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J Bogart
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Library worker, researcher and writer about culture from the first third of the 20th century, depressive.

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I'll be participating in this challenge for the next 50 days, mute or follow the hashtag according to your preference. For now my writeups will live only on Bluesky, accompanied by a screenshot of the title card from the music video (or just a regular screenshot if there isn't a title card). Enjoy!
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 1

50. Yailin La Mas Viral, “Bing Bong”
(Dominican Republic, Nov 6 2024)
prod. Puyalo Pantera & Yailin La Mas Viral

youtu.be/YpoUzo-CflQ
this is something like the twelfth thanksgiving i've spent by myself, but the first thanksgiving i actually got enough energy together to cook turkey and some side dishes instead of just making do with whatever was easiest
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
not only do i understand this i profoundly concur
The worst fandoms are when a Gulp Shitto is the blorbo
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 50

1. Gyakie, “Need Me”
(Ghana, Aug 6 2021)
prod. Sosa

youtu.be/qXeuIxhv5YQ
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Reposted by J Bogart
leopard women 👏👏 on giant saurians 👏👏
Leopard women of Venus will rule the universe.
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Props to Variety for putting the whole list on one page so that doing decade comparison was easy. Unsurprisingly the golden age of culture-writer comedy was 1970-2009 with only a handful of Criterion-approved examples before then.
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Reposted by J Bogart
Listening to this today, of course. RIP Jimmy Cliff, what a life.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y9Q...
Many rivers to cross - Jimmy Cliff
YouTube video by TheSunAnge
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 49

2. Azawi, “My Year”
(Uganda, May 7 2021)
prod. Michael “Fingaz" Mugisha

youtu.be/z1hm2XcFK18
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
"where you're from" is a fraught concept for me, someone who moved every four years until well into my twenties, but i guess broadly
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 48

3. Nailah Blackman, “Round and Rosie”
(Trinidad & Tobago, Nov 17 2023)
prod. DJ Taffy

youtu.be/ChtIMUEvrF0
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Lady Jane. Jagger was born to play a sociopathic eighteenth century lothario instead of the sharecropper cosplay Richards (and the rockwrite press) preferred
Name your fav song by The Rolling Stones.
November 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 47

4. Rebecca, “Te Levar Pro Cantin”
(Brazil, May 28 2020)
prod. Luan LK

youtu.be/KfHQV9HRYkM
November 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
looked through my collection of 1980s movies for the prompt that's going around and everything that really speaks to me was a childhood favorite (or would have been) so never mind
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 46

5. Gailen La Moyeta, “Tienes Que Pagar”
(Dominican Republic, Jul 31 2020)
prod. Gerald La Melodia

youtu.be/CXK_6v-AIpo
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Reposted by J Bogart
About time somebody reported on this. Chikungunya, dengue, Zika, oropouche, and more —insect-borne viruses are at a pandemic level in Cuba as Oriente struggles with hurricane damage in the absence of basic services.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
They just call it ‘the virus’: mosquito-borne illnesses heap misery on Cubans affected by Hurricane Melissa
A lack of clean water and medicines in the aftermath of the storm has led to a sharp rise in viruses such as chikungunya and dengue
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 45

6. Titica, “Mexer Bem”
(Angola, Aug 11 2022)
prod. DJ X-Trio

youtu.be/la-AJ2UCbuk
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 43

7. Darline Desca, “DDSK”
(Haiti, Apr 23 2021)
prod. Yung Alpha

youtu.be/y6M9N2JDwac
November 19, 2025 at 3:52 AM
my PWC form is a history of my engagement with global pop: in 2010 i crash out with 🇦🇷 thanks to indie picks, in 2014 i do ok with 🇬🇭until beaten by powerhouse 🇳🇬; in 2018 i amass a stacked 🇧🇷 squad that never takes the field
With World Cup fever gripping the timeline I wonder if the spring poll should be a return of the… POP WORLD CUP?!?

(ie songs from the 48 competing nations)
November 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
noting what gets engagement on here and thinking about running a bracket of Cultural Artifacts of the 1920s in which books, records, movies, fine art, cartooning, etc. battle it out to determine what is still most relevant 100 years later (bookies' faves: Ulysses, Krazy Kat, Metropolis, BlueRhap)
November 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 43

8. IZA ft. MC Carol, “Fé nas Maluca”
(Brazil, Jul 27 2024)
prod. André Nine, Douglas Moda, Nox

youtu.be/5-VX-urUGu4
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 AM
finally catching back up to my 2025 music queue after an unplanned month off (will i ever share what i've been working on in the meantime? unlikely), and man, music is just the greatest
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
little of the work i do writing about pre-rock music would be possible without the DAHR, the source i consider the most authoritative (if still woefully incomplete for global music, though steadily improving). adding Joe Bussard's record collection to their streamable content is awesome
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 42

9. Sha Sha & Kamo Mphela, “iPiano”
(Zimbabwe + South Africa, Dec 10 2021)
prod. Felo Le Tee

youtu.be/klUGyxoL7QE
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
favorite movie genres:

let's put on a show!

everybody's lying to each other but get married at the end anyway

a murder happened but trying to solve it only makes everything more confusing

here are people living in a distant time and/or place: observe them closely

colors! shapes!
November 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 41

10. Bad Bunny [ft. Nesi], “Yo Perreo Sola”
(Puerto Rico, Feb 29 2020)
prod. Bad Bunny, Tainy, Subelo NEO

youtu.be/GtSRKwDCaZM
November 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
#TheTwen2ie5 Day 40

11. Paranoid 1966, “Pa Verte”
(Spain [Equatorial Guinea], Oct 5 2023)
prod. Boixy

youtu.be/rqlNoeCN6wk
November 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM