What do you do with a synthpop album that doesn't get gender quite right? How do you determine if an artist 'communicated' clearly, poorly, or not at all? Thomas articulates a creator-focussed metric for trying to understand ambitious work, and FST proposes that everything is a text, including people.

TWs apply for discussion of genitals, crude language around genitals, discussion of (what is imo) transphobia in a song, mild PoMo bullshit