Song and video are incredible. Also crosses my mind the sheer fucking athleticism that she has to do that. I get tired after planking at the gym for 60 seconds like damn.
The footage from that NY Aphex show looked amazing. I'm a LA dude who can't afford Coachella and am praying to the gods of mischief and 90's circuitboards that Aphex Twin does a non-festival socal show PRONTO.
I hesitate to say it but... mayhaps he no longer needs the rest of the group? I can't imagine a solo track from any of the other members being as compelling as these new songs, but it's very possible Joba drops something this year that makes me eat my words.
Incredible video. But the track itself may be my least favorite of the five. "Gloria" is my favorite and probably one of my most-listened to tracks of the year so far by any artist. Hoping for another full-length but I don't mind a consistent stream of loosies either.
I hesitate to say this is an *inherently* bad thing. Mad Max: Fury Road and Blade Runner 2049 are just as beautiful, affecting, and inventive as any so-called "original" movies of the past ten years, for my money.
What a weird freshman class. Kind of amazing that we've almost hit the point where B.o.B. has spend more time in the spotlight as an unhinged flat-earther than as a viable hitmaker.
*straps the fuck in to say, again, I like the cover art a lot and think its aesthetically consistent with everything else they've been doing lately and I'm very on board*
100%. I feel like he's been considered "one of the greats" by a lot of people for close to a decade now and I never even considered him "one of the very goods" until the last few months.
His trajectory has always struck me as remarkably similar to Elvis's, honestly. At least the early parts. Taking a black artform and channeling it through his white face, so white kids will respond to the societal danger of supporting something black, while not having to commit all the way to engaging with the black experience. And then it becomes the dominant style of music for young people. Maybe a harsh way to look at it. But I think that's really what happened.
I'd never listened to a full Neil Young album either until I had the opportunity to see him this past summer. I got hooked pretty much instantly, and he put on one of the best festival sets I've ever seen. Long story short, very worth your time!
The orchestral stuff on Harvest feels so out-of-step with the rest of the album to me. Gold Rush, while more stylistically varied, feels more *tonally* consistent, for my money.
I still love the fact that Win is, like, super athletic lol. Because absolutely fucking nothing about him, his look, or his personal "brand" suggests athlete. And yet!
7 is fair for White and Nerdy. Are there any Weird Al songs that would get an 8 or higher? Or does the very nature of what he does limit his songs from ever reaching true classic territory? Eat It and Amish Paradise are probably at least 8's.
The entire history of Drake is him "taking inspiration" from other artists and sounds, but at least for a good while, he did it quite well. The ethics of his culture vulturing are worth debating, but I will say even when he showed up on tracks from people like iLoveMakonnen and Fetty Wap and did *exactly* the same thing they were doing, I feel, personally, like he often ended up doing it better.
Fall 2015 he played ACL and he was coming off Back-to-Back, Hotline Bling, Tuesday, and (even if it was a bit of a flash in the pan) Jumpman. I don't think I'd ever seen a festival crowd eat out of a rapper's hand like that. Hit after hit. And almost all the songs he played that night hold the hell up today. I wondered in that moment how he would ever top the level of cultural/creative relevancy he was at in that particular moment. Turns out he never did. Looking at the peak of his career, I'd say it was right then and there.
Quelle also produced "Monopoly" by Danny Brown, which has an absolute fucking monster of a beat and may be my favorite track either of them have ever done.
The "big in Japan" phenomenon is incredible. The fact that Scatman John is still one of the all-time biggest American recording acts in Japan is one of the best cross-cultural happenings ever.
It's wild that such an incredibly catchy, memorable song has no chorus. Like, if someone had asked me what the chorus to the song was, I would probably think about it for several minutes before realizing there wasn't one. I think Thunder Road is the same way.
Yeah I was kind of surprised that the Faces could even get a mention without acknowledging how absolutely all-time perfect "Ooh La La" is. Maybe because Rod didn't sing it. It's still a "drop everything and listen if it ever comes on" song for me.
Coke I'm with you on this I tried to be anti-Malone for so long but I can't deny his jams. Def Pro-Malone these days. Psycho bangs like a motherfucker.
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