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...xact sort of narrative flourish you’d expect to find in the lyrics of a song by The 1975, and here we are, trying to make sure frontman Matty Healy doesn’t sit on a pool chair that belongs to a ghost. The Rave, where the British band is playing tonight, used to be a lodge for the local Fraternal Order of Eagles, and supposedly someone drowned in its now-empty pool many years ago. Lore has it that musicians booked at the cavernous venue upstairs have had their whole sets fucked up after sitting in the ghost chair. Unfortunately, Healy and I are unsure which chair is which, and... Cover Story: The 1975 - MTV

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I saw (and met) Childish Gambino at The Rave in 2014. Didn’t know about the drowning/haunted thing until now, but I can confirm its eerie vibe; there were literally bats flying around the ballroom ceiling before the show.

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Today I don't have any haters
'Cause I could care less what they saying Lil Yachty (Ft. Skippa Da Flippa) – Good Day

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Your typical Schrödinger’s hater scenario: Yachty refuses to acknowledge any haters, which leaves it unclear whether he has or does not have haters from his perspective. Thus, it can be posited that these haters simultaneously exist and do not exist.

If he were to care about their thoughts and seek them out, his actions would force one or the other (existence or nonexistence) to be true, but no longer simultaneously. Yachty, in a sense, controls his haters.

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No we are just, we are just, we are just teens of style
Oh we are just, we are just, we are just, we are just teens of style Car Seat Headrest – (Joe Gets Kicked Out of School for Using) Drugs With Friends (But Says This Isn't a Problem)

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A nod to the Teens of Denial album predecessor Teens of Style, Toledo details the common teenage pressure to conform – a struggle that often causes rebellious acts like the drug use depicted throughout the song.

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Reminds us of the title of this album, Teens of Denial, implying that he shrugs off the damages of substance use as just part of the “contemporary style”; that he’s actually in denial about what he’s doing.

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Drugs are better, drugs are better with
Friends are better, friends are better with
Drugs are better, drugs are better with
Friends are better, friends are better with
Drugs are better, drugs are better with
Friends are better, friends are better with
Drugs are better, drugs are better with
Friends are better, friends are better with
Drugs are better than friends
Are better than drugs
Are better than friends
Are better than drugs
(Drugs are better than friends)
Are better than friends
(Are better with drugs)
Are better than drugs
(Are better with friends)
Are better than friends
(Are better than—)
Drugs are better, drugs are better with
Friends are better, friends are better with
Drugs are better, drugs are better with
Friends are better, friends are better with Car Seat Headrest – (Joe Gets Kicked Out of School for Using) Drugs With Friends (But Says This Isn't a Problem)

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For the closing refrains, Toledo uses a spinoff of anadiplosis (by starting and ending each sentence with “drugs” or “friends”) to produce a cyclical comparison that reflects both the highs and lows, and repetitive nature of drug use.

He first details the seemingly mutual benefits of doing drugs with friends, before devolving into a state where he feels he must choose which is better – likely a nod to the fact that continual drug use can alienate people close to the user.

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drugs are better with friends :)

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Will is a drug addict. He doesn’t want to do drugs alone because then that means that he is an addict, however, he cannot engage socially without taking drugs therefore friends are better with drugs, and drugs are better with friends. He hates both his addiction and his friends but cannot break himself free from either. He is tempted to do drugs while he is alone and tempted when he is social.

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7 years

i think he is just being ironic

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Also present is a twist in the song’s perspective from deglamorizing social drug experiences to one parroting the general consensus of millennials, that drug experiences are a social marker, a rite of passage demonstrating a friendable nature.

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Jeff Passan - The Arm Brock C – 2016

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great insight on the mystery of the pitcher’s arm, with precise (and skin-crawling) detail on the surgeries, inside stories from front offices, and profiles of two attempted comebacks that are at times heartbreaking and uplifting.

passan really makes you care – for hudson and coffey, for your current/future/imagined child’s future, for the arm of every young ballplayer out there.

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Sam Miller & Ben Lindbergh - The Only Rule Is It Has To Work Brock C – 2016

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Probably my favorite book of all time. Two of my favorite writers' account of what happened when a sabermetrician’s wet dream met actual humanity – aka the faces and personalities behind the numbers we love to crunch.

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Sturgill Simpson - "Pollywog (Welcome to Earth)" Brock C – 2016

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the “AND IF SOME TIMES” change of pace halfway through the song is one of my favorite musical moments of the year

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James Blake - "I Need A Forest Fire" Brock C – 2016

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real tears are going to be shed at eaux claires this august when i see this one live in the middle of the wisconsin forest

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Whitney - "Golden Days" Brock C – 2016

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coupla chicago guys that used to be members of smith westerns. this track’s sound matches its title perfectly; it feels like a sunny early-summer sunday

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