Macklemore, "Same Love"

okay seriously have people forgotten how Flavor Flav dresses

http://images.buddytv.com/articles/Image/flavor-of-love/what-are-they-up-to-now-flavor-flav.jpg

weird GIS results for "irish scum"....

http://i.imgur.com/P4edbLN.jpg

vicious doxx can a mod get that pls

wait I'm p sure that's how macklemore dressed when he was last in town tbrr

^Macklemore in the "Irish Celebration" video xxp

http://i.imgur.com/dca1s82.jpg

wait, so have we discovered that macklemore posts on ilx as lex or what?

a sheik/fagin nose, jeez. DJP otm, it's pretty amazing what you see especially at some of those fly-by-night costume shops that pop up before halloween.

i really hope this all makes him mackle less, tho

xxp -- Well...we've discovered you post here as you, and there you go.

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

― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, August 14, 2013 12:01 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark

more like mackleless

― ienjoyhotdogs, Tuesday, August 27, 2013 11:56 AM (8 months ago)

mackleless

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, May 19, 2014 10:41 PM (Yesterday)

i feel like this joke is going to continue to get funnier the more ppl make it

whereas sarcasm is still fresh

that god for that

so happy that this voice is fresh

Macklefresh

Macklemore sounds like the name of a regional fish and/or tricky fairy tale troll.

Also, it makes me think of Ritchie Blackmore.

schmekelmore

Blackmore's Night:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Blackmore%27s_Night_in_2012.jpg/1200px-Blackmore%27s_Night_in_2012.jpg

man Fleetwood Mac have aged

mor is 'big' as gaeilge but by all means continue to use yr 'comedy' against my culture in yr ignorance ITT oh woe, oh woe

all the attempts to say "who macklemore fans are" is kind of weird b/c he's HUGE. macklemore fans are everybody. well, everybody except those who don't like him. but it's not as if his fans fit into some very tidy demographic.

http://macklemore.com/post/86276707372/family-friends-and-fans-alike-who-know-me-well

haha all you really need is the URL

"ask any of my friends, they'll tell you..."

I’ve got hip to some incredible groups like the ADL

this is ominous.

wish he'd Macklebeag amirite?

amateurist otm as to Macklemore's "audience." That's something I was trying to get at upthread in response to predictions that he wouldn't be a star by the next record and would go back to being a moderately successful undie rapper for the rest of his career.

macklemore fans are everybody.

In the sense that almost anyone can become part of The Borg, yes.

I still stand by "every Macklemore fan is Brian Griffin"

appreciate it nv

all the attempts to say "who macklemore fans are" is kind of weird b/c he's HUGE. macklemore fans are everybody. well, everybody except those who don't like him. but it's not as if his fans fit into some very tidy demographic.

― display name changed. (amateurist), Tuesday, May 20, 2014 2:51 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

don't you know they're the children of reagan democrats?!

that's the kind of thing that makes me want to quit the internet (along with, you know, everything else on the internet).

no they are regan democrats, i.e. democrats possessed by demons, spinning their heads 360 degrees, barfing, etc.

all the attempts to say "who macklemore fans are" is kind of weird b/c he's HUGE. macklemore fans are everybody. well, everybody except those who don't like him. but it's not as if his fans fit into some very tidy demographic.

― display name changed. (amateurist), Tuesday, May 20, 2014 2:51 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's definitely the demographic of "people who don't listen to much rap music"

if you know what i mean

Whiney are you a a preening metal hip-hop purist manbaby ? :)

xp I was going to say upthread that the defining sentiment of a Macklemore fan is probably "finally some rap music for ME"

The defining sentiment of a Macklemore fan is "I like pop music."

That came off as snarky and pejorative about pop music, though I didn't mean it to. But my guess if you made a diagram of people who like Lil Wayne, Macklemore, Drake, Eminem, Rihanna, and Beyonce, there'd be a gigantic amount of overlap.

My main point is that this dope is one of the 10 most popular artists of the past couple years, and my guess is that the average Macklemore fan is just the average fan of music that is popular right now, not someone super-stoked that there's finally a rapping white guy.

Which isn't to say that his music is good, or that there aren't gnarly racial components to his success. I just kind of feel all this "Reagan Democrat/music for white people who are afraid of rap" stuff understates the size of this guy's fan base.

It's the same audience who bought Nelly records a decade ago. It's standard-issue pop-rap crossover to me, made way easier for the American public because of Macklemore's race, but not limited to people who buy no other rap.

It's the same audience who bought Nelly records a decade ago.

how dare u

Not a qualitative judgment; Nelly's way better.

also tho i think nelly was a genuine star w/african americans

cant find it now but either rev or whiney or someone posted a link to a twitter search of the words "macklemore" and "rap" and maybe the word "like" and it was tweet after tweet of white teens proclaiming that macklemore is the only rap music they liked

Yeah, for sure re:Nelly. I guess here's what I mean, which I honestly don't feel like I'm expressing very well at all:

I actually think that race is a gigantic issue for Macklemore's success, but I think that psychoanalyzing his audience as something separate from the audience for the rest of American pop music is folly.

likewise Eminem and Beastie Boys were the only rappers played on rock radio when I was in high school

only rappers played on rock radio

For an earlier example, see Run-DMC with Aerosmith.

Yeah, I'm just saying that dude's fan base is a fish-in-a-barrel on this thread, but the reality is that they're the fish all around you. Which isn't supposed to be a more comforting thought.