1 |
IKINÄ |
"Burn" |
single |
Originalism isn't a legislative philosophy, |
2 |
Anniken |
"Spotlight" |
single |
it's a reading of the Constitution as scripture, |
3 |
After Forever |
"Sweet Enclosure" |
single |
and like any scriptural reading of anything, |
4 |
Battle Beast |
"Tempest Of Blades" |
Circus Of Doom |
it is an attempt to interpret inertial privilege |
5 |
The Gathering |
"When We Fall" |
Beautiful Distortion |
and contingent tradition |
6 |
Rioghan |
"Promises" |
Promises +1 |
as natural law, |
7 |
Eternal Frequency |
"A.I." |
single |
but like any other invocation of points in space as destiny, |
8 |
Liv Sin |
"The Process" |
single |
it is inherently opposed to progress and will. |
9 |
Venus 5 |
"We Are Dynamite" |
single |
Portraying this tension as a left-right one-dimensionality |
10 |
Crimson Sun |
"Feed the Fire" |
single |
is itself a trivialization for the benefit of existing establishments |
11 |
Metopia |
"Liebes Ich" |
Wiedergeburt |
built on property they believe they own |
12 |
Dol Theeta |
"Enchanted" |
single |
along this one narrow line. |
13 |
Deep Sun |
"Living The Dream" |
single |
Heaven and Hell is a cosmology for earthworms |
14 |
LÝSIS |
"Scorched" |
single |
peering moistly out of reassuringly quiescent mud |
15 |
Synthwailer |
"Rest upon the Stars" |
Crimson Betrayals 4 |
into thrumming air, |
16 |
Manntra |
"Tanz" |
Tanz +1 |
except upside-down. |
17 |
dArtagnan |
"Tanz in den Mai" |
single |
It facilitates the reduction of pseudo-moral reasoning to tug-of-war |
18 |
Zenobia |
"No Me Dejes Caer (feat. Isra Ramos)" |
single |
by allowing any movement to be trivially portrayed as movement towards an abhorent |
19 |
Evergrey |
"Blindfolded" |
Blindfolded +2 |
oversimplified extreme. |
20 |
Circle Of Silence |
"Triumph Over Tragedy" |
single |
The animating conceit of Alito's smugly scornful dismissal of abortion precedent |
21 |
Gloryhammer |
"Fly Away" |
single |
isn't a respect for established law, |
22 |
Fallen Sanctuary |
"Terranova" |
Terranova +1 |
it is a disrespect for disestablished humanity. |
23 |
Gladenfold |
"Carnival Of The Hunter" |
Nemesis |
Abortion is in some senses a moral distraction, |
24 |
Dristeig |
"Distance" |
single |
because it focuses so specifically on a moment and dilemma |
25 |
Darkane |
"Inhuman Spirits" |
single |
that is a complex result of so many other factors |
26 |
Watain |
"Ecstasies in night infinite" |
The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain |
in every individual case, |
27 |
Fallujah |
"Radiant Ascension" |
single |
and an even more complex phenomenon at the level of communities and humanity, |
28 |
The Monolith Deathcult |
"Three-Headed Death Machine" |
single |
but of course this is exactly the point. |
29 |
Vaasa Palaa |
"en tiedä, mutta toivon" |
single |
A single-issue fight over abortion allows racists and theocrats |
30 |
Medium Arvet |
"Kaksin Käsin" |
single |
to be for "life", |
31 |
Viikate |
"Kavaljeeri" |
single |
and frames "choice" as a quantity measurable in gestational weeks |
32 |
SHOW-YA |
"限界LOVERS ~Battle Orchestra~" |
single |
instead of social equity. |
33 |
Azami |
"Milestone" |
single |
Opposing abortion capitalizes Life, as a brand euphemism, |
34 |
Kashitaro Ito |
"SILENT MINORITY" |
TVアニメ「乙女ゲー世界はモブに厳しい世界です」オープニングテーマ「サイレントマイノリティー」 4 |
instead of accepting the challenge of improving it, |
35 |
MAN WITH A MISSION |
"More Than Words" |
single |
but the automatic fund-raising emails triggered on behalf of an equally symbolic Choice |
36 |
NO BRIGHT GIRL |
"Fine" |
single |
essentially confirm this convenient polarization. |
37 |
ラトゥラトゥ |
"シネマヴィラン" |
#Short Films 6 |
There is no definition of when life begins |
38 |
THE ORAL CIGARETTES |
"Kantannakoto feat.SKY-HI" |
Bullets Into The Pipe 4 |
that in itself answers any important questions about how it transpires, |
39 |
asayake no ato |
"ユーレカ" |
single |
about inequalities of power and opportunity across gender and class, |
40 |
milet |
"Walkin' In My Lane" |
single |
about holistic healthcare for parents or children or internal organs, |
41 |
MIOYAMAZAKI |
"Mikasa" |
Kaimu |
