Holter got the best kisser of the bunch. Not like that other dude in the video who looks like he is literally eating the woman's face and she's not into it.
I've heard a lot about this, but no one seems to want acknowledge it happened. Not making anything better about the hardcore scene, but -- at least in the shows going down in my area with bands being written about here -- they're also not doing jack shit to require attendees to show proof of vaccination or wear masks even though it's fully possible in my state to do so. For all the supposed open-mindedness of the hardcore scene, not being destructive COVID-spreading events is not part of it.
Sam Hunt also dropped a new single in the past few days, and with that news I found out that he's apparently going to jail for 48 hours due to his 2019 DUI (he was actually sentenced to 11 months and some change, but the sentence has all time suspended except 48 hours)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voXA7SjM_2w
The song kinda sounds like a Brothers Osborne cut,
What does Megan Fox even do nowadays beyond be a walking thirst trap? There was the Transformers franchise, which her acting was the butt of the jokes of, and then that stopped, and then she was married to the David from 90210 until she decided she wanted to be "relevant" again for a few more minutes, so she dumped him and got with MGK.
Maybe it's because it's out of context from the rest of the film, but that video made no sense to me and makes me the think the whole film is a mess. It's very much the norm nowadays for a lot of new albums to be released alongside a "film" streaming on some platform, but content for the sake of content isn't it for me.
Love Kacey, though.
Everything about Drake is so cheugy nowadays. If this were 2015, this would have lit up the Internet (and I'm sure it still is...) in a way that would have been a moment, but the culture has moved past manufacturing viral videos for the sake of gifs and memes. It's more about TikTok. And that beard. I say this as a guy with a beard who is realizing that men's facial hair fashion has moved beyond the beard and back to at least close trimmed stubble, if not clean-shaven: Even his fade and beard look is cheugy.
Yup, some days after a workout, I am literally speeding home because I'm about to shit myself. It has a lot to do with the fact that you're forcing pressure on your body, but also ergonomics, because when you weightlift, you are sometimes positioned in a manner that induces the pooping sensation, much like the function of a Squatty Potty.
Music aside, I would hate to be Ruston Kelly amid all this. Those "breadwinner" lyrics are not flattering and very damning, but at the same time, without their relationship existing, Golden Hour would not exist, and nor would the success that came out of it for her, so in a way, if I were him, I'd probably just want to kill myself right now because it's not a good look, and it's going to be out there among the masses, and... man, I wouldn't be surprised if he just disappeared from the music scene altogether.
I literally would be okay if no new albums came out for the rest of the year. Give me the new Low and Kacey, and I'm good for the year because there's been enough.
Sounds like someone read the Stereogum comment section consensus that this thing is too damn long and is trying to pass the blame for that elsewhere.
I haven't listened to it yet. I think this is one of those albums I want to wait and read what the reviews are first before I give it any of my time.
I get that, and it's not the bands stop experimenting in interesting ways, but the last time Fucked Up put out something that had universally critical acclaimed, had genre-transcending commercial appeal, and substance was David Comes to Life. Everything since has either been a mixed bag or something that loyal listeners could appreciate. The people who showed up at their Coachella set after David Comes to Life aren't the same as the people who will show up at a club gig to watch them sludge through a jam about a horse.
I love Turnstile, think this album is probably going to get a Pitchfork BNM score, but upon wondering where they go next, I think this will be the furthest they push their sound outside the lines similar to how Fucked Up and Trash Talk could only go so far with what they were doing. It's the glossiest without losing the heaviness in an indie-appeasing vacuum.
A lot of pop and hip-hop artists on major labels no longer release their efforts on CDs (the newest from Vince Staples and Tyler, the Creator for example), but the difference is that she went out of her way to try to push a $25 box full of recycled paper and a download code onto consumers in its place. I'd also be interested in seeing if the download code truly reduces environment impact, because as has been studied with physical vs. streaming, streaming an album x amount of times (I think it was 12?) makes it worse than just buying it physically due to the greenhouse gases produced from electricity consumption on all the factors (server, home Internet, computer.)
I'm not sure there's so much of a backlash against Poptimism™️ as so much there is a backlash against a very specific corner of it, with it being alternative pop that wants to toe a lie between mainstream appeal and a more considered, indie-folk songwriting style that really peaked when Taylor Swift gave us both folklore and evermore. Since then, Phoebe Bridgers is oversaturating the market with background vocals on everyone's albums and will not stop releasing remixes from Punisher. Clairo, Lana and Billie Eilish served up pretty muted followups to albums that were built sturdy. This Lorde album is baring the brunt of all of that really.
