snrub provokes much-needed debate
― mark s, Friday, 10 March 2017 14:49 (seven years ago) link
tbf Sheeran's lyrics are so bad it's hard to notice much else
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 10 March 2017 14:49 (seven years ago) link
also tbf, I *do* focus on music first -- and in many cases, never actually get around to remembering the lyrics to even some of my favorite songs. But it's because of that stuff like Ed Sheeran is so insufferable. The music might just as well not exist. As a matter of conserving our shared mental and emotional bandwidth, it shouldn't exist. It's a moral issue, really.
(ironically, his song that was accused of having ripped off Marvin Gaye is actually the only way to redeem its music -- by recycling parts, it's at least producing less completely new waste)
― Dominique, Friday, 10 March 2017 14:57 (seven years ago) link
if you say 'lyrics arent important' that's just bc you don't listen to much music with bad lyrics
― flopson, Friday, 10 March 2017 15:00 (seven years ago) link
huge part of the craft of lyricism is just not writing anything so awful that will stick out and distract from the music
― flopson, Friday, 10 March 2017 15:01 (seven years ago) link
everyone who says lyrics don't matter gets sentences to a week in the 4 non blondes/edie brickell thread
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 March 2017 15:13 (seven years ago) link
unless the vocalist doesn't enunciate i have no idea how you can ignore lyrics any more than you can ignore any other prominent aspect of the musical arrangement. they're right there, in your ear.
― lex pretend, Friday, 10 March 2017 15:14 (seven years ago) link
j.k. i don't even hear lyrics
no idea if the first lines to "juicy" by biggie are "it was a all a dream/i used to read word-up magazine" or "it was poo poo pee/tony danza watermelon mezzanine"
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 March 2017 15:16 (seven years ago) link
Pitchfork even reviewing this shit over countless other deserving obscurities it'll never touch is the true atrocity here
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Friday, 10 March 2017 15:19 (seven years ago) link
fp
― flopson, Friday, 10 March 2017 15:20 (seven years ago) link
you useless dullard fuck, when will you fuck off forever
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Friday, 10 March 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
"it was poo poo pee/tony danza watermelon mezzanine"
is this lyric on Low-Life or Brotherhood?
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 March 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
lmao
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 March 2017 15:22 (seven years ago) link
hay guys conservatives and ed sheeran fans have feelings too
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Friday, 10 March 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link
why wasn't chaki's milquetoast zing preserved solely for you I ask
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Friday, March 10, 2017 10:21 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
can u just go write another shitty epic novel or something?
― flopson, Friday, 10 March 2017 15:29 (seven years ago) link
at least that would constitute some sort of artistic achievement
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Friday, 10 March 2017 15:30 (seven years ago) link
Does it matter what you say if you play shoegaze? I'm too dull to make poetry, looking for a loophole here.
― Evan, Friday, 10 March 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link
you're a fucking plague on interesting discourse. good day
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Friday, 10 March 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link
shitting in the corner of an empty room counts as a artistic achievement in certain cases
― Evan, Friday, 10 March 2017 15:32 (seven years ago) link
wait was that last part to me? Because I knew that already.
nah flops and lj are working something out i guess
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Friday, 10 March 2017 15:34 (seven years ago) link
can you find some other precocious 16 year olds to talk at? sure they would be much more impressed
― flopson, Friday, 10 March 2017 15:35 (seven years ago) link
didn't read review, but what would you actually say about Ed Sheeran music other than it is bland and utterly without character? You could take out his vocal, and insert one of 100,000 aspiring pop singers, male or female, and use the tracks as demos to shop. And probably not get signed, because 99,999 other people are doing the exact same thing.― Dominique, Friday, March 10, 2017 9:29 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkPitchfork even reviewing this shit over countless other deserving obscurities it'll never touch is the true atrocity here― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Friday, March 10, 2017 10:19 AM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Dominique, Friday, March 10, 2017 9:29 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Friday, March 10, 2017 10:19 AM (twenty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm no sheeran stan, but these opinions are both bad
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 10 March 2017 15:50 (seven years ago) link
Is Dominique specifically referring to those out there that consider American Idol the best way to objectively measure one's quality as a musician? I assume there are a lot of people like that. Is that wrong of me?
― Evan, Friday, 10 March 2017 16:00 (seven years ago) link
xpnevertheless, it is my opinion. There are doubtlessly lots of ways to write in an interesting way about music that I find bland, though life is too short for me to do more than post on ILM. Were someone to pay me enough to write about my thoughts on Ed Sheeran, it would be hard not to focus on the lack of music character.
I'm not actually referring to anyone in particular -- except that there are at least that number of aspiring pop performers who would love to have an opportunity like Ed Sheeran. Make no mistake, I believe there is a way to be him, and make music that I like/find interesting. What I've heard isn't it.
― Dominique, Friday, 10 March 2017 16:10 (seven years ago) link
itt: performative mapping of world ES represents, invokes
― mark s, Friday, 10 March 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link
pitchfork publishing an earnest takedown of ed sheeran feels like something from the early 00s era
like why bother?
― 龜, Friday, 10 March 2017 16:19 (seven years ago) link
reviews with a score of 2.8 get clicks and shares
― Evan, Friday, 10 March 2017 16:22 (seven years ago) link
RIP pitchfork
― 龜, Friday, 10 March 2017 16:25 (seven years ago) link
what did pitchfork do to suddenly get super super fast pageloads
― j., Friday, 10 March 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
iirc sacrificial ceremony
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Friday, 10 March 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
You installed an adblocker?
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 10 March 2017 17:18 (seven years ago) link
who knows everything seems very fast today, maybe i should sit down
― j., Friday, 10 March 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
the singularity is approaching
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Friday, 10 March 2017 18:09 (seven years ago) link
i am/we are pitchfork
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Friday, 10 March 2017 21:11 (seven years ago) link
― j., Friday, March 10, 2017 8:47 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
deleted obscure_bands database ie pages accessed < 4k x/month
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 10 March 2017 21:37 (seven years ago) link
they got a hemi
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 March 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link
Pitchfork pans the new Ed Sheeran album but spends the entire review talking only about the lyrics. Like, who the hell listens to music for the lyrics?!
a) meb) most of ed sheeran's fansc) most fans of singer-songwriter types in general, which is Sheeran's selling pointd) this is a bad take
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, 10 March 2017 21:50 (seven years ago) link
I thought it was a joke post. It's not?
― Evan, Friday, 10 March 2017 22:01 (seven years ago) link
Mr. Snrub is an enigma tbh
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 March 2017 22:21 (seven years ago) link
an enigma wrapped in a puzzle I've seen dozens of times
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, 10 March 2017 22:34 (seven years ago) link
when did lengthy discussions about a snrub take begin? ilx continues to surprise me
― mark s, Friday, 10 March 2017 22:43 (seven years ago) link
am I supposed to know who snrub is
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, 10 March 2017 22:44 (seven years ago) link
dat xfinity ad $$$$$
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 10 March 2017 22:56 (seven years ago) link
I know little about Snrub except that he's got access to LeBron's inner circle.
― nomar, Friday, 10 March 2017 22:58 (seven years ago) link
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, March 10, 2017 4:34 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is a good zing
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 10 March 2017 22:59 (seven years ago) link
not singling anyone out, katherine, this is a collective failure imo
― mark s, Friday, 10 March 2017 23:01 (seven years ago) link
snrub's one of those types who's easy to find online but isn't the sort you'd expect to hang around ILX for a decade.
― JoeStork, Friday, 10 March 2017 23:05 (seven years ago) link
Aren't we all though tbf
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 10 March 2017 23:14 (seven years ago) link