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10+ hours of tom scott approved europop for your listening pleasure. bonus commentary under the cut.

everything above "shelter me from the rain" (the hyperpop beardyman song they made for that colab video) is songs he mentioned on europlop with tim. they range from songs and artists he LOVES (mika, aqua, petras' turn off the light etc etc etc) to songs he liked, enjoyed or was at least a bit positive towards. a lot of songs are there because he brought them up just to compare them with the song of the day (usually to say that they were better. examples include marinas savages & primadonna, radioheads creep, gwen stefannis what you waiting for and more). everything AFTER shelter me from the rain is songs he mentioned once on random videos, his newsletter, on a random podcast episode he appeared in, park bench episodes etc etc etc. at first i wanted to write a complete analysis on all of those songs, cite my sources, everything, but im afraid i cant really be bothered. sorry. still u can ask me if u want a source for a specific one? theres about a 70% chance that i will remember where it got mentioned.

nonetheless, here are some honourable mentions and final conclusions:

i believe in a thing called love was apparently quote "his university anthem" end quote.

awkward by jens he specifically mentioned hating the start and he is 100% right. i dont like it either. but he seemed more positive about the rest of the song and i like it too so i put it in the playlist. because at the end of the day i made this playlist for me.

he likes a lot of what i can only describe as girlypop. common tom scott w.

the man loves intentionally cheesy german schlager. clearly, theres no saving him.

also a lot of eurovision because of course.

yes, the last song in the playlist is the infamous rickroll, beause of course it is. so in a sense this playlist can also work as a pretty low stakes game of russian roullete if you are listening on shuffle.

david bowies space oddity is there because 1) i love it and i cant listen to it withouth thinking about him, 2) i had already put it in the playlist but then i remembered that one instagram post of his where he used one of its lyrics as the caption. i probably would have left it in the playlist anyway, because again i made this playlist so i can listen to it, even if he hadnt mentioned it anywhere publicly but this made me very happy :]

we have old man river. we have william shatners common people. we have vengaboys. ymca. chappel roans good luck babe. we have everything.

at the time of posting this ive gone through 60/140 pages on europlop. the playlist will keep getting updated as i make my way through the earlier years.

thats all.

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LISTEN UP AGAIN KIDS STOP REBLOGGING THIS FUCKING GARBAGE POST. IT IS 100% FUCKING BULLSHIT AND CAN AND MOST DEFINITELY WILL LITERALLY KILL. DO YOU NOT SEE WARNING LABELS THAT SAY “DO NOT INDUCE VOMITING”? THEY AREN’T FUCKING AROUND. YOU CAN FUCKING BURN THEIR ESOPHAGUS BY CAUSING VOMITING, CAUSE CHOKING, DROWNING, OR MAKE IT WORSE! AGAIN DO NOT FORCE ANYTHING DOWN ANYONE’S THROAT. THEY. CAN. DROWN. IF SOMEONE IS LOSING CONCIOUSNESS ALL THE CHIT CHAT IN THE WORLD WILL NOT PREVENT IT AT THAT POINT THEY ARE IN SERIOUS DANGER. “Buuut i don’t wanna take them to the hospital!!!” WELL SUNSHINE GLAD YOU’D RATHER HAVE A DEAD FRIEND THAN A LIVING ONE BUT YOU’RE IN LUCK CALL FUCKING POISON CONTROL. THEY ARE NOT THE COPS. THEY WILL HELP YOU. AND IF THEY SAY GO TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL YOU GO TO THE FUCKING HOSPITAL. NO EXCUSES. 0. NONE. I have seen this shit cross my dash SO MANY TIMES so PLEASE fucking reblog this and prevent some well meaning idiot from accidentally killing someone they love!

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trump is literally going to put immigrants in concentration camps. This country is starting to look more and more like Nazi Germany.

I was visiting San Francisco the other day, and I found a newspaper for Immigrants with instructions on what to do if they're detained by I.C.E.

This is terrifying. If you support trump, get the fuck off my blog. block me.

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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Edit: I’m not trying to glorify the CCP guys, I’m well aware of the problems people in China face in regard to censorship and protesting. I thought these screenshots were just good examples of people realizing that USamericans do not have it nearly as good as many think

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Yo, correct me if I am wrong please, but didn't Hitler rise to power because he promised to fix the German economy and people really liked that so they looked past everything else he was doing??? Like exactly what's happening in America right now???

So many people said they voted for Trump, put a truly evil person in power, because he said he'd fix the economy, and a little voice in my head is going, "Isn't that what happened with fucking Hitler??"

But I've seen no one point that out so maybe I'm miss remembering???????

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Hey friendly reminder to love and cherish Green Day

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Biases being broken down on both sides

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I couldn’t reboot it for some reason

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This dumbass just made everyone female

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oh my god...

so the first screenshot is trying to look this up on tiktok normally, "donald trump rigged election" and it says that search violates community guidelines.

the second screenshot is looking up the same exact thing, but with a (australian) vpn on. canadian vpn didn't fix it fyi.

THIS is exactly the type of censorship to be looking out for on tiktok. this actually is crazy.

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in case youve not seen this masterpiece

jan 25th edit: soon after posting this, i was made aware that anders vistisen is a right wing nationalist and horrible guy, and i fully agree that greenland should be free from danish rule. i am not congratulating or applauding that part, i am calling the part of him telling trump to fuck off a 'masterpiece'. i appologize for not making this edit sooner, and if my phrasing made it seem like i support this guy or what he stands for, that was not my intention

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love watching CBS News cause they're just clocking shit.

"Looking at this inauguration crowd, you don't see one person of color. I wonder why that is."

"People stood and clapped throughout Trump's inauguration speech, which is unusual. And it's notable that the former president's did not."