#pop twitter

[lrndvs]

compliments from girls go hard

[henchman21lover]

The anxiety of the internet

[artsekey]

Thinking about the time I lost a game of Overwatch and I was so mad about it that I genuinely considered getting into shit with the other team in chat and then realized that it was a colossal waste of my living breathing Human Time and uninstalled Overwatch instead because it was only making me angry.

And then thought about the OTHER time when I was on TikTok and realized I was Not Enjoying Myself and was, in fact, seeing so many sad videos and fake influencer ads that I felt Truly Despondent and then just…Deleted it.

Imo I want my social media /general media experience to be a pleasant break from real world and I get to decide what I get to cull to make that a reality for myself. I highly reccomended it! Life has improved considerably!

[gayestcowboy]

this tweet sends me into hysterics

[teamunee]

으르렁!!

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[funeralfeline]

I can't do this anymore.

[spongebobssquarepants]

[greatunironic]

eddie wakes up in a strange room. this was not particularly unusual for him, historically: he’d spent most of his twenties waking up in new and interesting places (including a handful of jail cells). but after eddie, the label, and the los angeles superior court system decided it would be best if he stopped drinking and doing blow, it stopped being such a regular occurrence.

so it’s almost alarming to him, now, to be blinking up at an unfamiliar cement ceiling with the raging bitch of all headaches and generally feeling like he got hit by a truck, got whiplash in a crash with the way his neck aches. he’d think he was hungover like all those times before except for how sharp the pain is, bright.

he worries, briefly, he’s relapsed, or someone’s slipped him something. but he remembers what him and the boys had been up to, before this, and he thinks it’d’ve been a strange night indeed if someone roofied a c-list (b-list if he’s feeling charitable) musician at a fucking frozen four game.

because yeah, eddie remembers: they’d been third row, watching the wisconsin ladies clean up and cheering for jeff’s kid sister like she was about to get olympic gold. (she probably would, someday. her and that mayfield girl who played defense were looking down the barrel at a 2026 run apparently.

eddie’s been to a handful of games over the years, when touring and recording allows them to go. he’s resolutely never been a sports guy but he’ll admit, when pressed, that live hockey is pretty dope. to say nothing, of course, of how jeff would probably murder them all in their sleep if they didn’t rep the red and white for lottie.

(and also — and this is between eddie and his god alright — but lottie’s coach? standing back there in his suit, hair styled and dialed, snapping his gum, yelling at the refs? kind of doing it for him, okay. worth the price of admission, even if the tickets weren’t free.)

when he thinks harder — which hurts too — the last thing he clearly remembers was someone from the beavers scoring, bringing their lead to 5-1, and a slapshot from the other team getting out over the boards and nearly taking out some lady’s popcorn. someone behind them in the seats said, “jesus they’re getting desperate, eh?”

then shit goes dark on him, not even a fade to black, but a full on smash cut, roll credits black, and the post-credits scene is where ever the fuck eddie is at the moment. it smells like human and cold and icy hot, so obviously, he thinks, he died and went to hell like all the church ladies said he would back in hawkins, or probably just a locker room. what the fuck?

he blinks at the ceiling, at an interesting water stain on the cement texturing. he’s in the middle of wondering where the rest of his band has gone if he’s here alone, fucking abandoners, when a sweaty redhead with the bitchiest expression he’s maybe ever seen enters his field of vision.

“you’re alive,” she says.

eddie blinks again. “why do you sound so disappointed?”

“yo coach!” she shouts, already on the move away from him. “he’s alive!”

he tries to sit up, but that makes the pain in his head worse, and also draws attention to the fact that his back also hurts. he squeezes his eyes shut and makes a truly embarrassing noise of pain — if pressed, he’d call it a whimper — and a pair of big hands land on his shoulders.

“out, out ladies i got this! hey!, hey, man, don’t move just yet,” says big hands.

“yeah, no problem, i don’t want to anymore,” eddie says. he stirs up the will to open his eyes again and very nearly slams them back shut. because of course the person staring down at him is fucking coach hottie snackycakes himself. he’s even better looking in person, too, big droopy eyes, lips as pink as his bubblegum, and shiny, jesus christ. he’s still got eddie by the shoulders, hands warm through the thin cotton of his flannel and tee — because eddie’s always been more fashion than sense, wayne always said, and it’s even worse now that the paps are on him—

“oh, fuck this is gonna be all over tiktok later, isn’t it?” he moans.

