had high hopes for Azealia, but I haven't really dug any of her shit aside from "212". actually, her Interpol cover isn't bad either.
― UnderControl, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
i quite dislike her. the guntalk on this record is not very becoming, and as brainwasher pointed out to me, its odd for someone to diss nicki minaj on twitter than bite her style from a few years back so completely
― D-40, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 07:51 (twelve years ago) link
Huh, that's surprising
― Lil T the Bowed Jet (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 11:40 (twelve years ago) link
More and more I am realizing that "212" was a brilliant fluke
― Joan Cusack clumsily running into a water fountain (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 12:11 (twelve years ago) link
she is someone we've been aware of for like, all of what, five months? let's...... relax
maybe nothing will be as great as "212" but then again, to my mind that's a very high bar anyway
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
I don't get the adulation tbh. I don't think she's terrible but the only thing I find really distinctive or interesting about her is that she said "cunt" 5000 times in "212".
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
Guys I read recently that in Jamaica producers reuse each others' beats all the time but that it's ok because its is a culturally acceptable practice and the beats are called "riddims."
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
remember how really pissed off everybody got when it was discovered that 'umbrella' was using a standard garage band drum loop
oh wait
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
that's umber-ella iirc
― mh, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
eh eh eh
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
canucks, right?
― Lil T the Bowed Jet (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
she is someone we've been aware of for like, all of what, five months?
three years!
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
"we" is the overwhelming majority of people who know her for that one song, not people who have a global radar for every potty mouth female rapper on the planet earth
― internet somebody (some dude), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
amazing compliment, i feel very proud of that :D
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
lex rolodex
― mh, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
well regardless i think my point stands, which is that the weather is fine and life is too nice to worry about the relative quality of post-212 azealia banks releases in the second quarter of 2012
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't really understand the big excitement about that song anyway. ILM loves sass I guess.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
2005 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9SZIWOMnAU
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJvEhVd-ZWU
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
Diplo admits it tho:
https://twitter.com/#!/diplo/status/184132935182594048
which I suppose means dj-master d is getting credit for it. And Azealia Banks just hired Diplo (which I assume isn't cheap) just so he could show her one song he's been listening to for her to rap on top.
― Moka, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 05:15 (twelve years ago) link
someone my fb feed posted that azaelia banks is the "Uffie of rap"
― dayo, Sunday, 15 April 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
aren't they both equally rap/not-rap?
― some dude, Sunday, 15 April 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I thought Uffie was the Uffie of rap.
― Moka, Sunday, 15 April 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
guess that Uff gettin eaten
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 April 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
212 is the best pop song ive heard in years but i sort of like that comment
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 15 April 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
"212" is a pop song?
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 15 April 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
i guess maybe in england
"212" is good?
― some dude, Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it is...popular...music....
a wide descriptor not including say charles-valentin alkan or mika vainio
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
azaelia banks has the look of an american who will always be more popular in europe, like scott walker or burt stanton
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
doesn't seem significantly different to me than a lot of popular, even top 40 music stylistically unless you want to quibble about whether certain females playfully rapping over modern dance beats are more of a pop style than others
― mh, Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
212 is in the uk top 20 atm! A genuine bigger-than-kreayshawn pop hit
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
lol britishes
― mh, Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
Whoa great zing!
― Time, a group with Jam and Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
xps yep gets afternoon radio play, currently at #12 in the charts
appears not to be out in the us for a couple of weeks fwiw
― r|t|c, Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Does she have more than 1 good song? I had no other choice but to un-like her on facebook lmao
― billstevejim, Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
hah i had no idea this had suddenly charted
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
americans need some reithian authority figures to get them onto ab instead creed or w/e
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
Does she have more than 1 good song?
Nope!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
― Time, a group with Jam and Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, April 15, 2012 4:14 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark
i was just joshing around, jeez
― some dude, Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
it is crazy how there is virtually no such thing as measured praise for this song, though, like seemingly every person who likes it totally shits their pants about it
the stations have been boosting it pretty hard since whenever it dropped, dunno when the actual "release" was but it's been steadily rising last 6-7 weeks or so
In September 2011, the song was chosen as the 'Record of the Week' by Nick Grimshaw on BBC Radio 1.[3]
― r|t|c, Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
haha dunno about reithian but i was wondering there if there's as strong a tastemaker impetus about us radio as there is here recently
― r|t|c, Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
t/s cultural vegetables vs cultural vegetables
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
o/t but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7R8nZxIUFo
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
it would be crazier for someone to like it in a measured way i think
i mean i'm bang into it when it's on, it demands that you have to be, but then when it's over it's over and i don't ~identify~ with it after
though that may seem like it i wouldnt call that measured (not like ehh oh hey this is on, this is kinda good sort of tunes) just idk, limited
rambling ass post sorry
― r|t|c, Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
yeah p much, i think the imperative that enthusiasm for a pop song has to be precisely correlated to ~actual objective and nontransitory value~ is p gauche
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
that said i think 212 does have great value and will be appreciated for at least 350 years, by the right people
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
I love the the song. I think it's great. It's no big deal. I think a lot of songs are great. I'm never going to measure anything.
― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 15 April 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link