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Music stuff. Minimal non-music stuff. 20 new songs a week or your money back at: www.otherdavemoore.com

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 3d

New mix! Sudan Archives, ferrofluid, Indian pop, and lots of pretty stuff toward the end. Be sure to check out Yasmine Hamdan.

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Fear is normal

2025 Mix 40: More Taylor Swift (sorry), more Lover's Skit (not sorry), audience size guessing games with Indian pop, and pretty songs from Poland, Lebanon, South Africa, and Spain

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 7h

WHERE is the hampton the hamster revival

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 8h

#TheTwen2ie5
Day 13

Peggy Gou: "I Go" (2021, South Korea/Germany)

She has a few other bangers and many more flops, but this is something else, an absolutely perfect song, in extended or radio edits, anytime, anywhere.

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 8h

Not only does Taylor Swift not really use obvious blue notes in her phrasing, but when Bon Iver comes in to sing a part on "Evermore," he *does* use one almost immediately like "finally someone let me out of my cage"

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 11h

I would also count "My Teenage Dream Ended" by Farrah Abraham in this category! But I count MTDE in every category

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 11h

Oh duh "Welcome to the Black Parade" by MCR

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 11h

I think "Dr. Octagonecologyst" probably counts. You might think of "Joe's Garage" by Frank Zappa as a sort of horror album. And...uh, "The Death of Slim Shady"?

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 12h

lol this one worked out as expected

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 12h

1 and 2 closer than I thought they'd be, though!

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 13h

Dropout TV is a good example of a middle ground that skews cheap. I’d guess there are lots of regional TV industries internationally doing v well

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 13h

Film’s struggles make sense to me but fumbling TV content is bewildering. It’s just not that expensive in the scheme of things, but its preservation requires (like music) more regional coherence and innovation in a lower resource (and maybe lower reach) crucible

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 13h

In short I agree that television is a dying artform and that the culprits are hard to pin down and don’t easily reduce to “the internet.” I put most blame on the degradation of television writing and a devil’s bargain to become cinema at the same time movies became more TV-like

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 13h

A good thread and an interesting UK perspective from a culture that always had more respect for and dedication to multicam’s connection to theater. I tweet about this a lot but have never really written about it. Lots of good stuff in this thread bsky.app/profile/othe...

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 14h

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 14h

framing my Waits analysis with "when did he fully cross over from Rowlf to Cookie Monster"

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 14h

Louis Tomlinson is the ultimate "wish he'd just apply himself" pop star, Harry is the ultimate "please stop applying yourself" pop star

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Louis Tomlinson - Lemonade (Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Louis Tomlinson

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 17h

It's all inert all the time for me I'm afraid, I only like "Carolina" because it sounds like a McCartney goof

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 17h

Sorry, I meant Starry Shely

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 17h

I only officially like one (1) Harry Styles song but it's not from the 20s www.youtube.com/watch?v=BarD...

I stand by my review of his first album: "Sploosh. [6]"

Harry Styles - Carolina (Audio)

YouTube video by HarryStylesVEVO

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 17h

"has he fallen off enough that you don't have to google proof your post anymore?"

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 17h

Not sure about this (this is outside my comfort zone) but I think what Taylor Swift does is bend her notes from the previous note, sort of dragging the blue note half-step along for the ride. Stevie Nicks bends from the blue note itself, makes it sound like the blues is baked into the melody.

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 18h

I'm at footnote levels of being back on my bullshit (was never off my bullshit)

Footnote 3: “Does Taylor Swift sing blue notes?” is another interesting question. She will often give little vocal hints of blue notes, but only just at the edges of her vocal lines. Stevie Nicks does something like this, too, but from an almost opposite approach, where you have a much stronger feeling of the blues scale from how she bends her notes from blue to non-blue. This gives her the sense of writing blues-derived melodies that technically don’t have blue notes on paper, and also come across as softer and sweeter while still giving a strong blues feel.

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 18h

Seventh-Day Adventist Sectarian Poptimism

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 19h

Why don’t you just ask a bird not to fly or a fish not to swim

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 20h

Lots of conventional wisdom can be good and even important but music is a place where the conventions can always go out the window without, say, unraveling the social contract

Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 20h

A lot of rockism complaints boil down to “conventional wisdom bad” which I am often very sympathetic to but doesn’t work as a principle and isn’t really describing an “ism”

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Dave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 20h

Rockism is just when your list of positive attributes end up sucking

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