blink 182 for people that wouldn’t be caught dead listening to blink 182 (I still liked it)

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such an uninspired album that I struggled to even come up with a sarcastic one sentence summary of it

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This is likely a reference to the Cage the Elephant song “Cigarette Daydreams”, another song centered on a 17 year old girl that reflects on the past.

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Believe it or not, a project featuring Anderson .Paak blends genres in an uninteresting way and is completely average

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fight me irl

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Abel looks to the past for inspiration rather than his contemporaries. He bumps the Boston-based 1980s R&B group New Edition when he’s whipping his Bentley Mulsanne.

The choice of a blue Mulsanne may be a reference to New Edition’s album Under the Blue Moon.

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Apparently, Abel has upgraded from glass tables—his girl now snorts cocaine (“ivory”) off of $20,000 tables made from ebony, an expensive hardwood sourced from rare, endangered trees.

Ivory and Ebony are both valuable materials often presented as opposites, as in the Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder hit. The title of that song actually refers to a piano, which might be the fancy snorting surface Weeknd is referencing here.

The “ivory” is being cut into “skinny pieces” as in cutting the drug into skinny lines. Abel is proud of his girlfriend who is able to “clean” the cocaine—by snorting it. This inscribes in a long storyline Abel has with hard drugs, which he has been referring to since the very start of his career.

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hahaha why is the “Ang” isolated here

did they think “Ang” was the only part of Brangelina that came from her name or is the “elina” innocent?

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This is, without exaggeration, the meanest sequence of words ever written.

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“Follow” is about lead vocalist Julien Ehrlich’s grandfather’s death during the process of recording Light Upon The Lake. The group told The Line of Best Fit that they drew from soul influences to incorporate personal tragedy into their songs.

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