From Cleo Wade:

Repping my Louisiana love from Houston.

This is exactly how I would describe the Super Bowl.

I can’t embed Facebook or Instagram Reels because I guess they don’t get along. Sorry about that. If you have a similar sense of humor, you’ll enjoy Jimmy Rees explaining how the Super Bowl works.

I don’t watch sportsball.

I’ve been waiting all week for The Grammys to upload the full video. Thank you for this, Tracey and Luke.

To end New Wave Week, it’s my second theme song, The Breeders with “Cannonball.” Because I am a cannonball.

Bonus theme song tomorrow.

To round out New Wave Week, I thought I’d share my first theme song, followed by my second tomorrow.

I am a goody two shoes.

I got this Instagram ad and Weird Al is singing “Heppy birthday dear Kerry.” So, I need to know if it’s just me or is everyone getting their name or us it a coincidence. It wouldn’t let me share Thad, but it looks like this.:

Back to New Wave tomorrow.

From 80s.met, the #1 new wave song is Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” I thought we should listen

Paste Magazine named the Pretty in Pink Soundtrack as the 50th-best new wave album of all time. I’ve written a bunch about it. Here’s what they said:

“Pretty in Pink (1986)John Hughes’ use of music was so distinct and masterful that to this day, lazy music writers can describe something as sounding “like it belongs in a John Hughes movie” and you know exactly what they mean. And out of all his soundtracks, Pretty in Pink is perhaps the John Hughes-iest, full of New Wave classics worthy of its record store-clerk heroine. (The movie even takes its name from the Psychedelic Furs track it opens with.) It’s weird to think that there was a time when people would make out to stuff other than Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’s “If You Leave” at prom, but the band actually wrote the song specifically for the movie. Echo & the Bunnymen did the same thing with “Bring On the Dancing Horses.” The soundtrack manages to fit perfectly with the themes of the movie, the tastes of its characters and the musical era during which it was compiled.” —Bonnie Steinberg