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★ ★ ★ ★	Dear Mr. Fantasy Traffic	There was kind of a dumb Quora asking if "Hey Jude" was a rip off of this song...
★ ★ ★ ★	Same Song (Edit Version) Digital Underground	For some reason "The Humpty Dance" was bouncing around our house a lot, and so I looked him up - didn't realize he was a persona of Shock G, who died last year. Interesting seeing Tupac running around Digital Underground (and all the culturally responsible references to condoms...)
★ ★ ★ ★ ★	Weird Goodbyes (feat. Bon Iver) The National	Melissa pointed me to this song, crushingly sad, the idea of trying to impress a moment into memory as a stand in for a longer time in a place really resonates. Tantalizingly ambiguous - is it a break up song, or of another life transition?
★ ★ ★ ★	Glory Box John Martyn	Male-vocal, R+B-ish cover of the Portishead. I think it brings something out, but the genderbent lyrics lose something.
	Fever Neko Case	Melissa and I went to see Neko Case who is one of her favorite performers.
	Shots (feat. Lil Jon) LMFAO	Just wanted the source of where my friends go "shots shots, shots shots shots" Raunchier lyrics than I expected.
	The Teddy Bears' Picnic Henry Hall & The BBC Dance Orchestra	My friend Nick was wondering if there was a name for the the "derp de derp" song some tuba players will use to mock alt-right assholes... I was wondering if this could be the source. I had a teddy bear w/ a built in music box that would play this.
	A Shot In the Arm (Remix Version) Wilco	There was a "Strong Songs" episode about "Jesus Etc" but it mentioned this song's lyric of "The ashtray says / you were up all night"
	The "In" Crowd (Single Version) Ramsey Lewis Trio	RIP Ramsey Lewis... admittedly I hadn't heard much about him but this song is a bop.
	Would You... ? Touch & Go	I mostly know the high energy Trailermen Go To Rio remix version but the original has its own charm. I mean how could "Um, I've noticed you around. I find you very attractive. Um. Would you go to bed with me?" not be alluring?
★ ★ ★ ★	Stay Cat Power	A friend of mine going through a rough time mentioned learning and doing this rough-edged cover of Rihanna's original.
	Ur So Gay Katy Perry	Someone one on tumblr mentioned Katy Perry's first song was this stridently anti-metro-sexual and kind of regressive piece...
★ ★ ★ ★	On and On, Pt. 2 (feat. Ty) Hocus Pocus	Some great, friendly rap (mostly in french) via this iPhone 14 hardware review
	Who's Ready for Tomorrow RAT BOY & IBDY	From the "Cyberpunk" anime, mentioned on the "Get Played" spinoff "Get Anime'd", derived from the recent large scale video game.
	Black Sweat Prince	Funky Prince. Heard during a late hours Trader Joe's run. I'm always struck by the sexy thang/prude ambivalence of mid to late era Prince.

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I had a big realization about [fans being upset when series sequels have changes], which is that Fandom is not about loving something. I think Fandom is a separate occupying experience, more akin to obsession than it is to love. And I think, like, Religions are Fandoms because most of the time you aren't actually loving the details of the religion, but rather obsessing about your version of the thing? And I feel like all of the fandoms you interact with online are like, Religious and Obsessive about something that they think is the thing, as opposed to loving the thing no matter how it comes out. Right?
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I can't imagine that there is [a single fandom that doesn't lose its shit every time [a major change happens]]... to be a fan means that you think it's YOURS, it's more like ownership than it is like appreciation. It's like "This is my thing" and as soon as the sort of metastasizes into identity, you're fucked, because any change that happens to the thing that you love, or "love", is a reflection on your own personal self-knowledge. So you're fucked! If you're obsessed with a thing and it changes, you're ruined.