What do you think of MTV Teen Mom Farrah Abraham's first single?

i was surprised by: 1) how clear it is that this was just produced as straight up porn, not even trying to preserve the myth, 2) immediate anal and lots of it.

If you make a poll amongst middle class, single American moms asking them to do a hardcore video (anal included) for that amount of money I wouldnt be surprised if most of them said yes.

Regarding the straight up porn: at first the idea was to create it as an accidental sex tape leak but co-star James Deen refused to do it argumenting that if you want to do a sex tape you dont hire a well known pornstar. (I think he was hired per Farrah's request).

Also apparently she thinks she was the highlight of a lifetime for James Deen and that he has been stalking her and wants to date her. I dont know if she's seriously that delusional or she just loves saying idiotic things for the attention but I want to slap her. Hardly.

I try to divorce Farrah Abraham the enormously talented outsider artist from Farrah Abraham the reality TV star who is probably under contract with Vivid by now.

why? the music and the reality show stuff obviously came from the same place

Because I enjoyed it more when I had no context (I'd never heard of her prior to the album). Knowing who she is takes some of the magic out of it--this sex tape is her Texas Monthly 1999 interview.

"enormously talented outsider artist" is a funny phrase because the way people enjoy the record is pretty divorced from notions of her being a conventionally 'talented' singer or songwriter

xp: Willie Nelson?

Jandek

I am terribly shocked that something called 'Backdoor Teen Mom' is NOT a leaked sex tape as previously advised.

There goes my faith in humanity.

oh it leaked

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID

she seems really comfortable in front of the cameras

it's really gross how this porn film brings out all the hyuk-hyuksters. it's neither amusing nor shameful.

is it sad?

i think it was de beuavoir who said that women should be allowed to intentionally leak their own sex tapes without being mocked a little

really gross

well, simone de beauvoir really said 'sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon'. so...

http://www.fishwrapper.com/post/2013/10/09/farrah-abraham-daughter-mother-worst-eyebrows-tweeze-photos/

These days, former Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham spends most of her time appearing at strip clubs or giving interviews. But she insists time apart from daughter Sophia, 4, isn't hurting the little girl. "It's healthy that we have a break," claims Farrah, 22 (whose dad lives near her and Sophia in Texas). "She has her own life and is doing her own thing, and I'm doing mine.

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O_O

Lovely.

The details of her "$1M contract" were finally revealed a couple of weeks ago.

She got $10k up front and then 3% royalties. At last count, Vivid reported about $125k paid to the "Back Door Teen Mom".

While not chump change, the payout looks to come in far short of a million dollars.

still can't quite wrap my head around how bizarre her antic have been, even for your typical reality celeb, and it's only amplified by her cult status as this weird "outsider artist".

On that note, I showed a friend some of her work and she said it just sounded like house beats with weird over-autotuned vocals on top of them. I'm not too great at analyzing music, but is that description really that accurate? It's never sounded like anything with which I could make real comparisons.

definitely not

it sounds like the music teenagers make when they're just starting out with sequencers

looks like this guy produced for the album?

like the combination of piano and strings about 30 seconds into this track he's talking about sounds uncannily similar to that in e.g. "searching for closure" so i am ready to believe it

NEW FARRAH ABRAHAM SONG!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h53AzPEdku0

my Farrah connect told me she was working on new music a while back, i'd been looking forward to this XD

And they said autotune makes everyone sound the same, pft

the production feels slightly more standard but that just makes the autotune excesses seem even more out-there.

The guy mentioned upthread with the Facebook profile is an audio engineer at a studio down the road from the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, where FLA went to school for a bit. Wikipedia now says he produced the whole album, but no cite. Is it time for the important two-year anniversary retrospective?

Interesting how you can be considered an 'outsider artist' when you are a reality show star on MTV. It certainly doesn't drain that term of all meaning.

bored tonight and catching up on ilm threads, this is incredibly sad:

But she insists time apart from daughter Sophia, 4, isn't hurting the little girl. "It's healthy that we have a break," claims Farrah, 22 (whose dad lives near her and Sophia in Texas). "She has her own life and is doing her own thing, and I'm doing mine.

as the father of a 4-year-old girl, i'd bet Sophia is not all that happy to have a "healthy" break from her mom to focus on "her own life and ... her own thing"

for sure, 4-year-olds are starting to develop their own lives and their own things, but in general, a 4-year-old girl's life IS her mom/parents. Farrah talks about her like she's 17.

heartbreaking.

4-yr-olds are basically starting school all day?

Interesting how you can be considered an 'outsider artist' when you are a reality show star on MTV. It certainly doesn't drain that term of all meaning.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, March 18, 2014 2:47 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what a disaster for outsider artistry

It's high time she teamed up with Chaka Khan for an inflammatorily titled duo project

this is a tune, anyway, more conventional than one would think but i'm singing the chorus before it's halfway over

omg her dancing in the avatar of her own twitter account

but isn't reality tv just outsider acting

If it's on TV it is not outsider, it is monoculture.

It's kind of like when you had critics saying the blurry action scenes in Transformers 3 was a brilliant work of abstract art.

okay but her music is not on tv so

'outsider' means unschooled if not mentally ill

like, gw bush is an outsider painter

and he was president!!

point is it's a pretty dumm and fraught term

"outsider" is also often used with a shade of "fails to achieve what it sets out to achieve but accidentally achieves something else great"

it's kind of a condescending term in that way, but honestly it's hard to imagine listening to farrah abraham in a way not slightly tainted by condescension.

adam bruneau = the board's Allan Bloom

"but honestly it's hard to imagine listening to farrah abraham in a way not slightly tainted by condescension."

what if you find value in the sounds she makes and the emotions she conveys

condescension is underrated

Yeah i thought 'outsider art' meant 'Someone who is living outside of society'. Shut-ins, hermits, etc.

Applying it to W or Farrah seems to invoke a different meaning, more to do with kitsch or ironic appropriation (and including condescension).