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hey: i was wrong! i thought van had a history of being a little racist, but it turns out it's all very new to him? he hadn't spoken out very much on politics at all before covid started, though apparently his latest album gets into a bunch of right-wing stuff. i had heard grumblings of him being an asshole but apparently that's just in his personal life, he doesn't have the receipts that someone like Clapton does. sorry to mislead!!
+7 | 5/6/21 11:24 PM
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It's not controversial to say any of this, but you need to actually SAY any of this. If you release a song explicitly just called "They Own The Media", especially when you have the political history Van Morrison has, people aren't going to think you're talking about corporations. They're gonna think you're talking about jews. There are so many ways to say what's right and true about money corrupting mass media and government, but reducing it to a simple "they" has been an anti-semitic dogwhistle for so long that it's unrecoverable, as a phrase. Antisemites are going to think you're talking directly to them, and they'll probably be right.
+24 | 5/6/21 8:47 PM
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like a lot of these things it depends on who's sending it and what the setup is. it can be mean-spirited for sure. but as far as memes from 2007 go? it's practically saintlike
+6 | 4/24/21 8:53 AM
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nukey throne rules!! i've had a lot of fun with that game.
+1 | 4/23/21 9:43 PM
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even still, if you're gonna come to those comments with a gimmick, that's a damn good gimmick. every comment that starts with "meanwhile on whatever chart..." just makes my eyes glaze over so hard
+11 | 4/23/21 9:42 PM
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i think tom's opinions have been pretty consistent, and that song embodies a lot of the things that he's never been big into. i'm more upset that he's so anti-rickroll, which is so much harmless fun. a quick little "made you look" that's stayed evergreen for what, close to 15 years now?
+13 | 4/23/21 9:41 PM
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what the fuck are you on about my good bitch
+2 | 4/20/21 7:04 PM
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honestly, like, even if he did she, what's his case? the simpsons didn't make an episode about him, they made an episode about Willoughby. they don't slander him at all, they just make fun of a fictional character who just so happens to be extremely similar to him. he very clearly and obviously has no case.d
+5 | 4/20/21 8:59 AM
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we also have to give credit to lil b, who figured it out even earlier than that
+3 | 4/15/21 6:35 PM
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you've gotta assume the SECOND it looks like he can put on a profitable tour again kendrick is gonna surprise drop the album he's had waiting in the tank all year
+5 | 4/15/21 6:34 PM
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God I miss Das Racist
+7 | 4/14/21 12:08 PM
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him complaining about his sales figures in the middle of whatever this is is just, *chef kiss*
+1 | 4/12/21 8:35 PM
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i had i think a similar reaction to Centipede HZ that a lot of people did- on release i didn't like it because i didn't fully get it, and now i love it because i still don't fully get it. that album is a mystery and it's great. best burrito-hitting-a-windshield album of all time.
+1 | 4/12/21 2:39 PM
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it's white ink- it'll look way less like that once it's healed. it looks like a wound now because right now it kind of is
+3 | 4/12/21 2:24 PM
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reviving scene has been Grimes' MO since at least Art Angels, hasn't it?
+1 | 4/12/21 2:23 PM
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i would absolutely be all for this and most of the stuff she does if it weren't for the cartoon evil union busting billionaire her connection to him kinda ruins all of it, to me
+4 | 4/12/21 2:23 PM
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i completely agree with you but also, i absolutely do not want to hear justin bieber's take on any of this and am glad i don't have to
+8 | 4/5/21 4:45 AM
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or maximum Stone Cold Steve Austin points. you know, either/or.
+4 | 4/5/21 4:45 AM
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i'm certain they've tried that, but breaking into the music business as an artist isn't exactly an easy proposition
+9 | 3/31/21 6:45 AM
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that's exactly their point- Sinatra was open about the fact that he didn't write his own songs and people never had any problem with it, something today's artists could learn a lot from
+16 | 3/31/21 6:43 AM
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his album covers are all either the coolest ever or just laughably hideous and i love them both look at the cover to hey clockface. that shit is SO funny.
+3 | 3/25/21 2:17 AM
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his album covers are all either the coolest things ever or just ll
+2 | 3/25/21 2:15 AM
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Dom would've been perfect on this beat
+2 | 3/24/21 10:58 PM
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i don't know if there was much of a brouhaha aside from lana being weirdly defensive about it before anyone had said anything she was like "this is my Album Cover it's all WHITE people i KNOW i should be CANCELLED right" and we were all like, okay? can you move over a bit, i'm trying to rewatch cowboy bebop
+8 | 3/20/21 8:18 PM
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how does she like, not have a publicist
+26 | 3/20/21 8:06 PM
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It isn't always alcoholic, usually it's just flavored sparkling water. Alcoholic seltzers are a new thing.
+3 | 3/17/21 1:22 AM
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"better off alone" is the best song ever written
+4 | 3/15/21 8:25 PM
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i would assume her label cares
+2 | 3/15/21 12:50 PM
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giving billie eilish a grammy for a song about how little she wants a grammy and how much they depress her is a next level move
+20 | 3/15/21 5:24 AM
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i guess me being a dorothy zbornak stan isn't helping things, huh
+9 | 3/4/21 8:39 PM
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I get Gavin DeGraw vibes
+3 | 2/26/21 2:29 PM
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it's their best album, and just as revolutionary and influential as the ones that came before
+2 | 2/22/21 1:21 PM
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and Deadmau5 and Marshmello don't go far enough with it. I know they're just dudes. Daft Punk? they're really two robots
+3 | 2/22/21 1:15 PM
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too many of the songs were just the robots' vocoders singing stale ballads and it's just like "...this is what you guys had in the tank that whole time?"
0 | 2/22/21 1:11 PM
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gutted that i'll never get to see them live. it's amazing how many times they changed the world with just four studio albums. what a loss.
+37 | 2/22/21 9:55 AM
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i'm not an animation nerd, but as a huge fan of the older Teen Titans show it was a lot to get used to, having a show that's essentially a sequel series take such a drastically different tone. it's like if ten years after Next Generation ended, Star Trek Go! came out, with the same cast but as a full-on sitcom. that show would rule, but you'd have to make your peace with it not being the thing it used to be anymore.
+3 | 2/20/21 3:02 PM
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music youtuber Todd in the Shadows- who's great, and whose videos are always well-edited and insightful and entertaining as hell- talks on twitter a lot about having to do several edits of his videos just to find one he can upload that isn't instantly struck down by copyright bots. he's constantly having to change how long any one video clip can play or what sources he can use where out of fear of his videos instantly being taken down- never mind monetization, because the record labels usually take all his ad revenue no matter what. it's frustrating to think about- how much more insightful music content could we have if people like that were able to just make what they're gonna make?
+8 | 2/20/21 2:58 PM
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it turns out i was a fool and the ps1 intro starts Channel Orange, not Nostalgia Ultra. i deeply apologize for questioning your journalism. not giving the money back though
+8 | 2/16/21 2:51 PM
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uh, ACTUALLY, the video game noises at the start of the album are very clearly the PS1 startup sound, which is a 32-bit system, leagues ahead of the "8-bit video games" you claim them to be. having proved that i am the coolest person in the room, i will now take all of your money, thanks
+12 | 2/16/21 2:00 PM
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upset that this is the thing these two are doing but, eh, maybe it's good
+6 | 2/13/21 6:58 PM
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