This psychedelic pop anthem is one of the stars of Sophia Kennedy’s Monsters, a follow-up album to her surprise-hit debut in 2017. “I’m Looking Up” explores grief through sound: a lush piano riff rocks back and forth as if it’s in the fetal position, keeping an eye out for what it’s lost. It builds over time to a sort of explosive rocket launch, and then quiet— as if to say, where anything ends, there’s room for something new. Listen here.

Take a moment with me and recall a time when you couldn’t buy things from Instagram. Seems like the distant past, right? Well, it was 2018. These days, an ad slides into your feed and assuming your credit card details are saved on your phone, you can follow it to a purchase in like 2 clicks. That means we’re living the capitalist dream where everybody is sort of shopping all the time, even when we don’t mean to be. Kind of crazy when you put it that way, isn’t it? (Thanks to Terry Ngyen for calling this out.)

Attention economy aside, I wonder if the insidious drift to e-commerce has some upsides. For example: all those suburban stores that closed this year? They’re starting to become offices and schools. Why devote all that space to stuff when you could use it for activities!

I also want to acknowledge that wine shopping has become a deeply pleasant experience over the last few years, which, if you compare it to what it was before, is totally nuts. Think back to the ’90s warehouse-style stores with their “towering stacks of cases and big-name, blue-chip wines on pedestals,” as Hannah Selinger puts it in Punch. Now, you go to your sweet corner shop and talk to the cute wine person about what cheeky bottles will go best with your meal or weather or passing mood. You may not have any actual stability, but you do have a wine guy! One who, for that matter, might be flirting with you, or maybe that’s just how lovely this experience is for everybody. Appreciate these things!