I've never 'got'

Mr Blue Sky.

Hate it. Shit novelty song.

As in this happy go lucky thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQUlA8Hcv4s

Don’t really get ELO…kinda store brand Beatles

My band did a country version of Living Thing which was fun to play and generally liked

I always thought that song was the Beatles until recently
ELO's Time album is pretty good. Was in a load of records I robbed from the in-laws

Done well to hold this in until now. ELO was the second song at my wedding 16 years ago for not much reason apart from filling the dancefloor and my parents friends went buck wild for it.

So it's your fault Richard Tandy's died. Obvs a very sensitive soul

Woah, strange coincidence! I wonder if it works on anyone else. Open to suggestions 👍

Not that I've never got it but....

The other day a news podcast I listen to referenced a Taylor Swift story. I realised I'd never listened to her so played the first couple of tracks from Spotify.

Left me absolutely baffled.

I fully appreciate I'm not the target audience, and it's not my kinda of thing, but I genuinely do not get it. Beber(sp?) isn't my thing, but I can recognise a catchy tune and see how he made it.

What am I missing here? She seems to have less vocal energy than Radiohead in Karma Police.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeqE3N5a/

See also Charlie XCX

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeqEnDcm/

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeqEWWYe/

Shake it off is a banger but I'd struggle to name another song.

it's bland, inoffensive, nicely packaged, and appeals to the lowest common denominator. There's nothing to offend anyone. See also Coldplay

Paper rings
ANOTHER BANGER

I’ve never got old people whinging about pop music.

Ah! She did that? I thought that was Katy Perry. But yeah that makes a bit more sense.

The first track I listened to was this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-iZOohyftg

... which just sounded a bit like something from the Drive soundtrack. Not to say it's awful, but struggled to see how connects to >$1bn in tour revenue.

So it's your fault Richard Tandy's died. Obvs a very sensitive soul

Woah, strange coincidence! I wonder if it works on anyone else. Open to suggestions

Don’t follow global news much, eh?

It's generic pop, probably the most generic pop.

I mean, I am definitely old and out of touch, but even I know better than to make it even more obvious by moaning about Taylor Swift.

1989 is a total banger of a record. But I haven’t liked anything since, as it turns out that was her kind of “80s inspired” record written or produced by someone who used to be in an emo/pop punk band or something I can’t quite remember.

That’s a current release?
Not something from pitchfork top singles of 10 years ago?

Well I've clearly made an almost satirical series of errors in asking this question:
✅ Not knowing any Taylor songs
✅ Mixing up Taylor and Katy
✅ Not being able to read the Spotify results correctly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvswW6M7bMo

I’ve never got why you would spend £1.9m on a house, spend another £.5m plus on having the back ripped out to put in massive 3 story high windows to the point of the roof. So that you can have a spectacular river view and put up net curtains? Not one, but 2 places in the village have done this, one slightly cheaper. Next time I’m in the canoe I’m taking a photo no matter what Liz says. Maybe that’s why they have the curtains…

Surely they can afford fancy, anti-pervert, dimming windows if they're spunking that much money on it.

Exactly! The place is big enough there’s no way you could see anything or one inside unless they were pressed against the window. The whole place looks like a 2000’s office block now instead of the home it was 2 years ago.

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