Tag: Pop
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THE ARCHIVE: TruePilot – Take Your Time
It is once again nepotism week at AuraLink! For disclosure sake, I am personal friends with TruePilot and have worked with him extensively in the past, but he doesn’t have the slightest clue that I’m writing this at 4 in the morning on a Wednesday, and that’s because I’m doing it purely because I am…
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THE ARCHIVE: MADI – HORROR NITE
The biggest issue with developing obscenely specific and niche taste in music is that by doing so you have made it so, so so so so unreasonably hard to find new things within that niche. As someone with a weekly ritual to find new music you’d think maybe I’d be exempt from that proble, but…
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fawn burke – pay2play
Let’s get a little abrasive. Maybe it’s the part of me that was buying skilled on iTunes in middle school, but to this day there’s still something about a caustic synth lead that hits my brain in all the right ways. It’s part of what’s kept me so engaged with the post-hyperpop/experimental pop space as…
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GENRES ARE FAKE AND THATS OK
The worst part about telling people I write about music is that they ask what kind of music I write about. It’s not like it’s a complicated question, but it’s a question that if I give an honest answer to nobody will understand what I mean. As it turns out the average person doesn’t know…
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THE ARCHIVE: sennoh – same but different* (1+2)
My favourite party trick is that I can make decent estimates on how old someone is based on what their all-time favourite pop songs are. It’s not a particularly useful skill, but it’s occasionally quite fun when you clock someone to a tee because they talk about how much they love The Black Eyed Peas.…
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Music is doing that thing where we all evolve into crabs
Would you believe me if I said I have a convoluted way of making that unhinged clickbait headline make sense with real examples? As crazy as it may sound, I think underground music is undergoing a process known as carcinization, which is the theory that all species are convergently evolving into crabs. Now, don’t get…
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PIAO – if i am me, then who are you?
The art direction chosen by artists continues to be one of the most fascinating things I get to observe. It really is such a peek into the mind that created the song you’re listening to, even if sometimes I can’t necessarily make sense of what the takeaway should be. For instance: the new PIAO. I…
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THE ARCHIVE: J Sutta – Forever ft. Meek Mill (Shawn Wasabi Remix)
There are 3 songs that aren’t on Spotify that live rent free in my head at all times. 1 of them is a TruePilot demo from 2020 that never came out, one of them is a secret, and the third one is this. Shawn Wasabi was someone who played a huge role in developing my…
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sheidA – P.A.R.T.Y
There’s a consistent narrative in the cultural zeitgeist that young people have zero desire to drink, club, party, and go out at large. It’s an insight I hear incredibly often, but despite even seeing the numbers to back it up, I can confidently say that it’s largely false (or at least blown out of proportion).…
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How to make your friends listen to your music suggestions in 1 simple step! (free download online no virus)
An Editorial by someone unqualified to talk about anything. Horrible headline aside, I came to a realization this week that’s going to make me seem incredibly stupid. I end up having to explain what AuraLink is on a pretty regular basis in my real life to explain things like “why are you editing a tiktok…