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September 2024

August 2024

Take a Beat w/ Hovvdy's Self-Titled "Hovvdy" and Their Deep Appreciation of the Mundane
On 8/28/24 we are listening to quaint indie rock about quaint things, watching British financiers fully reject the notion of "quaint", and we're…
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Take a Transitional Beat w/ Vampire Weekend, Taylor Swift, Pinegrove, and Chiodos
On 8/21/24 we Take a Beaters are using albums as tools to fight through challenging transitions, and we are arising victorious.
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Take a Beat w/ French Week in NYC, as Programmed by ME (& Netflix)
On 8/14/24 we are preparing for the triumphant return of the simultaneously highest and lowest art that has ever been created by being FRENCH in NYC …
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Take a Reflective Beat w/ a Take a Beat Q1 in Review
On 8/7/24 we are looking back at our Take a Beaten path thus far.
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July 2024

Take a Beat w/ Unpopular Pop Music and Young Millennial Brain Rot
On 7/31/24 we are pondering the definition of "pop music", thanking Kacey Musgraves for helping us find our own Golden Hour, and losing our cool over a…
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Take a Beat w/ Our First Transitional Album Entries!!! And Also Kathie Lee Gifford (???)
On 7/24/24 we are surviving our 20s with help from Lorde and Grace Ives, finding out about Kathie Lee Gifford for the first time (and immediately…
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Take a Beat w/ Carrie Bradshaw's Take on Instagram, My ONE (1) Style Tip, and K*ty P*rry's Abomination of a Song
On 7/17/24 we are treating our Instagram grid as a source of empowerment, expressing ourselves through (music-related) tee shirts, and slandering a…
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Take a Beat w/ Josh Van Auken's Girlie Theory
On 7/10/24, we are reveling in the power of our girlies, and we are investigating Girlie Theory through robust, scientific analysis and the sickest…
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Take a Prideful Beat w/ Gay Echo Chambers and Nonbinary Genre Movies
On 7/3/2024 we are challenging societal and filmic norms, then we're questioning whether we ACTUALLY are, then we're embracing it all nonetheless.
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