@pauldavidflood
Musicology PhD Candidate @ Eastman/UofR. European popular music and politics, global musicology, queer/trans studies. About to defend a dissertation on #Eurovision. 🏳️🌈 • Neurodivergent • First gen • he/him More about me: https://tinyurl.com/sfhjfcbm
Following in the footsteps of Flo Rida, it appears Boy George is now going to represent San Marino at Eurovision. Both appearing alongside Senhit, who must just open her contact book at a random page each year.
If y'all hear/feel an earthquake it's the Khia Asylum doors shaking!!! open.spotify.com/track/3TWpz0...
CFP: Sounding Things: Props, Material Culture, and Accessories in Popular Music
Abstract Deadline: May 1, 2026
Abstract Length: 350–500 words
Editors: Kate Galloway, Paxton Haven, and Mike Levine
Full call here: drive.google.com/file/d/1mfyd...
I know it’s just a song feature but Gr*cie Abr*ms on Drag Race is straight up homophobic
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a museum display of a megalodon jaw fossil, with some museum goers standing around it. There is a graphic on the information tablet next to the fossil, depicting the approximation of the megalodon’s full size compared to a human. Panel 2: “3.6 million years ago:” we see the true megalodon as it existed, a small shark with ludicrously large, juicy lips.
Post a banger that’s not in English.
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Final copy (pre-defense revisions): done and submitted ✅
Next stop: defense!
Olympic curling has me crashing out a bit, standing in front of my TV shouting “yeah!!!” and “oh!!!” like I’m a middle-aged father watching football
Our deadline is a week from today! Join us in Cleveland this summer!
The brilliant Jessica Swanston Baker is required pregame reading today - on music, language, transmission, power, and the caribbean
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FT&M gang roll up ‼️‼️
A mirror selfie at a bathroom sink. I’m wearing, a black turtleneck tucked into a pair of blue jeans with a brown belt.
If you ignore the location of this pic I kinda ate here
In this haus we stan Else Marie Pade who composed a bunch of electronic bops AND famously punched N*zis as part of the Danish Resistance during WW2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmvm...
Members and friends of the AMS Popular Music Study Group: We're now on Discord! Join our channel here: discord.gg/rSZU4zgJ
“Hard doesn’t mean you’re bad at this.”
Needed to read this today as I continue my pre-defense revisions.
PhD here, built a website with other PhDs devoted to organizing PhDs and future well respected people to criticize and comprehend kleptomaniac grifter plagiarist incapacitating machine
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Bluesky is owned by musicology now, I don’t make the rules
Junior scholars and late-stage graduate students in popular music studies! The AMS Popular Music Study Group is now accepting applications for our biannual Junior Scholar Symposium in Cleveland this summer! Read our full call here and please share widely.
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I've begun to use my social media—Bsky, Insta, FB—on my laptop more so than my phone, to the point where I'm considering deleting at least the latter two apps from my phone. Wondering if this is a sign of A. good mental health and boundaries; B. my approaching 30s; or C. all of the above.
Statement: ‘The Eurovision Song Contest has shaped my life. It was my stage, my home, my springboard, and a chapter for which I am deeply grateful. As an artist, change is my greatest constant. From now on, I am withdrawing from the Eurovision context. I am moving on to focus more on other professional projects and to let new things evolve. My connection to the ESC remains - as part of my history, not as the place for my next steps. My decision is personal and I will not comment on it further. Thank you, with love, Tom.’
Conchita Wurst steps back from #Eurovision, the year 🇦🇹 is hosting again:
‘My connection to the ESC remains - as part of my history, not as the place for my next steps.’
The singer who dedicated her 2014 win to ‘everyone who believes in a future of peace and freedom’ has left the contest behind.
Meanwhile, at the Rochester NY #DragRace viewing party
Anna Delvey #DragRace guest judge when
Next week’s #DragRace maxi challenge is “QPop” girl groups and idk what that means in Drag Race terms but I really hope they’re referring to real life QPop—Qazaq/Kazakh Pop 🇰🇿
youtu.be/TkNfDWm0hhc?...
*screams in my JPMS article on Afro-Swedishness and the surveillance of (sonic) Blackness in Europe*
online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...
Cover page of the program for the 2025 Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols at King’s College Cambridge.
Word incoming #9LC
The backside of a cat nonchalantly lounging on a carpet floor.
We brought Stewie (our 16yo beauty) with us to my partner’s family’s house for the holiday. She has a whole new house to explore but she just wants to loaf on the carpet floor.
Cloudbusting
Wuthering Heights
Wow
This Woman’s Work
Running Up That Hill
The Big Sky
Sat In Your Lap
Babooshka
Hounds of Love
Suspended in Gaffa
A? tbf I do not think I have ever heard the entire song and I’m down to keep it that way for the bit
Finished Expedition 33 a few days ago and Maelle’s ending is for ppl who think that inanimate objects have feelings (it’s me I’m ppl)
Now under contract from @manchesterup.bsky.social: PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS on #Eurovision and its narratives of queer, national, European belonging in post-Cold-War Europe bakercatherine.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/p...
The history and memory behind where we now are.