Which Vaccuous Pop Irritant's "Influences" list is this?

Which Vaccuous ILX Irritant's "Stupid" thread is this?

Plus I don't even want to get into anything about whether she can "actually" like stuff like this, but I'm not even sure there's that radical of a disjunction between most of those tastes and singing this variety of pop song! I mean, this tends to be abundantly clear to us the other way around: you'd never be surprised that Jim O'Rourke might like HER, would you? Or that I like loads of things on that list but would be reasonably impressed with myself to have made some of her music?

― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Monday, March 15, 2010 8:30 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah i mean...probably everyone on this board has a few favorite artists that noone would be able to guess just looking at a picture or meeting briefly, but there's always this feigned shock when famous people like less predictable stuff -- the old 'omg a rapper likes Coldplay!' thing -- as if they're not capable of the same dimensions as us. it's pretty hypocritical and condescending imo, to have hugely diverse listening tastes and then be skeptical of people who are young or pretty or rich or famous or just not on message boards all day having the same capacity.

if this is her actual influences list, she has the same favorite bands as everyone else on the internet

like i said

it's pretty "easy" to "download" "music" these days from what the "kids" tell me

no one dls anymore grandpa

oh right, they "upload" it to their "beards" and then "crawl" up the "red ladder" to listen to their "music"

now u talkin

I don't see a disconnect between having eclectic taste and creating shit music. I have pretty varied taste in music, but if you put a guitar in my hand don't expect me to turn into Elliot Smith.

Elliott Smith, obv.

also, where is it given that ke$ha's musix sucks ??

DJ BLOW MY SPEAKERS UP

VACUOUS HAS ONE "C" GOD DAMN IT

*ahem*

Carry on.

I mean, this tends to be abundantly clear to us the other way around: you'd never be surprised that Jim O'Rourke might like HER, would you?

I don't think so, no, but if he then went on to recite a long list of artists similar to Ke$ha that he claimed were influencing his music, that would strike me as a statement from out of leftfield

I don't see a disconnect between having eclectic taste and creating shit music. I have pretty varied taste in music, but if you put a guitar in my hand don't expect me to turn into Elliot Smith.

― musicfanatic, Monday, March 15, 2010 10:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Let's also realize, setting out to be the next Sun Ra or Roky Erikson isn't a sure path to fame and fortune.

...as sure a path to fame and fortune as partnering with Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco.

Her co-songwriter David Gamson was in Scritti Politti. Just sayin.

One of her other co-writers is Greg from Geggy Tah.

Not that I want to agree with the original thesis, but I can't help but feel that this notion that every young person (or thereabouts) with internet access is rocking to the Jim O'Rourke and Roky Erickson and Matmos and The Dead Milkmen is slightly inaccurate.

I agree, it's not going to be every teenager, or even a majority of them. But even 15 years ago when I was in high school, I knew girls from the cheerleading squad or the basketball team who would listen to Clash and OpIvy records. Sometimes people can be normal/preppy/popular and still be well-rounded or have eclectic tastes.

With Kesha, you have a performing-arts-oriented woman in her mid-twenties who comes from a punk rock family, so I don't think the list is at all inappropriate.

To be honest, the thing that has me most excited about this thread is that I used to listen to Void back in high school and had no idea that they were from my hometown, so I amended the Columbia, MD wikipedia page to include that fact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5yYaw_bg

^ love her reaction to Slayer

Her co-songwriter David Gamson was in Scritti Politti. Just sayin.

OMG. That is way too awesome.

ke$ha might have good taste in music but she has pretty bad taste in listmaking

"less is more", "show don't tell", etc etc

then again given her musical aesthetic I guess I shouldn't really be surprised?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PlqRPu7td8

I hated the video version of the single but that live version is actually pretty damn good. Maybe it's just the production and the horrible autotune processing of the single that I didn't like. eep. When she sings it normally it's just fun bubblegum.

The best thing about C.O.C. was their tshirts.

lol @ "ackron family"

worst 4-entry stretch: "the streets, the streets, the strokes, surfjan stevens"

I hated the video version of the single but that live version is actually pretty damn good. Maybe it's just the production and the horrible autotune processing of the single that I didn't like. eep. When she sings it normally it's just fun bubblegum.

This was my wife's reaction almost to a T.

TS: Kraftwork vs Kraftwerk

This should be merged with the UK Funky thread.

all threads should be merged on ilm, since everyone knows that everyone listens to the same music, all the time, it is the only way to be fair. mods, please get on it.

Nas vs. Jay-z: Have One On Me

jayzanna nassum

sleepytime jayzanna muse

I hated the video version of the single but that live version is actually pretty damn good. Maybe it's just the production and the horrible autotune processing of the single that I didn't like. eep. When she sings it normally it's just fun bubblegum.

wow this is pretty otm - found the original all sorts of unlistenable but take the trebly autotune vomit away and the hooky bubblegum pop song is revealed - it's almost too nursery-rhymey and lite now. i said on the jukebox that i don't think her songs suck because she's incapable of better, but more because trebly autotune vomit is the common currency of the charts these days, and she seems intent on being more trebly, more autotuney and more vomity than anyone else.

talking of the uk funky thread, we are aware that for some inexplicable reason there are remixes of "tik tok" by cooly g and untold, right?

Vampire Newsom

I think her mom being a hardcore industry insider makes her getting seemingly random cred remixes somewhat more explicable.

Dreamboat Joanna

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezbyAQ9AOZg

(not lol enough that I'd listen to it all the way through, but it's cute)

hahahahahahahaha this is awesome

I tried searching for this thread but I couldn't find it because I forgot that vacuous was misspelled.

Oh that's right, none of you have EVER misspelled a word in your lives. Silly me.

cufk you alex

lern how to spel, it makes your arguments seems more coherent

oh right, they "upload" it to their "beards" and then "crawl" up the "red ladder" to listen to their "music"

― Mr. Que, Monday, March 15, 2010 7:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

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