Day: February 5, 2019

Conspicuous Acts of Cultural Consumption

Seven Songs That Have Autoplayed on YouTube After Listening to Joan Jett’s Cover of Crimson & Clover

ONE: MAPS by the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s A few years ago, I noted a trend where every autoplaylist I left running would eventually return to the Arctic Monkeys Do I Wanna Know. That epoch in youtube has apparently moved on, for now it is an inevitability that all playlists will find their way to Maps instead. TWO: I THINK WE’RE ALONE NOW by Tiffany I think I looked up this song once because I couldn’t remember it, and wanted some context for a joke that’s made in Mega Python vs Gateroid. I haven’t even watched Mega Python vs. Gateroid. THREE: I HATE MYSELF FOR LOVING YOU by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts There are Joan Jett songs that I love. There are Joan Jett songs that I do not love. This is one of the former. FOUR: DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts There are Joan Jett songs that I love. There are Joan Jett