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he's also worked with drake

ugh drake gross

and jamie lidell

a whole rolodex full of shit

lmao

Gonzales' presence on the album was the first sign for me tha this album was going to be a pretty laid back and 70's influenced affair given the fact that he did stuff like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uipvovf1GNE

xp lol

Philip Sherburne Philip Sherburne ‏@PhilipSherburne 3m

So glad that a couple of dudes whose gimmick is throwing bananas and spraying champagne have weighed in on the lasting relevance of new DP.

Who does this refer to?

Donkey Kong

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs13/i/2007/048/1/2/Mario_and_Luigi___DJ_by_xkumori.png

dadalife

http://digi10ve.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/dada-life.jpeg

he's also worked with drake

I've found myself surprisingly addicted to Doin' It Right. I was totally annoyed by Panda Bear when his solo came out -- but here he's a textural counterpoint to the vocoder which is a total earworm.

xp why philip (or anybody) cares what dadalife think is beyond me

haha that's what I was thinking

I had never heard of Dada Life before... Which bewilders me

i make disposable laptop music and gonzales otfm as always fu

It's probably the 8th time I am playing this album, and it still sounds so fresh, as if I am hearing it for the very first time <3

Heard someone refer to this album as the 2010's first 'New Sincerity' album. If you strip away the grandiosity of that statement, and the acts it was linked with in the 80s, I do think it hits home. Especially seeing how a lot of people reacted negatively to this album from the get go.

I do think Daft Punk are definitely not toying with irony here. RAM is Daft Punk being more pure and sincere than they have ever been.

if this is the first album that explicitly trades on sincerity that you've heard in 2013...

i mean sure i'm not disputing that it's sincere but c'mon, you think they're the only ones? or their sincerity is more pure than anyone else's?

I don't believe RAM is the first sincere album of this decade. But it certainly is DP's most sincere album, and DP are a band that brings sincerity to a huge mass, that are in turn shocked by it, repulsed almost.

wtf

"sincerity" is meaningless in this context. It's like saying Daft Punk bring "psoriasis to the masses"

The viriol and hatred in response to this album almost kind of prove that this is the most significant sincere album in a long time.

I was afraid the term itself would be the red herring, which is why I said "take the grandiosity" out of that statement. But it is not a pointless argument to make.

i'm w/ you man but you might wanna slow yr roll

http://www.rollingstone.com/assets/images/album_review/b57195201d26654eb6336954e0f4025f87b83b44.jpg

Will pace, ta gr8080

The world just isn't ready yet ;_;

actually no i agree with alfred i have no idea what "sincerity" or by implication all these other significant albums' "insincerity" even means here

like, tell me what's insincere about some recent significant albums and then we might be getting somewhere

is it about using "corny" or "cheesy" sonic signifiers, except in a non-ironic fashion?

I meant "sincerity" in that it is devoid of irony, cynicism, or nihilism even. This record is the record they wanted to make, they followed their feelings and did it the way they wanted to. Despite the massive pressure of expectancy. This is the first Daft Punk record that isn't ironic; all the previous ones at least had some element of that in them, a wink, a nudge.
Some people call the new one humourless, over the top, or downright batshit insane. In response to that I wanted to say that to me this record actually is completely sincere in its intentions.

Yeah Jordan, that's it xp

how are "following their feelings" and "devoid of irony" mutually exclusive?

Did I say those were mutually exlusive?

If so, I didn't intend to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJsMYpNSYm4

haha

You said this record was devoid of irony, cynicism, or nihilism even. This record is the record they wanted to make, they followed their feelings and did it the way they wanted to. Despite the massive pressure of expectancy.

how do the second and third sentences follow the first?

if this is the first album that explicitly trades on sincerity that you've heard in 2013...

i mean sure i'm not disputing that it's sincere but c'mon, you think they're the only ones? or their sincerity is more pure than anyone else's?

― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Wednesday, May 15, 2013 11:12 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. (1) mainstream pop music ca. 2013 is much bigger than daft punk, and sincere. (2) i can't think of any insincere albums right now.

there are approx 1000000 house trax more sincere than this overworked pile of steaming poo

or at least *as* sincere

right, but those records sound like mainstream pop music ca. 2013, as opposed to using sounds that are often employed with some degree of irony or pastiche (jazz fusion drums, disco guitar, broadway vibes? i dunno, i haven't listened to this record).

right but he seems to be saying sincerity is bucking convention somehow.

putting mass pop to one side, i can't think of any "ironic" album that's sold more than like 2000 copies in the last 5 years

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), donderdag 16 mei 2013 0:27 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The second and third sentence have no significant baring on the first sentence, and I never implied that. Was just rambling freely.

xp except maybe rubies, which is the exception that proved the rule in terms of the negligible impact it had on The Sound of Now

is "accidental racist" more or less sincere than this album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UtQe0JOCnM

haa from Nile interview:

"It all depends on the show, but songs that make every single show are Good Times, Le Freak, We Are Family, He's The Greatest Dancer... but lately we've put in Bowie's Let's Dance and Madonna's Like A Virgin. Last year we did a song I wrote for Carly Simon called Why for the first time since I did it in the studio.

I saw Chic in March last year (same show INXS dudes went to) and he did a booksigning afterwards. He'd said a lot of "oh my, we are definitely coming back here" onstage, and so at the signing I said "great great show, really hope you do come back etc etc... and hey, if you do, the one thing that could make it better is if you play Why."

What I meant was: Here is a band, with a sprawling, anticipation-inducing pr campagne, and a huge backstory of coolness, touches of irony, setting the trend for quite some time, delivering a new album. And it turns out those winks of irony or "cool" are not on here: it is a sincere, earnest album. Which seems to bother quite a lot of people, as it is received with a lot of scorn ("elevator music", "miss homework era dp" etc), almost as if people dread Daft Punk made an earnest album and not putting in irony or cynicism.

Sincerity is a horrible concept and fucking hard one to pull off but listen to Paul Williams vocal...he really means it (maaan) and I think it's the reason people are starting to fall in love with that track....