I've had "Bad and Boujee" as my Grindr headline for the past month or so, and before I even knew it was a meme, someone hit me up "raindrop."
"Drop top," I replied, and it was a really cute exchange until he decided to show what a thot thot THOT he was. Even similar music taste cannot overcome the reveal from no profile pic to disturbingly graphic introductory photos.
1000 comments later...
1. Kanye - TLOP
2. dvsn - Sept 5
3. Frank Ocean - Blonde
4. Nicolas Jaar - Sirens
5. Young Thug - Jeffery
6. Weyes Blood - Front Row Seat to Earth
7. Kaytranada - 99%
8. Tribe - We Got This...
9. Solange - A Seat at the Table
10. Roly Porter - Third Law
My first time in the negatives is a diss to my idol.
To clarify, I was thinking a "Through the Wire" of mental illness/breakdown. And I was kinda dreading a trainwreck show tomorrow, so Kanye's self betterment really is worth my personal loss, future masterpiece or not.
I'm seeing him again next week and am praying to Trump that he's in the Thanksgiving spirit. The rant at the last show was just about how Donda always knew he was a spazz and sounds like he's really been owning that title since.
My friend and I were standing to buy a beer and this dude is admiring my shirt and asks who is that? Uh, Donda West, but he didn't even know who she was. Like how are you gonna be an ostensible Kanye fan at his show and don't even know the backstory of his mama? Ye's speech of the night was tangentially about her; he was talking about how she'd known he was a bit of a spazz. Was so cute.
Seats and while I loved the view, receiving pics from a dude I know who was on the floor was so fucking triggering. Ye and all of the lights up in your face, like damn I should've just spent the extra cash.
Watching the ~waves~ of orange people under that stage was one of the most mesmerizing things in my life. There's this point where it tilts and this big ass ramp comes down to join ("Heartless" I believe) that was just so sick, like religious experience level. And I copped myself a Donda/Robert Kardashian airbrush tee.
Based on the singles released so far, there's no way it's better than Blackout -- the album Pitchfork loved but was afraid to score back in 2007, when poptimism was still a nascent concept, much less the rule.
A highly recommended read, "(Britney in the Black Lodge (Damn Fine Album)":
http://pitchfork.com/features/poptimist/6734-poptimist-10/
I love his playlists on Spotify as well. That super fast, super happy, super dumb dance music I hated 10 years ago (Cascada, Everytime We Touch, for instance) is so appealing to me now.
Check the Danny L Harle remix of Years & Years "Shine" if you haven't heard it yet. Possibly his best work, though Super Natural comes very close. Also the remix of Christine & the Queens "Tilted". Boy's doing big things.
Shura imo is boring. I loved her song White Light but the album is just there. Avalanches album doesn't compare to their debut but I'm hard pressed to call it BORING. I mean there's Danny Brown on it, twice.
Criminal one of the greatest videos of all time. That one headless torso really piqued my interest at 16, and it's funny, nearly 20 years later, that's still something I regularly encounter.
Best Fiona album? Extraordinary Machine bootleg.
This was my undisputed SOTS 2016 until I found out Taylor wrote it, and now I'm left without a clear front-runner. Are there even any mainstream bangers right now?
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