I mean that in the sense that we are all brainwashed by Tom Ewing
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
Saying max is a “irony bro” is a mega misreading of his place in teh discourse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt0_oPPK6eA
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
fwiw I follow a lot of lronic hipster left ppl on Twitter and all they could talk about when the singles list came out was how they either hated or were profoundly baffled by them
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
Yes. They like parquet courts
Max is being somewhat (tho I don’t think disingenuously) iconoclastic in his support, and while he’s conversant with irony bros I think he tends to be pretty sincere
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
there was some really funny twitter post last year that I can't find that was like "I wish there was a Pitchfork for indie rock"
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
A Brief Inquiry Into Hair-Splitting Arguments About Irony Bros.
Would have been a better title.
― Position Position, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
What idiot called it 'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships' and not 'I'm Literally Shaking RN'
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
max is like a previous gen irony bro imo. he's graduated from irony and now writes posts titled 'Why Mark Zuckerberg is FaceBook's Biggest Liability'
― flopson, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
I find the lyrics to this song moving, emotionally, but also obsequious and pandering and far far away from what I'd point to and say "here, observe these lyrics, which are objectively good."
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 16:24 (three hours ago) Permalink
i don't think it's obsequious. like most of us i'm predisposed to not like songs that are too topical and try to capture the zeitgeist or wtv, but they pulled it off
― flopson, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, December 11, 2018 2:14 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
See, THIS is an ironybro post
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
There’s probably an implied “(and that’s bad, btw)” already on this album after “the smell of your hair reminds me of her feet.”
― Tim F, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
https://frinkiac.com/img/S04E05/234750.jpg
― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
lol
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
Fair enough. Maybe I should give them more credit for that success!
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link
The chorus is cathartic af but I feel like that just adds to the bathos.
Not sure if intentional but probably best captures the zeitgeist in how empty and myopic the title sentiment feels relative to the anxiety of the verses.
― tsrobodo, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
Yes good post agreed
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:21 (five years ago) link
Something about it’s concept + “give yourself a try” which seem very rhetorically clever, ways of standing out by framing things in a way that reflects our time better
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
I think "Give Yourself a Try" does it better by default. Self deprecation and wit are never not relatable.
― tsrobodo, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
I do think the first couplet "We're fucking in a car, shooting heroin / saying controversial things just for the hell of it" is top-tier but I'm a sucker for meta
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
― Tim F, Tuesday, December 11, 2018 4:10 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
Tsrodobo otm
Idk there’s this unexamined western millenerian eschatological affect wherein being overwhelmed by apocalyptic feelings becomes its own sort of solipsistic romance rather than an impetus to build and make horizontal connections or fight
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
i mean it seems like thats what the song's about!
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 03:48 (five years ago) link
Yeah. But ... I think that feeling is bad. So that rubs weirdly against my feeling that the song is good. I guess it gets at the question of whether critique is possible via exaggeration/reduction or is it better to posit an alternative, to say nothing of the question as to whether art’s job is critique in the first place
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 04:55 (five years ago) link
i didnt get the impression that was tsrobodo's point exactly
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 05:47 (five years ago) link
maybe im wrong idk but i find it weirdly affirming that my experience of being ineffectual in a society that disempowers the individual is also an experience shared by others
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 06:40 (five years ago) link
"how to draw/petrichor" is becoming my favorite on the new album
― k3vin k., Saturday, 15 December 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
ranked:
'I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)''Inside Your Mind''Love It If We Made It''It's Not Living (If It's Not With You)''TooTimeTooTimeTooTime''How to Draw/Petrichor''Be My Mistake''I Couldn't Be More in Love''Surrounded by Heads and Bodies''Give Yourself a Try''I Like America & America Likes Me''Sincerity Is Scary''The Man Who Married a Robot/Love Theme''Mine''The 1975'
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 15 December 2018 22:38 (five years ago) link
whyyy is it not 12+ minutes
― tpp, Thursday, 20 December 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
It's a cool song, though I like the "How to Draw" half a little more. There's still a lot of songs in the back half of this album I can't really get into tho. Wish I could hear what you all hear in "Inside Your Mind". But others have grown a lot on me: "Sincerity is Scary" and "It's Not Living" are A+. So generous that this band continues to throw bones like "It's Not Living" to fans like me that adore the first album most
― Vinnie, Thursday, 20 December 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link
Bon Iver must be lying in a ditch somewhere in the woods, wrapped up in fetus position and bawling his eyes out, because he knows he'll never write a song as gorgeous as 'I Couldn't Be More In Love'.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 28 December 2018 01:51 (five years ago) link
Editing to The 1975: pic.twitter.com/HdnukQJKjP— monet p. thomas (@monetwithlove) December 30, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 30 December 2018 02:34 (five years ago) link
My brain has inserted a nonexistent Common verse at the end of Sincerity is Scary. 2 decades of Soulquarian conditioning at work.
― tsrobodo, Sunday, 30 December 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-1975/2019/3arena-dublin-ireland-53947761.html
this tour's setlist looks great
from videos i've seen the lighting setup looks very very cool too of course
― ufo, Saturday, 12 January 2019 04:23 (five years ago) link
wow that set list is just banger after banger
― k3vin k., Saturday, 12 January 2019 04:59 (five years ago) link
also wild to think that the album hype cycle is about to start up again in only a month or two
― ufo, Saturday, 12 January 2019 05:03 (five years ago) link
last years album kind of disappointing
― flopson, Saturday, 12 January 2019 05:44 (five years ago) link
they better deliver
― flopson, Saturday, 12 January 2019 05:45 (five years ago) link
wow, yeah, the setlist/videos look great - so great that I just bought tickets to see them on Friday, v excited.
― toby, Saturday, 12 January 2019 08:42 (five years ago) link
Damn, setlist looks great. Might have to make a short trip to Singapore or Thailand to catch them
― Vinnie, Saturday, 12 January 2019 08:50 (five years ago) link
Unsurprisingly they were completely awesome, can highly recommend this tour.
― toby, Friday, 18 January 2019 23:43 (five years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RtKJXFqEtPM
― toby, Saturday, 19 January 2019 00:08 (five years ago) link
I was browsing in a shop a couple of days ago and they had 'She Way Out' blasting out really loud, and it actually sounded amazing at that volume. It got me revisiting the first album again.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 January 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
and you realized it is awesome
― k3vin k., Saturday, 19 January 2019 21:51 (five years ago) link
and I realised that while Healy has become a much better singer since and there's moments on the record that make me wince a bit on the vocal front, the album is packed with bangers.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 January 2019 22:00 (five years ago) link
I think Healy sings some of these songs better live nowadays. I really hated 'Chocolate' until I heard a recent live version, and the way they start that song off live with just the interlocking guitar licks is a neat touch!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 January 2019 22:07 (five years ago) link
'M.O.N.E.Y.' sounds great live tol. At this point, it's only really the closing track that I can't really get into.
I wish 'You' had been on this album.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 19 January 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link
*too
Oh hey, look what we have here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC8TCeuGwtA
So excited to see them in April! Their stage setup looks incredible.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 24 January 2019 20:36 (five years ago) link
"m.o.n.e.y." live was incredible, i wish they still played it
and "head.cars.bending" ofc but i've given up on that
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 January 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link