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"Printed, and to be sold by"... Spider Man?
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.
I TOO HAVE SO MANY OPINIONS ABOUT ARCADE FIRE'S NEW SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It occurs to me that I basically never listen to anything outside of the top 5, with the exception of a bit of MMT.
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.
Just delete half your record collection :-(
For reference, this is what hooks look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpoqzt2EHaA
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"?
This video makes me think CHILLWAVES NOT DEAD.
Just going to say it... Buffalo Tom's "Summer" is a perfect song and it's a shame nobody remembers it.
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?
Am I a horrible person for thinking that Car Seat Headrest sounds like an OK indie rock record from 1992?
I always turned up the single when it was on the radio... at least, like, the first twelve times it was on.
... named Chance the Rapper? (Serious, Rahm, LOOK OUT.)
If the kids want to know what the 90s were like... this is what the 90s were like. Plus a really nice stock market.