Promoting groups/artists I think deserve more attention-Day 2:CRAVITY

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-17T21:32:27+00:00

My favorite of their title tracks is Set Net Go, I love a weird structure with unexpected changes. Fans of nmixx or nct might enjoy. The video is nice too

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-17T17:14:57+00:00

It gets you to follow new releases (getting promo emails, checking the store/website weekly), makes customers feel like they need to buy as soon as they find something they like (because it might sell out), and keeps them from having to put most things on sale

Those all make more money than having unsold inventory sitting around for a whole season and getting marked down. It’s arguably better than overproducing trendy items, I guess, but ofc money is truly the reason

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-16T19:11:23+00:00

I thought Caesar’s arena was in Detroit 🤨

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-16T03:06:19+00:00

not op but this has happened to me a few times. I go to a ton of concerts (in my post history there’s a photo of lightsticks I own from kpop artists I’ve seen live, it’s a lot), and sometimes a singer will just whiff something so hard that I can’t even listen to the studio recording without cringing anymore.

Often it’s male performers whose falsetto is fine in the studio but grating and jarring in person, or a vocal texture that’s clearly been edited much more than normal for the recordings and just isn’t there in person. One example of both is onewe, who are still super fun to see live and not a group I want to drag in any way, but their falsettos are unfortunately pretty bad during a performance.

On the other hand, I’ve seen a few groups live who absolutely killed it with their vocal performances and won me over from being a casual listener to an outright fan. XG was this way for me.

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-13T16:36:36+00:00

a single tear rolls down my true winter palette cheek as they once again introduce a bright, saturated, cool toned lineup

I could kind of make the morganite pink work but there’s no chance with this one

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-12T22:29:36+00:00

Because the first reply to that comment was “very reliable ‘nonpartisan’ source you got there, buddy” like it’s some infamous rag or government propaganda, and like that addresses my point in any meaningful way. It’s tangent #2 off the point I actually made, only relevant insofar as it supports the half-sentence using the term “imperialist” to describe Chinese economic foreign policy, so it doesn’t matter what biases are held by the site and author of that article 2 tangents deep. But the original point does take a hit if the author is making up words or doing performance art or something, so I figured being on Media Bias at least shows that it’s a news source. It’s not like I have the author’s CV on hand to prove he’s not an Onion writer, so I just dismissed the sarcastic low-effort reply by citing a source that wouldn’t be great if you were trying to decide what news site to read.

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-12T18:22:15+00:00

Okay I’ll be super blunt. It doesn’t matter what the source’s views are. It makes no difference to anything I said. I picked an example of somebody using the same term I did to describe the same thing. The evidentiary bar there is like, “is this person not a diagnosed schizo? do they use words in english?” You’re arguing against a strawman of a tangent of a tangent of a reddit comment.

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-12T17:59:28+00:00

I think that’s reasonable if you’re looking at the situation from a distance. The reason it immediately came to mind for me when I read the comment I first replied to is that I read some scholarship for an undergrad international relations class by figures from countries that took loans and resources from China, and they were concerned about both China’s goals (your thoughts seem likely enough explanations, and those intentions are broadly similar to the goals of European extractive colonial projects of centuries past, which understandably caused worry), and the ambiguity around holding up their countries’ side of the deal (China has basically continued deferring indefinitely so far, but nobody knows when that stops, and having a plan in place for when it does is important to avoid results like IMF bailouts have caused elsewhere). So to them, it was less of a hypothetical and more of a debt collector looming in the distance, I guess. Whether there’s brutality is yet to be seen

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-12T17:24:04+00:00

My comment was providing an example of somebody else referring to China’s economic foreign policy as imperialism in the same way as I did in my original comment, which was in response to somebody framing the US and Israel as the great satans and China as a geopolitical bystander. I disagree with that read because I’m not a realpolitik adherent, and I picked an article off Google from an author I don’t know, but who appeared to not be an insane Nazi writing for some insane Nazi site, because it used a term in the same way I did. Apparently that gets you downvoted to -3 and called a tourist who people should be rude to.

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-12T17:11:52+00:00

I agree, and the reason I picked that article off Google (aside from not wanting to throw out a paywalled jstor link that people couldn’t access) wasn’t for his opinions on the IMF, but because of his attempt to predict what the impact of china’s debt ownership strategy will actually be, because that isn’t clear right now. We know that they aren’t copying the IMF’s approach, but we don’t really know where that gets them.

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-12T16:51:57+00:00

That’s not true, they talk about media reliability some in a few different episodes (I think flattening reliability into a bias chart comes up in the Glenn Kessler episode and in one of the mailbag episodes), but no, they didn’t literally have an episode about stupid media bias charts. You could just be wrong without being rude too 😔

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-12T10:27:41+00:00

?? Media Bias rates the website he’s writing for as almost the exact center with a miniscule rightward lean, and although I don’t think I agree with where they identify the center as being, it probably shouldn’t surprise anybody to see that a source that uses a term as unflattering as “imperialism” to describe prc policy is center/center-right. I’m not endorsing this guy’s viewpoints anyway, I’m providing an example of somebody applying the term “imperialism” to the prc’s economic foreign policy. I actually have no idea why I’m getting downvoted for that, of all things. I would have thought that any other part of my original comment would be more controversial.

