Macklemore, "Same Love"

I've been a fan of his writing in the past--his Pazz & Jop essay on pop's pandering to gay audiences in the It Gets Better era is essential--but he seems to write a lot about things like reality television that no amount of good writing could possibly force me to care about.

For a second I was all "I cannot imagine Macklemore's Pazz and Jop essay being all THAT essential."

ctrl + f "mackleless" -- not found?!

― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, August 14, 2013 12:01 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

lol.

rj is consistently really just missing basic facts when it comes to race/history/etc. i pointed this out before but in his django piece he referred to a 'dictator of barbados' in the 20th century, which is among other things not true. i don't want to dredge up old shit but this pattern has been going on forever. i understand why people can enjoy his writing at times or whatever, but he just needs to stay the hell away from topics that he's not going to put in the time to engage with properly.

That clearly doesn't apply to his columns about his sex life.

dude wants to land on the right side, but somehow doesn't put in the work to understand exactly what that side is. there's something knee-jerk about it.

tumblr outrage point has finally reached the tipping point on ILX

tumblr outrage porn has finally reached the tipping point on ILX

tumblr outrage point has finally reached the tipping porn on ILX

porn has finally reached ILX

privilege tipping outrage porn

ILX

*farts*

your back!

http://static4.depositphotos.com/1000746/307/i/450/dep_3071716-Water-flowing-on-woman-face.jpg

That's one wet fart.

does living in Washington make the Macklemore phenomenon more unbearable, or does it make u slightly more sympathetic to him/his fans than you would be otherwise?

― Coming Out Of Elton John's Mouth (crüt)

the latter, oddly.
i end up thinking about place more than race, draw my mixalot parallels in my mind

more like mackleless

http://colorlines.com/archival_images/le1f03.jpg

i'm all for le1f going after this dude but thought it was weird he accused him of ripping off his song, i guess referring to the horn samples in wut and thrift shop?

http://colorlines.com/archival_mages/le1f06.jpg

youtube comments

kinda weird le1f is just getting around to this now, but i support it

Ehhh. I'm with Le1f on most of this, but not the Thrift Shop/Wut thing. The horns from "Wut" were p much ripped off from "Down for My N's" anyway.

Speaking of Mix, this is a really good interview with him wkiw http://mynorthwest.com/926/2321465/Macklemore-video-shoot-mania-rekindles-fond-memories-for-Seattles-Sir-MixALot

http://24.media.tumblr.com/a6b3d7c369fdbbaa8a72f2e007972703/tumblr_ms7iawjESv1sgt1uko1_1280.png

(btw sorry, Rev's Big Post of Macklemore Ether is still forthcoming)

naaw xp

FUCK YOU LAGOON, MACKLEMORE IS THE NEW MLK PUBLIC ENEMY SHOULD WRITE A SONG ABOUT ANY STATE THAT HOLDS OUT ON MACKLEMORE DAY

what i meant was macklemore is obvs more important than mlk and public enemy should write a song about any state that holds out on macklemore day

i googled and found out that that is an irl student newspaper but i still cant believe the author really meant it

http://24.media.tumblr.com/a6b3d7c369fdbbaa8a72f2e007972703/tumblr_ms7iawjESv1sgt1uko1_1280.png

― s. cloverlandthug (The Reverend), Tuesday, August 27, 2013 8:11 PM (7 minutes ago)

ban college kids

its just a funny joke right

I know we hate Macklemore around here, but dude/his handlers do seem to have gotten the message at least a little bit: at several points during his VMA performance, he ceded the stage to his LGBT backup dancers, Black backup singers, and the former software engineer who sings the hooks on Thrift Shop and Can't Hold Us.

I mean of course Le1f is right, esp. about the line he quotes from Same Love. And maybe the only reason Macklemore got off the stage was so he could better commune with his audience. Still I will acknowledge this token effort to address the concerns of his progressive critics.

Watching the VMA performance was like watching Sulu on Star Trek: maybe in the eyes of most of the audience, Kirk/Macklemore are the heroes, but Takei/Wanz are proceeding as if they are the protagonists.

wonder what takei's paycheck looked like next to nimoy's

or shatner's

or doohan's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8PLifPUIuic

aw man, what'd i do wrong

http://youtu.be/8PLifPUIuic

welp, that's all i've got

Crapplesnore.

Santiago Caro 29 minutes ago
This video has a MEANING! PAY ATTENTION!! to the LYRICS and the VIDEO. He is criticizing trend. what is supposed to be NEW and what is supposed to be OLD influenced by the labels, industry, Media, music (that's why appears Sir Mix a Lot a rapper from the 90's, and OLD ladys) Also supporting an interracial society, thats why he is wearing mexican clothes, and (sorry for the word) black men loving white old chicks. Macklemore talks about REAL LIFE, also my respect to Ryan Lewis, What a good BEAT!
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santiago caro otm

that's a really well-produced song, shame about the macklemore

is 'santiago caro' lefsetz' twitter name or something

i hope this song goes #1 on the charts so billboard can write a headline like "Macklemore & Ryan Lewis erect 'White Walls' around Hot 100 penthouse"

to be fair i do like the production and consequently it is the first macklemore song that does not inspire me to instantly switch the station. it would be better as an instrumental but w/e

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QtlNq-K9_s

Macklemore is the first contextually post-black pop-star rapper.

was waiting for this