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What about "New Americana"? Cause that's the only Halsey song I know.
0 | 6/29/21 8:44 AM
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I said this back when the song was first released in 2006, and I'll say it again: The only person I really want to see cover this song is Andrew WK.
+3 | 6/28/21 11:30 AM
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Yes, and Devil Without a Cause was released in August 1998.
+1 | 6/24/21 11:25 AM
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Wait a second. I don't see anything about a new Kero Kero Bonito album.
+1 | 6/23/21 3:59 PM
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Get ready to rumble! I was the guy who initially spawned the idea to him to make such a song, since at the time he was just getting into making more music with lyrics and he and a few of his friends had recorded a few silly rap songs here and there. Because I wasn't a good lyricist, but I had a knack for speaking inane gibberish (to the point that I often curse in gibberish when I stub my toe), I thought it was a good opportunity to record a gibberish verse. It's probably the worst verse on there, since I had to record it quickly while my parents were out of the house while buzzed on caffeinated gummy bears, although there is an entire verse on there done by a someone who is considered deeply problematic now.
+4 | 6/22/21 12:04 PM
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It was a six minute long rap song which heavily samples a Japanese Pokemon Ending Theme recorded by five white nerds that was about an early 2000s Internet animation craze and that's all you need to know.
+6 | 6/22/21 11:11 AM
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Roger Troutman wasn't using Auto Tune. He was using a Talk Box, which was connected to a keyboard while he had a tube in his mouth, and then would play different notes on the keyboard while he sang through it. It has a similar sound to Auto-Tune, but it is also noticeably different. Peter Frampton also famously used a talk box, except his was connected to his guitar instead of the keyboard.
+2 | 6/22/21 9:51 AM
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Roger Troutman wasn't using Auto Tune. He was using a Talk Box, which was connected to a keyboard while he had a tube in his mouth, and then would play different notes on the keyboard while he sang through it. It has a similar sound to Auto-Tune, but it is also noticeably different. Peter Frampton also famously used a talk box, except his was connected to his guitar instead of the keyboard.
+2 | 6/22/21 9:49 AM
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I'm still convinced Kid Rock is actually the first artist to record a heavily auto-tuned song with "Only God Knows Why" which was on Devil Without a Cause which was released in summer of 1998 several months before "Believe" was, but that album didn't really get any traction till about a year later, and that song wasn't released as a single till early 2000. Also nobody would ever want to give Kid Rock credit for anything.
+7 | 6/22/21 9:41 AM
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As someone who once recorded an entire gibberish rap verse in his late teens in the early 2000s for nerdy rap song that people will still discover from time to time because the main lead guy involved has Internet popularity that will never die, I can somewhat relate to all of this.
+7 | 6/22/21 9:31 AM
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Let's just hope she doesn't go through a "Give Out But Don't Give Up" phase.
+7 | 6/11/21 1:34 PM
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Weirdly enough the song that kept going through my head was Natalie Imbruglia's Wishing I Was There.
+5 | 6/10/21 8:03 PM
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Then they should have made the headline "John Mayer's New Song Sounds like BTS" if they really wanted people to flood the comments.
+19 | 6/4/21 12:51 PM
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This honestly sounds more like Yacht Rock than it sounds like The War on Drugs. (Although it's probably closer to the post-84 Adult Contemporary stuff that immediately followed Yacht Rock, than actual Yacht Rock)
+3 | 6/4/21 12:07 PM
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Eh, this is too crisp sounding to sound like The War on Drugs. This just feels he is pulling from a lot of the same 80s influences that the War on Drugs pulled from. I feel like The Killers album from last year had stuff that sounded a lot more like The War on Drugs than this does.
+16 | 6/4/21 12:00 PM
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I just remember being confused when the Pyramid Song video came out because Kid A still felt like it had just come out and that album didn't really have any videos or singles, mostly just the short blips. So I was all like "Wait. Radiohead have ANOTHER album already?"
+2 | 6/4/21 11:30 AM
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Pfft Kazaa. The cool kids at this time were all using AudioGalaxy.
+3 | 6/4/21 11:26 AM
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Be careful what you wish for. Next thing you know, she's going to be hanging out with Joe Rogan.
+13 | 6/3/21 11:40 AM
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Don't say that too loud. The TNOCS folks might hear you.
+14 | 6/2/21 12:31 PM
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I once had a conversation with some people younger than me who said "Did you know that the lead singer of Don't Worry Be Happy, Bob Marley, killed himself?", and I had to explain to them that "No, the lead singer of Don't Worry Be Happy is Bobby McFerrin, and he's alive and well. No, Bob Marley did not kill himself. No, Bob Marley did not die of an overdose of marijuana either. Bob Marley died of a untreated cancer in his toe because he refused to have it amputated due to his Rastafarian beliefs."
+22 | 5/26/21 10:53 AM
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It'll probably just sound like a Haim album.
+24 | 5/20/21 11:36 AM
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That list of influences sounds really intriguing, and yet I can't help but expect it to just end up sounding like some generic monogenre pop.
+2 | 5/20/21 11:32 AM
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Still better than Rita Ora who is the poor man's Marina.
+4 | 5/19/21 4:07 PM
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Hah! I wasn't the only one thinking this.
0 | 5/17/21 11:46 AM
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Last really big headliner I can think of was R Kelly in 2013, and we try not to speak of that anymore.
+7 | 5/17/21 11:41 AM
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I was hoping they would take the lead from the Post Malone one and it would just be current artists covering unrelated mid 90s Adult Alternative hits. Katy Perry could be covering Dog's Eye View's "Everything Falls Apart", Deep Blue Something's "Breakfast at Tiffany's" or Del Amitri's "Roll to Me".
+1 | 5/14/21 3:33 PM
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So, basically "What if Lorde took more influence from the earlier work of her main co-writer/producer on Pure Heroine, Joel Little?"
0 | 5/14/21 12:31 PM
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He also filmed footage for an Adult Swim at around that same time that never seemed to come to light, which this very website wrote an article about: https://www.stereogum.com/49801/behind_the_scenes_of_andrew_wks_new_tv_show/photo/
0 | 5/13/21 5:58 PM
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I think they actually came from the intro to Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio".
+3 | 5/13/21 1:12 PM
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This was also the era of Chop Suey! being huge and that wasn't your typical radio hit either.
+7 | 5/13/21 10:56 AM
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So, the new Van Morrison song sounds like Jet?
+4 | 5/6/21 9:33 PM
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There's gonna be a Sunday Review on the other site of a Fishbone album in the next couple of months, isn't there?
+7 | 5/6/21 11:42 AM
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"it’s now almost certainly the ska album with the highest Pitchfork score in history" I think you're forgetting the 9.5 they gave Save Ferris. https://web.archive.org/web/20080618094521/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/21567-it-means-everything
+4 | 5/6/21 11:12 AM
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scooby dooby dooby
+2 | 4/28/21 9:07 AM
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The visuals feel a lot more Nu Metal than the song. The song is okay, but I don't think I care too much for Willow as vocalist. There are definitely other artists from the early 2000s that would have pulled this off better.
+3 | 4/28/21 9:04 AM
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It means that she's finally starting a new album cycle.
+12 | 4/27/21 1:01 PM
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I assume from the song title that it's about George W Bush.
+1 | 4/27/21 12:58 PM
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Fuck SNL.
+7 | 4/24/21 6:10 PM
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These guys are going to be the big crossover success of the UK Drill scene, aren't they?
+2 | 4/23/21 5:57 PM
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Ironically, they don't really lend themselves to being sampled in lo-fi hip hop.
0 | 4/20/21 3:37 PM
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