The beat is OK – it’s not overly mainstream, which is good, but it’s not very interesting, which is bad.

The lyrics are a bit better – he sounds a bit like an old guy complaining about the music of today, but he has a point and makes it well.

But the performance is the best: he stands there in front of an audience who probably love mainstream contemporary rap and basically tells them how s–t it is.

Some of us do intelligently point out how derivative and relatively uninspired a lot of Indie music is, but generally what happens to us is that individuals who like a particular act will respond with unintelligent and thinly disguised insults like “If you think art can only be appreciated because it is original, then you will no doubt have a hard time appreciating art.”

“old-school in spirit” = ‘inoffensively retro and generic’, which is fine for some but not so much for me.

Yeah…

That remix sounds terrible, as if the producer already had the backing track and lazily just stuck the M83 parts over it.

Do you have any links to his stuff?

All I could find was a video of him on M.I.A.’s site not doing very much…

I wouldn’t go as far as to say it’s “pretty generic” or that it reminds me of Lil’ Mama, but… yeah, it’s nothing too special. Just the same post-Baile Funk production M.I.A.’s been rocking for the last few years with an unmemorable rapper on top.

Come to think of it, that’s pretty much what you just said.

P.S. What up, Zo-Zo?

… He’s just horrible.

Via Google:

“Suddenly the world is upside down
Broken like glass
And the earth is shattered to pieces
In front of me, in front of me
And I’m burning and you will burn” – Celine Dion ‘Jours de fievre’

Is that similar enough to “it’s only a matter of time before we all burn”, which, by the way, is like a line from a 13 year old emo-kid’s poetry.

And as for videos about loss: ‘My heart will go on’ from ‘Titanic’? That has probably a similar number of cliches.

You’re a fucking idiot if you DON’T think that.

Damn! Someone from Crocodiles must be reading Stereogum because they just sent me a MySpace friend request with an ironic note.

Now I feel bad for being so harshly critical… I’ve learnt my lesson.

To set the record straight:

– Just because I generally prefer music that transcends genre it doesn’t mean that genre-based or retro music is bad; it’s just something that doesn’t excite me.

– I don’t think my MySpace music is very original; it’s idiosyncratic non-accessible ideas deliberately presented accessibly at best .

See you later, alligator.
In a while, Crocodiles.

She is one of the rare acts to be championed by Stereogum that I don’t think are utterly pointless.

In fact, I think she’s really interesting.

nothing makes sense anymore.

Boring.