QT - Hey QT

For some reason, the little "flash in the sky" special effect strikes me as the most contemptuous moment on this.

the accent too

So I suppose it's up to me to try to defend it, nobody else seems keen. What I like most about it is those synth sounds - it's like they've taken that witch house drone and pulled it into a futuristic j-pop shape, but you can still hear it there, and it's sort of odd and thrilling. When the chorus kicks in and it all rushes in at once it's incredible (on decent headphones at least, it disappears completely when I listen to it through computer speakers) - it just sounds new and intense in all the right ways. The vocal reminds me of Oh My Gosh by Basement Jaxx, but with this (again J-pop) android vocal processing - it sounds human and alien, innocent and sexual all at the same time. I can see how it could be annoying, but it's like that for a reason. The idea that it's condescending seems misleading as, while it may well be non-pop people playing at being pop (1) nobody owns pop and (2) everyone I know who's connecting with it is doing so in a genuine "I love this" way rather than the ironic "pitchfork overlords" fashion patronisingly assumed above.

It sounds super retro to me, which isn't really a problem, but the future / nowness element is passing me by completely. It's like a pastiche of early 90s J-pop.

One of the reasons this song is so great is because of all the haters, none of whom are remotely close to nailing it.

This is what we call sub-Raccoon Tanuki reasoning.

liking a song metatextually or something, presumably if we'd kept our mouths shut there'd be nothing to enjoy

Well you've certainly not kept your mouth shut Lex. You've made the same "leave Britney alone" argument about how contemptuously anti-pop it is about five times over two threads on ILM and elsewhere on the internet too.

*farts*

man if everyone would just be quiet all the shitty music would go away

Oh God, Matresslessness - a person who's sick of people oversharing this song at parties etc. I realize the parties and the party guests that Matresslessness is talking about are entirely in his imagination but putting that aside that would otherwise be the definition of successful pop music.

i intend to make people feel bad for enjoying this song

Oh God, Matresslessness - a person who's sick of people oversharing this song at parties etc. I realize the parties and the party guests that Matresslessness is talking about are entirely in his imagination but putting that aside that would otherwise be the definition of successful pop music.

― everything, Tuesday, September 16, 2014 11:04 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you are a fucking dumbass

think it's already been established elsewhere but just in case

Camaraderie At Arms Length wrote a great post there that is being conspicuously ignored

might consider a defense from someone who isn't a pop tourist

What I like most about it is those synth sounds - it's like they've taken that witch house drone and pulled it into a futuristic j-pop shape, but you can still hear it there, and it's sort of odd and thrilling

if this song is impressing you with it's synth sounds your bar must be extremely low

its*

relieved this thread is no less serious than the other one

yeah, everyone seems to be annoyed at it for being postmodern / art-studenty ... but I'm not hearing any of that

uh hello she's holding an "energy drink" called QT

http://noize.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/acdc_beer.jpg

http://metal-and-wine.com/media/image/thumbnail/motoerhead_bastard_3er_720x600.jpg

it's commentary you see

yes good point except her energy drink doesn't actually exist

"advertising jingles for products that don't exist" is the new "soundtracks for a film that doesn't exist". Except that there's nothing new about it.

http://images.lightstalkers.org/images/1222119/Pete_Townshend_large.jpg

the cute sell out

right, so we agree it sucks

Glad that's settled.

For the record, people reppin for BIPP should've seen this coming tho.

i intend to make people feel bad for enjoying this song

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, September 16, 2014 10:08 AM Bookmark

same

For the record, people reppin for BIPP should've seen this coming tho.

this is true and unfortunate :\

brad, do u see me coming n shitting up the 1975 thread? play fair pls

besides steely dan is there fake pop that's even good

i always think, why don't you just try to do this actually, or are you not good enough at it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXGXDmtW4Zg

lol i meant the remix

anyway that wasn't a 100% srs answer. wtf is 'fake' anyway

My favorite fake pop act is Du Jour.

i always think, why don't you just try to do this actually, or are you not good enough at it?

― goole, Tuesday, September 16, 2014 1:54 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Who do you think this about other than QT?

hey hey hey, bim's on the way

no one is "shitting up" this thread; if you want a dedicated thread for only positive remarks about an artist you can make one yourself

cool ok well you'll be seeing a lot more of me on the threads of bands you all like that I think are trash, k

it is kind of wonderful how annoyed the pop authenticity brigade have gotten tho, it's like this music has rly hit a nerve. good

you are deeply confused.

K-pop (2014)

no posts from imago hmmm maybe somehow i can begin fathom the depths of his ignorance

idek if 'authenticity' is really my issue but then again i have difficulty putting my finger on it

in either case even if all the pretentious cabbage were trimmed away the song would still be pretty substandard compared to others of its ilk

i said some very very nice things abt the k-pop in the 2013 year-end ballot tbf, just never know where to start. might check some out!

was it 'pink tape'? that was awesome

authenticity is not my issue; my issue is contempt.

lol these threads are still funny. There's a soft rule that if an artist gets their own thread outside of a rolling thread, people will be having a dumb, protracted argument inside, whereas the rolling threads are for grunts and humphs and other semi-intelligible murmurs. people won't really miss your contingency of the creative class.

song's ok pitched down, but the song's beside the point of the thread at this point. Who knew it was ironic or conceptual until ppl started 6/10ing it and making other important, not at all ephemeral contributions to music criticism?

cool ok well you'll be seeing a lot more of me on the threads of bands you all like that I think are trash, k

― imago, Tuesday, September 16, 2014 6:48 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

when did you become such a baby?

also, this song is so transparently someone's idea of a postmodern art project i can't even really get bothered by it.

no

Yeah?

best song of all time

there's something I want to say

yeah?

i had no idea this was so contentious on ILM.

i don't think it is a parody of pop music or whatever lex was saying. i think it is a song that is interested in the way songs can be commodities, and how commodities -- ideally -- have a kind of effervescent unreality. but it's not really trying to take the next step and draw out a sinister dimension to this sort of alienation like vaporwave or something.

bipp is still fantastic this not so much

Thread = weird. Song = awesome.

agreed w/ ufo, + i think "bipp" is what accomplishes what treeship refers to rather than "qt"