that one almost sounds like xiu xiu xp
― half-worm inchworm tapeworm (donna rouge), Sunday, August 19, 2012 2:34 AM (19 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^
― it's-a me, irl (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
like by the law of averages there are probably gonna be ppl that look at this thread w/o listening to the songs and think that this is just a bunch of music nerds hi-fiving over fucking Residents references or whatever, but... this is really... something
― it's-a me, irl (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
haha pandemic OTM, this is super reminiscent of Crystal Castles to me
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:32 (10 months ago) Permalink
i'm really into it. the whole album. it's like if supposed former infatuation junkie era alanis made an edm record.
― hamlisch kilgour (get bent), Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:36 (10 months ago) Permalink
just otm-ing everyone at this point but the song is almost avant garde, pretend it came out of brooklyn with some blog buzz anda nice visual aesthetic and sky's the limit.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
there's no musical throughline to her melodies, it's just diary entries sung at random pitches.
― hamlisch kilgour (get bent), Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
yeah, this stuff is pretty rad. one of her songs was making the rounds on my Facebook feed for the LOLZ a few days ago and i ended up listening to it probably 8 times in a row.
― circa1916, Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
Damn,....
I cannot fucking believe I'm saying this but
Is this on itunes?
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 20 August 2012 00:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
xiu xiu is a surprisingly apt comparison. mindfuck.
― jed_, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
I seriously can't believe this is related to an MTV reality star, like I feel we're going to find out this is actually Har Mar Superstar with a pitchshifter
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Monday, 20 August 2012 03:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
this girl's persona on the show is completely tragic btw. a lot of legitimately bad things have happened to her (boyfriend dying, her mom is abusive iirc) but she's also kind of awful. her speaking voice is one of the least appealing sounds.
― horseshoe, Monday, 20 August 2012 03:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh I got the speaking voice thing from her Youtube cooking show, which was really the end of the world
this album is weirdly compelling though
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Monday, 20 August 2012 03:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
like "Liar Liar" is genuinely amazing
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Monday, 20 August 2012 03:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
I think Romney blasts this on his tour bus, since it's sadface android music
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Monday, 20 August 2012 03:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
I wrote about her for the sci-fi website io9.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 3 September 2012 21:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
you guys
this may be my favorite release of 2012
― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 02:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
like wtf is going on in "Caught In The Act"
― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 02:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
a friend's girlfriend works as a producer on Teen Mom, really need to talk to them about this next time i see them
― some dude, Saturday, August 18, 2012 10:35 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark
lol i called him about this and he was like "oh yeah, we know. we heard early versions of it"
― some dude, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 02:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
haha I can't imagine that blase of a reaction to this
― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 02:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
no it was more of an "I KNOW, shit is crazy huh"
― some dude, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 02:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
haha even better!
― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 02:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
i am taken with the fact that this is the soundtrack to an autobiography. are you meant to listen while reading?
"searching for closure">>>>>>>
― lex pretend, Thursday, 6 September 2012 11:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
and yes, easily the oddest music i have heard in a while
FLAare my initialsappeal to me
― lex pretend, Thursday, 6 September 2012 11:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
i'm the push behind the swingi know everything we ever wanted
― lex pretend, Thursday, 6 September 2012 11:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
will always love both this thread and this record for giving us the line "I haven't heard anything this alienating in years" - one of the best, funniest pieces of music criticism ever
― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 6 September 2012 12:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
man, seriously
I thought people were exaggerating upthread but this is realllllly weird
someone mentioned Crystal Castles, I'm getting like lo-fi house music via noise artist vibes. like it kind of sounds like Maria Minerva or Grimes. with added bass wobbles.
― dmr, Thursday, 6 September 2012 16:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
It's definitely weirdo music but I don't find it especially fascinating.. I wish it was funny-sounding but I'm not laughing. You get the jist of what the entire thing sounds like after 30 seconds, and there's no big surprises after that.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 6 September 2012 17:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
But just to be sure I should probably download the full album...
My past first impressions of stuff like this has often been deceiving..
― billstevejim, Thursday, 6 September 2012 17:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
Umm... this really is something, huh. Love "Sunshine State".
― passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Thursday, 6 September 2012 17:16 (9 months ago) Permalink
I wish it was funny-sounding but I'm not laughing.
