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With the start of a new week, it’s easy to fall back on old favorites. Of course, familiar artists have a way of getting you through the grind, of giving you a bedrock that can help you through the day. Nothing beats a classic, and we’re no stranger to blasting that one perfect song on repeat just to give us the energy we really need.
Even so, it’s sometimes important to have a fresh start. Nothing is worse than the same old
same old, whether you’re stuck on a Zoom call or counting down the seconds to Friday afternoon. So, let’s not forget about all the fresh talent constantly popping up around the world. Music is always evolving. Occasionally, something new can be the perfect boost.
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Beautiful, stylish and capable Kujo Ruri works for a publishing company’s digital manga editorial department. She seems like the perfect woman who is experienced in romance. But in fact, she is a novice who only briefly had a boyfriend 15 years ago when she was in university. Ruri is suddenly invited to drinks by a younger colleague Mamiya Ryo one day and consulted about love. Ryo confides that none of his relationships have ever lasted longer than three months no matter who he dates. In response, Ruri smugly tells him that he just has not met the right person yet. But all this is knowledge that she has gained from manga for girls. Ruri has too much to drink and when she wakes up the next morning, she finds Ryo sleeping next to her in her own apartment and immediately panics. It turns out that in a drunken moment, she had talked about the two of them going out with her as his mentor in romance. For the first time in 15 years, Ruri’s heart will not stop fluttering
If you had Bring Me The Horizon’s 8-year-old track re-entering the charts because kids on TikTok were setting their mirrors ablaze on your 2021 bingo, congrats! “Can You Feel My Heart,” taken from the Sheffield band’s 2013 fourth studio album
Sempiternal, has spontaneously climbed back onto the charts thanks to the help of TikTok youngsters and a lot of hairspray.
But, of course, you can’t have fun on the internet without gatekeepers swooping in to swiftly drop-kick your enjoyment. Days after the trend gained momentum, TikTok descended into the war on newer Bring Me The Horizon fans, many of these elitists arguing that if you didn’t like the band when they released their first album you weren’t a “real fan” even though most of the kids taking part in this trend weren’t born when
If you had Bring Me The Horizon’s 8-year-old track re-entering the charts because kids on TikTok were setting their mirrors ablaze on your 2021 bingo, congrats! “Can You Feel My Heart,” taken from the Sheffield band’s 2013 fourth studio album
Sempiternal, has spontaneously climbed back onto the charts thanks to the help of TikTok youngsters and a lot of hairspray.
But, of course, you can’t have fun on the internet without gatekeepers swooping in to swiftly drop-kick your enjoyment. Days after the trend gained momentum, TikTok descended into the war on newer Bring Me The Horizon fans, many of these elitists arguing that if you didn’t like the band when they released their first album you weren’t a “real fan” even though most of the kids taking part in this trend weren’t born when