So did they intercept the arrangement to Low Lays the Devil while it was on the way to an Imagine Dragons rehearsal or what?

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They fogged up that windscreen something rotten and snatched the tapes when the driver got out to call a priest!

Fun fact, a couple of tricky lines aside, that song is a rare example of a 5/5 indie song with enough simple lexis and grammatical continuity to teach accessible english with

Lmao solid rebuttal

And that’s actually really interesting, word. Especially using the structured repetition to elucidate all the inherent strangeness of the passive voice (although I also don’t know how that plays between English and Japanese, know fuck-all about the specific sticking points of the translation between the two).

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Haha, Japanese loves the passive and uses it more than English, to the point that the differences between intransitive active verbs and passive ones is much less clear. Used the track as a fun one-off with my brightest class last year to practice relative clauses and comparatives (well, equivalences) - did a rough translation but left the first line and Wild as all the love that you lost blank and had them figure those out in pairs

tbqh its being kid-friendly probably confirms your Imagine Dragons point, but that fog is still real

Lol it’s still a solid tune, but nuance is a fucking great thing to sacrifice at the altar of a snarky jab!

Do the kids ever get into the tunes you pull into the curriculum? Do you ever catch them in the hallway singing “Die white girls” with their friends?

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We start every class with a mantra of "Die white girls", so yes absolutely

Usually I don't have that much control over lesson content bc of curriculum or whatever the Japanese teachers wanna focus on - they usually give me some grammar point or whatever that I then flesh out interactively. This was when I was soloing classes after a pregnant colleague dropped out for a couple of months. Only showed em this + The Kill by Jessie Ware (and they preferred this bc Jessie Ware was too creepy, who knew). Neither caught on - most of the kids who are into music are all into Oricon j-idol or kpop stuff :[

Oh my God those kids ain't ready to cope with their own paying forward a legacy of romantic toxicity halol

Death and damnation is copacetic but don't you DARE remind that they're inevitably gonna cause pain because they can't confront their capacity to cause pain. Ought to play 'em Nookie and reset the scales. Leads straight into an anthropology lesson on Woodstock '99, too, earn some brownie points with the social studies dept.

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you have only time yet you wait for me

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double album announced for next year

the single is exquisite

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Man this album came out fer fuckin ever ago eh? Cool to hear about a new one!

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the Yoshi sounds in Axolotl always get to me

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new album is not what I expected and will take some time to chew on

but I think… it is typically very good…

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Sampled a song from the new one and am somewhat mixed. Will have to make some time for a full session.

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It is lorge

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no lomot of stors

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beautiful album honestly

should be the centre of attention

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yeah i agree i love total depravity

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you’re a total prat

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total deprativy

new album is a v welcome return, but i'm not entirely sure why it needed to be a double

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Are they marketing it as a double? At 56 minutes/15 tracks that’s definitely a stretch, it’s certainly not long or sprawling enough to read as a double, nor does it structurally seem to have two halves. It is very nice but could certainly lose a few tracks (and/or could have a couple more “rock” songs).