I'm not listening to it for laughs. I really find it fascinating. Someone in the io9 comments compared it to Noise, and while I shrugged that off, I did say (and meant) that a Farrah Abraham/Dominick Fernow (of Prurient/Cold Cave) collaboration would be fucking awesome.
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 6 September 2012 17:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
the video w/ her taking her kid to the father's grave kinda underscores how there's some pretty genuine emotion here that i think makes how wrong and strange it sounds more compelling than just a showbiz trainwreck lol
― IN REAL LIFE (some dude), Thursday, 6 September 2012 17:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
would buy this cd if they had it at the crappy cd store across the street. might look for it. is it on an actual label?
― scott seward, Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
since it has the same title as the memoir it's pretty hard to tell if it's being sold anywhere besides digital retailers or as a package deal w/ the book.
― IN REAL LIFE (some dude), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
this is great
― sisilafami, Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:44 (9 months ago) Permalink
Digital-only. No physical CDs.
― 誤訳侮辱, Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
want 200 gram virgin vinyl 45 rpm 2XLP. ASAP.
― scott seward, Thursday, 6 September 2012 19:21 (9 months ago) Permalink
oh snap, i think im starting to "get it"
― billstevejim, Friday, 7 September 2012 07:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
Where can I buy this album? Every search I make leads me to the stupid book.
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 7 September 2012 10:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
Got it!
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 7 September 2012 10:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
am I right in assuming the songtitles double up as chapter titles in the book
― it's-a me, irl (DJ Mencap), Friday, 7 September 2012 11:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
I quite like the ennervated, David Guetta-goes-witch-house vibe, and the vocals are obviously baffling.
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Friday, 7 September 2012 11:33 (9 months ago) Permalink
she totally puts a stake in anything resembling witch house.
― scott seward, Friday, 7 September 2012 12:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
RIP witch house.
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Friday, 7 September 2012 12:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
I'm still torn on whether the weirdness is intentional or accidental. From that tweet at the top of the thread obviously her mom thinks it's pop music.
― dmr, Friday, 7 September 2012 15:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
DON'T LET IT GET OUT
― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Friday, 7 September 2012 15:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
I haven't heard anything this alienating in years
both lol and really true, with the insiderizing of outsider music (ariel pink, jet-setting superstar jandek) this is really striking as outsider stuff that's not easy to subsume into some kind of 'us'.
― tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 8 September 2012 13:02 (9 months ago) Permalink
I agree this is really great. Sort of the dark avant-garde side of today's pop. When will it be released on CD?
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 9 September 2012 22:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
Don't think there's any great mystery to the vocals, really - isn't she just reading excerpts from her book into Songify?
― mike t-diva, Monday, 10 September 2012 14:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
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.
― Moka, Thursday, 23 May 2013 06:54 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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).
― Moka, Thursday, 23 May 2013 07:19 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― Moka, Thursday, 23 May 2013 07:26 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Thursday, 23 May 2013 07:35 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― kaleb h. (Everything You Like Sucks), Thursday, 23 May 2013 07:43 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
"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
― my mans ray manzarek (some dude), Thursday, 23 May 2013 11:35 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
xp: Willie Nelson?
― how's life, Thursday, 23 May 2013 11:41 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Jandek
― unregistered, Thursday, 23 May 2013 12:04 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― Sir Francis Drake burned the Spanish Armada because YOLO (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 23 May 2013 12:16 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
oh it leaked
― my mans ray manzarek (some dude), Thursday, 23 May 2013 12:22 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID
― Sir Francis Drake burned the Spanish Armada because YOLO (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 23 May 2013 12:42 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
she seems really comfortable in front of the cameras
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Thursday, 23 May 2013 15:24 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
it's really gross how this porn film brings out all the hyuk-hyuksters. it's neither amusing nor shameful.
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Thursday, 23 May 2013 15:29 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
is it sad?
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Thursday, 23 May 2013 15:36 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
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
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Thursday, 23 May 2013 15:41 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
really gross
― ḉrut (crüt), Thursday, 23 May 2013 15:45 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
well, simone de beauvoir really said 'sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon'. so...
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Thursday, 23 May 2013 15:52 (3 weeks ago) Permalink