@waynecoyne
Dang!!!!! @fatbellybella you really know how to do it!!!! You hatin on me has gotten the video 100,000 more views !!!LOVE LOVE LOVE
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
i wonder what she and nayrok were expecting after filming that
― the late great, Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
People who RT fan compliments are the most disgusting savages.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
if you express this sentiment among fans you'll find that some people think of it as just giving the fan a chance to have his/her voice heard - like, I agree with you & would never, but if you say "rt'ing people praising you is gross" ppl will tell you "oh so you're too good to rt a compliment from somebody, fine fine mr. high-n-mighty"
― decrepit but free (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i'm sure it's a weird thing to deal w/ because certain fans/fanbases really get off on the "i have the BEST FANS IN THE WORLD MWAH" thing that seems sycophantic and gross to people outside of it.
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
there's something really sad to me about how coyne is this 50 year old dude who was slogging through the pre-internet underground for years and now he's just constantly chasing this asinine lol virality culture and trying to be the king of meme music with all his FOUR DAY LONG SONGS FEATURING KE$HA WOAH DUDE
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
it wouldn't be sad to you in the same sense of "sad" if you saw his bank statement, I think
― decrepit but free (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
you have?
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
no, but they do very well for themselves, I can tell you that - what we out here in snarksville think of as "chasing virality" codes for a larger % of the public as "being famous." what looks like trying too hard to people who think about pop culture all day long just looks like success to people whose engagement isn't as deep-game
― decrepit but free (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
see that's the thing, i shouldn't pity him because he got to be very successful at being kooky eccentric artist guy, but fuck what a lamewad
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
The thing about fans expecting their compliments to be retweeted is so strange to me. It seems pretty self-centered and entitled.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
that version of 'race for the prize' they did to cash in on the thunder is just amazingly half assed, even for the flaming lips in 2012
― balls, Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
i mean i don't begrudge him his success, in some ways i admire FL for not doing the boring old album-single cycle and trying to do something different, but it's like he's actively trying to be more inane than people half his age raised on youtube (and doing a great job of it)
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
there's a distinction wrt the things he's RTing that's even worse though, which is that alongside you're right NEVER CHANGE WAYNE!! he's also (admittedly amid just rting every other thing) pasting stuff like
Ry4n W. Bradley @Seriously?! http://bit.ly/LyY6gF Erykah Badu should be thankful to @theflaminglips & @waynecoyne for reminding people she's still around.Retweeted by Wayne Coyne
which is like building a treehouse & having your friends throw coconuts out of it at strangers
― blossom smulch (schlump), Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
do you remember when you wrote to the letters column in your favorite bands fanzine and you were stoked that they printed it? or just that one time someone called you out in the audience by name? (for me it was rob crow thanking me for writing a story on heavy vegetable in my school newspaper) i don't think i was either self-centered or entitled or creepy for being stoked about that, it's just that nowadays it's on twitter between adults i guess.
― the late great, Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, but - and I don't like saying this any more than I like knowing it - it's a generational thing. what seems crass & gross to us reads different to a different generation. I can either cling to my sense of how things seem to me, or I can try to see things from a different perspective. I have my limits, to me I just couldn't look at myself if I was rt'ing AEROSMITH ROCKS, BIG FAN HERE CAN I GET A RT? but the whole process looks diff. to younger cats, they grew up in a diff. world than I did so it's natural that things would look different to them
― decrepit but free (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
there's a distinction wrt the things he's RTing that's even worse though, which is that alongside you're right NEVER CHANGE WAYNE!!
Badu's doing the same YOU'RE SO RIGHT thing on her feed isn't she?
― decrepit but free (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
i guess it's just that some sort of not really objectionable thing is being multiplied by whatever coyne did which seems at least poorly thought-out and likely completely creepy multiplied by hating on the fallen genius multiplied by the general thing of hating on twitter
― the late great, Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
maybe one "multiplied by hating on twitter" should be a "raised to the power of hating on twitter"
i'm with you all though, i got no twitter acct
― the late great, Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
Ry4n W. Bradley should look up the first-week sales of Embryonic and Return of the Ankh.
― Grusin' Gang (Andy K), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
no one looks good in this exchange, really sad badu is involved at all tbh
― “Argh!” I cry. But I really don’t care. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
eh they debuted at #8 and she debuted at #4, it's not like they're not in the same basic bracket of success by almost any standard (xpost)
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
Sales, not chart position.
