I'd like to think the withering of Cardi worship in the music press has something to do with her almost proud admittance of drugging and robbing men in her past, but the reality is she's just getting closer to her expiration date.
See, you're half right. That was an accurate way to describe them when they burst onto the scene over a decade ago, although they did possess shades of both substance and attitude. Now they've blossomed into what they were always meant to be: music for middle-aged white people with child(ren) who live ultimately satisfying lives but must maintain a pretense of involvement with the rest of the world for a few more years before they finally climb into that pine box known as "contentment". Gee, kinda like Mumford & Sons fans!
Don't forget My Love. And while I think the timing is odd, he's most definitely an icon of the 21st century and deserves that particular award as much as anybody.
I wrote some stuff about Sublime yesterday (feels like a week ago), and if you replaced that band name with Tool it would perfectly sum up my feelings. I realize a new album is a HUGE deal to a lot of people, but I just can't be arsed.
Sublime is a band I would never listen to of my own accord, but do not have head so far up ass to deny their appeal or to act as if they aren't a part of my musical DNA. Like a lot of classic rock from the 70's, they have their place and that place is drunken gatherings with people who fondly remember the 20th century.
The days of Paul's Boutique are far behind us. If you want to make $$$ from sampling then you've got to pay. If you don't want to pay, they you can release it for free. How this is angering or even confusing to anybody is beyond my comprehension, although Logic always seemed like an outside-looking-in type of dude in hip hop to me.
It seems he's channeling his inner weirdo into the visual aspect these days, which admittedly is working to great effect but does not distract from the languid sameyness of the material.
I'm loving the snippets and very much in for this. I hope there's more Cherry Bomb vibes on this. As good as SFFB is, I like my Tyler productions more on the dirty side.
I would love to hear a stripped-down, mostly live Albini produced affair from her (which, given her direction with Masseduction, seems increasingly less likely).
It makes me deeply uncomfortable to see the term "meme" being used in any way to describe something from the 90's. Please refrain from ever doing that again.
I appreciate that they decided to go with such a wince-inducing, self-absorbed album cover because it saves me the inconvenience of ever pressing play on one of their songs.
Also, I'd just like to add that Touched By Comfort is indeed one of the most absolutely fucking beautifully steadfast, sun-rising-over-the-treetops, life affirming, yes ALL IS AWESOME AND SO ARE YOU songs of the decade, if not the century.
I fucking hate that stupid word "incel" and I really, really wish internet people would stop using it so damned often. Also, it indeed is a great song as absolutely everybody that heard it in the 90s will tell you, and if you can say you've never felt that way about a spurned relationship before then you can congratulate yourself for officially denying your right to be a stupid human.
LOVE Silverman but I'd like to draw attention to Lonely Avenue, his 2010 collab with Nick Hornby. Doc Pomus, in particular, is some of the best songwriting I think he's ever done.
Comments