Band tours constantly while working full time jobs for a decade before finally hitting big, then keeps release well reviewed albums and building their fanbase bit by bit = winning the lottery
I initially misread that first line as you saying it came out a month after you were born and for a moment I was flipping out over 10 year old commenters.
But I kept reading. Thanks for sharing.
Beach House had a simpler template with which to expand and contract. Grizzly Bear has always been a complicated operation, with all the varied instrumentation, the funky time signatures, complex harmonies etc
Rossen has always been my preferred side of the Grizzly Bear creative/vocal engine and this sounds like the type of stuff that made me love that band in the first place.
When I think of 1985, I think of Songs From the Big Chair, of Shout and Everybody Wants to Rule the World and Head Over Heels. It’s a definitive sign post of my childhood and I love those songs every bit as much now as I did when I and they were new.
Glad they’re still around doing their thing.
I lived in Ridgewood, Queens the year Light Up Gold was released. The only time I ever had a neighborhood theme song. And yes, I often found myself walking through there stoned & starving.
The fun part is why her uptempo pop songs (“Someday”, “Emotions”, “Dreamlover”, “Fantasy”) are so much more memorable than her ballads or her later hip-hoppy sex jams. The only really “genuine” thing about Mariah is when she’s having fun.
I don’t really hear much age. This is pretty much calling back to Just or Electioneering style singing, just produced in a rawer fashion and with a less melodic lyric.
Hey Scott, et al.
I was in the midst of typing up a relatively lengthy post on the Black or White comments and I was almost done when the page randomly refreshed and ate the whole thing. I think the random refresh was likely to refresh the ads that are gumming up every corner of my screen.
I love this site and I want you guys to get paid for what you do but the ad situation is kind of out of control. Just giving feedback in the hopes that something can be done to help you continue to get paid and me to not want to tear my heart out while you do it.
Thanks,
Turd
Yeah, it fits right in with that era’s Blackstar and You Want It Darker, final albums that manage to sum up lost artists at the end and hang with, if not best, the pinnacles of those artists’ respective discographies
I’m with you on the “rapping over a famous song and calling it new” phenomenon, and agree that Puffy is the worst offender. But I think this track somehow becomes the exception that proves the rule. It helps that PM Dawn didn’t borrow True just to spout generic self aggrandizement as Puffy and his ilk were want to do. They find a totally new context for it and create something original which is hard to pull off, especially with a song as well known as True.
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