ODD FUTURE WOLF GANG KILL THEM ALL

awesome

oh fuck off

fell on my damn head

Finally a thread for this pair of cool gals who know how to rock! ;)

I'm all for making this the combined odd future / tegan + sara thread in the spirit of healing

meh

even tho I think st patrick could've used their music to drive the snakes out of ireland

love how he got to decide which species were offensive

so far my fave albums by women this year would be pj harvey and britney. but i will definitely check out the new beyonce too when it comes out. i couldn't really listen to that last tegan & sara clip up there. didn't sound so good to me. they are no veruca salt.

still can't get over that tune yards stuff i was listening to the other night. ouch. kinda captivating in a trainwreck kinda way though. i'm being nice and not going on that thread. aren't i nice? people seem to like it. she had, like, 300 people at the flywheel last week or whenever! that place never sells out for anything.

i was actually looking fwd to tune-yards because people whose taste i trust recommended her to me but it's SO SO BAD

you should check out the katy b album, scott (i can't remember if you liked "katy on a mission" or not)

I dunno how I feel about tune-yards - seems like there will be something interesting happening immediately followed by something unforgiveable in the stuff I've heard.

man there have REALLY been a lot of twin-girl acts over the years haven't there? I smell a poll

Del Rubio triplets vs. Veruca Salt vs. TATU vs. Cocorosie vs. Tegan and Sara

vs. Prussian Blue

lol, it was meant to be up just long enough to incense somebody and then i got called into a meeting.

vs Nina Sky vs Soho vs The Breeders vs Gene Loves Jezebel (oh no he didn't)

vs. Prussian Blue

lol couldn't resist eh

nina sky win

lol couldn't resist eh

guilty

Breeders Win!!!!!

>: (

hahaha wait a second, TATU???????????

I take it you never actually, like, read anything about them or saw their videos or award show performances?

my mistake - I thought they were sisters and that was part of the schtick

(I have only seen videos)

lex, why are you so obsessed with xl's label head? he made a pretty good deal aka did his job

my mistake - I thought they were sisters and that was part of the schtick

sisters... who french kiss and fondle each other?

I would GIS examples but I am certain it would get me fired

finger-wagging is never a good look when it comes to aesthetics.

i realize that these arguments about privilege or whatever seem to be rolling right off your back, but saying "u should be talking about the AESTHETICS" is a privileged position! talking about the aesthetics of this means you are able to listen to it with a degree of dispassion, which is not always going to be possible when you're listening to something that literally invokes a feeling of dread/anger/fear in you. i don't want to go into a whole "this is the list of people in my life who have been sexually assaulted," but that list is longer than it has any fucking right to be, and in a society where that list is allowed to get so long, cool new music that makes a point to be unapologetically rapey can fucking withstand some condemnation from the people who are most likely to be assaulted.

u guys are hella wrong about tuneyards btw

omg you're right, I like her voice after all!

oh wait, I still don't, gasface to YOU

i loved the watson twins album! the last one. made my pazz & jop ballot. the only person who voted for it. have played that album a hundred times.

djp, i'll pray for you

why did tatu just go away? did they get sent to school in samoa by their parents?

they switched management, farted around for a bit, then split to pursue solo projects

yeah they got boyfriends

wasn't it their therapist that got tATu together in the first place...?

Ivan Shapovalov and his friend/business partner Alexander Voitinskyi developed plans to create a musical project in Russia. With this idea in mind, Shapovalov and Voitinskyi organized auditions in Moscow in early 1999 for teenage female vocalists. By the end of auditioning, the partners narrowed their search down to ten girls, including ex-members of the group Neposedi, Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova. Both girls stood out among the others, especially because of their appearance and vocal experience, but the producers decided to start with 14 year-old Katina, who sang "It Must Have Been Love" by Roxette. Katina began recording demos, including "Yugoslavia", a song about NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.[5][6] After the demos were cut, Shapovalov insisted that another girl be added to the project. Thus, in late 1999, 14 year old Volkova was added to the group.

same dude went on to become tyler's counselor iirc

don't know why I thought tATu was the brainchild of a Russian child psychologist

what a weirdo I am

oh wait, I still don't, gasface to YOU

lol

reddening otm

Did that TATU movie with Mischa Barton ever come out?

volkova sounds like a really poorly made eastern bloc car from the 80s

lex, why are you so obsessed with xl's label head? he made a pretty good deal aka did his job

i'm not obsessed? he's a pretty revered figure in the industry though, xl often (rightly) held up as an ideal sort of label, but it's to the extent that it seems lots of critical faculties shut down whenever it does something. and if we're holding anyone up to scrutiny for giving tyler's lyrics a free pass, surely he should be as well as any critics, given his reputation (ie not like any old major label head just out to make profit, he and his label trade on their ethical rep quite a bit)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_and_I_%28film%29

this February in Russia, apparently!

talking about the aesthetics of this means you are able to listen to it with a degree of dispassion, which is not always going to be possible when you're listening to something that literally invokes a feeling of dread/anger/fear in you.

prioritizing reactions of dread/anger/fear over dispassionate analysis is a slippery slope. I can (and have) been exposed to plenty of anti-semitic nonsense in my time, for example, and in pretty much every case I think the instances when I was able to respond with cogent analysis were preferable to the instances when I was overcome with revulsion/fear/rage/whatever.

xp

idk I've seen you mention his name a lot recently, just seems like a reach of a criticism to me xxp to lex

hey David Geffen took some heat when Axl was running off his mouth

ridicule/laughter is also a good way to react in my experience - comedy robs a lot of things of their power

xp

i think i've mentioned his name like twice this year! though the xl obeisance is something i've been gradually noticing of late. idk non-britishers prob don't get exposed to it i guess