{"id":258,"date":"2025-08-03T07:50:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T07:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/?p=258"},"modified":"2025-08-03T07:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T07:50:30","slug":"jam-of-the-week-prom-night-by-anamanaguchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"jam of the week: Prom Night, by Anamanaguchi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/07-Prom-Night.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I could be lying next to anyone<br>But I&#8217;m still thinking of you<br>You&#8217;re like the lighter to my cigarette<br>Can&#8217;t set the flame without you<br>And if you want me to come over, baby<br>Then that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m gonna do<br>Just give me all your loving and don&#8217;t slow down<br>And don&#8217;t you dare hold back at all<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go down and take me up to heaven<br>Oh, how I live just to be next to you<br>I need you here with me forever<br>I live for you to love me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-love me, love, baby<br>Love me, love me, love me like it&#8217;s prom night<br>I wanna hold you close like it&#8217;s the very first time<br>Lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-love me, love, baby<br>Love me, love me, love me like it&#8217;s prom night<br>Wanna be this fantasy all night with you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>AWESOME throwback to my years of early gender discovery in the mid 2010s. i love Girling Out to this song so much . tunes like this are the redeemers of pop music as a genre after all the damage done to it by the factory slop on nova radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>anamanaguchi are fun and hopeful and bright and they do chiptune, which rocks bc i feel like it sort of ties in to the whole Gamer Girl thing. while we historically know it as a cliche aesthetic, dare i say a cringe one, that knowledge is informed by the prejudices of the time we live in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>seeing pictures of scene girls holding controllers and with cool keychains all over their whole shit and 4 kandi bracelets per arm its like, ive been making fun of this forever, but thats someone <em>i<\/em> could be. the Gamer Girl archetype inspires hope on some level. it always has. for me. because im gods special little acorn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could be lying next to anyoneBut I&#8217;m still thinking of youYou&#8217;re like the lighter to my cigaretteCan&#8217;t set the flame without youAnd if you want me to come over, babyThen that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m gonna doJust give me all your loving and don&#8217;t slow downAnd don&#8217;t you dare hold back at all Go down and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jamoftheweek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snotgrl.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}