Wait, so that is actually the cover? I thought you were joking.
― longneck, Monday, 11 March 2013 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
what in the hell is this yung rapunxel song
― monotony, Monday, 11 March 2013 10:52 (eleven years ago) link
If the music is undeniable pitchfork et al will spin it into a necessary villain shtick.
― tsrobodo, Monday, 11 March 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
what is a "necessary villain shtick"? is that like the dudley boyz?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 March 2013 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
This woman needs to get some psychiatric help, then show up halfway through one of those dynamite SNL skits where all the workers are gathered, and the two team assholes are sure they're gonna get fired so they start dissing everyone - with Banks being the third asshole, basically, but just being so fucking mad that she fumes and huffs and puffs but can't actually get any words out
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 11 March 2013 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
Pop music is not about having reasonable, even remotely reasonable, opinions, buzz-furious swarmers of ILM. It's about making exciting sounds, which Azealia Banks does very well. Plus, the Stone Roses are flabby old Caucasian fleshpots. Sting them, if sting you must.
― Grampsy, Monday, 11 March 2013 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
These beefs scan as desperate cries for attention and they threaten to overshadow anything she might be doing right
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 11 March 2013 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
threaten to
― Darth Icky (DJP), Monday, 11 March 2013 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
textbook borderline personality disorder imho
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 11 March 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
she might go off the internet because of you
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 11 March 2013 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
i don't get the notion that this is going to kill her career or something
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 March 2013 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 March 2013 14:16 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Pretty much, I mean if the Dudley boyz didn't win all the time nobody would have had to give a shit.
― tsrobodo, Monday, 11 March 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
*shudders at the thought of an AB vs MM twitter beef*
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 11 March 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
well no, being terrible is what's going to kill her career
― Darth Icky (DJP), Monday, 11 March 2013 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
if anything's going to kill her career it's that her only galvanizing song is the first one... she's definitely in the "any publicity is good publicity" stage of her career imo
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 March 2013 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
True enough, she may be a trainwreck but people are most definitely watching.
― tsrobodo, Monday, 11 March 2013 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
so who's a bigger flameout... az or kreayshawn...
― 乒乓, Monday, 11 March 2013 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
AZ is definitely making a bigger splash but no one actually thought Kreayshawn was going anywhere, did they? AFAICT no one has spent any time pretending or attempting to convince themselves that they like anything by her other than "Gucci Gucci", whereas ppl are still acting like AZ has the potential to put out good songs.
― Darth Icky (DJP), Monday, 11 March 2013 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
I definitely think Kreayshawn has the potential to put out more good songs if she goes back to making catchy street rap. Not holding my breath until she does though.
― longneck, Monday, 11 March 2013 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
banks will 100% sell more albums than kreayshawn, if that's the barometer
based on the crowd when i saw kreayshawn in dec., she'd be smart to try and reinvent herself as, like, rap for people who go to warped tour
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 March 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
i agree that az banks yelling on twitter won't turn the public off her, but it's probably got to be turning potential collaborators (musical and non-musical) in the industry off her - not so much beefing with randoms like the stone roses or iggy azalea but turning on people she had good working relationships with like baauer and shystie
although at this point the paucity of official material - let alone good official material that matches up to her one great track - is what will kill her career; it's fair to surmise that, regardless of the beefs, she's having issues getting this debut album made and released
― r&b morcilla (lex pretend), Monday, 11 March 2013 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
it's probably got to be turning potential collaborators (musical and non-musical) in the industry off her
That's what I was thinking when I asked the twitter question. Who's going to work with her if there's a chance they'll be attacked five minutes later for doing so or not doing so?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 March 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
lol "a chance"
― Darth Icky (DJP), Monday, 11 March 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
plus it's reeealllly not a good look when you're turning on people with much less of a profile than you, you just come off like a bully rather than the (potentially endearing) bratty upstart like when you attack established names
also at this point i'm less sure it's part of a PR masterplan, though possibly AZB herself thinks she's doing it for publicity.
― r&b morcilla (lex pretend), Monday, 11 March 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
have we learned nothing from chris brown
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 March 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
― Darth Icky (DJP), Monday, March 11, 2013 10:29 AM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idk i mean everyone on ilx was birdman handrubbing in expectation of asap rocky's downfall & he did pretty well both commercially & critically. i don't doubt the azb album will be good enough to yield similar results
― flopson, Monday, 11 March 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
drake isn't about to sell azealia a top 40 single
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, 11 March 2013 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
If she was only good for one track then she'd be a non-factor and nobody would give this shit the time of day.
She has a fair number of good to great tunes.
― tsrobodo, Monday, 11 March 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
GRAMPSY BACK
― some dude, Monday, 11 March 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, March 11, 2013 11:49 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
i'd say that it's still possible that she hooks up w/ some big name for one major push at a billboard hit
i think more importantly, i doubt that she's cultivated the type of fanbase that he has
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 March 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
last i heard she was asking and getting upper five figures for a 2013 live show; that kind of money is not last year's one hit wonder
― the 'dirty sprite' is implied (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Monday, March 11, 2013 11:59 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
true but he's pretty unique in that regard, and 212 had more reach than purple swag. also ilx denied the existence of his fanbase for the longest time, recall deej & surboards arguing about whether or not only ny media types like him. they're comparable, and it's not like it was at all obvious asap would have a hit
― flopson, Monday, 11 March 2013 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
also i'm gonna go ahead and reiterate that the 1991 EP was pretty goodthis twitter shit is dumb (but cheap)promo at a stunning level of unawareness but i can't see it impacting popularity in any way, just pissing off stans for her (picked with her eyes closed apparently) targets and people over 30
― the 'dirty sprite' is implied (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
try to imagine what twitter would've looked like 1987https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-alEhlHSzk
― the 'dirty sprite' is implied (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
1991 the song is great
― flopson, Monday, 11 March 2013 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
"liquorice" is a great song
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 March 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
the fake Beyonce tracklist going around last week had an A Banks feature, which was horrifying just to contemplate as a remote possibility
― some dude, Monday, 11 March 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
"1991" is alright, the only other AZB song i have time for
(still undecided on this new one)
― r&b morcilla (lex pretend), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:37 (eleven years ago) link
it definitely seems like she's still pretty beloved by a certain types of basics out there, imo
― some dude, Monday, 11 March 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
gays love her
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 March 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
at this point I think she her main talent/ability to suck the charm out of every track she raps/sings over
― Darth Icky (DJP), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ basics
― flopson, Monday, 11 March 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
"a certain types of basics" xp?
― the 'dirty sprite' is implied (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKY0FsUEMyw
― flopson, Monday, 11 March 2013 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
thank you basic god
― the 'dirty sprite' is implied (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
― flopson, Monday, March 11, 2013 11:21 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
there WAS a time when this was true, then he toured for two years
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
you can ask noz about it, when he posted the first asap vid on fader it had under 10k views
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
I'm listening to the 1991 EP just to see if I'm being too harsh here and dear god the coda/spoken outro skit on "Van Vogue" is really making me wish someone would shoot her
― Darth Icky (DJP), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
pretty sure i can't ride with this new single in any case
― the 'dirty sprite' is implied (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
who is this person? i hear she is controversial. what's the best song she has so i can give her a shot?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link