Ariel Pink

asking people to be less offended by offensive comments strikes me as less helpful

i'm not asking anyone to do anything!

cant wait til pom pom comes out so we can talk about his music

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certainly not "be less offended"!

does all of ILX have reading comprehension difficulties lately or is it just a case of willful misreading in order to start an argument?

you're posting online that you find it unhelpful and that you're unsympathetic to "people on social media (who) feel it's their sworn duty to (often hyperbolically) police every instance of offensive language."

I'm not denying that I don't also need to take a break from all the uproar, but - as that's really easy for a guy like me to do - i just do it rather than ask people to stop crusading against shitty stuff

xp oh man just over a month til the release of one of the worst albums of 2014 that will prob still get BNMed and otherwise lauded b/c he's on-brand hipsterati and they are not gonna walk back on that now

i didn't ask people to do anything! i understand why people are offended, i just don't get why some people seem to feel that they have to publically respond to any and every offensive public utterance. that does not mean i don't think they should, or that i'm telling them not to. how hard is this to comprehend?

xpost, again

the distinction between "asking people to tone it down a notch" and "posting online about how you don't understand why people don't tone it down a notch" feels pretty semantic imo

i mean, yes you're not literally posting on someone's "i am outraged by this butthead" facebook post and saying "why are you posting this? take a nap." i get that.

i guess i'm just saying i don't get why people feel the need to announce online that other people are being too pc police online

do people ever do things that you personally don't understand why they do, but you don't object to them doing that thing?

the only thing i "object" to about grimes's tweet is what i believe is its hyperbole. but i don't object to her posting it. i just can't imagine myself doing the same thing.

i apologize for any misunderstanding. i'll leave the thread since this discussion is probably even more boring for everyone else as it is for me.

do people ever do things that you personally don't understand why they do, but you don't object to them doing that thing?

yes, but i think it's ironic you claim not to understand why people would be hyperbolic on the internet when you describe grimes as one of those people on social media (who) feel it's their sworn duty to (often hyperbolically) police every instance of offensive language. like...that's hyperbole too.

if you had said "i don't understand people who feel like they have to put melted cheese on everything" i wouldn't have balked (or at least not as much, cheese is awesome) but in this case i think you're not being fair to people that are coming from a good place and often doing a lot of good

the melted cheese people are doing plenty of good fuiud

well i said "not as much"

One of you, I can't figure out who, needs more sugar in your Mac and cheese

at least Pink and Grimes have one thing in common:
they both think Madonna sucks now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahnUH7wnW30#t=287

MARKERS SHE JUST TALKED ABOUT A BLINK 182 LIVE DVD

I wonder if she’d cover “I Miss You” with me.

whoah, just checked out "Black Ballerina"

it's an Ariel Pink song in which the male protagonist is the hapless ingenue victim of rapacious strippers and pandering older touts- that's some A+ trolling served on a warm bed of Devo-meets-Cameo lite funk

not going to do him any favors re: allegations of misogyny

Ariel's an insane drug-addict. I don't think accusations of misogyny even register with someone like him.

I mean, he's inspired by a guy who wrote a creeptastic love song about lusting after a 10yo girl that dares to be catchy. That boy ain't right.

ill take an insane drug-addict pop savant over almost anyone

oh my god people are saying this is the White Album of our generation FUCK YES!!!!! new song is incredible

lol @ "he's an insane addict, he's not right, he's a badman", is this a Christian parenting board??

Time to drop some truth bombs. Black Ballerina: fun. The spoken-word interlude: Classic AP skit, obviously trying to break taboos. The "misogynistic" outbursts and the contrived "beef" with Grimes: Convenient PR for his new album, and I don't think he doesn't register the hate towards him. It seems like people have been hating on him his whole career and he learned to roll along with it. (Strictly speaking about his public image, persona, work and whatnot here, I don't know how AP behaves in private, but for now I don't care.)

The song is ok I guess,
But I prefer Serious Pink upon "humorous" Pink.

The song is ok I guess,
But I prefer Serious Pink upon "humorous" Pink.

I agree. I also prefer serious Pink. I also prefer serious Zappa over "humorous" Zappa.

I also prefer serious Prince over "sexy" Prince.

xpost someone is fucking joking if theyre calling anything by ariel pink the white album of any generation

don't we have enough late-period beatles/psychedelia revivalism btw? like wasn't tame impala good enough? (to be fair i like tame impala)

i think that was meant as sarcastic or something..

these days such hyperbole wouldn't surprise me if it was real, but I prob should've considered that possibility

If you said a month ago Ariel Pink was going to cause Grimes to self-ether I would have been like, no that won't happen.

Taken in by the levels of funk present in Black Ballerina.

more funky or less funky than that travi$ scott record tho

in any case listening to it now and this is kind of like early lonely island if they were less self-aware tbqh

Black Ballerina is about as funky as a John Deere commercial

Arial and Travis would go together like Chip and Dale - they're both talented artists and musicians who wear cowboy hats.

Black Ballerina is about as funky as a John Deere commercial

Good job I hate funk then

black ballerinas sounds like someone trying to be dam-funk and ending up ween-does-midnight-vultures

that's a good description for it

oh got to the part where groundskeeper willie takes milhouse to the strip club

it's phunky and phunny like phish

haha this is really an amazing punchline to all the "insiders" on this thread who have been on some "yo god i had crazy visions ariel's new joint is gonna get 5 mics in the source" lmao

lol

Arial and Travis would go together like Chip and Dale - they're both talented artists and musicians who wear cowboy hats.

aaaaaaahahahahahahahahaha DONE

what era Chip and Dale features Dale in a cowboy hat bc it sure as hell ain't Rescue Rangers era Chip and Dale

http://www.studioscentral.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/attraction_gallery_large/chip-dale.jpg

rolling fedora 2011

more like chip and chip

http://kennythepirate.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/chip-n-dale-2.jpg

all of the disney characters wear cowboy hats in frontierland tho

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/27/pink-slips