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Is adding slices of cucumber to drinking water a common thing in hot European countries? They seem to serve it here a lot and I’m apparently the only person who find it tastes (and smells) absolutely nasty.
Marathon is going well. One can see more of Paris, too, compared to biking, since it’s slower. But it’s a very challenging route. The hills are deadly.
After Wattpad and Instagram, the Turkish government has banned Roblox, too (it is a website where kids can make small programs and games. Why was it banned? Because gay or something). There are videos of crying kids everywhere. People seem to be organising protests and such, but one can see that the spirit of Gezi 10 years ago is gone. It’s so fucking sad.
Addison Rae is some famous TikTok person, I honestly don’t know much about that, but she has been dabbling in music and been affiliating with musicians whose work I admire so her music has found itself into my recommendations on Youtube and shit. Yesterday she released a new single, [Diet Pepsi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hki6RqI-eMA), and it’s honestly pretty good, but I’m kinda laughing at how obvious the product placement is. Like, at the end of the music video she legit takes ta can of Diet Pepsi, the otherwise black-and-white video suddenly gets colour, and the Pepsi logo is presented to the camera loud and proud.
Since forever I’ve always sort of loved product placement in pop music, because it’s just funny how obvious it always is, but it’s another level to name a song after that product. I wonder if she got paid, I’m guessing she must have, and if so, which came first? The idea for the song or the deal?
A lot of the time social media stars turned into singers are really shit, but Addison Rae seems to be getting it. There are some others too, Troye Sivan’s last album is really good. But most of it is just shit.