about educational systems that inform which curbs people accept as horizons |
42 |
Mada Mitakoto no Nai Sekai |
"命に嫌われている。 feat.松下" |
synergiloid 6 |
by lying down with their heads beside them |
43 |
zenbukiminoseida. |
"Neojealous Melochaos" |
Q.E.D.tri |
and thus the decisions they make about how far they think they will ever be allowed to go, |
44 |
Unlucky Morpheus |
""M" Anthem" |
evolution |
about the priorities implied by societies where erectile dysfunction |
45 |
FATE GEAR |
"Live in blood" |
Killers in the Sky |
is treated more respectfully by medical insurance than contraception |
46 |
Lion net girl |
"UNDER THE SUN" |
UNDER THE SUN +2 |
and religious exemptions from public-health measures |
47 |
FRUITPOCHETTE |
"Hakanayo -Exist-" |
Hakanayo -Exist- +1 |
more reverently than systemic mitigations of poverty. |
48 |
Yohei Kimura |
"Leave" |
single |
Complaining about the nihilistically inhumane wording of this one draft Supreme Court opinion, |
49 |
豆柴の大群 |
"豆んJOY" |
single |
on the reasonable grounds that it reverses 50 years of (one fragile form of) social justice, |
50 |
DEATHNYANN |
"tarantula" |
single |
forgives everybody other than Samuel Alito far too easily |
51 |
BiS with STUPiD BOYS for ARABAKI |
"BELiEVE" |
BELiEVE +1 |
for how those 50 years have been spent. |
52 |
LEIWAN |
"idol bokumetsu undo" |
single |
We didn't fix the Supreme Court. |
53 |
Kaori Ishihara |
"Remember Heart, Remember Love" |
Cherish 5 |
We didn't fix Congress, or voting rights, or gerrymandering. |
54 |
Gran☆Ciel |
"Negai You & I" |
single |
We didn't fix the corrosive establishment of religion, |
55 |
AFTER SQUALL |
"morninglow" |
single |
or the pervasive cultivation of ignorance. |
56 |
ReoNa |
"テディ" |
single |
We didn't fix emissions, |
57 |
WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA |
"Orihime" |
single |
and whatever immissions are, we didn't fix those, either. |
58 |
zenbukiminoseida. |
"Ai whynot" |
Q.E.D.tri |
We allowed the Reagans and Bushes to lead to the Clintons, |
59 |
MIOYAMAZAKI |
"Ambivalent" |
Kaimu |
and liberalism to become a neo-liberalism so ineptly demonizable |
60 |
MUNA |
"Kind Of Girl" |
Kind Of Girl +2 |
that almost half the country considered its policies literally indistinguishable |
61 |
iamamiwhoami |
"Changes" |
single |
from bankruptcy, fraud, and complete personal vacuity. |
62 |
Ruelle |
"In It" |
single |
This is not the day this battle was lost. |
63 |
Kite |
"Bocelli" |
Panic Music / Bocelli 2 |
If this draft is rendered judgment exactly as written, |
64 |
Metric |
"All Comes Crashing" |
single |
that day will also not be the day this battle was lost. |
65 |
Let's Eat Grandma |
"Watching You Go" |
Two Ribbons |
We lost it, for now, when we allowed this to become possible. |
66 |
Cornerstone |
"Private Eyes" |
single |
But here's the thing about fearfully finite moralities, |
67 |
Gloria Trevi |
"Sube" |
Isla Divina |
and the fight against progress, |
68 |
Rigoberta Bandini |
"Ay Mamá (Génesis)" |
single |
and the myopic and narcissistic delusion |
69 |
Maggie Lindemann |
"how could you do this to me? feat. Kellin Quinn from Sleeping With Sirens" |
how could you do this to me? feat. Kellin Quinn from Sleeping With Sirens +1 |
that whatever old book you think enshrines your divinity |
70 |
Sarah Barrios |
"She's So Cool" |
Alternate Reality EP 4 |
is the one old book that is inexplicably credible |
71 |
emlyn |
"the AUDACITY" |
single |
in a library it otherwise insists you must burn to survive: |
72 |
Lexi Jayde |
"self sabotage" |
single |
You can only seem to win, |
73 |
Ava Max |
"Maybe You’re The Problem" |
single |
and you can only seem to win momentarily. |
74 |
Madison Rose |
"Technicolor" |
single |
This Supreme Court majority will not last. |
75 |
Lindsay Ell |
"Right On Time" |
single |
The filibuster will not last, the Senate will not last. |
76 |
mxmtoon |
"victim of nostalgia" |
victim of nostalgia +2 |
Joe Manchin's yacht will finally set sail from Grey Havens, |
77 |
beabadoobee |
"See you Soon" |
single |
only to sink 1300m from shore |
78 |
Mint Green |
"What I'm Feeling" |
What I'm Feeling +2 |
in cold, clear water that will preserve his useless visage |
