#i need more dawn + summer duets btw

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Girls5eva, unpopular opinion:

Season 2, episode 5. “Leave A Message If You Love Me” is the best episode of the whole show (for now), and I'll tell you why.

Gloria making theories 'bout Ashley and TK being the same person? She's so real for that.

Summer and her thread lift... Why was it so funny?

The whole Dawn + Summer and Gloria + Wickie dynamic; it's a breath of fresh air, honestly. I'm willing to see more interactions between these pairings in the future. <3

The songs, y'all! THE. SONGS! “Larry's Song” and “At The Beep” are freaking bops! Periodt.

And also... ✨ Why was it a close casket? Because it was empty, that's why! ✨

[diamonddeposits]

BEST TRACKS OF 2017-ARTISTS LIST #87

Brooklyn based post-funk balladeer Fusilier releases tunes that make you want to dance! Here he shares the tunes that made his 2017! 

1. L'Rain -- Heavy (But Not in Wait)

L'Rain's album starts like the first stripe of red in the sky at dawn. That language might seem overly cinematic in most cases, but these gorgeous twinkly guitar loops (that are just as great live BTW) merit my most flowery prose. Don't get me wrong, this song and album as a whole are as striking for their sincerity as for their beauty. Every track is a master class in being both approachable and worth the encounter.

2. Steve Lacy -- Dark Red

Picking a favorite song off of the Steve Lacy EP is like picking your favorite side at Thanksgiving. If your family is like mine, you're just happy to be at the table. The song that I think works best for my voice when I'm dancing around the house in my underwear is the one that happened to have been everywhere. Dark Red is a bop a swing and a do si do. It's the sort of modern retro hit that would have always been and will always be exciting.

3. Rah Rah Gabor -- Omar Back

I gotta say, this song coulda been trash and still have won me over for it's use of the name and sounds of one of my favorite queer characters, the iconic Omar Little from The Wire. When you find out it's not Omar comin, but Rah Rah, it's not any less savage. Rah Rah so effortless paints pictures of the life they want at any cost that it makes me want to ask for more. This song is an anthem for me at my most used. When my face is bruised from fighting for my life (metaphorically for me maybe not for you) I look myself dead in the face and repeat before I leave the house, you come at the king you best not miss.

4. Show Me the Body ft Dreamcrusher -- Hungry

I went to a Dreamcrusher show over the summer, which anyone who has seen them can attest, is a total sensory experience. Throughout all the fog and confusion of lights and cameras, the synth pattern changed and this new figure climbs the stage and hits his head with the microphone and I swear to baby jesus the 15 year old me had never been so happy in his life. This track is the perfect accompaniment to a day in the twentieth century decay that is the modern American city. It's kind of trap, but not rap and kind of rock but completely electronic. It is the future. Bear witness

5. BbyMutha -- Rules

Other things that make teenage me happy is old Three 6 Mafia and southern rap in general. So when I was at the knockdown center in February and they announced that there was a rapper from Tennessee coming up, I was more than willing to give it a shot. I was there with friends dancing and having a good time when  BbyMutha laid down the rules, and I had to stop to listen. She was preaching the gospel. For anybody moving from say Sarasota to Queens looking to start a new life trying to figure out where they went wrong, BbyMutha will tell you exactly what you can and cannot do if you want to stay above the fray. YOU CAN'T GIVE... well go see what she say. It will change your life.

6. Sza -- Supermodel

This whole list a things that make me tick and anyone who knows me or has heard a sneak of my upcoming EP (wink wink) knows, strummed major 7th guitar chords are on the fucking list. So needless to say, this charm of a track had me hooked before Sza's first breath. But after she does take that breath, what comes out had my face hot and wet with tears of joy. This track is raw in the way that I think is the entire point of the artist, namely to elevate what we're told to obscure when it feels dishonest to hide. This whole album is full of anthems for those that want to be their whole selves, but when Sza sings these lyrics over a track with none of the safety of a full pop production she gives permission to be just a little extra vulnerable every day.

7. Katie Von Schleicher -- Soon

When I need cheering up, I don't listen to happy music. I listen to music that understands my mood and reminds me that sadness can be its own gift on the way to greater spaces. Von Schleicher's discography is more or less that in a nutshell for me personally, but no where is the feeling more acute than in Soon, a song made to close the curtain on a defeat to get ready to play on. I'm gonna get there soon...

8. Residente -- Desencuentro

Residente traveled the world with a map based on his own DNA trying to better understand his own identity and made music out of it. The album is peppered with explorations of the body and its relation to the universe at large. If that sounds a touch pretentious, I swear it's not. It promises no answers just questions and observations. My favorite track is his duet with French artist Soko. It's an arresting piano ballad about being beautifully out of sync with another person. An image that comes to fruition when the two sing the same melody in two different languages at each other. Fine, maybe it's a little pretentious but if you've lived in New York in the spring you've been there.

9. Ho99o9 -- Street Power

People think punk isn't a black genre. I beg to differ and so does Ho99o9. Plus this isn't your nazi cousin's punk. This is the 21st century where we can put 808s and trap high hats in a song and still mosh because we're cultured adults who as a collective are mad as hell and dying to show you what we can do together.

10. Benjamin Clementine -- Quintessence

This song is Debussy meets Nina Simone which is to say that it's hands down the prettiest thing I've heard this year. Benjamin Clementine makes music that can stop time, but is not without its edges. This song is the sound of solemnly accepting ones duty. It's the sound of responsibility in all of its humbling weight. It's the sound of resistance. It reminds me that revolution can be found in smiles. And that love can be the ultimate act of rebellion.