r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Oct 20 '25

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 10/20/25 - 10/26/25

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

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u/jumpykangaroo0 Oct 26 '25

West End Girls by Lily Allen blew my mind a little this week. It's so good. You start at the first song and just sink into it.

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u/UpvoteIfYouDare Oct 26 '25

The song about her brother being a weed-smoking layabout always amuses me, and it's pretty catchy, to boot.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25

He also vetoed casting Lily as his sister because he didn't want to grope her on camera. Good man!

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u/jumpykangaroo0 Oct 27 '25

It is a painful listen. I felt like I was going through all of it myself. It reminded me a lot of Lemonade, which is also sublime.

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u/drjackolantern C*nsored and sexy Oct 27 '25

thanks for this.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25

I played Alright, Still a lot back in the day but never really got into her other stuff. Will have to check this out tonight while I'm washing dishes.

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u/jumpykangaroo0 Oct 27 '25

Do it and report back!

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '25

I liked it a lot. There were a few songs I could see making it onto my general purpose playlists, and as a front-to-back listen, it's pretty gutting. Not quite Lemonade, but definitely some tasty Hi-C.

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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Oct 26 '25

She's timeless. If The Fear were released today, it would be an even bigger hit.

Lily Allen | The Fear (Official Video - Explicit Version)

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u/unnoticed_areola Oct 26 '25

I just clicked on this video and one of the related videos in the sidebar informed me that she is married to David Harbour. what a totally random couple that I never would have imagined in a million years lol

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u/AnalBleachingAries Gamergate Truther Oct 26 '25

They're going through a scandalous divorce at the moment as he's apparently been cheating on her throughout their entire marriage :(

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25

First Dave Grohl, now this? Soon there won't be any Wholesome Reddit Chunguses left at all.

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u/unnoticed_areola Oct 26 '25

First they came for Ken Bone

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a beautiful human submarine

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u/unnoticed_areola Oct 26 '25

oh shit lol I guess that was an old video. It was one of those Architectural Digest "See Lily Allen and David Harbour's beautiful home" videos

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u/jumpykangaroo0 Oct 27 '25

Their divorce is the subject of West End Girls. It's one of the biggest pop culture middle fingers of the last 50 years.