“maybe not.”

“don’t lie.”

“listen, eddie — it is eddie, right?” asks coach hottie. “i’m steve. coach harrington. faughnsie — lottie, i mean — she said you’re eddie. her brother’s guitarist? what do you remember?”

“more like he’s my singer,” he says, “but sure. and not much.”

“well, you’re gonna be okay,” says coach hottie — steve. “it really wasn’t that bad, and it was probably too fast for anyone to get it, unless they already had a camera on you. you took a puck to the head when one popped up. i’d apologize but it wasn’t one of my girls who did it, so. anyway — you weren’t out for long, which robbie says is good — she’ll get a look at you in a second — but you got your bell rung pretty good. and you’re gonna have quite the shiner, trust me.”

“speaking from experience?”

“oh, yeah. closer and faster too.” he gently raps his head with his knuckles. “too many concussions too early ended my nhl days, in fact.”

“oh. oh shit, sorry, i—“

“don’t worry about it, man, it happens,” he says. “and if it hadn’t, i wouldn’t be here.”

“at the frozen four.”

“yeah, sure, that too.”

“what?”

“what?” steve waves him off. “anyway, i’m just glad to see you up, ish, and talking. looked pretty scary, from the bench.”

“i really don’t remember,” says eddie. “but i’m sure i’ll see it on tiktok later, like i said — at least, my unconscious, bleeding form.”

“i got up there pretty fast, so i doubt it,” says steve.

eddie blinks, twice. “you—?”

“you were behind my bench, and you. well,” he says with a shrug, but he’s clearly a little embarrassed, finally putting those hands away — weapons of eddie destruction, he thinks — and shoving them into his pockets of his tight slacks. “i should be getting back out there.”

“do you? you’re murdering them pretty good, unless i black out and missed them getting four more goals,” eddie says.

the corners of steve’s eyes crinkle when he smiles. eddie thinks he might just pass out again. “no, we’re still gonna cinch it, i think. looks bad, though — first time coach missing the final period so’s he can hit on the cute musician who got his clock cleaned by the biscuit.”

“oh,” he says. swallows. “uh.”

steve’s crinkly, smiley eyes go wide. “unless—“

“no less!” eddie shouts and then immediately winces. at a better, less damaging to his more than slightly concussed noggin, volume, he says, “more, actually. because pretty sure i shouldn’t be left unsupervised, and i’ve clearly been abandoned by the band, so—“

“so,” says steve.

“coach, two minutes!” someone calls.

“so, i was hoping maybe i could keep hitting on the hot hockey coach back at his?”

“i’m at the ramada inn,” he says, “and i got tape to watch for the finals.”

“i live for room service,” eddie tells him seriously. “and i’m suddenly very into wisconsin sports teams.”

“coach! go time!”

“yeah?” he asks.

“yeah.”

“COACH!”

he jerks a thumb over his shoulder. “i gotta — but, uh, later?”

“pick me up in twenty?”

“probably more like half an hour, with stoppage,” he says.

someone bangs on the door. “COACH!! let’s boogie!!”

with one last look, wide eyed and smiling, steve leaves. eddie watches him go. he’d heard hockey players were caked up but lord — eddie is about to convert to a new religion, or maybe found one, over the stretch of those slacks.

“damn,” he says quietly.

“gross,” a woman says. eddie startles and looks to the side, where a lanky brunette with a bob and an undercut is staring at him, unimpressed. she’s in some get up that screams athletic trainer, and there’s a white board in her hand.

“how long have you been there?” he asks.

she raises an eyebrow. “long enough, and honestly, i don’t know if that counts as a you rule for him, or a you suck for you,” she says and does not elaborate when he asks. “also don’t look at him like that. it’s steve. he’s basically my sister.”

“yeah? any tips then?” asks eddie. “i promise i’ll only use them for good. well. mostly.”

“god,” she says with an expansive eye roll. “you’re gonna be a nightmare, aren’t you?”

a cheer goes up outside the room as the teams, presumably, take the ice again. eddie, head throbbing, concussed, embarrassed, grins. “sure hope so,” he says.

