly.

its also obviously shot beautifully like theres cream in my jeans a little. As it went on i enjoyed it more and more. probably after the whole tonal switch is when it really kicked into high gear for me. I saw some people saying saying parts of it come off as phony and disingenuous, but i feel as though thats the point is it not?????

Like you cant really tell where the performance ends and where bo's actual self begins, and like thats the point. to show that media is superficial even when its trying to be genuine. maybe im jumping through hoops to make this make sense and defend my homeboy, bo. (but in all seriousness i think i have zero opinions on bo himself. i used to be a stan but like obviously a lot of his older content was like weird and self-aware but like racist. and like thats the point but i dont think holding up a sign with a racist joking, but putting in parentheses: (get it its racist, thats the joke) is a good joke. you know? am i making sense, am i talking out of my frickin ass here you guys???? but yeah i dont actually care about this man.)

I think look whos inside again, that funny feeling and goodbye are actually really good songs - though i would never actually listen to them outside of the special because i refuse to be that person. It just brought me back to a time where i really resonated with this special and im happy i had something like this at the time because god knows that girl needed something to do instead of cut herself. but i think people are annoying and very pretenious about this movie, and i think thats largely because he's a white guy whos displaying emotion and that's seen as something really unbecoming and brave of a straight white guy. like it boggles peoples mines even though since the beginning of time women been like "lowkey im lonely sometimes" and instead of being in awe and feeling seen by her display of emotions, we just shoved an ice pick in her eye. but yeah its still good im just not going to be too annoying about it because i will never give a straight white guy too much credit because he probably stole it from someone else (JOKING JOKING JOKING in this instance).

Mitski's new album releases in 2 days, methinks I shall write a review on it when it drops. I haven't actually listened to any of the singles, I've been in a music funk. Recently the only thing I find myself listening to is a Fiona Apple album all the way through or listening to those dumbass mixes spotify makes for you. I've also really been enjoying this EP called sick girl by Elita. So fun, I hate going outside too girl. Anyways, goodbye for now.

BYLERRRRRR!!!! YOU MASSACRED MY BOYSSSSS!!!! LOOOK WHAT YOU DID!!!!!

Duffer brothers, I will never forgive you. You guys are a bunch of cowards. I was ready for it. We were ready for it. Now I don't know what to do. You baited the queers and I fell for it. God, I'm such a fool. Of course they weren't going to make them end up together, THAT WOULD MAKE TOO MUCH SENSE. But on a real note everyone and their mother watches that show and the world wasn't ready for byler. Way to push boundaries Duffers. COWARRDDDDDSSS COWARDDDDDS!!!!! Anyways, siri play Jonny by Faye Webster (and follow that up with the reprise).

Goodnight all

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