I’m not doing anything today…
– Yes, but Paula, you have to write your column…
Self-care is now the order of the day!
– Delivery is equal…
Nobody will die if I chill now, get off the hamster wheel!
– Okay, then don’t. Then you just don’t get any money and you can also stick to your topics.
Everything in capitalism is anyway… Yeah ok IT’S TRUE I’ve read Anti-Girlboss by Nadia Shehadeh and I want to recommend it to you guys so let’s get started.
Book of the week: “Anti-Girlboss”
The subtitle of Shehadeh’s book is: “Fighting Capitalism from the Sofa”. Of course, that doesn’t quite work out because there are constraints that too many people are subject to and activism also requires a little effort – which the author also knows and names. But one should get closer to the sofa, Shehadeh thinks, and she also has a plan how. She herself has managed quite well to create a private bubble in which capitalist constraints affect her as little as possible. In addition, she disenchants in “Anti-Girlboss”, the name already gives it away, all the girlboss nonsense of the past decade and the usability of every area of life and every character trait.
The author’s concern is to ask people not to fall for the neoliberal lies of advancement, not to chase after the capitalist promises of happiness, to forego a career aka self-exploitation and, above all, to renounce representational feminism, which is about THE ONE creates up while others stay down and are kept down, but to practice real self-discovery and solidarity and to fight for spaces for laziness. In addition, Shehadeh tells her very personal story of suffering and loss of suffering and has countless pop culture references ready.
Album of the week: Karol G – “Mañana Será Bonito”
Speaking of over-ambitious… Bad Bunny made me want to learn Spanish and I already know what “the boy” and “the girl” means, then I ignored the app again for days until it said to me, “Either you learn Spanish or you don’t – me never mind”, really true, I got this notification. This passive-aggressive approach does nothing for me! Gorrino!
But my misery continues, now I just don’t understand the great new album by Karol G either, ¡qué lástima! But I feel a lot… passion, love, drama, sex… It turned out to be a very good pop album, this “Mañana Será Bonito”, whatever that means. My language is DANCE anyway. And that goes very well with Karol G. Oh god, hopefully the app will take me back! Bonitoooo!
Music Video of the Week: RAYE – “Ice Cream Man.”
It’s about RAYE again, I was already raving about their album “My 21st Century Blues” and also about “Ice Cream Man” two weeks ago. But now the video for the very touching song has been released. The text is about a rape and I could not have imagined how to make a video about it. But the approach RAYE chose to tell her story is as impressive as the song itself. She is seen collapsing in a public toilet. RAYE is so authentic that it feels more like a documentary than a music video. At the end, she encourages those affected to talk about their experiences.
Film of the week: “Women Talking”
Women who talk, especially with each other – that’s what the film “Women Talking” is about. After years of being drugged and raped in an isolated Mennonite colony, the women meet in a barn to make a decision: stay and do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. The choice is not decided unequivocally, the options remain and fight versus leave. Now the women of two families should make the final decision. What follows is a powerful discussion between women of different ages with different stories and arguments. Philosophizing, religion being discussed, traumata, dreams, plans for the future being talked about, arguments and consolations, opinions changing, the women arguing, reconciling, helping each other and despairing of one another. It’s one of the most touching and intelligent films I’ve ever seen, and days later I’m still picking on it – negatively and positively in equal measure. As soon as I saw it, I immediately started reading the book it is based on to recall all the brilliant ideas that were thrown up, as well as the many impressive characters. Go to the cinema today if you can, it’s worth it.
Men in Frankfurt news of the week
● At his concert in Frankfurt it was obvious that Lewis Capaldi had Tourette tics. He left out a few lines of a song, it’s not entirely clear if intentional or unintentional, probably the latter, and the fans just kept singing because everyone knows the lyrics and it was their fans. On the Internet, the recordings of it were made into inspiration porn, reinterpreted to the great delight of Capaldi’s fans, everything properly garnished with pathos and pity, regardless of what the Scotsman himself thinks of it. By the way, he had to end his concert in Cologne after an hour, lost his voice because of a cold, obviously an exhausted person is tormenting himself through a tour, that’s not a good thing. But Corona is apparently really over, we are again romanticizing the pull through at any price. Capaldi, if, no, as soon as you read this: please chill!
— v (@ViralMaterialz) February 23, 2023
● So-called signs and wonders are still happening: Roger Waters’ anti-Semitism has finally been taken seriously enough to have real consequences. It’s about a concert in Frankfurt again: Waters’ performance in the Festhalle will probably be canceled, which was requested by the state of Hesse and the city of Frankfurt. And while you can discuss a lot of things if you want, if you really have to, if you really want to talk politics with people like Roger Waters – about flying pigs with the Star of David on them that get destroyed in the course of a concert (read this new article from Belltower.News for even more weird details about Waters’ ideology) there is nothing to discuss, this is an anti-Semitic excess party and has no place in huge halls.
Here, Waters is talking about the “Israeli lobby,” not his ticket prices.
So save the money.
Song of the Week: Dolly Parton and Dionne Warwick – “Peace Like A River”
Service at the end: I would like to offer you an alternative to the Wagenknecht/Schwarzer peace interpretation. Dolly Parton wrote an incredible song, “Peace Like A River,” and brought in Dionne Warwick. That’s how you can do it. Dream through music, don’t talk bullshit on demos, let’s go.
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