One assurance of navigating the vast expanse of social media is that The Discourse never stops. It's: death, taxes, and never-ending discourse. Mass consensus is all but extinct. More than anything, fandoms dictate so much of conversation today. Even so, spring has been a particularly fertile time for music drops: Drake released a diss record that featured an AI 2Pac (it's terrible), Taylor Swift issued her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department (also not that great), and Pharrell, the ultimate polymath, quietly released an album that was available exclusively via a promotional website, forgoing the route of major streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music (which is probably why you are just now hearing about it). Oh! Song lyrics, apparently, are also getting dumber. Chatter has only intensified around all of these things'and so much more'in the previous weeks. There are days where finding common ground feels like a concept of a bygone analog world. Of course, good...
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