KREAYSHAWN - GUCCI GUCCI

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http://www.theawl.com/tag/letters-to-the-editors-of-womens-magazines

i dont think that you and she share similar senses of humor tbh

― max, Saturday, November 12, 2011 8:07 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i think she shares her sense of humor with suck.com circa 1998

i think a lot of the internet does!

not an excuse

some dude who are some internet writers you think are funny

those letters are first class

sorry i didn't realize one had to have favorite internet humorists to criticize an internet humorist -- i will bow out and apologize for my hubris

lol dude I just want to know what you find funny is all

yeah i dunno -- obv i read a lot of online writing but a lot of the stuff i find funny is not primarily about being comedic or is by people i know irl and find funny in that context, so hard question to answer.

yeh I can't really think of ppl I 'go-to' for funny material except the SA twitterati

marina hyde is pretty much my standard for humour

this woman...i can't even

lol, nuff said.

so max is "a lot of the internet" doing something inherently a defense of it? because tbh i feel like anyone who hasn't moved on from that very might magazine-style beating you over the head with its cleverness writing kinda deserves to be clowned

the other possibility is that the tastemakers on the internet are also people who grew up on the internet so

i'm not sure what that means or what it's in reference to

i dont really know! it doesnt really bother me, i still laugh at it. im not sure that comedy needs to "move on" every 10 years? and im not sure that might magazine is quite the right reference, either. but i never really read suck or might, i was still in middle school when that stuff was big.

like i dont really see "letters to the editors of womens magazines" getting published on suck. im not sure it would fit...

that being said "default blog voice" is still suck.com-y (and early gawker-y, choire sicha and elizabeth spiers and those folks), and a lot of people complain about how similar it sounds. (arguably edith in her regular day-to-day blogging is doing a fairly new and interesting "blog voice"). i dont know, like i said, its not something that bothers me.

yeah obviously there doesn't need to be like a huge sea change, the shifting trends in writing styles are definitely more subtle and complex than that, i'm oversimplifying a bit. but the background i'm coming at this from is being at pitchfork fairly early on and being kind of weary of the cutesy witty tone that was very pervasive there back then, and trying for something not necessarily serious or humorless but just a bit less precious and eager to please. so to be still surrounded by that shit 10 years later is exhausting for me.

i'm not sure what that means or what it's in reference to

― some dude, Saturday, November 12, 2011 12:13 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

I dunno either its just something I wrote on the internet

yeah see when i laugh at EZ its not cause of that... arch or precious tone. i mean i think thats there--and i know that it annoys whiney to no end, and can see why it irritates people--but to me its secondary to the absurdity of the tone, which is what i like! shes really good at going in directions you dont expect, i think. (or that i dont expect.)

but yeah i think shes a specific taste, and lord knows shes got plenty of megafans so she doesnt need me to defend her.

y'know i may not share zimmerman's comic sensibility but i at least get what she's doing and what she's communicating. but like half of dayo's posts are headscratchers for me.

I'm glad we can both agree on something

i found that nyt article to be funny and cool, and easy to relate to as a cranky old man in a young dude's bod. ilm will always act like dismayed schoolteachers over any mainstream article that dares to not treat whatever flavor of the month piece of shit 'musician' with a viral youtube video with fawning reverence, when in reality that crap needs to be taken down a peg. peace

The sham career of Kreayshawn should be destroyed.

i would give kreayshawn a flying steinerline from the top rope through a table thats on fire and covered in piranhas

the actual thrust of the article is fine with me, really, even if it feels like 4 months late and kind of vaguely defined. mostly it was just the tapdancing top hat-wearing cutesy-poo prose that got on my nerves, i don't really care what anybody thinks about kreayshawn, she's barely worth even 'picking a side' over.

her verse on this 2 chainz tape is terrible btw.

i found that nyt article to be funny and cool, and easy to relate to as a cranky old man in a young dude's bod. ilm will always act like dismayed schoolteachers over any mainstream article that dares to not treat whatever flavor of the month piece of shit 'musician' with a viral youtube video with fawning reverence, when in reality that crap needs to be taken down a peg. peace

― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Monday, November 14, 2011 8:51 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol 'taken down a peg' every single article in existence is trying to take her down a peg

at least al has the decency just to be blase

& yeah the 2 chainz verse sucks

er, her verse

just blasé

my issue w/ the piece as far as 'oooh i feel old' is that there are tons of artists who would be better examples out there, i.e. skrillex or something, where it actually feels like the music adheres to something like a generation gap. 'gucci gucci' sounds like it would have been a hit song any time in the past 15 years

i dunno it sounds pretty post-lil jon quasi-southern to me from a production standpoint. and the overall attitude/content of the lyrics feels vaguely contemporary, not something people were saying a bunch in 1998 or whatever.

yeah i mean it sounds modern i guess but nothing abt it screams generational divide to me

i mean her whole steez is more like 2003 hipster than anything else anyway

i wouldnt know, ive never heard a note of her doubtlessly excruciating "music" - i dont see how it matters, things that make you feel old are often kinda arbitrary and unexpected anyway

lol @ tam tam. The eye rolling isn't over it being about this particular artist, just that the same article could have been written about any young popular musician in any year!

it should be written every year, for every artist

I found this article considerably more excruciating than the one song of hers I've liked

aw i kinda like her verse on the 2 chainz tape. i mean, i cant remember anything about her rapping but i like the way her voice is mixed onto the track

thats not intended as backhanded btw

The sham career of Kreayshawn should be destroyed.

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, November 15, 2011 2:52 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark

lol

Keep waiting for this to be an "RIP" thread

cold

yeah i mean it sounds modern i guess but nothing abt it screams generational divide to me

I thought that was part of the point, actually; she's ultimately inoffensive and not THAT different, but different enough to cause a hilariously overwrought "wait am I old and no longer 'with it'" identity crisis. TBH it's pretty much how I felt about Gucci Mane the first time I heard him, which is probably why I thought it was so funny.

if you are having that crisis at all you can rest assured you are no where near old.

lol that's the other part of it that I find funny, tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKMu0ENuNec

so kreay finally has another follow up track. i think its p good tbh

AGREED

im playing it again. >>>15 minutes

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