The argument that black people do not really appreciate music with actual merit is totally false, you just have to look at the history of black culture and music to see that.
good to know
― the archetypal ghetto hustler (history mayne), Monday, 1 March 2010 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Lol sorry if I sound patronising
― RubyNoir, Monday, 1 March 2010 10:45 (fourteen years ago) link
nah u jus sound dumb
― plax (ico), Monday, 1 March 2010 10:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"dance like there’s no-one watching, sing like there’s no-one listening and fuck like you’re being filmed" Ewwww.
Good to see that people are still writing pieces with the subtext: "In your face, lame-o indie strawman, I am a rock critic who enjoys an enormously popular and widely praised pop star. Please give me a fucking medal."
― gotanynewsstory? (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 1 March 2010 10:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Rude
― RubyNoir, Monday, 1 March 2010 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link
If you don't really write your own lyrics (LIKE BEYONCE) or generally have any creative input into your music/style/image/personality (like Rihanna) then clearly you're only going to be about what will make you lots of dollar. It really just comes down to money imo.
Alternatively, it is a take it or leave it from the big A&R guys at the record companies: "Either you perform the manufactured stuff that we have made for you to top the charts with, or just forget about the entire deal".
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 1 March 2010 12:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow. Those John Doran comments: Doctor Dre a pre-gangsta electro star in a homo-erotic health care themed electro dance act)
― President Keyes, Monday, 1 March 2010 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
How would you describe World Class Wrekcing Kru if you had your tongue in your cheek? Have you heard the music/seen the photos?
Anyway, I'd just like to register my annoyance at The Quietus being called an indie site. Getting wound up by opinion pieces on the internet is your privilege. (For the extremely slow witted: we publish pieces designed to kick up a fuss about four times a year. The last one was on Florence and the Machine. The Guardian does it many, many, many times a day.) I didn't really think that much of the Mof piece, it just made me laugh out loud so I published it. If I were you I'd probably want to exercise my right by not clicking on my site. I'll really be suffering that 0.00001 pence pinch in my wallet until you and Dom Pass "accidentally" find yourself reading my us again.
But. We're not an indie site. We barely cover any compared to what we do (features wise) on leftfield music, post punk, synth pop, dubstep, metal, electronica. In comparison we barely cover it.
That's all.
― Doran, Monday, 1 March 2010 12:57 (fourteen years ago) link
"nah u jus sound dumb"
pots be calling kettle's, man.
― Spinspin Sugah, Monday, 1 March 2010 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
haha ok "spinspin sugah"
― jaded scorer (k3vin k.), Monday, 1 March 2010 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
leftfield music, post punk, synth pop, dubstep, metal, electronica
?O_o?, indie, indie, indie, not indie, indie
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 1 March 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
My name is Kevin.
― Spinspin Sugah, Monday, 1 March 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
looooooool xp
― jaded scorer (k3vin k.), Monday, 1 March 2010 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
doran collabed with someone who wasn't indie or clueless or racist once. the quietus is the archetypal non-indie non-racist non-clueless website.
― zvookster, Monday, 1 March 2010 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
For the extremely slow witted: we publish pieces designed to kick up a fuss about four times a year.
So I guess we can expect to find you here being defensive 3 more times this year after your hoped for fusses get kicked up.
― President Keyes, Monday, 1 March 2010 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
lol when will people realize coming to defend your shitty thinkpiece on a message board only makes you look more dum
― noted schloar (dyao), Monday, 1 March 2010 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Um tbf he is a regular poster here, it would kind of be more incongruous to just pretend not to have seen it
― sometimes I feel like throwing my glands up in the air (DJ Mencap), Monday, 1 March 2010 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, my bad.
― noted schloar (dyao), Monday, 1 March 2010 14:22 (fourteen years ago) link
*opens 'history of black culture and music' textbook*
― samosa gibreel, Monday, 1 March 2010 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
lol I did sound like a arse! but in my defense I was hungover and not really reading the post....not that that is really an excuse urgh. I liked the argument between the owner of the site and one of the commenters, that was the best part about the article.
