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a discovery playlist featuring weekly top 10 music releases

  1. Lana Del Rey- White Hawk Feather Tail Deer Hunter: feels like Lana at her most unbothered and mythic. It floats between diary entry and desert fever dream, like she’s whispering secrets you weren’t supposed to hear but can’t stop replaying.

  2. Charli XCX- Funny Mouth: I love the entire Wuthering Heights album, but this one especially because ATG’s good pal Djo co-wrote it!

  3. Hilary Duff- We Don’t Talk: As rumors swirl about who the “we” really is (her sister Haylie?), the beauty of this song is that it works either way. That quiet line,“The truth is that I need you but there’s no way to relay it” - is the real gut punch, soft, honest, and way too relatable.

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all the biggest things that happened online this week

  1. This monkey with her adopted mother doll has captured our hearts

  2. WHO keeps changing Zara Larsson’s Wikipedia photooooo

  3. Our perfect angel baby monkey got bullied by a bigger monkey 😭

  4. Fans share favorite Sabrina Carpenter outfit photos (X thread)

  5. New Mitski album drops next week and we are soooo excited

  6. POV: It’s band t-shirt week at work and you’re gay

  7. The pose every tall girl hits

  8. Why you so quiet? What’s on your mind?…

  9. Noah Kahan on what happens when we die 💀

  10. Does anyone know who horsegiiRl is - I’m so confused and outta the loop lol

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things that i’ve been super into lately that i need to share with you guys

  1. This icon makes fashion-forward medical devices such as ostomy bags, wheelchair accessible purses, and arthritis gloves and I think it’s so sick that she’s making these devices feel personable and stylish.

  2. A lovely little playlist for anyone in the throes of a situationship. 

  3. Asics always has cool collabs but this one with Completed Works might take the cake. I think the beaded flowers are just to die for. 

  1. The Girls Like Girls movie trailer by Hayley Kiyoko is HERE and it has me just excited as I was when I was 16 watching the music video.

  2. Lili Reinhart, Lola Tung, Victoria Pedretti, and Emma Chamberlain are all a part of this new movie Forbidden Fruit and judging from the trailer I think it’s going to be a HIT.

  3. I saw The Moment (Charli XCX’s mockumentary) and I thought it was so clever and hilarious! I absolutely loved how the lines were blurred between reality and fiction, and how self-aware it felt. I think any music lover should definitely give it a watch.

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Here’s a look at Lowertown’s favorite music lately, meme’s and the like:

ALL THINGS MUSIC

  • LL Burns “Ten Long Years”

  • Winter and Horse Jumper of Love “Misery

  • You’ll Never Get to Heaven “Wave Your Moonlight Hat For The Snowfall Train”

ALL THINGS INTERNET

ALL THINGS STYLE

ALL THINGS REEL

  • Days of Heaven by Terrence Malick

  • 30 Rock to go to sleep

  • Recently rewatched Fallen Angels by Wong Kar Wai

SONG LYRIC OF THE DAY

  • Black Country, New Road - ‘The Place Where He Inserted the Blade’

    “You tied me up slow with your vine stuff. It takes a few years, but they break bones. It takes a few months, but our bones heal. We're stronger, we tell all our school friends. And they sign our cast in the playground”

Thanks so much for being Besties, and to us, we don’t mess around with that kind of language. You all are our Besties now and we love you. It’s what will be forever and cherished in our hearts.

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