[bbqhooligan]

this is about LOVE this man is on stage talking about how hes emotional theres never been this many sections on stage in peace. this is about black solidarity ita abt UNITY wtf not some vaguely defined "hating" (he was likened to a colonizer come ON)

[dat-soldier]

[artcinemas]

[weaversweek]

#Uncool500 - the big list (part 1)

Remember the #Uncool50 music biography I did in October and November? A lot of other people did it as well, and contest sponsor @nonoxcol@twitter.com has compiled a full #Uncool500 from our nominations.

Each nomination was worth 10 points, but we could each nominate four singles for 11 points, and one song for 12 points. ("Since yesterday" was my 12-pointer, the 11s went to "Constant craving", "You oughta know", "The middle", "Bulletproof".)

Ties are broken in a lot of ways. It's all inspired by "This is Uncool", a handbook of great singles from the last quarter of the 20th century. Anything in that book gravitated to the top of the tie; anything from this century followed, and songs from the 20th century and not in the book came further down.

@nonoxcol decided to use the "split vote quotient", acts that had a lot of songs nominated once or twice went ahead of acts with just the one big hit. Where a player had nominated the same act three or more times, the singles they'd nominated got relegated to the bottom of the tie - this happened to Duran Duran a lot.

Finally, @nonoxcol used editorial discretion to freshen up the 20 points section - 55 of about 350 singles were selected to represent decades other than the 1980s, and genres other than indie-rock. As I feared in my index post provocation, the largest minority on Music Twitter tends to be male, pale, and - if not stale - then certainly stuffy.

This post covers positions 500 to 227, songs qualifying on no more than three nominations. Positions 226 to 109 and 108 to 1 are in other posts.

20 points 500 CREAM - Wu-Tang Clan 499 Chewing gum - Annie 498 Chaise longue - Wet Leg 497 Chandelier - Sia 496 It was a good day - Ice Cube 495 Don't falter - Mint Royale ft Lauren Laverne 494 Bloodbuzz Ohio - The National 493 Texas sun - Khruangbin & Leon Bridges 492 Call me maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen 491 Thank u, next - Ariana Grande 490 Danny nedelko - Idles 489 Cranes in the sky - Solange 488 Point and kill - Little Simz ft Obongjayar 487 Serpents - Sharon van Etten 486 Once twice melody - Beach House 485 The look - Metronomy 484 Pure shores - All Saints 483 You want it darker - Leonard Cohen 482 Green light - Lorde 481 Kool thing - Sonic Youth 480 Professional widow - Tori Amos 479 Get lucky - Daft Punk 478 Love on a farmboy's wages - XTC 477 Long hot summer - Style Council 476 All apologies - Nirvana 475 Call the shots - Girls Aloud 474 Toxic - Britney Spears 473 The words that maketh murder - PJ Harvey 472 Family affair - Mary J Blige 471 Try again - Aaliyah 470 Picture this - Blondie 469 Girls and boys - Blur 468 Under me sleng teng - Wayne Smith 467 Planet rock - Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force 466 Celebrity skin - Hole 465 Doo wop (that thing) - Lauryn Hill 464 California love - 2Pac 463 No diggity - Blackstreet 462 Umbrella - Rihanna 461 Everything flows - Teenage Fanclub 460 Setting sun - Chemical Brothers 459 Lie dream of a casino soul - The Fall 458 Felicity - Orange Juice 457 Venus as a boy - Björk 456 Fastlove - George Michael

21 points 455 Fanfare - Eric Matthews 454 Holland, 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel 453 Bring the noise - Anthrax & Public Enemy 452 America's boy - Broadcast 451 Closest thing to heaven - The Kane Gang 450 Alex Chilton - The Replacements 449 Hilly fields - Nick Nicely 448 Rock me Amadeus - Falco 447 Mary's prayer - Danny Wilson 446 What a fool believes - Doobie Brothers 445 Yes, sir, I can boogie - Baccara 444 I know a place - Muna 443 You oughta know - Alanis Morissette 442 Happy hour - Housemartins 441 Dog days are over - Florence + the Machine 440 Blues for Ceausescu - Fatima Mansions 439 Modern love - David Bowie 438 Absolute beginners - David Bowie 437 Talk about the passion - REM 436 Nightswimming - REM 435 Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel 434 Glittering prize - Simple Minds 433 Too much too young - The Specials 432 Constant craving - k d lang 431 Creep - Radiohead 430 Christine - House of Love 429 Money's too tight (to mention) - Valentine Brothers 428 You got the love - The Source ft Candi Staton 427 Jesus built my hotrod - Ministry 426 Mr blue sky - Electric Light Orchestra 425 Sunshine on Leith - Proclaimers 424 Blindfold ep (Ten little girls) - Curve 423 A lady of a certain age - The Divine Comedy 422 Luka - Suzanne Vega 421 Back in black - AC/DC 420 Every little thing she does is magic - The Police 419 Crucify - Tori Amos 418 Word up - Cameo 417 Nag nag nag - Cabaret Voltaire 416 Watching the detectives - Elvis Costello