79 |
Malamute |
"Almas Gemelas" |
single |
for as many centuries as necessary |
80 |
Coleman Hell |
"Save Yourself" |
single |
until we are ready to dredge it back up and build a museum around it |
81 |
Phangs |
"Make This Better" |
single |
to coal and cowardice. |
82 |
Chief |
"old friends" |
old friends 6 |
This tactical triumph of the Federalist Society |
83 |
waverley. |
"Shore" |
single |
will no more return the country to a pallid landed-gentry purity |
84 |
TITUS |
"Trying to make it to heaven before they close the door." |
single |
than Putin bombing theaters in Mariupol |
85 |
Ryan Leahan |
"ur so fucking hot" |
snow 2 |
will bring back the Soviet Union. |
86 |
POORSTACY |
"Abuse Me (ft. L'exquisite Douleur)" |
single |
Pointless rubble will no more revive the ruble |
87 |
Scarlxrd |
"Gxxey Gxxey" |
Atv2. Act III: Cxnflict. 3 |
than nominally populist nepotism of the talentless will rekindle |
88 |
Joker |
"ROCKSTAR" |
single |
popular monarchial acclaim. |
89 |
GAIKA |
"Southland Bezel" |
War Island OST |
Nobody is going to vote to restore these fallen kingdoms, |
90 |
Wiley |
"Too Much Stylie" |
single |
and this is how I'm sure that the remaining kingdoms, |
91 |
Manga Saint Hilare |
"Man Know" |
single |
for all they prove about our rudimentary and tenuous modernity, |
92 |
Tinchy Stryder |
"On Them" |
single |
will also fall. |
93 |
Air Max '97 |
"Coriolis" |
single |
We still have bad laws, |
94 |
Batu |
"Mineral Veins" |
Opal |
but in general our laws improve. |
95 |
Kcin |
"Skull Emoji" |
Requiem for the Holocene |
We still have bad governments, |
96 |
Ndlovu Youth Choir |
"Afrika Hey" |
Grateful |
and bad models of government, |
97 |
Oumou Sangaré |
"Kêlê Magni" |
Timbuktu |
but there's no way to sustainably nourish |
98 |
Chris Else |
"Broer" |
single |
the willingness to tolerate them. |
99 |
Journey |
"You Got The Best Of Me" |
single |
They will not last. |
100 |
Crashdïet |
"Shine On" |
Automaton |
This will not be our final battle between fear and hope, |
101 |
Gräce |
"Evergarden" |
single |
nor our final loss. |
102 |
Maraton |
"Non-Euclidean Heart" |
Non-Euclidean Heart +1 |
If you track the gyrations of human society |
103 |
Pure Reason Revolution |
"Dead Butterfly" |
single |
by projecting them onto a line, |
104 |
Haken |
"Nightingale" |
single |
you will definitionally mistake transformation for oscillation. |
105 |
Astronoid |
"Sleep Whisper" |
Sleep Whisper +1 |
Imagining a two-dimensional politics is hard; |
106 |
Mutiara Damansara |
"Annual Winter Depression" |
single |
maybe "politics" is the name for not doing so, |
107 |
Acadence |
"The Arrival" |
Eternal Warfare 4 |
in the same way that "power" is the name for hoarding something that everybody needs. |
108 |
Graywave |
"Rebirth" |
Rebirth +1 |
But if you push against these drawn lines, |
109 |
Hereafter |
"Weathering the Storm" |
single |
even on the days when it feels like you cannot pull apart their edges, |
110 |
Rise to the Sky |
"Just Say Goodbye" |
single |
you can sometimes jar them into a slightly different orientation in the beckoning space. |
111 |
Saor |
"Origins" |
single |
These disasters -- |
112 |
Blissful Euphoria |
"The Sumerian King Aria" |
The Sumerian King 2 |
war, pandemics, verdicts, |
113 |
Death Verified |
"We Were Never Meant To Reach These Shores" |
The Waves Will Remember |
melting glaciers, frozen hearts -- |
114 |
Herknungr |
"Goðablót" |
Kveldsǫngr |
are neither necessary nor welcome, |
115 |
Sagason |
"Beltane" |
Beltane +1 |
but they damage our delusions more than our resolve. |
116 |
Vartra |
"Aina" |
Basma |
They occlude our view of our past |
117 |
Sun and Moon Dance |
"Dance of the Summer Sun" |
single |
more than they can contaminate our idea of our future. |
118 |
Shearwater |
"Aqaba" |
Aqaba +1 |
They jar us, |
119 |
Lauren Babic |
"We Don't Talk Anymore" |
We Don't Talk Anymore +3 |
but all movement is pro-movement, |
120 |
Floor Jansen |
"Zu schnell vorbei (aus "Sing meinen Song, Vol. 9")" |
single |
and any way we move, |
121 |
Ndlovu Youth Choir |
"A Million Dreams" |
Grateful |
the closer we are to realizing that there are no ends. |