Look, I honestly don't care about this story either way, but the "It's just a clip!" argument is totally hollow. This is the 30 second clip the band CHOSE to lead with specifically to provoke this exact response. Quit clutching your pearls.
Little-known, but crucial, piece of indie trivia: Bubba Sparxxx was a huge inspiration for Phil Elvrum when making the Microphones "Mount Eerie" album: http://theseancetwo.blogspot.com/2010/12/headwaters-attempted-explanation-of.html
Honestly I'd like to see more indie music writers from my demographic (i.e. aging white millennials) take this honest approach rather than keep trying to convince us they're down with the youth.
Not to shit on USC, which is a good school and more elite than any school I've ever attended.... but if you're dropping a quarter million dollars to get your kid in *there*, you're fucking up. It's not ivy league by any stretch of the imagination, and you'd be better off just handing your kid that money to invest or start a Silver Lake hipster cactus/witchcraft shoppe.
To be fair, Blink 182 broke in 1997 and stayed huge through the first half of the 00s. They're much more relevant to people who were in high school in the 00s than the Pumpkins or Jane's, both of whom were on the wane just as Blink were blowing up.
Their last album came out 5 years ago and their last hit single was in 1999 (or 2003 if you count the "Big Yellow Taxi" cover featuring Vanessa Carlton).
Their retro star is rising in the indie blog world, but their mainstream career has been dead for almost two decades.
I can't for a second imagine wanting to see this, let alone putting in the months (years?) of work it must have taken to create, but I feel the same way about Outside Lands so I probably don't exactly have my finger on America's pulse.
Since blochead recently started the tradition of leaking our group chat roasts to Stereogum, here's a transcript of a recent conversation about Logic:
* Logic is music for guys who do "Nas hands" in every photo
* Logic is music for guys who point to their temples and say "consciousness"
* Logic is the MOST EARNEST
* Logic is for guys who corner girls at parties to tell them about the Four Elements of Hip Hop
* Logic is the next evolutionary phase of Devon of Majical Cloudz
* Logic is for kids whose moms call Target “Tar-zhay”
* Logic is for kids who wish Atmosphere could use the n-word
* Logic leads the league in “yeah, Kendrick is pretty good. But have you heard Logic?”
* Logic is for kids who only speak in four letter words, but don’t actually curse
* Logic is for kids who smoked weed that one time
* Nah Logic is for kids who vape weed with their affluent parents
* Logic is for dudes who say "I know I already tried turning you on to Hopsin, but peep this one song"
A long time ago, M2 aired a collection of "banned videos" including this one along with "Smack My Bitch Up", "Pagan Poetry", "Closer", and a bunch of others I can't remember. The Bjork video was from 2001 so it had to be some point after that, but not much later because I still had a VCR and taped it.
I agree. I can't imagine who in 2019 would make this movie, or promote it on their website.
https://cdn1.imggmi.com/uploads/2019/3/24/bc80386415fb976922d1075d095f8e5c-full.png
I hear you. But again: nobody here denied anybody sympathy or claimed to be "satisfied by condemnation alone."
It's just weird how there are always people like Streisand who feel a compulsion to do all kinds of gymnastics to give every benefit of the doubt to the aggressor when people are trying to talk about *victims*. It's also darkly ironic since this tack always seems to involve huge doses of the exact type of pearl-clutching and self-righteousness they claim to oppose.
Also, I'm not an expert in this stuff but read up on some of it when the Lostprophets story came out, and I think "pedophilia is a sexual preference like any other" is just way too simplistic a take.
Most people who engage in this behavior are in part getting off on the secrecy and taboo of the whole thing, so it's not like you can isolate the attraction to some natural inborn genetic programming. The very fact that harm is inflicted upon an innocent is itself part of the enjoyment. When taken together, the evidence tells me that MJ enjoyed it for similar reasons.
I don't really understand the point of your comment. Nobody brought up the concept of evil or denied that sexual abusers can be empathized with.
Streisand is saying she empathizes less with VICTIMS because they were "thrilled" and it "didn't kill them". That's a shitty, wrongheaded, cynical take regardless of how nuanced your view on pedophilia as a disorder might be.
I am not especially impressed by Beto and I do find it funny that he seems to be perpetually auditioning to play Obama on SNL, but at some point you have to take "he doesn't have a platform" with a grain of salt. People are STILL saying Hillary Clinton had no platform, a claim easily dismissed by anyone who actually watched or read anything about the election. Most people get their news from memes.
My dad loved this song when I was growing up, and Carly Simon's greatest hits was one of maybe 10 albums he kept in regular rotation.
I didn't know about the Mountain Goats cover but it's pretty appropriate given how dense and evocative the lyric is. It's funny to imagine John Darnielle in an alternate, less-punk life, playing the role of a Jim Steinman or Bernie Taupin filling the radio with literate lyrics.
It's funny to think about acts like David Crosby at this festival, in plush climate-controlled trailers watching satellite TV and eating $50 worth of rider food before going onstage.
And I don't say that to mock Crosby or anybody else. It's just amusing to think how far removed we are from the Woodstock era and how nakedly ridiculous it is to keep thinking we can recapture it.
I still can't get over what a bad song "Sunflower" is. Some VW songs are better than others obviously, but this might be the first truly pointless, underwritten, "there's no there there" song they've put out for public consumption.
It's doesn't even sound like *good* Phish.
This was my FOURTH attempt to post this and I figured out it's because SG filters the word "har mon ica". Just more censorship from the Stevie industrial complex
OK it seems like I can post now but I don't remember everything I wrote before but I'll lay out my case against Stevie.
Extended har mon ica solos suck. Always. Maybe there are some Blues Traveler stans here who beg to differ but I feel confident in this take.
Also. Stevie is the original soul cheesemonger. Yes, his hokeyness reached its zenith in the 80s but he was never not a singing Hallmark card.
And finally... Ebony & Ivory. Just Good Friends. That's What Friends Are For. You can try to compartmentalize the man's collab track record and deflect with your Obama gifs but in your heart you know I speak truth
Comments