*checks 'Ima Read' vid* hm, sorta but not quite, kigurumi is more cosplay with masks that look more closely like anime faces (youtube or google it, extremely creepy looking)
it is a fitting image for nicki's whole artificial consumer escapist trip, anime is like the ultimate in futuristic, post-human escapism
― Chris S, Sunday, 5 February 2012 02:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
since AT LEAST two weeks ago, guys!!!
― some dude, Sunday, 5 February 2012 02:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
be nice!!!
― markers, Sunday, 5 February 2012 02:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
could have been earlier, it's not my job to keep up with these things like it is for some people ; )
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Sunday, 5 February 2012 03:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
― DO NOT CALL (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 5 February 2012 03:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
dayo i'm just saying it's funny to say "since" something else that practically dropped yesterday
― some dude, Sunday, 5 February 2012 03:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's korean, not japanese ;) xp
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Sunday, 5 February 2012 03:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
well we're basically logging events at hyperspeed now, being 2012 and all
― Chris S, Sunday, 5 February 2012 03:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
but 'two weeks' is like 'two years' in internet terms!!
nah mainly I'm just spewing bile because of the refusal of some people like lex to recognize the influence for what it is!
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Sunday, 5 February 2012 03:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah but we're not talking about the impact of the videos, we're talking about the artists' intent or whatever (and as it turns out the madonna video was shot like 2 weeks before the "super hoe" video)
― some dude, Sunday, 5 February 2012 03:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
if we're really talking about is it okay to reference anime in pop, we gotta go back to the lady gaga vid where she has anime eyes
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Sunday, 5 February 2012 03:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
will.i.am's been on the korean tip for a while now too (but only seems to want to work with the k-pop girl groups)
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Sunday, 5 February 2012 03:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
fwiw i was just surprised to see kigurumi in particular being referenced, not anime as a whole. feel like anime is pretty much part of the heritage of any kid who's grown up since the 90s at this point, surprised it isn't referenced more in pop tbh
― Chris S, Sunday, 5 February 2012 03:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
god MIA is still just the shittiest vocalist by any and every standard
― some dude, Sunday, 5 February 2012 03:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
although I remember seeing/hearing a lot of anime stuff at raves back in the late 90s, esp in happy hardcore
― Chris S, Sunday, 5 February 2012 03:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
heh yeah I can see that, although the brand of pop that nicki & madonna etc. trade in is all about making owning outré references
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Sunday, 5 February 2012 03:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm obsessed with "frontside ollie"
TAYDELLISEN FRONTSIDE OLLIEN
WHOA-OH-OH FRONTSIDE OLLIEN
― teledyldonix, Sunday, 5 February 2012 05:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is this pop? Fuck if I know what qualifies and what doesn't, but eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 17:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
amazing
― nathey, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 10:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
― flopson, Thursday, 9 February 2012 04:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
great huge song
― flopson, Thursday, 9 February 2012 04:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
actually it sucks
― teledyldonix, Thursday, 9 February 2012 05:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is that actually Nicki singing the whole thing?
― I Fucked Up (jer.fairall), Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
this does sound shit
― nathey, Friday, 10 February 2012 09:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
i like it
― flopson, Saturday, 11 February 2012 06:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
i like it too but i thought it was rihanna when i heard it and was disappointed at nicki only getting like 4 bars to do her thing
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Saturday, 11 February 2012 08:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
we can get it crackin #chiropractor
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― teledyldonix, Saturday, 11 February 2012 08:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
ya the nicki rap is so short, that is her singing the rest of it though (i think):
"People don't really know her as a singer and she's killing it on that track. People know her for her crazy rapping but that shows what she can do as a singer."
-Guetta
― flopson, Saturday, 11 February 2012 15:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
d-d-d-d-don't let me die young/i just want you to father my young
― flopson, Saturday, 11 February 2012 15:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
on the plus side, this inspired me to listen to 'without you' all weekend
― nathey, Monday, 13 February 2012 10:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 01:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Without You" is a turd of epic proportions.
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 01:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
word
― flopson, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 01:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Without You" is perfectly nice, although it's weird to hear Usher sounding more like Mario than himself
― some dude, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 01:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
i used to switch the dial every time "without you" came on but i have since grown to tolerate it and occasionally like it
not really feeling this new kp single, it's just in one ear out the other at this point... it's possible my feelings will be revised when i inevitably hear it all over the radio and in public and see the music video etc
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 17:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
can't stop listening to that new katy perry single
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 17 February 2012 00:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
i could
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Friday, 17 February 2012 03:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Norway's Eurovision entry this year is fairly effective.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 February 2012 21:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
did that lithuania one get through? i do love the norway one.
― nathey, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
is the human named "robin" a boy or a girl?
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
this was posted on wfmu's twitter which i thought was kinda neat...http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2012/02/10-seconds-from-every-top-100-song-ever-a-free-cut-up-software.html
I listened through 2011's top 100 songs and I was surprised by the frequent placements of generic-sounding country singles. I'm assuming there's a bunch of country songs that stick around in the lower half of the Hot 100 for a REALLY long time, long enough to actually place in the year's top 100 by the time it's actually compiled in December.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
country songs go top 40 or even top 10 pretty frequently these days, or at least it feels like more frequently in the past year or two than for a while before that
― TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
robin is a boy -- he's like the finnish justin bieber
speaking of biebs a new "viral video" featuring him and selena gomez and ashley tisdale and some other people has spurred a huge surge in sales for this sugary single by a canadian girl i have never heard of
apparently it was already a #1 single in canada
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
CRJ was a not-top-finalist in Canadian Idol a while back. She had one song - Tug of War - worth a damn off her first album:
'Call Me Maybe' is the lead single from her new EP - it's been around since November, when it crawled into Canadian charts. It hit #1 about a month ago and is only the fourth Canadian song to hit #1 on the Canadian charts since 2007, when Billboard took over the counting of these things (other 3 = Avril's Girlfriend, the Vancouver Olympics theme song and the 'Artists for Haiti' Canadian version)
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
It was written by the dude from Marianas Trench, who are the midpoint between 3OH!3 and Fall Out Boy I guess? Maybe more like FOB musically, but grosser/creepier than FOB.
It creeps up on you unawares until it has invaded your brain and you listen to it compulsively. Given that the Biebz' manager just signed her and it reached #1 in Canada without his help, I fully expect it to take over the US.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 16:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
It only just hit #1 a week ago, and then has been quickly usurped this past week by Madonna. I'm not sure what has caused this song to get such a surge in popularity, since I've barely been paying attention to Canadian pop music as of late, though I do know it was apparently mentioned by Justin Bieber as being a favorite of his back in January, and she just released her EP with it last week.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
And acually it was the rise in popularity of groups like Marianna's Trench and Hedley in the mid-2000's that put me off from paying any attention to Canadian popular music.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think the only country songs that hit the top 10 last year were Jason Aldean's "Dirt Road Anthem" and Taylor Swift's "If This Was a Movie" (and you could probably argue whether the T-Swift counts). But lots of country hanging around in the top 40, for sure.
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
did green tractor not crack the top 10?
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:18 (1 year ago) Permalink