What do you think of MTV Teen Mom Farrah Abraham's first single?

like wtf is going on in "Caught In The Act"

a friend's girlfriend works as a producer on Teen Mom, really need to talk to them about this next time i see them

― some dude, Saturday, August 18, 2012 10:35 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

lol i called him about this and he was like "oh yeah, we know. we heard early versions of it"

haha I can't imagine that blase of a reaction to this

no it was more of an "I KNOW, shit is crazy huh"

haha even better!

i am taken with the fact that this is the soundtrack to an autobiography. are you meant to listen while reading?

"searching for closure">>>>>>>

and yes, easily the oddest music i have heard in a while

FLA
are my initials
appeal to me

i'm the push behind the swing
i know everything we ever wanted

will always love both this thread and this record for giving us the line "I haven't heard anything this alienating in years" - one of the best, funniest pieces of music criticism ever

like wtf is going on in "Caught In The Act"

man, seriously

I thought people were exaggerating upthread but this is realllllly weird

someone mentioned Crystal Castles, I'm getting like lo-fi house music via noise artist vibes. like it kind of sounds like Maria Minerva or Grimes. with added bass wobbles.

It's definitely weirdo music but I don't find it especially fascinating.. I wish it was funny-sounding but I'm not laughing. You get the jist of what the entire thing sounds like after 30 seconds, and there's no big surprises after that.

But just to be sure I should probably download the full album...

My past first impressions of stuff like this has often been deceiving..

Umm... this really is something, huh. Love "Sunshine State".

I wish it was funny-sounding but I'm not laughing.

I'm not listening to it for laughs. I really find it fascinating. Someone in the io9 comments compared it to Noise, and while I shrugged that off, I did say (and meant) that a Farrah Abraham/Dominick Fernow (of Prurient/Cold Cave) collaboration would be fucking awesome.

the video w/ her taking her kid to the father's grave kinda underscores how there's some pretty genuine emotion here that i think makes how wrong and strange it sounds more compelling than just a showbiz trainwreck lol

would buy this cd if they had it at the crappy cd store across the street. might look for it. is it on an actual label?

since it has the same title as the memoir it's pretty hard to tell if it's being sold anywhere besides digital retailers or as a package deal w/ the book.

this is great

Digital-only. No physical CDs.

want 200 gram virgin vinyl 45 rpm 2XLP. ASAP.

oh snap, i think im starting to "get it"

Where can I buy this album? Every search I make leads me to the stupid book.

Got it!

am I right in assuming the songtitles double up as chapter titles in the book

I quite like the ennervated, David Guetta-goes-witch-house vibe, and the vocals are obviously baffling.

she totally puts a stake in anything resembling witch house.

RIP witch house.

I'm still torn on whether the weirdness is intentional or accidental. From that tweet at the top of the thread obviously her mom thinks it's pop music.

DON'T LET IT GET OUT

I haven't heard anything this alienating in years

both lol and really true, with the insiderizing of outsider music (ariel pink, jet-setting superstar jandek) this is really striking as outsider stuff that's not easy to subsume into some kind of 'us'.

I agree this is really great. Sort of the dark avant-garde side of today's pop. When will it be released on CD?

Don't think there's any great mystery to the vocals, really - isn't she just reading excerpts from her book into Songify?

late pass, this is really fucked up

maybe she's just a really big fan of the last two scott walker albums.

"Phrases are of irregular length, and conform to no pattern."

http://roadsafety.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/emergency-call.jpg

"Am I A Rockist?"

the autotune abuse in the track liked to in the opening post reminds me so much of this guy: http://www.myspace.com/4poundzz

Was 4Poundz ever discussed on ILX?

"This Stuff Is Pretty Rad"

"It's Definitely Weirdo Music (Maybe)"

Goddamn this album is brilliant. This thread and that review linked upthread are the only places on the internet where I've seen people even remotely defend it. People are stupid. This album is unbelievably bizarre and fantastic, and in fact it just might be my favorite album of the year, maybe even the decade! I've never heard ANYTHING like it. Has it gotten any kind of mainstream press? Could all you music journalists please vote for it for Pazz and Jop album of the year so it might get a CD release?

now im imagining a world where records actually get released that way

i think more realistically we will have to wait 30 years and then light in the attic or whoever will put out a reissue with 30 pages of liner notes and original illustrations

Wrote about this at the Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/09/the-scary-misunderstood-power-of-a-teen-mom-stars-album/262237/

Still no info I can find on producers, etc., but I can say that the tweet from her mom at the top of the thread is a parody account (that's a mug shot).

https://twitter.com/F1abraham/status/245697800938061824

Who is that? I'm rockist scum so I don't recognize her.

i mean...listening to this now and how can "Caught in the Act" *NOT* be bizarre on purpose...like you cannot listen to this and think...Ok this is a normal song.

That's a really good piece. I wish you had noted that the sarcasm hedge was inserted by io9's editor, who was afraid of commenter backlash, though. Oh, well.

haha m@tt OTM

"ho hum, sounds just like Lady Gaga *presses skip*"

were you able to snag a copy?!