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are you nobody too?

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Jess. Multifandom mess. Reader. Cat lover. Feminist. Shipper. livejournal is thisisagift my face my gifs are tagged with #mine

been stuck with a terrible feeling that one of the episodes in the new black mirror season is gonna end with a title card like "the program you just watched was written by artificial intelligence" and they're going to be so smug about it and we'll all have to talk about it for weeks

oh hey apollo

lol

thinking that mr. brightside, a usamerican song by a usamerican band which is one of the most popular songs of the last 30 years, is something that is only popular among brits is funny enough on its own but to say sweet caroline, a song by usamerican icon neil diamond about *caroline kennedy* which is a mainstay of boston sports specifically and usamerican events across the country generally, is also a song only brits know is just hysterical you’ll have to drag me off the internet by my fucking toenails i love it here

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Do they even like Led Zepplin over in the UK? I always thought of them as the band that made baseball walk-up songs

“there are no videos of anyone singing sweet caroline at a sports function”

I mean look at the cultural impact Mr Brightside had on the UK and then we can talk

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(video of the killers talking about how the uk broke mr brightside)

Sorry but the only reason this song is so big as it is is that it broke in the UK first which the band fully admits to. I think the debate is kind of null in some ways because it is such a big song, but I find it very interesting that americans love to nick basically everything from us (lets use one of your biggest shows, the office. It was british first) but as soon as british people say 'hey, we love this song have had it in our charts for 20 years. we're going to adopt it because it means a lot to us' americans lose their fucking minds.

"I heard a crowd singing 'Don't look back in anger' [by UK band Oasis] and it just shook me. I think this song is a response to that in some way. It's connected [to the UK] whether you like it or not."