I don’t think that’s so remarkable.
We should do a synchronised group listen to the best selling albums of all time.
Let’s see what they are.
Nine albums have sold more than 40 million worldwide:
Apart from two of those, on second thoughts, let’s not.
Ed fucking Sheeran makes the soundtrack of the lives of clueless narcissists who’ve never listened to the previous generation of singer/songwriters and think this is how it goes.
Vlad’s not going to be happy with them pissing his money away like that.
There are more than one Ghangin Style?
I mostly know that song because Ma performed it once on West Wing.
This is going to appeal to approximately no one, but The State just released a 2020 quarantine version of Porcupine Racetrack. Modestly NSFW because Kevin Allison is wearing some kind of gimp suit.
https://twitter.com/michaelianblack/status/1253005769991237633
That’s the whitest thing I’ve ever seen.
Shouldn’t Michael Ian Black have aged more than 5-10 years in the last 25-30 years?
Amusingly, he showed up this year in some poker vlogs.
Maybe. But also
TRUMP: endorses tommy tuberville
5 seconds later we regret to inform you that tubby is not racist enough
It’s a good article, and as it hints at the problems are representative of something pretty deep and serious here. France needs to change something fundamental in its self-conception to deal with its not-white citizens. It still amazes me that even the left wing parties accept the idea that there’s a sort of institutional ‘neutrality’ here (lacité) which is one of the Republic’s crowning achievements.
Obviously there’s something to be said for neutrality to ethnicity as a concept, but a great deal of the time it manifests itself in a refusal to accept anything not considered ‘French’ by whoever has the power (so rich, white folk), or a refusal to even confront issues to do with racism, as to do things as fundamental as collect statistics about the experiences of immigrants or their children, or have debates where their contributions are particularly sought, are considered to be offences against lacité.
Also, Chansons are bullshit, Serge Gainsbourg aside.
I was hoping you’d respond. That’s interesting. I’d never heard of lacité before, and pretending that everyone is equal and therefore there’s no need to talk about ethnic minority issues is a very convenient way of keeping the status quo regarding the balance of power.
It’s reminiscent of how a couple of racists I loosely work with try to suppress social conversations about black or Asian rights and representation in the workplace by calling use of those terms racist.
Hot damn - Shakira restoring some dignity to Penn
It’s a distant parallel in Spanish language awards in the States where the majority of sales go to Norteno music but the awards go to Spanish pop, rap, etc because other genres are seen as more classy than the music of migrant Mexican workers
