I listened to real music, music with guitars and sad lyrics, the kind of stuff that didn’t require a studio to make.īut I kept coming back to the music that had changed how I perceived the entire medium. It’s another impulse I shut down at first, something I kept to myself. I wouldn’t be able to say I “liked” it immediately, per se, but there was something alluring nonetheless. The first time I heard her production on “Vroom Vroom,” it felt like my brain was short-circuiting. It’s the same way I felt about SOPHIE when I got into her late in high school. The way daft punk flipped the sample for one more time is still so crazy to me /WIbKWKa1CD- Neh February 22, 2021 But when I first heard them, it was like a jolt to my system-one that forced me to rethink how I thought about music. At 21, I’d hesitate to call these tracks avant-garde/boundary-pushing/experimental. I definitely wouldn’t call myself a “fan,” but songs like “Technologic” and “One More Time” were huge for me. I’d on-and-off loved Daft Punk my whole life, as I’m sure a lot of us did. This isn’t the belief I hold, of course (sorry, Taylor). Or at least I’m supposed to think it robbed Red of Album of the Year. As a lifelong Swiftie, I think I’m supposed to hate this album. I just have the range.) Daft Punk and SOPHIE, edit mine.Ĭhief among these records I quietly adored was Random Access Memories. All throughout middle and high school, I’d listen to pop and dance music in solitude while putting on the front of indie sad-boy (not to disparage those artists, though, I still love them. And then said something about Arcade Fire, probably.Īs a queer person, there’s something innately alluring about the dance floor.
If you showed the tracklist to Kylie’s DISCO, one of my favorite 2020 releases, to an adolescent Taylor, he would’ve rolled his eyes. It was rooted somewhere on the spectrum between internalized homophobia and my Not Like Other Girls complex (chances are if you’re reading this blog, you’ve experienced one or both feelings). Weirdly enough, I used to have an aversion to this type of stuff. In a lot of ways, there’s a lot of comfort here, first and foremost from the nostalgia I attach to the music that raised me. I’m really drawn to music that references dance floors and DJs explicitly it feels like a cultural artifact straight from the 2000s. It’s where Madonna’s Confessions were, where Sophie Ellis-Bextor iconically saw murder, and-lest we forget-where Sean Kingston had to call 911 as a result of shawty fire burning. There’s something really visceral about a dance floor.
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