― RubyNoir, Monday, 1 March 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
wow. [nabisco] should have saved his "using black ppl as pawns in games of music nerd one-upsmanship" for this maybe
― average dump from average gangsters (deej), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
ILM users see everyone as pawns in games of music nerd one-upsmanship
― T-R-A-P-S-T-R (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 04:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Even Lady GaGa can be celibate. You don't have to have sex to be loved.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 11:17 (fourteen years ago) link
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304370304575151541851806562.html
why does lady gaga get a free pass when it comes to terrorism
― iatee, Friday, 2 April 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
ha that's already been taken apart hardcore by a couple different ppl
― goole, Friday, 2 April 2010 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I just like the title
― iatee, Friday, 2 April 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Are settlements more offensive than pop stars?
ans: nope!
― goole, Friday, 2 April 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
depends on the pop star
― Mr. Que, Friday, 2 April 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Lady Gaga > Israeli settlements > Katy Perry
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 April 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
My 6 year old cousin just overheard my sister playing Lady Gaga and she came asking her "why does she stutter in all her songs? Does she have a problem?" Never really thought about it but:
Just Dance: Just, j-j-just dancePokerface: po-po-po-poker face po-po-poker facePaparazzi: papa-paparazziBad Romance: Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah! Roma-Roma-ma-ah! Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!Telephone: I am sick and tired of my phone r-ringin.Future Love: I want a f-f-f-f-future man, I wanna f-fuck you as hard as I can.Monster: That boy is a monster, m-m-m-monster
― Moka, Monday, 5 April 2010 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Found another one:
Dirty Ice Cream: When you call or incessantly t-t-text me
― Moka, Monday, 5 April 2010 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Well what do you think, she also stutters on her new single:
Alejandro, Alejandro, Ale-ale-jandro, Ale-ale-jandro.
― Moka, Friday, 9 April 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
yea this is a definite trick for her. i think she uses it to break up the pace in the melody. i like it.
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Friday, 9 April 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ "does she have a problem"
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Friday, 9 April 2010 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Jack White 'Got Quite Into Being Lady Gaga' While Writing New Song
Lady Gaga is a lot of things: songstress, trend-setter, lover of little monsters, and, apparently, an inspiration to White Stripes singer Jack White. He said he thought about how she writes music and "got quite into being Lady Gaga" while writing a track for his band The Dead Weather, called "Sea of Cowards."
Jack said: "I was thinking of the type of song a contemporary musician would write, so I started thinking about Lady Gaga. I started thinking of how she would write the music to this song and got quite into being Lady Gaga in an odd way."
Despite Jack's foray into Lady Gaga musical territory, the rocker insists the group's second album builds on the sound established on their debut, Horehound, which was released last year and was recorded quickly in order to capture the band's energy.
― is it really that hard to spot all these fake british dudes? (velko), Monday, 10 May 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I realized I wasn't crazy about Poker Face after all
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 10:45 (five years ago) link
She seems like a fairly decent person (although she did once sue a chef into oblivion for calling herself Lady Aga), but the music is over-produced landfill.
The arc of her album sales is shaped like a soft letter L:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga_discography#Studio_albums
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 11:41 (five years ago) link
WRONG:
I like that song “Shallow.” The sort of thing you can picture a boy and girl doing on Lawrence Welk.— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) May 5, 2019
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link
really missing the point at which it seemed lady gaga's music was imminently going to turn into client
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link
Some grisly posts basically the whole way through this thread
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
she did once sue a chef into oblivion for calling herself Lady AgaI looked this up — seems like she sent a C&D letter, but there was no lawsuit
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 23:53 (five years ago) link
the cobrasnake era was fucking dark
― maura, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 23:56 (five years ago) link