She Can't Take Up All The Air In Every Room, Can She?

Why does she have to be the only thing happening in music at any given point? Why can't someone else have some of the attention? No, we gotta take up all the vinyl plants to make 20 variants of the yearly track dump. We gotta have the painfully slow social media roll-out with all of the requisite non-social media stops to farm for clips. We gotta do the discourse of the pre-release and the mid-listen liveblogs and the post-release navel-gazing. I'm tired. I don't even want to make fun of her anymore. No, not even for the song about that dude's penis.

Isn't it time for new things? Are we cursed to live in the endless album cycle of a maniac who can't stop for a second to think about if the lyrics are any good or not? The producer is locked in on the one fucking thing he does so she doesn't have to worry about that. And this year, we're down to 12 really bad songs instead of 31 pretty bad songs. That's something at least. But we still have this thing weighing us down, culturally. I'm not naming her but it's obvious who I'm talking about. I can't be cute about it, there's just no avoiding it. I'm sick of her shit and have been for years and I think more people are getting on board, finally. It's not just her either, of course, she's just the tip of the corporate iceberg. It's all melting into slush.

I'm sick of "art" designed like a product. Extruded from a tube out onto Spotify playlists with paid placements. How are we not revolting against everything every day? Aren't you sick of this shit too??? Well?????? Let's do something about it. No more fake art. Develop your taste. Refine your music experience. Get an mp3 player and go for a walk listening to an album you found while listening to college radio or KEXP or something. Seek out real shit. Yes, I'm saying all of this out of self-interest but I want better for all of us! We don't have to live like this!! Like any of this!!!

Nicky Flowers - 10/08/25 - My recommendation: go tag spelunking on Bandcamp (find an album you like, find stuff in the tags of that album you also like, click on more tags, etc.)... I have other recommendations, too. - (send any comments/questions to hello at nickyflowers dot com)