grateful for posts like these - as someone born in singapore but was then moved to australia while I was still really young, i was never taught so much of this history. learning it makes a lot of things that have always felt off suddenly 'make sense' in context

its more like the pizza shop calling you out when you're cooking frozen pizza and calling yourself a chef

all power to you if you want to just consume slop, but dont complain when you turn around years later and the quality of everything across the board has gone even further to shit cos you were so happy you could type in words and see anything you wanted for all the 15 minutes of dopamine it gave you

Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel is iconic, the claymation and dedication is insane for a music video from that time period

It's okay to envy by Takayan is impressive for how it plays with the subtitling, trust me turn on Closed Captions for this and enjoy

Loretta by Ginger Root for how perfectly it captures an atmosphere and aesthetics of those late 80s/early 90s East/South East Asian music videos, it's a vibe - plus him playing all members of the band/accompanying orchestra is also impressive in its own right

just a few off the top of me head

nah, The Scientist will always take a backseat to Drop by The Pharcyde which did the same thing, but years earlier in 1995 (and a rap track no less)

like it's not even a competition in my mind

they always tell on themselves and their views of the world when they say things like 'how can i be interested in an ideology' as if it's a hobby you dip into lmao