The first ten on today’s playlist:
Day: December 1, 2022, 2:02 AM
Scarsdale
At the dentist yesterday, the dental tech examining me and giving me a cleaning: “You have a lot of scars on the inside of your cheeks. Were you in an accident?”
Me: “No, just been hit in the face a lot of in my life.”
Conversation was sparse after that. But don’t ask about people’s scars if you don’t wanna know the answer, yeah?
Brulu
Zheani’s “Lulu” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Brutal” are the songs and videos most emblematic of our zeitgeist.
Hyperreality, image manipulation (in many layered senses), the despair of the social, tacit abandonment of wokeness and a mishmash of cultures and styles — both women are living slightly in the future and presaging it.
“Lulu” is probably my favorite song of the past five years or so.
Also, don’t let people tell you that you have to be stuck in the music you liked when you were 17. Man, I woulda hated “Lulu” when I was 17. But look at me now.