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| Jun 6th | |
Did he sneak the bong in or buy it at the merch table? | |
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what in 50’s entire career or discography would lead anyone to think he’d be too principled for something like this? He didn’t call his album “Get Rich Unless It Compromises You Morally”
People need to stop forcing themselves into trying to like his music out of some grim sense of duty just because Eminem can talk fast.
Young Jesus - The Fool
Vampire weekend - OGWAU
Hovvdy - Hovvdy
Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood
Ducks LTD - Harm’s Way
Burial - Dreamfear
Vince Staples - Dark Times
Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
Hana Stretton (HM cause it was first released last year
Courting - New Last Name
Phosphorescent - Revelator
Feel like there’s more that I haven’t listened to than in years past. Summer’s just around the corner
Love that this is the first piece on Stereogum with a Benjamin Netanyahu tag. I assume that'll change when he releases his post-punk EP
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I believe that the issue in question is choosing to perform with an Israeli musician in Tel Aviv. No one is making it about being Jewish apart from Greenwood himself.
This conflation of Judaism with zionism/Israel is at the core of every anti-semetic/racist accusation, and it's extremely tiresome.
Oh buddy, you better believe that’s going to change soon.
Ok, listen. I'm 46 years old. I played little league baseball starting at age 5. We were never very good, so we never won any championships and I'm not even sure our league had championships, yet I have a trophy for every season I played. So, I got participation trophies, basically.
So, first off, this is not a new thing. It's been happening since the early-mid 80's. Why is it that, in the last decade or so, it's talked about like it's a new thing?
Secondly, me being the age that I am, my parents, and the parents of my teammates and the people who ran the league at the time are/were boomers. So, who would have decided to hand out these trophies? Them, of course. We, as little kids, didn't ask for the trophies. They had to decide to hand them out. So why does that generation bitch about them so much?
I don't know if I have a point. It just always bugs me when I hear people around my age start with the "Kids these days, and their participation trophies!" bullshit.
Sometimes I get a little down on myself. Sometimes I don't feel like I'm doing very well at my job or maybe as a father or a husband or even as a person, in general.
Then, I come to Stereogum. I see they've posted an article that is critical of a big celebrity rapper. Then I read the comments and I see that there are people who exist that will go into a website that they have not frequented before, create an account and start fighting in defense of a celebrity that literally could not give less of a shit about them. Just one comment? Oh no. They're digging in. They're replying to ALL of the comments. They have a limited time on this earth, and this is what they're doing with their day.
After all of that, I take a step back. I realize that, you know what? I'm doing pretty good. As bad as things may seem sometimes, at least I've never hit that low of a point in my life. Things are going to be ok, log. Things are going to be ok.
@James Rettig, I didn't know you were leaving! Thanks for all your words over the years! I've definitely found at least a couple of new favourite bands from your articles! Good luck with grad school and the novel!