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I also enjoy these “reaction” videos, when someone listens to, say, “Bohemian Rhapsody” or “Stairway to Heaven” for the first time, or tries to figure out what “Lola” is really about. But a lot of them are made by people in their 20s or 30s, and it’s hard to believe that they’ve actually never heard some of the most popular music ever made.
TD:
Agreed. Some seem fake. There’s also a lot of young people who don’t think they’ve ever heard “Stayin’ Alive” but when they hear it, realize they have – and are shocked that it’s done by a group of white men.
This girl, however, is apparently a teenager, and I see her surprise as genuine. Or else she should get an Oscar.
I liked that the young girl started to move with the music since it does have a good beat. She also made some comments about the clothes and hair styles.
I definitely have a renewed appreciation for the Bee Gees thanks to Neo.
I hear that it’s likely that Bari Weiss will be made the new head of CBS News. She’s one of those seemingly rare non-insane liberals who seems to care about crazy stuff like honesty and integrity in journalism over producing Democrat propaganda.
Disclaimer: I’d never heard of J.Crew-Anon until this post.
I subscribed after listening to her follow-up reaction: “How Deep Is Your Love?” https://youtu.be/9x-0BMyzhyQ
She has interesting insights. I loved her question: “What was in the air fifty years ago to create these men, this music?
”What was in the air fifty years ago to create these men, this music?”
The answer is that 50 years ago much of the popular culture was made by and for men.
I noticed about ten years ago when babysitting some preteen girls that *all* of the TV shows marketed to kids and teenagers were extremely feminized. All of the main characters were girls, and even the boy side characters looked and acted like girls, mainly interested in fashion, gossip, and social status.
I asked the girls what shows did the boys their age watch. Didn’t know. Didn’t care. It’s a girl’s world, where even the Boy Scouts are all about the girls.
The Justice Department is mulling banning gun ownership for those who identify as transgender. It goes beyond the horrific mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis that occurred on August 27, where two kids were shot and killed, with another 17 injured. Since 2020, 40 percent of mass shooters, or would-be mass shooters, have been identified as transgender or suspected of being one. If those clamoring for government to “do something,” this is a good first step.…
[TWO KEY x.com posts with embedded comments omitted]
A DOJ source told the Daily Wire that “individuals within the DOJ are reviewing ways to ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are unable to obtain firearms while they are unstable and unwell.
A Justice Department spokesman told the Daily Wire that a “range of options” is being considered “to prevent mentally unstable individuals from committing acts of violence, especially at schools.”
Another officials said, “Democrats have called for common sense gun laws for a long time” and that “this seems pretty common sense to me.”
Given how Democrats react to anything Trump does, you know what’s coming: the anti-gun Left is going to sound like National Rifle Association members. They will likely devote endless hours to full-throated defenses of gun ownership and Second Amendment rights. The president is setting the stage for the Democrats to cannibalize their anti-gun positions, sacrificing generations of activism for transgender gun rights.
TJ COMMENT: What is this strategy? To divide and disarm the Left?
mkent, that’s a very interesting point.
I’ve never heard of Dea Devi before. She seems like she could be interesting to watch. Me, I was actually taking in a different sort of reaction video the other night (it wasn’t last night, as my neighbors and I had been subjected to the third neighborhood power outage of the season at that point), that being someone watching the Nolan Batman movies for the first time and giving reactions thereto.
She’s a little unclear on the distinction between 1960s and 1980s music.
I can remember seeing “Saturday Night Fever” and enjoying disco for the first time. It’s definitely a beat to dance to.
@Nonapod: She’s one of those seemingly rare non-insane liberals…
Bari Weiss does sometimes say things that we like to hear, but she is not a different kind of journalist. On Joe Rogan she called Tulsi Gabbard a “toady” of Bashar al-Assad, but she couldn’t explain what a “toady” was when challenged, couldn’t explain why or on what basis, just said “it’s commonly known”, “it’s proven”. Rogan kindly looked up the word for her, but Weiss never could explain why she used the word or why Gabbard deserved it. (Incidentally we now know that Gabbard was right to say that Assad’s opposition were terrorists.)
She retailed a lot of other criticisms of Gabbard which she could not substantiate and had to frantically Google things to try to back them up.
You see, that wasn’t her opinion–couldn’t have been since she didn’t even know what the word meant or why it was used–but it was important to someone that she say it on Joe Rogan and she complied.
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I also enjoy these “reaction” videos, when someone listens to, say, “Bohemian Rhapsody” or “Stairway to Heaven” for the first time, or tries to figure out what “Lola” is really about. But a lot of them are made by people in their 20s or 30s, and it’s hard to believe that they’ve actually never heard some of the most popular music ever made.
