Jody Rosen

Nope

Aretha, "Until You Come Back to Me": bridge->3rd verse->3rd chorus A+++++++++

What Ted Cruz & other quipsters don't understand about the latte trope is that it's the Coastal Elites who know how to tell this joke, cf. Pooja Tripathi, star/auteur/genius behind the web series Brooklyn Coffee Shop

Sabrina Carpenter/Kermit the Frog "Islands in the Stream" duet is hilarious & awesome. But above all a reminder of Barry Gibb's easygoing genius. The way he floats his melodies over the bar line; the odd landing-spots of the changes (often mid-phrase); the chorus' leap into the astral plane. Beauty

And ofc the most significant "protest music" of the MPLS crisis is the callithumpian racket being kicked up by citizens themselves in the streets—alerting neighbors to the presence of Trump's thugs w/whistles & raising hell outside ICE agents' hotels w/drums, sticks, pots, pans, sirens, chants, etc.

Cf.

I know we're not supposed to talk about Woody Allen, but ANNIE HALL is one of the supreme American movies & Diane Keaton's wild charisma is 90% of the reason why. And btw her performance of "Seems Like Old Times" is pure magic—up there with the greatest musical scenes in cinema, zero doubt

As usual TCW's, uh, argument rests on anecdotes & a refusal to think historically/materially. The method is to hitch SERIOUS SOUNDING words 'n' phrases—"massive squandering of institutional authority"—to insinuations about "the left" & to media flotsam (“a chyron that said Fiery, Peaceful Protests”)