EH!?!?????? BHM WIN?

island to island / heartbeat to heartbeat / you got me, you got me

visual representation of all the girlies bawling their eyes out over taylor in their room and the way she's radiating sunshine from head to toe on that football field, this is everything she has ever deserved!!!!!

are you thinking of me when you're with somebody else? do you talk to me when you're talking to yourself? are you reaching for me, making love to someone else? do you talk to me when you're talking to yourself, self?

just kill me

carly rae jepsen was actually a genius for writing "before you came into my life, i missed you so bad" i'm sorry y'all didn't understand her

tim "i'm not trying to be romantic" → gets his girlfriend a 1st place trophy before she even takes the detectives exam because he believes in her so much, and then writing in a little '7' next to it after she notified him that she didn't do as well as she had hoped SEEMS PRETTY FUCKING ROMANTIC TO ME.

CARLY RAE JEPSEN — TALKING TO YOURSELF (2022)

i wish i could enjoy every music genre ever

Carly Rae Jepsen just truly blows all of the other pop girlies so out of the water with her ability to truly achieve campy pop instead of just making bad music and having it be called camp. Like ‘So Nice’ is one of the most saccharine songs I’ve ever heard in my life, but she sells me on it so flawlessly. Like THIS is camp, THIS is pop. It’s commitment to the emotion that you can only do if you are fearless. I feel like so many other pop stars today are too brand-aware and self-conscious to actually swing that hard at cheesy, but it is the full power that Carly puts behind it that makes it so endearing.

Songs like ‘Let’s Be Friends’ and ‘Beach House’ are perfect campy songs because she never undercuts it to save face, and because she’s inviting us to laugh with her and not at the song. Actually I think that’s the thing everyone gets wrong about camp: it’s the equivalent of laughing with, and people confuse it with laughing at. With Carly, she’s always in on the joke and laughing while she tells it.

where is the adopt crowd these days anyways... is it just Toyhouse?

i revisted DA the other day to find an old art piece and it was just rampant with AI art and AI adopts :(

grad school essay writing soundtrack: girlpop

seeing your favorite childhood ship getting married is INSANE. i need a couple days to process this.

"...and so that Jepsen's music is not the kind of pop music that relentlessly desires a body means that desire itself is the body. Desire is the living thing at the end of the tunnel waiting with open arms and to some, I imagine this isn't a happy ending. Wanting leading into more wanting isn't exactly a neatly-tied ribbon but it is a certainty. I will wait tomorrow the desire for something I cannot have, and even if I can have it, I will chase the idea of not being able to have it until I find something else fleeting. [...] It's a discredit to Jepsen's ability to speak of the feelings she brings forth without at least imagining the idea that she knows exactly what she is doing, that she's figured out a simple math: once that you've caught that which you desire, the story is less interesting. She gives us instead a never-ending chase where the only thing to fall in love with is the idea of falling in love."

Tell a Friend That You're in Love With Them Tonight: on "Your Type", by Hanif Abdurraqib (source)

i’ve always felt like taylor’s output is like 30/70 good/bleh at best. when it’s good it’s good but it’s like she’s got nobody culling her drafts. i guess it makes sense when you’re that famous because some people will buy absolutely whatever you sell so why not also sell the chaff. this is also why her albums have too many songs on them