TD:
Agreed. Some seem fake. There’s also a lot of young people who don’t think they’ve ever heard “Stayin’ Alive” but when they hear it, realize they have – and are shocked that it’s done by a group of white men.
This girl, however, is apparently a teenager, and I see her surprise as genuine. Or else she should get an Oscar.
I liked that the young girl started to move with the music since it does have a good beat. She also made some comments about the clothes and hair styles.
I definitely have a renewed appreciation for the Bee Gees thanks to Neo.
I hear that it’s likely that Bari Weiss will be made the new head of CBS News. She’s one of those seemingly rare non-insane liberals who seems to care about crazy stuff like honesty and integrity in journalism over producing Democrat propaganda.
And…the joy of recovery…?
The following two should be read in tandem:
“…[Robert F.] Kennedy Spars With Senators During Wild Testimony”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-live-rfk-jr-testifies-senate-amid-cdc-turmoil
“J.Crew-Anon & The Mainstreaming Of Dissent”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/jcrew-anon-mainstreaming-dissent
Disclaimer: I’d never heard of J.Crew-Anon until this post.
I subscribed after listening to her follow-up reaction: “How Deep Is Your Love?”
https://youtu.be/9x-0BMyzhyQ
She has interesting insights. I loved her question: “What was in the air fifty years ago to create these men, this music?
”What was in the air fifty years ago to create these men, this music?”
The answer is that 50 years ago much of the popular culture was made by and for men.
I noticed about ten years ago when babysitting some preteen girls that *all* of the TV shows marketed to kids and teenagers were extremely feminized. All of the main characters were girls, and even the boy side characters looked and acted like girls, mainly interested in fashion, gossip, and social status.
I asked the girls what shows did the boys their age watch. Didn’t know. Didn’t care. It’s a girl’s world, where even the Boy Scouts are all about the girls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsqlXkkEKxI
Wow! Trump aims to dismantle Democrats Arms hate Using Trans Mass shootings as the trigger! Lolz! Matt Vespa column:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/09/04/trump-waited-in-the-tall-grass-for-this-moment-on-gun-rights-its-going-to-be-brilliant-n2662776
EXCERPT:
The Justice Department is mulling banning gun ownership for those who identify as transgender. It goes beyond the horrific mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis that occurred on August 27, where two kids were shot and killed, with another 17 injured. Since 2020, 40 percent of mass shooters, or would-be mass shooters, have been identified as transgender or suspected of being one. If those clamoring for government to “do something,” this is a good first step.…
[TWO KEY x.com posts with embedded comments omitted]
A DOJ source told the Daily Wire that “individuals within the DOJ are reviewing ways to ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are unable to obtain firearms while they are unstable and unwell.
A Justice Department spokesman told the Daily Wire that a “range of options” is being considered “to prevent mentally unstable individuals from committing acts of violence, especially at schools.”
Another officials said, “Democrats have called for common sense gun laws for a long time” and that “this seems pretty common sense to me.”
Given how Democrats react to anything Trump does, you know what’s coming: the anti-gun Left is going to sound like National Rifle Association members. They will likely devote endless hours to full-throated defenses of gun ownership and Second Amendment rights. The president is setting the stage for the Democrats to cannibalize their anti-gun positions, sacrificing generations of activism for transgender gun rights.
TJ COMMENT: What is this strategy? To divide and disarm the Left?
mkent, that’s a very interesting point.
I’ve never heard of Dea Devi before. She seems like she could be interesting to watch. Me, I was actually taking in a different sort of reaction video the other night (it wasn’t last night, as my neighbors and I had been subjected to the third neighborhood power outage of the season at that point), that being someone watching the Nolan Batman movies for the first time and giving reactions thereto.
She’s a little unclear on the distinction between 1960s and 1980s music.
I can remember seeing “Saturday Night Fever” and enjoying disco for the first time. It’s definitely a beat to dance to.
@Nonapod: She’s one of those seemingly rare non-insane liberals…
Bari Weiss does sometimes say things that we like to hear, but she is not a different kind of journalist. On Joe Rogan she called Tulsi Gabbard a “toady” of Bashar al-Assad, but she couldn’t explain what a “toady” was when challenged, couldn’t explain why or on what basis, just said “it’s commonly known”, “it’s proven”. Rogan kindly looked up the word for her, but Weiss never could explain why she used the word or why Gabbard deserved it. (Incidentally we now know that Gabbard was right to say that Assad’s opposition were terrorists.)
She retailed a lot of other criticisms of Gabbard which she could not substantiate and had to frantically Google things to try to back them up.
You see, that wasn’t her opinion–couldn’t have been since she didn’t even know what the word meant or why it was used–but it was important to someone that she say it on Joe Rogan and she complied.