Francis & the Lights is out with a new gospel-inflected waltz, featuring swelling emotion and percussion that’s the electronic equivalent to Stomp. It moves your insides in a way that’ll have you hitting repeat any time you need a boost– just what you’d want from Sir Francis.
Instagram is a prime venue for lurking. But what do you do when people start to follow your trail? In a world where we can easily track likes and follows, some are resorting to desperate measures to hide their peeping activity. Enter: the lurker account, where a boyfriend can go to follow Instagram models, away from the eyes of his disapproving girlfriend; where a single dude can look at pseudo-porn without having it infiltrate his explore tab; where a queer guy can follow gay influencers without his conservative family taking note. In short, we’re learning that one algorithmic profile can’t contain everything that a person is, wants, or consumes. So the shady fake profile is where people go to keep parts of themselves safe. Can we get an app for that?
What do you do when you’ve got the infinite riches of Tinder and Bumble, but all you want is to date a fellow socialist? Use the socialist dating service, of course. A new app called Red Yenta, which looks suspiciously similar to @_personals_, currently serves about 3,000 Comrades around the US who are looking for a like-minded romp (or, fine, date). Which is lovely and well-intentioned, but at that scale, you’d have better odds at a Bernie rally, where people are at least a little bit geographically united and also have faces (RY doesn’t include photos in user profiles). Maybe Red Yenta will grow. Or maybe Elizabeth Warren will start a viral dating service for people who know and love policy. Who knows.
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