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The problem is our restrictive 12-tone scale!

Bruno Mars is at least fun, but holy hell, it's not "spot the band" it's "spot the song that you have already been sick of for a decade."

Pitchfork described Dirty Beaches as "Tumblr pop" meaning is more a combination of cool things you like—a bunch of signifiers—and I think that's a really nice (if getting a little dated) description.

Are we just getting older, or is pop music getting more pastiche-y?

She definitely has a better voice than Isaac Brock. And hey—Walgreen's needs music to play while I shop for cough medicine.

So so good. I think my favorite Modest Mouse album is Building Nothing Out of Something, even though I'm pretty sure it's a compilation of B-sides and stuff.

1. Hot 2. Good dancer 3. Law degree.

Not at the beginning, but by the time you get to "I'm fed up and I need to GO" = "A million reasons to leave the SHOW!"

I don't know if I want to get both of these songs stuck in my head for the rest of the day….do I dare click?

It'd go over like a lead zeppelin, it would!

Apart from being extremely wealthy, when I picture "scrub" I picture Ed Sheeran…

And yet Lady Gaga's "Million Reasons" can shamelessly rip off Modest Mouse's "Other People's Lives" with no repercussion?

Gain way for footcycle!

*sinister phrenologist voice*
"You zee, zis bump in the ze brain pain means zat he vill find ze phyzical pratfalls irrezistable!"

I moonlight as an unsure waffler.

Fair enough. I just assumed the other series would repeat the first — beat by beat, every single time, with very little variation.

The internet was a mistake.

Or their insults for Aaron Rodgers! Or anyone really. Chicago's for haters.

Totes. Just, with her combination of wealth, genes and, you know, being an Olympic athlete that result is the least shocking thing I've ever seen.

Don't be so tonya deaf.