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Thank you for the music rec, have you listened to singing in te reo Māori? Check out Whirimako Black.

I never thought much of Williamson aside from dimly hearing about the HIV/AIDS

patients scandal of the 90s, but after the Maintenance Phase podcast ep on her I'm really hoping this buzz dies off soon.

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I think Williamson is interesting insomuch as I’ve anecdotally seen a lot of new age stuff hit with my generation and I think Grim is right to acknowledge it (hough I think the TikTok stuff is a little bit of a stretch, but a decent hook).

My business (news/editorial/etc.) goes way hard into analyzing policy and not enough into the soft stuff (narratives and “vibes,” mostly). The soft stuff moves voters quite a bit.

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It's true, we are emotional creatures. I for one would like a Return to Love but I'm not going to vote for it over cold hard policy (not least because I'm not American but you get my gist) however as a young un, probably could have been swayed.

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