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The essay on Fall Out Boy made me put on Infinity on High immediately afterwards so yeah this is excellent. Being good at writing about music is some kind of alchemy to me honestly 🥲

Taking forever to finish this bc as clear as his writing is, the words he chooses to string together evoke so much thought and feeling and half of the sentences in each essay cause me to stare at the wall totally awestruck and then stuck in a thought spiral (in a good “wow-the-world-is-so-much-bigger-than-me” way)
TLDR; I think he’s my favorite writer of all time

that the weeknd essay makes it so clear abdurraqib is a generational writer if only he didn't hold himself back as often as he does, which also becomes clear that this is something he does a lot