For whatever reason I've always felt rather indifferent towards the Smiths and now, after years of presuming I just missed the boat, I'm wondering if I was on to something.
If you're going to mainly be known for writing social justice anthems, and your core fanbase is going to be social justice folks, then I'd say you have a pretty reasonable expectation that you have to play by their rules.
I suppose some people liked it more than me, but I really thought the "Answer My Text" was pretty lame. If this is what counts for hooks in 2017, then we're in trouble.
Plus, now the lyrics are kind of awkward... like, "NOOO DON'T ANSWER THAT TEXT YOU IN TROUBLE GUUUUURL"
This kind of reminds me of the whole "Birth of a Nation" episode with Nate Parker. People think that liking something or other gives them social justice points, and then when the thing loses that social justice cachet, nobody cares about it anymore.
Speaking AS A GAY, I always thought the only good thing about the band was the name (WHICH IS GREAT), and their music was just a boring garage rock rerun with some flavor-of-the-month queerness thrown in to entice the social justice-ey kids.
I SHOULD be happy, but getting new songs from these guys just feels a bit odd. It's like having a Titanic sequel where it turned out Jack survived and all our sadz were for nothing.
I love how rap dudes are basically like, "yeah, let's include Justin Bieber purely for the $$$." Like, what if Radiohead got really greedy and said "fuck it we got to find some way to use Justin Bieber on this track"?
So now that Frank Ocean got record of the year on both the Stereogum and Pitchfork reader polls, can we please go ahead and just admit that Frank Ocean pulled off a Paranoid Android/Kid A double-masterpiece combo? Like a shoryuken followed by a hadoken?
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