That song absolutely should not work acoustic. But they kill it. Emily is amazing.

Another Turkish artist my friend sent me. I like this a lot.

¡Qué buena rola!

I like the rawness and slight discordance of the live version.

Well, that’s a mood.

I was thinking about Florrie’s song “Too Young To Remember” today and that a lot of people have nostalgia for a past that (as the song says) they cannot actually remember.

The idea for the song was hers and she co-wrote it, so it’s not some other person putting words in her mouth. She was born in 1988, but as she does, I do think a lot of people recognize that the late 1980s and early 1990s was a time of increasing optimism and possibility. They look back on that era fondly even if they don’t actually recall it. Unfortunately, this tendency can also malfunction spectacularly — the Boomers have nostalgia for an ersatz version of the 1950s that most of them don’t actually remember. And that misplaced yearning for a bygone era has completely fucked American politics and younger people for two damn decades now.

But what Florrie has done is pure harmless fun.

As a side note, she plays percussion on that track. Because she’s an excellent drummer it sounds a lot better than the tracks of hers where they use electronic drums (jeez, why do that when you have an amazing drummer just RIGHT THERE? I mean she’s RIGHT THERE. Give the lady her drums!).

Nouveau Clou ! Nouveau Clou ! Je suis si heureuse.

Alas I do not know much Turkish, but a close friend sent me this and it is very good.

Just highlighting another very small artist I like.

Wow. It loses some of the urgency of the original, but also has better musicianship. Great cover.

I like this too, but if you have photosensitive epilepsy, you gonna have about 500 seizures if you watch it.