chasesthoughts

 Trends are trends. They trend for a reason, and they are popular because they are trendy. It is a perpetual motion of exponential popularity, and it almost seems never-ending. The phrase "You can't miss a day on the internet" speaks about the problem of quick trends beginning and ending within the same week, hence the fact that you "can't miss a day". However, with Labubus, a blind box toy phenomenon, it seems that even with the backlash being received, they're only getting more popular. "Do you hate Labubu's because you hate them or because people are telling you to hate them?", my dad asked me whilst out getting dinner. "I hate them because they're a useless trend, but I can't say there's no influence from other people to also hate them," I replied. "I guess it's kind of a trend to dislike them as much as it is to own one...!" I added. As I sat on this question for a little longer, and realized that tr...

Capitalism is a risky subject, in general, to talk about when it comes to critiquing its enforcement on America. So lets begin by defining Capitalism and its effects on America. In America, Capitalism can be defined by an economic system that prioritizes private equity and ownership as a vice for continuing a free market. The free market is an interesting concept because by nature, a free market entails decentralized decision-making, but looking at America and its stance on boasting ideas such as small businesses and individual business owners, there is scarce free market nature.  One idea pedaled with capitalism is an uproar of right winged ideology. Now there's obviously deeper meaning to it, but the underlying point of Capitalism is rooted with it. I am watching Brokeback Mountain right now, wow this is a hard watch! Anyways... I really cant tell if these guys love each other or hate each other LOL. Ok back to the actual topic at hand. In my opinion, certain right winged ideolog...

As I was listening to music with a nostalgic touch, I was reexploring dodie’s discography, and eventually reached Ready Now , a song about rebuilding oneself after a shitty relationship. I thought the concept and how the story is told were fascinating and helped give a complicated narrative a proper answer. However, it made me wonder about codependency on relationships and how society generally pushes towards a requirement for marriage. Marriage is a weird place to start because it's a complete change from the beginning of a relationship to the beginning of forever, but it offers a great point of view for codependency. A common trope of some Rom-Coms is "marrying rich", with hopes of boasting the financial stance of the receiving end, or the less fortunate. It is an enthralling concept because realistically, who does not want to be rich and live out their best dreams with the person they love, but do they really love them? Marriage becomes vital, especially in the western...

Trying to figure out what music to listen to today came as a problem while being faced with AI jazz music. I was listening to each track presented to me and it all seemed oddly the same. For some reason, I automatically assumed that because spotify was giving me a playlist, created by them, full of (presumably legitimate) jazz music that was created by humans. But searching deeper at the artists creating the music, it all followed the same theme: basic first and last name, same profile picture as recent album cover, and no description for the artist. Without second thought, an average person could easily fall for this trick and I almost did to be fair, but it’s important to keep a keen eye for said situation. I wanted to find the roots of these songs and I led myself down a rabbit hole of hustler mindset kind of videos promoting the idea of passive income via these songs. A lot of the videos heavily focused on not creating music as a form of art and exploration of the mind, but trying ...

I think it’s interesting how people always remember their generation having the best music, especially with boomers and baby boomers. The newer generation has kind of yet to experience this phenomenon because what is their younger, happier years is current. However, often times when younger people associate with older music it’s seen as “grown up” and other words aligning with that meaning, essentially relating the idea of a specific genre of music or time of music to an older audience. Obviously this is true, older audiences listen to different music from what’s available now, but how come it’s subjectively the “best time of music”? Well it’s because it’s when they were most happy and had less restrictions, better known as being a young adult (lmao). Obviously, you’re going to remember better times and associate music with those better times, therefore putting 2 and 2 together and following the idea that the music created at your happiest moments is the best. This does not only go for...

The term “Industry Plant” is commonly thrown around and used as a describing word for artist who have quickly grown in popularity, rather than a slowburn growth. Social media tends to use the word for white (or white acting) artists and usually their work feels manufactured to appeal to the largest audience straight from a millennial focus group. People tend to cherish the idea that if the artist they listen to the most or own the most merchandise have less listeners and stem further out from what is popular at the time to further boast a coolness factor it may have. Of course, we as humans like to feel special in our individuality while still feeling a part of a special club. I believe that this is where the underground music scene really shines. The underground music scene, made up of boundary-pushing artists and tight knit communities, thrives in a marketplace of ideas that puts a spotlight on artists who innovate new music; however, once an artist becomes “popular” (relatively, of ...