22 points 415 Holidays in the sun - Sex Pistols 414 Psychonaut - Fields of the Nephalim 413 It's a hit - Rilo Kiley 412 Wolf like me - TV on the Radio 411 Trouble - Sub Focus & Rudimental 410 Love song - The Damned 409 I wanna be adored - The Stone Roses 408 Another nail in my heart - Squeeze 407 A new England - Kirsty MacColl 406 Bachelorette - Björk 405 Only you - Yazoo 404 Stayin' alive - The Bee Gees

23 points 403 The final countdown - Europe 402 Rebel without a pause - Public Enemy

30 points 401 Ordinary world - Duran Duran 400 Gorecki - Lamb 399 I can't wait - Nu Shooz 398 Poison - Bell Biv Devoe 397 Dignity - Deacon Blue 396 Cruel to be kind - Nick Lowe 395 The way it is - Bruce Hornsby and the Range 394 No more tears (enough is enough) - Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand 393 The number one song in heaven - Sparks 392 Something good - Utah Saints 391 Touch me I'm sick - Mudhoney 390 Headhunter - Front 242 389 Food for thought - UB40 388 Give me the night - George Benson 387 Papua New Guinea - Future Sound of London 386 Self control - Laura Branigan 385 Supernature - Cerrone 384 Lovely day - Bill Withers 383 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton 382 Tightrope - Janelle Monae 381 Evil - Interpol 380 The rat - Walkmen 379 Seasons (waiting on you) - Future Islands 378 My girls - Animal Collective 377 We live here - Bob Vylan 376 Groovejet (if this ain't love) Spiller ft Sophie Ellis Bextor 375 Up with people - Lambchop 374 Mad world - Tears For Fears 373 La tristesse durera (scream to a sigh) - Manic Street Preachers 372 Heaven knows I'm miserable now - The Smiths 371 Borderline - Madonna 370 This is the day - The The 369 Push the button - Sugababes 368 The girl and the robot - Royksopp ft Robin 367 Sunrise / The trees - Pulp 366 The drowners - Suede 365 So. central rain (I'm sorry) - REM 364 Man on the moon - REM 363 It's different for girls - Joe Jackson 362 Lose yourself - Eminem 361 Zerox - Adam and the Ants 360 Made of stone - The Stone Roses 359 She bangs the drums - The Stone Roses 358 The cutter - Echo and the Bunnymen 357 Souvenir - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 356 Just like honey - The Jesus & Mary Chain 355 Never let me down again - Depeche Mode 354 Street spirit (fade out) - Radiohead 353 The first big weekend - Arab Strap 352 Cattle and cane - The Go-Betweens 351 Under the Milky Way - The Church 350 Not too soon - Throwing Muses 349 Basket case - Green Day 348 One chord wonders - The Adverts 347 Close (to the edit) - The Art of Noise 346 Archie, marry me - Alvvays 345 99 Luftballon / 99 red balloons - Nena 344 Crazy - Gnarls Barkley 343 French navy - Camera Obscura 342 Christine / Tilted - Christine & the Queens 341 No-one knows - Queens of the Stone Age 340 Kung Kunta - Kendrick Lemar 339 Damn, dis-moi / Girlfriend - Christine & the Queens 338 Pink Frost - The Chills 337 Bonzo goes to Bitburg - The Ramones 336 Do ya wanna funk - Patrick Cowley ft Sylvester 335 Our lips are sealed - The Go-Gos 334 Because the night - Patti Smith Group 333 Missing (Todd Terry remix) - Everything But the Girl 332 Ghosts - Japan 331 Can't stand me now - The Libertines 330 Roscoe - Midlake 329 Oblivion - Grimes 328 Time to pretend - MGMT 327 There goes the fear - The Doves 326 Blinding lights - The Weeknd 325 Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions 324 Planet of sound - The Pixies 323 Don't talk to me about love - Altered Images 322 Race for the prize - Flaming Lips 321 Ice hockey hair - Super Furry Animals 320 Somebody told me - The Killers 319 Hazy shade of winter - The Bangles 318 Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel 317 Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 316 Games without frontiers - Peter Gabriel 315 All I want is you - U2 314 Upside down - Diana Ross 313 New year's day - U2 312 Destroy the heart - House of Love 311 Music sounds better with you - Stardust 310 Praise you - Fatboy Slim 309 One - U2 308 Can I kick it? - A Tribe Called Quest 307 Return of the mack - Mark Morrison 306 Being boring - Pet Shop Boys 305 The adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the wheels of steel - Grandmaster Flash 304 There there my dear - Dexy's Midnight Runners 303 Take a chance on me - ABBA 302 Treason (it's just a story) - The Teardrop Explodes 301 What do I get? - Buzzcocks 300 Pretty vacant - Sex Pistols 299 Only love can break your heart - Saint Etienne 298 (I don't want to go to) Chelsea - Elvis Costello & the Attractions 297 The model - Kraftwerk 296 Upside down - The Jesus and Mary Chain 295 Beetlebum - Blur 294 Back to life - Soul II Soul ft Caron Wheeler 293 Uptown top ranking - Althea & Donna 292 Outdoor miner - Wire 291 Genius of love - Tom Tom Club 290 The sun rising - The Beloved 289 Sweet dreams (are made of this) - Eurythmics 288 No scrubs - TLC 287 Perfect skin - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions 286 Sexy boy - Air 285 Mirror in the bathroom - The Beat 284 Walk this way - Run-DMC & Aerosmith 283 Fairy tale of New York - The Pogues ft Kirsty MacColl 282 At home he's a tourist - Gang of Four 281 Oh bondage up yours - X-Ray Spex 280 Back on the chain gang - The Pretenders 279 Ray of light - Madonna 278 Fake plastic trees - Radiohead 277 Our house - Madness 276 Totally wired - The Fall

