The Syndicate

alison by slowdive is better than anything MBV ever did. just an observation x

Listening to some mid 2000s throwbacks and just needed to post my favorite song of all time. Yes all time!!! I listen to a lot of ~alternative~ stuff (although I hate saying that because it's so annoying/pretentious sounding) mostly nowadays (lol thanks to my days in #piano IRC in 2011? 2012? where users enrique and nutella seriously showed me so many great songs/artists and stuff wow the time i spent on that chat really influenced my music taste), I still really appreciate pop music and don't get me started with people who refuse to listen to any pop song! However, most pop music right now isn't really doing anything for me - how can we as a society let Carly Rae Jepsen flop, but let Meghan Trainor succeed? There is the occasional Beyonce/Ariana Grande bop (Into You song of the year?), but I am yearning for some Nelly Furtado/Gwen/Fergie/2007 Britney sort of sound.

Britney Spears honestly, although an icon, is someone who I still find criminally underrated! Her discography is full of certified bops, and I root for her so hard just because of her story. In 2007, she had a total breakdown while the paparazzi/media swarmed her, and it was honestly so sad to watch. Everyone expected her career not only to be over but for her to burn out in a blaze of glory and die or something! However, even while this was all going on, she released one of the best albums of the decade (Blackout), and don't forget that she was the executive producer!

Also, I've never been 100% sold on a song so fast. When I heard "It's Britney, bitch" for the first time in Middle School I was sold.