Future "Fyre Festivals" will never be as much fun because now if a rich kid gets stuck at a terrible festival, they'll just use the opportunity to audition for the eventual Hulu documentary.
Yeah, R Kelly's the worst and they should definitely remove the sample, but I can kinda see how this would happen. What I find funny is how adamant 40 is about not defending all Drake's lyrics. IMO, a totally reasonable position for a guy engineering an album that the artist willingly chose to name Certified Lover Boy.
lol, as someone who went to college more in the Waka Flocka Flame era, it is both heartening and existentially terrifying to see him become a classic rock figure for this crowd. Parts of Flockaveli haven't aged well (or tbh, were dated even when the album first came out), but for me, it was an easy inclusion on my 25 of the past 25 years list, just because no one goes hard quite like Waka Flocka Flame goes hard.
Same! If you Google the band it’s in the first results—they’re arguably more famous for transphobia than music at this point. Even if you separate art from artist, it feels like an essential part of the story.
IDK, I totally understand wanting to distance yourself from colonialism, but I always assumed it was an ironic band name. Like how the War on Drugs doesn’t support the War on Drugs or how Iron Maiden doesn’t actually support medieval torture/Margaret Thatcher.
2012 me would be losing my goddamn mind. In 2021 it’s hard to get excited about new Kanye, even if you leave aside all the political nonsense. Kinda sad, but it was a good run while it lasted
Yeah, I’m of two minds about TNOCS comments in SUD: I’m glad someone filters out the wheat from the chaff (that #2 hit kinda close to home, and I do genuinely enjoy how personal some of the commenters get there), but it is unfortunate that the range of articles represented is so narrow.
Is it really that weird? I feel like Clairo and, like, Khalid are just too different points on the same spectrum of vibey, Spotify Recommends-core. It’s never something I actively seek out, but I generally feel positive-to-neutral if I hear them in a public place, which seems like the intention
It only works for NYC, LA, and Chicago, but ohmyrockness is the absolute best for this. Way more curated, but still pretty comprehensive. Otherwise, as others have suggested, I’d just look at all the venues you’ve gone to before and subscribe to their email lists—most places are pretty good about sending updates whenever new tickets go on sale.
Interesting! TBH, bucolic, Fleet Foxes-type stuff usually isn't for me, but that cover photo is really striking and the first video is deeply unsettling. Will be curious to hear the whole thing!
I get the sentiment (a lot of mellow indie also isn't for me), but there are still PLENTY of unhinged singers of all genders. You should check out "MMMOOOAAAAAYAYA" by Illuminati Hotties. It's... a lot. Like, maybe too much. But it really grew on me and is very reminiscent of early YYYs.
To me, she definitely feels like she's in a similar boat to Blink-182 or My Chemical Romance (i.e., dismissed/ignored by lots of critics at the time but now, ironically, one of the defining influences for some of the buzziest musicians today). I think she definitely lost some cool points from having her whole aesthetic basically co-opted by Apple commercials. In hindsight, though, pretending that what she did is significantly different from what, say, Joanna Newsom did is silly. (To be clear, I think they both rule!)
Was going to make a mash-up joke about “Dry Your Eyes, Mate” and “Red Eyes,” but I realized the only lyrics I actually know from the latter song are “WOOOOOOOOO!!!”
Have to laugh a little at Swift describing Dessner as spontaneous. I have no doubt it’s true by pop star standards, but by indie standards the National seem like one of THE most meticulously thought-out bands.
I half agree: I don't think musical discourse is run by the left, but I do think it's run by idiots! Love Stereogum, but music discourse at large (i.e., Mumford level) is controlled way more by the centrist, libertarian-ish tech bros who run Spotify, Twitter, Ticketmaster, etc. And while I'm sure many execs at the majors vote Democrat, the Grammys make it pretty clear that their real political affiliation is "bland centrist platitudes and cocaine."
Spent the week checking out some albums from earlier in the year on the Top 50 article. By far my favorite discovery is For Those I Love (which I think missed the list but several commenters mentioned?). I hear bits of The Streets and Irish post-punk, but it's more... hypnotic. You could almost imagine the Weeknd going over some of these beats (even though the album sounds nothing like The Weeknd).
I like it! As others have said, I hear both George Michael and Jampire Weekend (both positives for me, though I know the latter is controversial.) And I think both the song and video are weirder than they’re getting credit for (or maybe it’s just weird to see Lorde wearing something not monochrome, lol)
Nah, I’m downvoting the opinion on Japanese Breakfast, lol. To be fair, I didn’t see them til 2017, and it’s possible Zauner got better. But I was actually shocked how strong and dynamic she was as a live singer, since the first two records layer on the vocal reverb (which is fine, just not something that usually translates live). At the risk of hyperbole, I think it’s kind of a Dylan situation where she’s actually really solid technically (by rock n roll standards), but people think she’s bad because she has a nasally tone. (Then again, as a fan of The Mountain Goats and They Might Be Giants, I definitely have a higher than average tolerance for nasal tones, lol)
"Parade" and "Mediational Field" from the Paprika soundtrack by Susumu Hirasawa are both worth checking out (and definitely seem like something Zauner would be into). I don't even remember liking the movie that much, lol, but the soundtrack makes me want to backflip off a motorbike and punch my shadow self.
I'm not even really into Gaga, and I think it's an amazing album cover. I could totally see, like, the Cramps doing something similar, so it's wild that she did it at the height of her pop imperial phase.
Also it feels like she's making fun of all those conservative "I sexually identify as an attack helicopter" jokes, even though her album came out 7 epochs of internet discourse before those were even a thing, lol
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