i'm the dude right in front of him
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 03:28 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― janice (surm), Thursday, 8 July 2010 03:29 (fourteen years ago) link
michael stipe is hypnotic
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Thursday, 8 July 2010 05:48 (fourteen years ago) link
plus, any other strong candidates for worst song of 2010? cuz that crabcore just ain't doing it for me no more.
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Thursday, 8 July 2010 05:49 (fourteen years ago) link
jesus, Bollywood is repulsively bad. it's like she heard this cool new thing that's popular nowadays called Hippity Hoppity and thought, "hey, i could totally do that." it's like a pathetic imitation of MIA. as soon as i started listening to it i just wanted it to get away from my ears.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 8 July 2010 06:10 (fourteen years ago) link
There's something really late-'90s about 'Bollywood', it's like Phair wanted to make a song mixing a load of contemporary genres together and turned to Beck's Midnite Vultures for inspiration.
― Gavin in Leeds, Thursday, 8 July 2010 06:43 (fourteen years ago) link
She's drinking a Soy latte, She gets a double shot-ay, it goes all through her body
― da croupier, Thursday, 8 July 2010 06:48 (fourteen years ago) link
There's something really late-'90s about 'Bollywood', it's like Phair wanted to make a song mixing a load of contemporary genres together and turned to Beck's Midnite Vultures for inspiration.― Gavin in Leeds, Wednesday, July 7, 2010 11:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― Gavin in Leeds, Wednesday, July 7, 2010 11:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Thursday, 8 July 2010 07:08 (fourteen years ago) link
this sounds like one of those G-rated parody raps they do on homestar runner.
― it sucks and you all love something that sucks (reddening), Thursday, 8 July 2010 07:29 (fourteen years ago) link
only bad and not funny.
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 8 July 2010 08:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Every time I get to the spooky-voice " ... pulled out the CONNNNNTRACT ..." bit, all I can think of is one of the skit bits from "Dre Day."
http://imgur.com/wpTKi.png
And, honestly, "Bollywood" is way more fun to listen to than anything off of her last album; if all of Funstyle is just as bad as this, I can't wait to hear it. Still think that this song is just really effective trolling though.
― CompuPost, Thursday, 8 July 2010 11:42 (fourteen years ago) link
this is... I mean...
waht
― MOATY I'M HERE (HI DERE), Monday, 12 July 2010 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
― janice (surm), Monday, 12 July 2010 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah, at last!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 July 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I was not really expecting it to be flat-out hilarious
― MOATY I'M HERE (HI DERE), Monday, 12 July 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
You were never supposed to hear these songs. These songs lost me my management, my record deal and a lot of nights of sleep.Yes, I rapped one of them. Im as surprised as you are. But here is the thing you need to know about these songs and the ones coming next: These are all me. Love them, or hate them, but dont mistake them for anything other than an entirely personal, un-tethered-from-the-machine, free for all view of the world, refracted through my own crazy lens.
This is my journey. Ill keep sending you postcards.
-Liz
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7_-BAtm3Ys
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:22 (fourteen years ago) link
uh that's a lot worse than bollywood imo
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I like this song actually.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:29 (fourteen years ago) link
the lol part is intentionally funny, so that makes it better than bollywood. This, on the other hand....
http://www.youtube.com/user/madeyes4u#p/u/5/megGQuCHfxI
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=megGQuCHfxI
Returned for insufficient postage.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess she doesn't use Facebook or email.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Sex In the City 3: Bollywood
― exit through the (Tape Store), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link
These songs lost me my management, my record deal
Anyone surprised?
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Hey, it's the Moon Unit Zappa comeback album.
― bendy, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link
worst journey ever
― 1967 Dragnet episode (Z S), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
"cocksucker blues" anyone? Metal Machine Music maybe? nah! she couldn't be that smart, amirite?
― deep purple yoda (Ioannis), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
a song by song response to machine metal music is her next project
― buzza, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
called Liz Can't Dance.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I think Liz should star and direct a Graffiti Bridge-like movie to tie all these songs together.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
But her comeback is fucked now that "H.W.C." can't be her "Gett Off."
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, that is why her comeback is fucked
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
cocksucker blues and metal machine music were both listenable, of course.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
also artists usually drive themselves into the ditch when they're in the middle of the road, not when they've been stuck in their garage for five years
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Holy crap, "Smoke" makes "Bollywood" sound like "Fuck and Run".
