Recommended Reading: fun pop, Wavves, model morphosis
Pop Music in the Spring
Need a soundtrack for fun times? Check out MFR’s super good Pop Music in the Spring for songs & remixes by such From-beloved luminaries as Lady GaGa, YYYs, and Røyksopp.
WAVVES bro
I enjoy Wavves, and/yet I simultaneously love the HRO’s meta criticism of the band’s acclaim — “A lot of times, bands like this come along, and they achieve this aesthetic that is like fuzzy/garage rock/nihilist/beach-guitar-bro/post-punk/etc, or probably some more formal genre that I am not aware of. It seems to appeal to the core demographic of ‘music critics’…”
Model-Morphosis
One of the concepts I thought should exist years ago actually does thanks to blogging: makeovers for purely aesthetic expression rather than “”"making the most”"” of some poor girl’s phenotype. Model-Morphosis on NYTimes’ The Moment Blog tracks such changes as executed by top makeup artists on runway models. The ideas roam free without direct concerns for girls’ night out, impressing the boss, or attracting a high value mate. Ha, yeah, slide shows are “recommended reading” in the philosophical anthropology sense, assuming such a field exists.
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