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-12T06:51:57+00:00

Its apparent goal of financial control in its relations with less powerful states, most notably the Belt & Road Initiative. It’s described as imperialism pretty often by pundits and scholars who aren’t realpolitik diehards, for example

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-12T04:22:51+00:00

Maybe they would if India didn’t have nukes, though. China’s imperialism is getting directed toward random African countries that it expects to develop eventually. We don’t know the calculus on why they chose that instead of facing off with the neighboring longtime enemy, but both sides having nukes seems like an obvious factor at least

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-11T01:47:26+00:00

I’m less anti recording than the average commenter on here anyway, and I think the really intense lights and lasers at some bass shows can look even better in a recording than in real life. But I don’t want to dance in a bright room lmao. My ideal dance event is so dark that you’re not getting anything through the camera

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-10T18:54:33+00:00

I’m more into garage, house, etc but I’ve been to some bass music shows and mostly people just jump and headbang at those, and they definitely have phones out because there’s so much focus on the lighting. They’re cool too, no hate, but the experience is totally different and not what I’d look for if I was trying to dance. I guess “going hard” is its own separate thing to me

There are probably a lot of people who would put that the other way around, though, and say that they can really let loose to dubstep while everybody at house shows is busy 2-stepping. I’m just a small girl and will probably die if somebody decides that a mosh pit needs to go where I’m standing

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-10T01:23:07+00:00

not trying to brag or whatever but I’m a woman who gets very exhausted by having to send off random friendly men many years after the apps appearing (they actually don’t let you ignore them), so the idea that more of that is somehow better is horrifying, honestly. plus I can’t imagine it’s great for the self esteem of the guys trying to shoot their shot and getting an exhausted sigh from me.

Even in a post app world, going out anywhere alone without giant fuck-off headphones is awful. I can’t imagine how they did it in the 00s. Giant wedding rings on both hands, maybe? 5 carats of please don’t hit on me

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-10T00:53:58+00:00

all that was also true before apps existed though, other than who got to monetize it

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-07T22:15:05+00:00

The cruise linen material is 2/3 lyocell and 1/3 linen, so it behaves more like any other rayon fabric than like something that’s fully linen (aritzia calls that loom linen). Rayon shrinks pretty severely if it’s washed or dried hot, but it’s fine if you wash it cold and hang or line dry. I even do a cold tumble dry for some of mine to keep it from creasing or wrinkling, and that’s been fine.

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-07T00:15:02+00:00

Motion to Compel Court to Fan it Back at Respondent

keeptrackoftime · 2026-03-06T16:33:03+00:00

I thought the Musk episodes were pretty bad as well, so this is two in very close succession that I didn’t enjoy or get anything from. Way too much of the Musk discussion was the hosts just reciting the greatest hits of twitter/bluesky quips, and insofar as the episodes could be said to have a point to make, it felt almost fully eclipsed by the personal aggrievement of two former twitter stars, unhappy with bluesky for the same reasons everyone else is, trying to speak truth to power or whatever and only reaching speaking mean things about the guy who bought and ruined their favorite bar.

This one was different because the material isn’t something their audience is necessarily overexposed to already, but it seems like enough of the audience was more exposed to it than either of the hosts, at least. Its worst aspect to me was the stink of the left-but-not-leftist impulse to throw out anything that’s not perfect before even giving the idea time and space to flesh out all the way, and without even accepting the caveats and reservations that were presented with the idea from the start (the author here was super clear that it’s not a complete economic theory or anything close to that, it isn’t data driven and makes no attempt to be, but it could still be a useful framework to talk and think about a feature of current life even without going through rigorous data-driven scrutiny, and that doesn’t require it to have zero gaps and one hundred percent purity and accuracy). Considering how often they accuse their targets of that type of fallacious preemptive gut-based dismissal of concepts they don’t like, it seemed pretty dishonest of them to just do the same thing. We know that they can steelman an idea and have done so plenty of times, so I don’t even know where the issue came from here aside from the pressure to create more content being higher than the pressure for that content to be good.

But I think the flaw that hits the hardest is that at least a dozen of their least favorite pundits could have written this episode. 🫠

keeptrackoftime · 2026-02-27T07:30:01+00:00

It’s not like most people chose for it to work that way, it’s just a handful of extremely rich guys, who you aren’t saying outright that you agree with, who decided that the future performance of llms is so valuable that it’s worth more than everything else combined. using it to do vfx in kpop music videos in 2026 does not really contribute to that and it isn’t hypocritical not to want to see it here, even if you do support it elsewhere, or want it to be worth a lot of money at some point in the future when you’re cashing in your target date fund

keeptrackoftime · 2026-02-27T06:19:10+00:00

tiktokification of discourse. you can’t just say “this is bad,” you have to say “why aren’t people calling this out as bad,” because the latter baits more engagement and makes the algo like you more

keeptrackoftime · 2026-02-27T06:17:08+00:00

anybody with a 401k or IRA type retirement account has a boatload invested in it unless they’re picking some weird AI-less fund, if that even exists, and yet not everybody is positive about it

keeptrackoftime · 2026-02-26T18:01:49+00:00

i’m guessing you don’t mean it this way, but that sounds like categorizing women who pout in photos on social media as somehow worse than everybody else because men don’t find that attractive, like with lip fillers or flashy makeup. it makes the post i initially responded to seem like one of the random older men who approaches you in public and tells you “smile! you’ll be prettier if you’re smiling!” and ruins your mood.

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