Year-End Critics' Polls 2012

nice to see some good late year releases like the Bruno Mars and Keyshia Cole get into a list

and Lionel Richie!

is the pfork list messed up

yup

The write-up for Miguel's "Do You" is pretty o_O

lol yeah. another one that made me rmde was the one for john talabot's "destiny" ('BIG SONGS about BIG TOPICS' etc)

that corner list is great, obv

this is written by an ilxer right?? http://thecorner.co.nz/2012/12/14/the-corners-2012-year-in-review-50-best-international-singles/

― just sayin, Monday, December 17, 2012 6:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah stevie kaye is etc.

Great roundup!

lol 'the corner' is a different kind of spot in the u.s.

haha at first I was all "Tim, FINISH THE SENTENCE" and then I realized

Good work etc

Nice... He's got afrobeats and US rap and r'n'b and Eric Church and k-pop

scraper

I bet "The House That Heaven Built" takes the top spot on P4k's track list.

cool that rich kidz "my life" placed, song made me v happy many times this year

yeah that was cool... plus "louie" and "love sosa"

i thought it was a little strange that they listed the theme song to the louis c.k. show personally

oh i see because of the names

i just thought it looked funny to refer to the king louie song as "louie" instead of "val venis"

oh, yes

I refer to it as "pig benis"

scraper

― r|t|c, Monday, 17 December 2012 20:09

eunuch eclectic signing in. nz charts have been bleaker than usual this year.

how on earth did you stumble across that, though, just sayin?

one of my friends emailed it to me! I think we have some friends in common

Did I make that Corner list?

that p4k blurb about "do you" is horrible

srs

plus so obv that miggy is really more into hugs and stuntin with the drug talk

Yeah I felt Mr. Blurbwriter was listening to a completely different song to me, or maybe just not listening. There was also that long Spin article (I think?) that ripped on Pussy is Mine because it's supermisogynistic and Miguel obviously just cares about controlling women.

there was a (positive) review in the Irish Times that described Pussy Is Mine as "loverman bragging". I despair

once again, the key to understanding "Pussy Is Mine":

https://twitter.com/venusxGG/status/265880111960711169

otm

i love "pussy is mine" because it's so vulnerable and is miggy being insecure in a genre that prizes surefooted machismo

Yeah exactly.

honestly one of my favourite songs on the record

i love "pussy is mine" because it's so vulnerable and is miggy being insecure in a genre that prizes surefooted machismo

― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Monday, December 17, 2012 6:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup

Great song, but the reason I cannot feel comfortable playing the album at work.

The big clue is he singing it over the barest of guitar accompaniment. It's weird that Nick Drake-loving indie dudes don't immediately want to make the allusion.

maybe after they're done working out all the striking parallels with Christopher Owens, formerly of Girls

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/thumblarge_173/118651963590Ane2.jpg

Christopher Owens, formerly of Girls, now a cat

which explains his feline grace and the way his songs stick their claws into your heart

pussy is unimpressed xxp

lol i didn't even realize this is the current issue of Fader

http://cdn.thefader.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/F83_COVER_620.jpg

would be more effective if Owens photo were on the other side so Miguel can be all "tell me that the pussy is over there."

they're good at shit/not shit juxtapositions but that may be the most dramatic to date

"the fader: we know some cool black people, and the worst white people"

lol

I got a light skinned friend looks like Michael Jackson, etc

Didn't even realize that pickler had an album out this year!

hey i have an article in that issue of the fader, pick it up

plus so obv that miggy is really more into hugs and stuntin with the drug talk

nah i think the drugs talk is serious - it's not in a stuntin way at all, it's about how doing drugs w/someone can be really intimate and nice. drugs as homely and sorta romantic rather than cool or glamorous. that feels like a novel angle in a great way.

i love "pussy is mine" because it's so vulnerable and is miggy being insecure in a genre that prizes surefooted machismo

otoh this has become a massive cliché this year - i'm not even sure whether it was ever true but this narrative has been ongoing for bloody ages now and it's totally cringe to see indie audiences fetishising awkwardness and insecurity as somehow more "real", and acting like r&b had hitherto been a completely one-dimensional genre, as if it wasn't RIVEN with uncertainty and complexity before our current crop of sad reverby dudes came along.

i mean, that is the appeal of "pussy is mine" specifically, yeah, but it's more about how unguarded it is - from the sentiments expressed to also the vulgarity of the language that miguel avoids elsewhere to the way he tries to play it off as a joke at the end (i don't mind that it's obv staged).