― Fifi live from gay Paree (staggerlee), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Sounds like a SNL parody of something from Beck's Odelay. Horrific.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 03:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I fucking love this song more and more every time I hear it and I need to hear this album ASAP
― the aztec mystic pizza (Stevie D), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 03:29 (fourteen years ago) link
"Bollywood" totally winning me over, but I say this as somebody who feels "This Is Ponderous" is one of the great overlooked singles of my lifetime.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 25 July 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
omg smoke hahahah, this is pretty great. When does this record come out again? Is the whole thing just a string of these goofy cut-up skits lampooning her own life as a washed-up onetime famed person? "I don't know John Mayer... I met him..."
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 25 July 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
xp:
Princess Superstar fronting 2NU.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, July 6, 2010 7:52 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark
; )
― kkvgz, Sunday, 25 July 2010 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean granted it's all horrendously dated-sounding but most of the jokes have been funny at least once...I'm in favor of this direction for her.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 25 July 2010 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
can't believe the same girl who wrote Shane could've written this new stuff. don't get it.
it's kind of shockingly sad
you gotta have fear in ur heart.
― janice (surm), Saturday, 31 July 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Funstyle is getting the deluxe reissue treatment.
― ground zero μ-Ziq (kkvgz), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmmm:
"I’m working on a proper rock record, a good, old-school rock record. Finally. I had a lot of issues to work out," Phair says, laughing and slinking into her chair."But this record has been a very beautiful experience. I’m not going to screw up the production, either. I’m going to get this one right. I have my head screwed on right. I haven’t been this way in a long time."She credits her performance in 2010 at the Matador's 21st anniversary concerts in Las Vegas as reinvigorating her approach to music. Phair shared a stage with the likes of Guided by Voices and Yo La Tengo, and even dueted with Ted Leo."Oh, my God, what a godsend that was," she says of the experience. "What an amazing homecoming. That ended a whole cycle of pain. It was a rebirth. I remembered who I once was, and they remembered not to hate me so much. They remembered that it’s not all that ferociously awful, what I have done."As for her new record, Phair says she's targeting a more stripped-down, stark approach. She cites a few artists as inspiration. "I want the production to be kind of Jack White-ish, Ryan Adams-ish, that style of production," she says. "I want it to sound (messed)-up, but at a level of mastery that is respectable."And for those still confused by the scattershot production of "Funstyle," which ranged from Bollywood to spoken-word goofiness, get over it. There's more where that came from, but Phair is now reticent to release it."I was going to do ‘Funstyle,’ ‘Funnerstyle’ and Funnererstyle.’ I’ve got all these songs, but I can’t handle people freaking out," she says. "There’s just all this bad material that really ought to be heard at some point."
"But this record has been a very beautiful experience. I’m not going to screw up the production, either. I’m going to get this one right. I have my head screwed on right. I haven’t been this way in a long time."
She credits her performance in 2010 at the Matador's 21st anniversary concerts in Las Vegas as reinvigorating her approach to music. Phair shared a stage with the likes of Guided by Voices and Yo La Tengo, and even dueted with Ted Leo.
"Oh, my God, what a godsend that was," she says of the experience. "What an amazing homecoming. That ended a whole cycle of pain. It was a rebirth. I remembered who I once was, and they remembered not to hate me so much. They remembered that it’s not all that ferociously awful, what I have done."
As for her new record, Phair says she's targeting a more stripped-down, stark approach. She cites a few artists as inspiration. "I want the production to be kind of Jack White-ish, Ryan Adams-ish, that style of production," she says. "I want it to sound (messed)-up, but at a level of mastery that is respectable."
And for those still confused by the scattershot production of "Funstyle," which ranged from Bollywood to spoken-word goofiness, get over it. There's more where that came from, but Phair is now reticent to release it.
"I was going to do ‘Funstyle,’ ‘Funnerstyle’ and Funnererstyle.’ I’ve got all these songs, but I can’t handle people freaking out," she says. "There’s just all this bad material that really ought to be heard at some point."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
"I had a lot of issues to work out."
god
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
I want the production to be kind of Jack White-ish, Ryan Adams-ish, that style of production,
"There’s just all this bad material that really ought to be heard at some point."
This is why we need publicists.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
"I can't think of anyone else of my indie-rock generation who has so completely betrayed his or her talent."
ahhhh old ILM
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
I thought that was said about Alex Chilton?
― nickn, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link