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I didn't watch the concert footage, my small flippant remark was based on seeing the main photo for the post where I counted at least 8 of the visible crowd members filming. This isn't even a pandemic thing though, most concerts pre-covid were the same.
Live music fans: We are sad, we can only watch performances via screens during the pandemic. Also live music fans: Woohoo, now I'm at this concert I can film it on my phone, watching the screen the whole time, so I can watch it again on a screen later.
Makes me think of Julia Michaels and Halsey and any number of guest singers on Major Lazer slow jams. Definitely a trend, kind of mush-mouthed and vulnerable? Slurred-sad-pussycat-core? Seems to be a rule though that every B tier or lower streaming service original show has to have a ballad sung in this style as a sync at some point.
He certainly knew how to carry out a "hit" in every definition of the word.
3 of the speakers are Black and Jennifer Lopez is Latinx, Biden would also like to remind you some of his boyfriends have been rappers
It could just be a false negative because he is pretty obscure. Do you think this should have more attention or "mean boyfriends" should be getting less?
I think about how this would go down in any other workplace. If he signed over the rights to his music then they own it. In my job I'm fully aware anything I create at work becomes their intellectual property. If I were fired for sexual misconduct or something tomorrow I'm aware I couldn't take my work with me.
This is disciplinary action taken in a workplace environment though. Whether or not Polyvinyl took action on a whim who knows but they would need contracts to back it up. If they don't have a legal foot to stand on he can take legal action to protect his income and clear his name. Conor Oberst came back from untrue rape allegations. It can be done. So many things we don't know in this case and can only speculate. Talking about concrete things though, Polyvinyl have the power to take this action so are, Beach Slang rips are still all over YouTube, if you own his music already it hasn't disappeared, the internet hasn't collectively wiped his musical existence from the Earth through bad vibes.
That is two separate issues. In regards to what these women claim to have experienced I think it would do them a disservice to minimise and try dismiss their experience. The second issue is more valid though, should private behaviour ruin public careers? I think that has to be considered on a case by case basis. In this case I think the label knows both parties and probably more details and the decision is theirs to make.
From Charlie Lowe's tweets it seems more women contacted her with what they claim are very similar experiences of abuse. Maybe that seems subjective but specific behaviours in specific contexts are objectively abuse and in this case, I believe them when they say things they experienced fall firmly into the category of abuse. Even if he had issues they don't justify behaviours that women he has been intimate with would refer to as abuse. I had a friend with paranoid schizophrenia who went into psychosis on three different occasions. If you've ever experienced someone you've known when they were mentally healthy decline into psychosis you see them lose all grip on ordered thought and you can see their behaviour is way beyond their control. I think if he truly had paranoid schizophrenia and these women were dealing with disordered behaviour as a result of that they wouldn't be framing it as abuse.
I don't buy that his family wrote that at all. I was in a bad relationship with a narcissist and in trying to make sense of it afterwards spent countless hours researching actual narcissistic personality disorder and other people's experiences with narc abusers. To me the gaslighting in this "family" message is textbook NPD...the whole thing reeks of it from start to finish.
I liked the album title more before I saw the artwork. Seems like the art director was maybe aiming for something like Diane Arbus but missed the point and infused it with none of the dissonance that Arbus' work or the title conveys.
I'm not trying to come for Tom, I can see from how much time he spends in the article tracing around the problematic attitude that it doesn't sit right with him but there seems to be a reluctance to outright condemn it. Speaking plainly, Carti's lyrics and behaviour show he doesn't believe women are his equal. Our relationship with rap is messed up if we feel a pressure to not state the obvious.
Just the usual blind eye turned when it comes to toxic masculinity in rap though. Raps about how many ho's he has but how his shawty better not have slept with anyone else (possibly ever,not just during the relationship) and the takeaway is 'hmm, he sounds vulnerable'. To quote the most used word on the album.... "what?"
I just spent way too long reading the opinions of people on Twitter about Bean Dad and you are right, monster comes up a lot. "I was sexually molested and this guy is reminiscent of my abuser" is actually a whole sub genre of responses.
Wait, did the can opener tweets get attention because someone thought they were cool or heartwarming? Or was he being cancelled from the start? If this was a Milkshake Duck I'm confused because he comes across as a bit of a dick in the can opener tweets.
He is going to lose his mind when he hears about Cameo. Or maybe he has and the only reason Kenny G wasn't there is because he is sick of rejecting Donald Jr's requests to record messages about "impressive alpha male hands".
The hot chocolate station is always a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
She should get Phil Elverum to produce her next one, he produced Mirah's "C'mon Miracle" and it was amazing. And while it was indie singer-songwriter at it's core it wasn't hushed or adult-contemporary-tasteful, it was adventurous and had hooks (which this phase of Taylor Swift is kind of missing).
I guess I respect Taylor Swift, as a very very casual listener (as in I sometimes hear her songs when I'm at the gym). I may or may not know all the words to "Blank Space" and sing them in the shower because I liked it enough to let it lodge in my head just from hearing it three times a week. And I've liked indie for forever so I feel like liking this should be a foregone conclusion. BUT Cardigan was like the aural equivalent of oatmeal to me, I listened to it all the way through about four times and still couldn't tell you what any of the melodies were. Willow seems a little better. Not sure I'll be hearing this at the gym anytime soon though.