31 points 275 The reflex - Duran Duran 274 Bette Davis eyes - Kim Carnes 273 Surrender - Cheap Trick 272 The logical song - Supertramp 271 The middle - Jimmy Eat World 270 You are the generation that bought more shoes and you get what you deserve - Johnny Boy 269 The drugs don't work - The Verve 268 The modern age ep - The Strokes 267 Heartland - The The 266 Wood beez (pray like Aretha Franklin) - Scritti Politti 265 Higher than the sun - Primal Scream 264 Someone somewhere (in summertime) - Simple Minds 263 Fall on me - REM 262 Overload - Sugababes 261 My favourite dress - The Wedding Present 260 Overkill - Men At Work 259 The story of the blues - Wah! 258 Fade into you - Mazzy Star 257 Zombie - The Cranberries 256 Black steel - Tricky 255 In the air tonight - Phil Collins 254 Shallow - Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper 253 Our lips are sealed - Fun Boy Three 252 Bad romance - Lady Gaga 251 Steppin' out - Joe Jackson 250 Blank space - Taylor Swift 249 Dress - P J Harvey 248 Sour times - Portishead 247 We found love - Rihanna ft Calvin Harris 246 50 ft queenie - P J Harvey 245 Paranoid android - Radiohead 244 Rent - Pet Shop Boys 243 Straight to hell / Should I stay or should I go - The Clash 242 Monkey gone to heaven - The Pixies 241 The winner takes it all - ABBA 240 Hit me with your rhythm stick - Ian Drury and the Blockheads

32 points 239 Weekender - Flowered Up 238 House of jealous lovers - The Rapture 237 Everything is embarrassing - Sky Ferreira 236 Last train to trancentral - The KLF 235 I want your love - Chic 234 Rain - The Cult 233 Vogue - Madonna 232 When love breaks down - Prefab Sprout 231 That's the joint - Funky 4+1 230 The 'sweetest girl' - Scritti Politti 229 Complete control - The Clash 228 (White man in) Hammersmith Palais - The Clash

33 points 227 Temptation - New Order

A few footnotes:

347 - It wasn’t clear whether nominators were for one side or the other. 345, 342, 339 - Different language versions of the same song have been combined 297 - Separated from “Computer love”, which may chart separately 243 - All nominations for “Straight to hell”, originally the AA-side.

[astarionsbloodbank]

shadowheart.................. girl.......

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[catocappuccino]

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