A funny thing to say, regardless.
― Grusin' Gang (Andy K), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i mean they're 2 artists who have different enough fanbases that when one mentions the other half the people listening to "who?"
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
Ankh: 110K
Embryonic: 32K
Thank you for reviving Badu's career, Flaming Lips.
xpost
― Grusin' Gang (Andy K), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
has badu retweeted you yet
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
i wonder if garry shandling still has s1ocki blocked for very gently mocking shandlings retweeting ppl complimenting him, which i still think is odd but apparently it's the present day equiv of an autograph or whatever. 'can i get a RT for my birthday' also creeps me out.
― balls, Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
i mean in the 90s when there were just occasional musicians who were really accessible and participated in message boards and stuff, 16 year old me would get pretty geeked out about any guy from a band i listened to responding to an e-mail. and granted, going into a profession where those kinds of interactions are commonplace may have accelerated me becoming a little more blase about it, but yeah i don't know how the novelty of it all hasn't worn off for most people.
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
because it's still a novelty, man.
― “Argh!” I cry. But I really don’t care. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
trying to be the king of meme music with all his FOUR DAY LONG SONGS FEATURING KE$HA WOAH DUDE
i feel you, but haven't they been doing this sort of thing all along (zareeka etc)? one person's creative high-concept release is another's crass gimmick (see also bjork).
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
the flaming lips are no bjork
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 7 June 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
when I get drunk I run like busta rhymes in that one vid and say bjork like the rza
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:00 (twelve years ago) link
tho when I do it I sound like schwarzenegger
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Wednesday, June 6, 2012 9:57 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah i totally see what he's doing now as consistent with the band's history, in terms of chasing some kind of fun new idea, it's just become kind of grotesque at some point. jack white's become very relentlessly meme-y over the years too.
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
I'm gonna throw up, ugggghh this guy.
― Ò (Ówen P.), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
what's ugly about it is his whole bangbus HAW HAW WE FUCKED THAT BITCH OVER attitude
― “Argh!” I cry. But I really don’t care. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, this has gotten a whole new level of ugly.
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
what looks like trying too hard to people who think about pop culture all day long just looks like success to people whose engagement isn't as deep-game
― decrepit but free (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, June 6, 2012 8:48 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
one of the most enlightening / enlightened things I've ever read on ilx tbh. very eloquently sums up my 'Hulk smash'-level rage when I see dudes on stage dancing for chicken and making bank doing it.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 7 June 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
dancing...for...chicken...?
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Thursday, 7 June 2012 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
Chewing on the expression "dancing for chicken" xp
― Ò (Ówen P.), Thursday, 7 June 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://resurreccionepiscopal.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/dancing_chicken.gif
― me so fat (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 7 June 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcoqeNdMAfA
― balls, Thursday, 7 June 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
^absolute first thing that came to mind
― “Argh!” I cry. But I really don’t care. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 7 June 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago) link
I thought chicken-dance but nobody wants to see that
― Ò (Ówen P.), Thursday, 7 June 2012 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
now i really hope If Assholes comes back and explains "dancing for chicken" because i'm so mystified by it. like the best guess is that it's kind of like some randomly specific variation on 'sing for your supper'?
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Thursday, 7 June 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
I confess I googled it, thought I was behind on chicken-related slang
― Ò (Ówen P.), Thursday, 7 June 2012 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
As a director I am unimpressed... As your fellow artist I am uninspired
i am really glad she went there with this. like it wasn't just exploitative, it was a really shitty video. they were doing they're usual 'omg kitschy AND challenging' thing, which is what it is (and it seemed to even be what she expected), but the execution/production was just embarrassing. so tasteless
― een, Thursday, 7 June 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
the video would have been been perfect if they just did the blowfly version
http://open.spotify.com/track/3fxjEEwnvYWHmVkbOk3sXd
― liars - wkiw (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 7 June 2012 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
Jesus Christ you guys, do none of you remember this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkxvxV-S4wM
― WHEY AHR MAH DREGUNS? (DJP), Thursday, 7 June 2012 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
oh god those wayne coyne fan tweets making me more livid than anyone should be this early in the morning
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Thursday, 7 June 2012 07:45 (twelve years ago) link