Poptimism™️ isn't getting a backlash, though. I think a lot of people just want the big pop albums to sound as big as the events that their releases build themselves out to be.
This brings up a bigger question of whether we held Lorde up on a pedestal too high and too soon because of Melodrama. I might be in the minority here, but Pure Heroine had a handful of solid bangers, but it also had a big chunk of pretty samey, skippable tracks as well, so I'm not totally bent out of shape that this one was a misstep because I think most alternative pop stars bat 50/50 at best.
During the first few seconds, I was like, "Here it is... the third track, much like 'Lover', that gives me hope that the album might be alright after all."
It does not really go anywhere, though. There's a few brief moment of cool production in the center there, but overall, it sounds like a non-singles track of an S Club 7 album, which isn't very high of a bar.
Her lyricism has gotten sharply worse on this album, too.
While I've not enjoyed the singles either, I am still leaving the door open for the possibility that they're red herrings. If you recall, it was three summers ago (nearly to the date of Solar Powers release) that Taylor Swift's Lover came out, which had really two really bad singles. The album turned out to be alright, though, and both of them coincidentally have a similar vibe about them being more airy and florid.
I don't think many people blamed Jack for her songwriting itself being his fault, but I do think there is something to the way his production sounds that can embellish the underwhelming nature of a not so good song, which is exactly what has been happening with these early Lorde singles, and arguably, his "hot streak" has been cooling lately elsewhere in his work with the latest Lana, St. Vincent, and Clairo albums because the songs themselves on those albums range from "meh" to "just okay."
Maybe if she read more of the Internet, she'd see that was the case all along instead of this made up narrative that attempts to validate the songs with accusations of being creatively misconstrued.
I appreciate that being acknowledged, because without it, it does give the impression of Wh*rr being "redeemed," and while I do not know what, if anything, has changed with the band's beliefs since (transphobia was not the only issue, as they had a pattern of misogyny as well prior to the G.L.O.S.S. comments) or how the rest of the artists in the scene feel about them, it does make it seem like everyone's cool with them to be mentioned in the same breath.
It's also weird that the article calls out Alcest's past associations with a previous "hateful" band but totally looks past Wh*rr being the same thing.
There is a lot of referencing of Wh*rr in this article, which I understand is part of the narrative of this, because I also recall how they were among one of the first bands doing this sound, but if memory also serves correct, their relevance got wiped off the map very soon after due to making transphobic comments that had everyone from Waxahatchee calling them out to their own label severing ties with them: https://crackmagazine.net/article/opinion/whirrs-transphobia-is-no-surprise/
It's not just stated in a footnote either with a later disclosure of recognizing what became of them because of their bigotry, much like you might read an article about the influence of some black metal bands while also mentioning their controversies. There's even music of them embedded in this feature.
This article really does a lot to prop Wh*rr up in a very positive way, and I'm really not sure how I feel about that, because I don't have evidence that the members of the band have evolved as people since outing themselves transphobic.
Johnny Jewel is the Billy Corgan of the independent Italo synth-po scene, and now we are going have to deal with a Zeitgeist-era version of Chromatics for it.
Between your hot takes on Dogleg and now Foxing, what we really need to be talking about here is how you need to embrace your potential as the critical villain of modern emo that it deserves.
The tweet that brought me hear read "Kacey Musgraves sang her new songs "Camera Roll" and "If I Were An Angel" on a podcast, and they sound fantastic. Listen."
Yo, I think you all need to pull it back over there with the excitement. I'm out here thinking she sang them in full or something, and I come here to find out there's two 10 second vocal demos with no music behind that reveals much.
Of the two songs that shows the most to make an opinion on, I'm going to come out and say that "Camera Roll" goes a little too obvious into witty wordplay territory that I'd rather see her move on from. It's too much of a trope in modern country pop.
This is pretty boring. Like Sam Smith level boring. It really seems like he and Billie blew their creative wads on her debut, and everything since has steered into a lane of writing music politely enough where it will appease algorithms and the lowest common denominator of their massive fanbase.
“I do not find it ethical or wise to allow those with the most power (government, corporations, organizations, employers) to dictate medical procedures to those with the least power.”
He's wrong here because most companies that are not Silicon Valley giants such as those in retail, grocery and service industries will be doing their most to avoid mandating vaccines so that they can keep low wage employees from leaving (and are thus putting others at risk) and ignoring the concerns of all the vaccinated employees who wish they would require it.
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