I've been trying to put my finger on what I don't like about the way you write about rap music and I think it's that you're like THIS close to crossing the line in to fetishizing these artists. The way you brush off the violence especially almost seems in service of creating a constructed narrative and not actually grappling with the weight of the reality. Like ending your piece with "I also hope that he doesn’t feel the need to kill anyone else." Are you essentially saying I hope this guy gets famous cause I think he's fun/cool but hopefully no one will die along the way? I dunno that seems weird right?
This song feels like a missed opportunity. I have generally liked this band a lot but this kind of song has been done to death. There's nothing here to get excited about or latch on to. I can't imagine listening to this in a years time. Just feels really really insubstantial.
It's fitting that the #1 comment is Tom being testy. I'm looking forward to more low Beatles scores in the Numbers Ones to clutch my pearls about in 2019.
I'm confused. He says that he respects the genre, that he's not in to it being appropriated by white people, and that he also can't stomach a lot of it cause of how misogynistic it is. That seems like a fair assessment no?
I mean, Mother, God, Instant Karma, Woman, Stand by Me (maybe the best cover of all time), Watching the Wheels, Happy Xmas, Oh Yoko, I would not in any world call these songs unremarkable. Also talk about a band who just played and recorded no studio muss and fuss. The band would lay em down and he'd do like a rough mix and send them to get mastered. There's plenty to say beyond, "and then he got killed".
"and John Lennon got killed" Like 13 years later? What does that have to do w/ anything? You just yadda yadda yadda'd over a decade of his life and his entire solo career.
Ranking these songs kinda misses the point doesn't it? The White Album is a snapshot of a band in a moment. It's kinda more dynamic in some ways because it's so overstuffed. A more interesting article would have focused on the recently released outtakes and insight they give in to the forces that helped create an album like this. Also I think your #1 is an intentional troll but I can't prove it.
lil peep was shallow and his music was shallow. Understanding the Microphones = good and sampling them doesn't make him less shallow. I think his fame/death tell a story about celebrity and American culture, but it's not a good one and for sure doesn't deserve glorification.
Yeah I'm asking why he doesn't care. Also I don't have to accept nothin. Also referring to a woman as a Bitch is problematic. If it exists in a deeper context that's one thing. If it's a thoughtless throw away like it is here then it sucks and isn't interesting art. How many times has someone said "bitch get off my dick" in a song. The fact that it's meaningless is problematic SANDRO.
I am genuinely curious about what excites you about this kind of music beyond that you're clearly in to their aesthetics. Admittedly I have only listened to what's linked in this article but I was reading through some of their lyrics and like they're super misogynistic. Reading through this post I get you kinda like the narrative around them and you make some passing mentioned of what you like about the way they rap but honestly what about the content of what they're saying? I'm not saying I need all music to be sanitized but like "Bitch get up off my dick this don't belong to you
In the lab cookin' naw bitch won't make no song for you" I feel like you're glorifying this from the perspective of a music critic but then don't actually look at it critically enough to say anything about what they're actually saying. I just don't get it.
To me, the title is a silly, snotty reference along the lines of "Come on Feel the Lemonheads". Uhh the title is a reference to Ornette Colman's the Shape of Jazz to Come and it's WEIRD that this article didn't call that out.
They may have cribbed from NoU in their message/politics/dress but their music is so much more technical and precise. This band get's nowhere near the credit they deserve on that front. Their drummer is out of this world good and honestly I don't think just on a musicianship level most punk bands then or now hold a candle. Always was sort of baffled at the backlash but I think it's cause punks but especially hard core kids really love to set these opaque rules for what has integrity and what doesn't. Maybe they got too much hype and the ultra hardcore crowd needed to rebel against that. I dunno. I do know this album is a fucking ripper and probably one of the most accomplished punk/hc records of all time.
Nah. The panel about MLK is especially insulting. MLK's philosophy of non violence wasn't just based on efficacy though he made a lot of strides, it was in order to say that that non violence is the right and moral course. Even for your worst enemies. Also it was very largely based on the teachings of Gandhi. But yeah cool comic I guess. Anyway my point was just that Kanye sucks but man people are frustrating.
Ah yes let's look at every situation through the lens of your performative internet non-activism. Maybe try for deeper understanding and accepting that people are complicated and that the entire course of human history hasn't subscribed to the rules set forth by your friends tweets. Dude helped to non violently emancipate an entire country you knuckle head.
Gandhi lead a peaceful movement to end imperialism in India. Kanye is an egomaniac who can't understand anyone who doesn't acknowledge his self proclaimed genius. Sound familiar? Naming his record Yandhi is gross but he's been being gross for years now and in the end, dude just isn't that interesting. Press is so unable to turn away for a spectacle that you'll feed the ego and then feed off of it. Ignore him. He's a POS.
I think this song describes our current culture so incredibly well. Easily one of the best songs to come out this year and maybe in the last few years.
The song "Think Twice" by Eve 6 puts all other sucky songs to shame with the totality of its suckyness. It's suckyness stretches to infinity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IXrr6Rrdk0
So your point is that he expects more from a random concert goer than an artist whose work he's critiquing and calling a classic 20 years after the fact? hmmmmm.
I do not find it believable that you didn't consider the likelihood that this article would bait people in to a contrarian tit for tat or that that idea didn't serve as a potential motivator. My feeling that this is not believable comes from also having read a lot of your other work. I don't doubt that you actually like this record but I think there's a stronger case to be made that it's actually god awful, but that's a whole other thing.
Remember when you had a whole post gleefully dragging some girl who rapped the n-word when Kendrick Lamar puller her up on stage? Here you give Kid Rock pretty much a complete pass for using it intentionally and disgustingly. But yeah, classic album I guess...
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