Music is all over the place these days. Nobody can make a living from it, but a kid with Fruity Loops and a shit laptop can blowup. Streamers are the devil. Streamers are the gods. Vinyl is back. But everyone just buys Rumours. Music is ridiculous, but it’s still everything.
Whether it’s the best time or the worst time for music doesn’t feel that helpful, though. Especially when there’s so much fucking great music to celebrate. So while the big questions of the day are part of our world, it’s also really nice to shine a light on the bangers that turn up in our musical mysterious postbag.
The ones that remind you of the elation. Listening to ‘Be Here Now’ as a 16 year old, after your first quarter bottle of vodka. Madonna’s bangers that still get your niece, and your granny, moving at a wedding. The fucking weird, out there, soundcloud stuff with 50 plays. The rainy bus ride that you didn’t want to end. The nameless house when you had your first pill. The grainy noise of a rock band’s first song, slamming into your chest. Seeing your favourite band 20 times when making friends was easy.
The best songs aren’t all written yet. That’s why we started BOPS.
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