Upvoted for the most important (correct) placement – La Loose #1! Definitely an outlier stylistically but, for my money, the best melody she's ever written and one of her best vocal performances.
TVOTR still best band of the 00s. (Yes even better than *them*, whomever your *them* is.)
Song is pretty good! I still think Tunde, Kyp, and Sitek are at the peak of their powers when they play off each other. Hopefully the fact that Tunde is still getting weird with it on his own means they would still have gas in the tank if they put out another record together.
Just so long as he doesn't walk back wanting to write a pro-America version of "Born in the U.S.A." because that's still one of the funniest things ever and I won't be able to talk about it at parties anymore.
Fun fact about the building in the art is they have a glass slide that wraps around the top that you can ride down and it's fun! Sick song too. Kyp's a legend.
A prominent Black writer wrote an op-ed saying their name was painful to many Black Americans and they should change it. They listened. Is that stupid? https://variety.com/2020/music/opinion/dixie-chicks-name-rethink-lady-antebellum-1234636972/
This is up there with the time he said he wish he wrote "Born in the U.S.A." but "the twist I would have put on it would have probably been a little bit more pro-American."
I was at the Dallas show where it was clear most of us were pretty lukewarm on it all, but then some chud in the crowd straight-up BOO'd her. Once Danny came out, before starting a single song, he took the time to shame the boo-er, who ended up leaving the venue as everyone cheered. Real solid moment from Danny.
You either a) sing “nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy, and alcohol!" to yourself at random intervals in your day-to-day life or b) have just never heard this album.
All great picks. I'll also probably be putting the Bad Bunny album (first of two) in my Top 5. Incredible pop songwriting. Such a great entry-point into the really colorful world of latin trap that's exploded lately.
This is exactly why he disappeared. His frat boy fans don't give a shit about abuse accusations, but frat boy fandom is fickle anyway. The people who *would* have made up a more lasting base for him (read: ones with souls) are the ones who were rightfully pretty turned off by this.
I still don't know which is my favorite from FTBC, but I think Heavy Balloon is a better pick than The Other Sight giving a best new track to Cosmonauts, which may be the poppiest, but probably not even in my top 5 from the record. It's probably Relay for me, though I get Heavy Balloon was more selected as the best representation of what's great about the whole thing.
This usually doesn't bother me, but knowing all his love songs are about Jameela "reproductive rights are just like tenant evictions" Jamil makes buying into the idea of his lover being "precious" just a tad challenging.
If we're talking about the very specific criteria of "inconsequential album artist with a slew of hits who could potentially be more fun than Kendrick in a live setting at this particular moment in time," am I crazy for thinking 2 Chainz has a genuine claim to this?
This shit is beautiful. Anyone who still trots out "this isn't hip-hop" arguments with him is officially on full dinosaur-mode. He's in his own space and he's absolutely running it.
In Colour is still my favorite dance record of the last ten years. I'm not sure who's even close, honestly. Swim and Our Love make a good case. It's Album Time, too. But In Colour is top-to-bottom perfect. Not a second wasted.
Getting so charged up imagining them begging her to wait until they could bundle it with a tour announcement or any kind of auxiliary bullshit and her putting her fucking foot down because she knows we NEED this.
You can't go wrong. I agree When the pawn is the best entry point but I actually think The idler wheel is my personal #1.
1. The idler wheel...
2. When the pawn...
3. Tidal
4. Extraordinary Machine
Every other track ends with a skit of Uzi being abducted by aliens and him just going "Huh? What? What is that? I guess I gotta push this button." Greatest science fiction storyteller of his time.
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