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

This rules.

connection drawn between RB and FA makes sense to me. they're both young women who came to pop through nonstandard channels, making vanity press music that resembles what you hear on hits radio, but which doesn't quite succeed by chartpop's conventional standards. the fact that there's something "off" about their music is a big part of the story and appeal in each case, though the two are obviously quite different in other respects. for obvious starters, FA's music and lyrics are much, much weirder.

Listen to "On My Own" again and tell me that synth line wouldn't sound right at home on The Richard D. James Album.

OTM Mr Snurb.

I can't wait to find out what the deal with the music is. if she made it, who else did it if not etc.

ok there is some serious hyperbole in this thread but this is a pretty odd album

the detail that she made this not as an album-album but a listen-along sdtrk for her book is the most beguiling little thing

"After Prom" is the track that really made me go "lol this is Crystal Castles, right"

I think every touring musician on this thread should use selections from this as pre-set PA music

tempted

Lex in FACT: http://www.factmag.com/2012/09/27/my-teenage-dream-ended/

More editor meddling. Still can't find anything about production credits, thinking about trying to just get an interview myself.

tempted

Do it!

I am a latecomer to this thread but I have become obsessed with this album.

tempted by the fruit of teen mother

if she made it

no way she produced it. it's unmistakably some hired gun shit and yet the production reminds me of youtube tutorial videos for massive. like, there's a level of detail in the production (the filter sweeps, effects, etc) that's so at odds with the randomness of the vocals that i would be shocked if she said she did it herself. but then the dubstep wobble shit sounds really weak and amateurish, it makes me picture a middle-aged engineer at a start-up studio getting the gig and being told "here, just make a bunch of tracks for her to sing over and do what you can, btw we need it by tuesday."

She's in college now, wouldn't be surprised to learn that this was some collaboration with an undergrad amateur producer in one of her classes or something. A lot of my students make music that sounds like the backing tracks. Or they could be demos from a D-list professional producer. But it still doesn't explain how they chose to match the vocals with the music.

That FACT review is the first review I've read that actually takes this album seriously. good jub Lex

Job even

thx

a few things that are striking me now - this shit is abrasive and alienating, yeah, but it's also weirdly listenable. i'm still coming back to it of my own volition and finding it enjoyable and genuinely moving. it's actually got to the "sing along, dance around a bit" stage with a couple of the songs.

i came dressed up on the WAY! DOWN!
enjoy the moments while i'm IN! THEM!

nice, lex. really nice. she is really bringing out the best in everyone!

the guardian on her dick now too! :D http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/sep/28/farrah-abraham-teenage-dream-ended?CMP=twt_gu

someone really should hook her up with Crystal Castles

i noticed this on twitter:

Farrah Abraham
@F1abraham
Subscribe now www.YouTube.com/PAFarrahAbraham for New Videos Weekly!! MY TEENAGE DREAM ENDED with the exclusive soundtrack only at iBookstore bit.ly/RhwunU
Miami, FL · http://www.Farrahabraham.me

Followed by Barack Obama.

hahahahaha amazing

I feel like people talking about how inept/weak the wobble on "The Phone Call That Changed My Life" is are actually only listening to the wobble and not the totally freaked out verging-on-arhythmic lyrics

trying to see if my Teen Mom connect can help me land an interview with FA -- haven't promised a piece to an outlet yet so if anyone's interested holla at me

if you do get the chance to interview her, please tell her she's a genius.

"Mr. Snrub loves you fyi"

is there anywhere to find this album besides itunes?

Amazon has it as well.

And some dude, I'm definitely interested.

cool!

it's on Spotify as well

the fader on this wagon

http://www.thefader.com/2012/10/01/staff-selects-playlist-teen-moms-farrah-abraham-and-auto-tune-run-afoul/

not very well but still

their masthead should say "listening to the right things for the wrong reasons since 1998"

Even with all the other things wrong with it the most smh is misidentifying the Ali Lohan Christmas song as "Lindsay and her mother."

It's good in that "so this is what music sounds like to people with some kind of mental disorder that prevents them from hearing music normally" kind of way

Ok, this record is amazing. It's like something from a parallel universe secret museum of mankind where early 20th century bedouins have autotune.

I'm telling you, she's some kind of genius outsider artist. I want to review this album for The Wire.

― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, August 19, 2012 2:19 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And there it is in this month's issue. Review is by noz though - did he get there first?

afaik 誤訳侮辱 hasn't written for the wire and was just saying that, not announcing actual intentions. am curious about noz's take though, will have to look out for that.

ditto - wire stuff isn't online is it? didn't imagine it'd be noz doing it!

feel weirdly proud of all this traction :)

誤訳侮辱 is unperson, right? He has a couple of reviews in this month's issue.

oh is he? for some reason i thought that was someone else. hard to keep track of display names.

that one almost sounds like xiu xiu xp

otm.

Maybe this is avant garde maybe not but it's definitely (to borrow a phrase from George Harrison) "avant garde a clue". Someone with no talent but lots of publicity producing something. It's 'outsider art' in the sense that it is outside the realm of good taste but this isn't some homeless lady or mentally challenged individual or otherwise obsessive artist type who feel driven to create. This is a shitty vanity project that will get lots of un-needed attention from people that think they are being brilliant in calling it avant garde.

This is a shitty vanity project that will get lots of un-needed attention from people that think they are being brilliant in calling it avant garde.

... like Xiu Xiu?

Yeah, I reviewed Aluk Todolo and Neurosis in this month's issue.

I don't think anyone who has reviewed it has called it "avant garde," just put the end result in relation to avant garde and experimental stuff (where it belongs) rather than "vanity pop from a reality TV star" (where it also belongs, but not in the way people have put it there, I guess?). AFAIK nobody knows how this thing was actually produced yet, but the possibility that FLA is actually an experimental artist doing an extended performance art piece on "Teen Mom" a la Joaquin Phoenix doesn't really seem likely.

to me this just sounds like a shittier version of crystal castles

and i get that the lyrics are "real" and "raw" and disorienting but there's only so much LOL-cutup-talky-autotune vox that i can take

man I cannot get ppl who do not think this is good

if she actually makes an album with Eryn Woods (which I don't think she actually will -- I'm pretty sure the thing about their collaboration is just Eryn trying to get public attention) it definitely won't be good.

and i get that the lyrics are "real" and "raw" and disorienting but there's only so much LOL-cutup-talky-autotune vox that i can take

what's surprised me after the initial WTF reaction is that it seems i can't get enough of the vox

tons of 'famous' outsider music records were vanity projects so idk why Adam is making out that they're mutually exclusive

Interesting review in Dummy: http://dummymag.com/features/2012/10/03/comment-why-teen-mom-farrah-abraham-s-dream-is-our-reality/

I don't really agree with framing it as "camp," per se, and pitting this album against mainstream pop just doesn't seem like it makes a lot of sense. Still wondering about production -- I imagine it was made on FL Studio (or something equivalent) but not necessarily by FLA.

this is one of my favorite albums of 2012