Please post a clip of you rimming Billy here if it ever happens. I can't decide what noise I imagine him making, like a long drawn out "weeeeeeee" from the Billy-Corgan-rides-a-rollercoaster meme or maybe screaming like before the guitar solo in "Quiet".
Didn't she put a hex on Trump or something though? She is on record as not supporting him, accusing her of otherwise just seems petty. I vote left but I'm really tired of this attitude that if someone does or says anything remotely problematic they must in fact be a fascist and need to be dragged as such.
The media is part of the problem. Despite the overwhelming majority of child sexual abuse victims being female (an estimated 82% on RAINN's website) news stories less often frame male against female child abuse with words like "pedophile" or "pedophilia", they save that for sensational stories about Catholic priests touching boys.
I wonder what the Venn diagram of people who visit Stereogum and people who care that Meghan Trainor's Christmas album is out this week looks like.
I just found some Google images of her with a blonde bob, case closed.
I often wonder if Karen O has ever asked to speak to someone's manager.
I used "we" as a general royal plural thing, woops. From your video I'm seeing what is generally referred to as the "broken windows" style of policing. Aggressively and proactively hunting down minor misdemeanors. There is a lot of writing out there suggesting it doesn't work and your experience would support that. Ticket inspectors are a presence where I live. They have a handheld device that checks your card but only use it during blanket checks that aren't targeted, they go from one end of the train to the other. The times I've seen people get busted the inspector generally asks them to top their card off at their destination. Fines are possible but I've not personally seen them enforced.
I'm conflicted. I'm "poor" and use public transport. I wish it was free and can see it would fix problems but have never looked in to exactly what kinds of costs are associated/how reasonable that is. Maybe a deeper dive into that would make for a more thorough argument? I don't live in Canada and we luckily have pretty good ticket inspectors where I live. Especially on our trains we had problems with creeps sitting next to women that were travelling alone and pestering them, less often issues with people drinking alcohol and/or being verbally abuse, on rare occasions violent assaults or rape. Once the presence of ticket inspectors was increased those issues largely disappeared. I feel like it is a no win situation, you take the risk of having people in power abuse it or you have regular assholes abuse the lack of supervision. Probably taking money and fare evasion out of the equation would make for less unfair policing. I would not want to go back to no policing though like we had 15 years ago, I used to feel unsafe even during the day.
I don't think this person is a concern troll, they agreed with YBB on a few points. I'm someone you have called a "bootlicker" on here before because I don't believe rioting and property damage are justified during protests and I have what I think is the just plain practical view that if someone provokes police on purpose they will get most likely get messed up and, depending on how pre-meditated, unlawful or unnecessary the action, they might well deserve it. I'm not trying to start something but you should probably think about how unfairly you treat people who don't share your views to the exact degree. Most of the people you heap scorn on for not having your precise values aren't the enemy. Before I get called a concern troll too, my stance on this issue is the police should never have been in that apartment and they should be facing far more severe consequences than they are. Racial discrimination probably was what caused it to go so badly but with no evidence to prove it I can only speculate although I wish they were punished severely for what can be proved.
Looking forward to the McM.I.A meal featuring truffle fries.
I can see where I was unclear, the multi-millionaires I'm talking about are Bernie and Halsey (although I googled it and Bernie is just shy of multi millions apparently, he is a little below 2 million).
I agree. I'm saying that if they aren't currently living the change they want to see, in their own lives, then they are just hypocrites.
I don't disagree but as one of the millions of people who have never earned over 40k gross income in a year I hope these multi-millionaires are putting their money where their mouth is and are forgo-ing the usual financial gymnastics people in their position do to pay as little tax as possible, otherwise they can be first against the metaphorical wall too if it ever comes time to pay the piper.
I know I'll get hammered for pointing out responsibility is a two way street but if you see Lana in person, in a mesh mask, just social distance and stay at least 6 feet from her. If you want to be real strict the whole thing was a shitshow. Even if she'd been wearing a proper mask, there are images of her pulling it down....once you've touched the interior of the mask any virus could transfer to your hands. I'm not seeing her sanitise her hands but she may well have been regularly. In the scheme of things though I'd say this rates about a 2/10 when it comes to things to get upset about. If no one there had the courage to ask her to put on a better mask and sanitise before they dealt with her then they can hardly complain.
Pro tip: Let a thread get a day or two old then go ham. Or make sure Stupid Asshole has posted in a least 3 threads that week. I'm astonished I've only been in the bottom five once and it was for saying Black MIDI are pretentious (which I'll double down on now, haha!) I'm tempting fate by acknowledging I've deserved more downvotes in the past anyway.
King of Limbs didn't hit me in the feels and emotional catharsis is my primary reason for listening to music, not sure if others feel the same. Probably an insufferably sad boi thing to say but true. TKOL felt like a point where the music became more cerebral than immediate, kind of like how I feel about Bjork and Volta. Both albums were points I stopped being an obsessive fan of each.
On Kid A, yup. My best friend and I would obsess over Radiohead albums when they came out and each time we automatically agreed on the one standout track that just really did it for us. Idioteque on Kid A, I Might Be Wrong on Amnesiac, Myxomatosis on Hail to the Thief (she called me up the first time she heard the album and was like "fucking Myxomatosis" and we gushed about it), All I Need on In Rainbows. When they hit the perfect juxtaposition of a great groove with some painful emo sentiments it is like sonic catnip.
I'd like to nominate Do Make Say Think for inclusion in these shenanigans.
I was hoping the chorus would be "Ruth walked so Judge Judy could run".