SOLANGE KNOWLES, omg the return of

solange knowles ‏@solangeknowles
And that wasn't a rant. It was an observation and a request.

solange going hammer

solange knowles ‏@solangeknowles
Like you really should know about deep Brandy album cuts before you are giving a "grade" or a "score" to any R&B artist.

she knows she's setting fire to her whole support base here right

Dom ‏@ichlugebullets
How the hell does Solange have 1.3m Twitter followers and zero hit singles? How the fuck does that even work?

khloe kardashian has 7 mil followers

j0rdan c/ping a dom tweet that isn't even try-hard "funny" but is just straight-up dumb is kind of embarrassing

solange knowles ‏@solangeknowles 22 Dec
Thank you to Stereogum, Guardian, Spin, Pitchfork, & all the other joints for choosing "Losing You" & TRUE on your "Best of the Year" list.

so, are my test icicles promos worth flogging now ?

[f*cking dreadful band ... but clearly he's done well for himself .... at last .. ]

the original tumblr page that posted this has an XKCD link in their "about me."

never forget

what the fuck, wrong thread

so is solange dissing j0rdan? i say yes

yeah it's kinda meant to be suggestive of this bleary, droning, numbed torpid mumblecore inarticulacy indicating longing and heartache beyond words or whatever. simple is real cos of ~how hard it is to feel things~, to be decisive and put a fine point on it is too painful if not even by implication dishonest. the whole thing's of a piece, you got the washed out instagrammed visuals, the 80s comfort blanket for the emotional foetal position... blah blah the familiar prepack set of lies agreed upon

it's all v boring

― r|t|c, Wednesday, October 3, 2012 1:11 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is best music writing '12 imo

― D-40, Friday, 30 November 2012 04:03 (1 month ago) Permalink

lol even as i feel myself within the scope of this post's crosshairs its hard not to laugh along with it. it still seems somehow genealogically linked to the same epistemological crisis that birth ilx, the nuance of a reconfigured of dialectics of "popular opinion" that kindof makes it difficult to locate a position of minoritarianism. a swirl of signifiers, all those sedimentary layers of cultural resonance. the nasty tentacles of indie-centric cultural hegemony or at least the self-righteous husks of its artistic alibis and valorisations. i think the guy does better stuff, the sky ferreira thing loops around your head for a solid weekend. its lazy in a way i don't mind. actually enjoyably lazy in the same way the rtc post is "yeah yeah, you know the signifier," there's a sense of casual fluency, the barest gesture needed to register intent. i guess that's what's sortof frustrating about the solange one though, i think as a singer she's capable of some sort of actual emotional projection, vocal expressive representation, while the song is a much less ambitious thing. i guess for another listener this could be the meaty tension of it, the gap between blind signification and embodied vulnerability (sky is such a dream-girl cyborg that it has this entirely different sci-fi melancholia) but the song isn't really catchy enough for me to want to listen to it enough times to start adding that kindof interpretive layer to listening. its also like lol music journalism in another sense. or like describing things.

xp i don't think j0rdan has ridden hard for indie-r&b as a thing?

there's a half dozen "think pieces" published since November more Solange-worthy.

or is that solangious

@solangeknowles
There are SO many gifted writers who truly understand. Who didn't get hip to R&B & Hip-Hop via the crossover artist of their childhood.

i don't even understand this. like if your first interest in R&B was hearing Janet or Mariah or Whitney as a kid THAT makes your take on R&B invalid? what's the OG route?

xp i don't think j0rdan has ridden hard for indie-r&b as a thing?

― lex pretend, Saturday, January 5, 2013 2:28 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm talking about

solange knowles ‏@solangeknowles
So you can stop praising every rapper who raps over a trap beat, but can't form literate sentences & then you market it as some hip shit.

― lex pretend, Saturday, January 5, 2013 11:17 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

completely enraging tbh

lol

of course her comments abt R&B critics wouldn't have anything to do w/ other artists getting in the way of her special alt R&B shine now would it

she thought being alt would separate her from the pack & now everybody does it o wellllll

I don't think that's the takeaway at all.

there are many takeaways. her criticism (of R&B at least) isn't far from what ppl have said around here for ages. but the purity test of R&B crit is silly as fuck

SergDun ‏@SergDun
Really? You guys are trying to ride for deep brandy cuts? Get up on my level of toad the wet sprocket back catalog too

kingmost ‏@kingmost
@SergDun WHis is this at? Hollerboard?

that says it all imo

anyone who mocks the idea of people riding for deep brandy cuts is basically scum

i first read her tweets and were like "this is otm!" but the more you think about it the more disingenuous and silly it seems

seems like "REALLY UNDERSTANDING hip hop culture" is the gateway to liking latter-day Common records to me, idunno

xp

lol @ music purity tests cutting no ice with D-40

she thought being alt would separate her from the pack & now everybody does it o wellllll

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Saturday, 5 January 2013 20:50 (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

otm

this kinda reminds me of one time i was lured into going to the shacklewell a few years ago, some sort of hella tragic fake-ass kingdom dickrider night was afoot and to this day i can vividly recall the anaemic twerp on the decks solemnly basking in the crowd's dead reaction as he pulled the trigger on brandy 'all in me'

vg plax post

i could almost get down with "enjoyably lazy" if i wouldnt have to scour the globe for a thousand years to hear another person admit as much

i guess for another listener this could be the meaty tension of it, the gap between blind signification and embodied vulnerability

my instinct is to agree with this based on meagre enquiries i have undertaken

"some sort of hella tragic fake-ass kingdom dickrider night"

i like how this has again set bdot off on j0rdan the cultural tourist

SOLANGE KNOWLES, omg the infernal

In retrospect we really should have anticipated where this was going to end up with "jamming to feist and lemon jelly" in the original post.

Ha! That's really a spot on distillation of the Solange.

I don't see what's so wrong with what she said, I've seen a lot of people on ilx say similar.

this kinda reminds me of one time i was lured into going to the shacklewell a few years ago, some sort of hella tragic fake-ass kingdom dickrider night was afoot and to this day i can vividly recall the anaemic twerp on the decks solemnly basking in the crowd's dead reaction as he pulled the trigger on brandy 'all in me'

I see Tim already pulled the key quote here.

The Shacklewell is just fucking bizarre.

i dont mind the shacklewell

dunno what you lot are on about, i copied that from the flyer

lol the last time i went to the shacklewell (and the event that convinced me to stay away from it forever) was...when SOLANGE was DJing there

do u recall who the anaemic twerp was rtc?

god if you're gonna play a #deepbrandycut for the dancefloor at least let it be "sadiddy"

lol i forgot about brandy's tribute to pootie tang

i didn't know it was a tribute to anything, idk what pootie tang is

Pootie Tang is a 2001 American comedy film written and directed by Louis C.K..

:(((((((((((((

lol

^^^^excellent ilx exchanges

has someone listened to "true" yet ? is it any good ?

Yep. "Locked in Closets" and "Don't Let Me Down" are dope.

thanks. just listenend to "lovers in the parking lot". seems alright.