GTFO rolling worst music of 2014

I feel unclean

redlight '90ts' and tiga 'bugatti' are doing my nut these days

Haaa how has 90ts avoided being posted itt yet. Irl gasp of horror when I first heard it, what is he playing at

oh I don't know, i kind of appreciate that he's skipped to the grisly self-parodic end of early 90s revivalism so that Australia doesn't have to invent an entire cottage industry around the notion like we did for 80s revivalism.

Really is hard to imagine a more impressively cynical and lazy exercise than "Shiny Disco Balls" X "Au Seve" X "...but I'm a 90's bitch!"

omg according to the comments apparently lots of traffic has been directed "lil dicky's" way via reddit lolololol

I mean that's p much reddit: the song

sorta more brobible: the song but yeah there's overlap

Burd grew up in an upper middle class family in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, a township on the north border of Philadelphia.[1] He attended the University of Richmond.[2] He then relocated to San Francisco, California,[3] where he worked in account management at the advertising agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners. After reimagining his monthly progress report as a rap video, the company brought him to work in their creative department, where he wrote copy for ads like the NBA's "BIG" campaign.[1]

Rap career

Burd says he initiated his rap career "simply to get attention comedically, so I could write movies, write TV shows and act." However, he "fell in love with rapping" and says he's "not leaving that game until I've proved my point."[4]

Burd had been working on his songs and music videos for two years before he began releasing them as part of his debut mixtape So Hard in April 2013. His music video for his song "Ex-Boyfriend" went viral almost instantly, receiving 1 million hits within 24 hours of being posted on YouTube.[2][5][6] Once a week for 5 straight months, Burd released a new song or music video. Following the release of 32 songs and 15 music videos, Burd launched a Kickstarter, stating, "I've officially run out of money... In a nutshell, you are funding phase two of my rap career." The month-long crowdfunding period began on November 20, 2013, with the goal of raising $70,000 in order to enable Lil Dicky to create and produce more music, music videos, and go touring.[7][8] The Kickstarter well exceeded its target, raising $113,000.[9]

Lil Dicky held his first live concert at TLA in Philadelphia on February 19, 2014.[10] Burd has signed with Pop-Up, the management arm of creative music agency Jingle Punks.[8][11] He plans "on having two concurrent careers going on at the same time, as a rapper, and as a comedian/actor/writer."[4]

Music style and influences

Lil Dicky's style blends the comical with the relatable. According to Boston magazine, "Content-wise, Lil Dicky comes up with his material from everyday occurrences and everyday experiences. From there, he crafts his videos around those topics to create a visual narrative that accompanies his talent as an emcee. 'It’s like a comedian. They are out in the world, and writing things down,' he said. What followed 'Ex-Boyfriend' was a series of other videos that covered similarly average everyday experiences—songs about staying in for the night, songs about being a Jewish kid—he even has a rap battle with Adolf Hitler in one of his videos."[5]

He says style is a response to the excessive egotistical nature of rap today: "I really wanted to embody the exact opposite of that, and I think people are appreciating it. There just hasn't been a voice for that normal dude when it comes to rap."[5] He added, "I think a lot of rap is just escalated to a place that many people can't relate to... My niche is that I’m relatable. I don’t rap about going to the club and popping bottles."[12] In terms of his rapping skills, Lil Dicky is able "to manipulate words at an excessive speed, and weave rhyme patterns together in a way that's funny while also making viewers want to rewind parts of his videos."[5]

Burd says his musical inspirations are Drake, J. Cole, A$AP Rocky, as well as Donald Glover "as a guy with similar aspirations."[13]

idk it's basically a passable Lonely Island song/video with a less-whimsical/more-misogynistic concept

he is a guy with similar aspirations
1.2 million views is the saddest thing
you never knew you were taking asher roth for granted until now

oh i just remembered something about redlight 9ts

it is still >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 'all under one roof raving' by jamie xx

I don't think I have the strength to rewatch the Lil Dicky vid right now, but one thing that impressed me on first viewing (even if it ended up being *waaayyy* overused) was the surprisingly graceful way he works that stuttery, self-conscious, deliberately uncool anti-flow ('I'm like, wait, that didn't come out right, let me start over')--flailing around for juuuust long enough before finding another rhyme word to move the verse along. it's like he falls off the bars in the middle of his routine, but still manages to stick the landing somehow.

NB I don't think this is something anyone actually wants, though

+ trying to sell it as "the antidote" to mainstream rap is like, dude, go jump in a lake

Nickelback - "Edge of a Revolution". Cor.

http://youtu.be/IYnuSsM7tRw

It sounds like he's adding an extra syllable to the word "revolution."

After hearing that, I almost wish he'd go back to plain old misogyny.

oof that lil dicky is horrible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX-QaNzd-0Y

oh my god i hope that guy's neck explodes

Dunno. I wasn't paying attention to the lyrics, but musically that seems at best not terrible and at worst ignorable.

That's probably my least favourite hit this year, yeah. It was in the Australian charts for quite a while earlier this year. There's a follow up song too which is just as bad.

i don't mind the song but just look at him

that sound on the backbeat

He sounds like he learned to sing by listening to Wolf Parade records (not a compliment)

aka third-Bowie, once-removed

feel like that Little Dicky video should be the end of all "rolling worst songs" threads forever

little dicky song goes on for fucking ever too

Karmin and Watsky "No Flex Zone (remix)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YO0w62af5c

Barf

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

Nope.

Done on such a shoestring budget you can actually tell where he vocal takes have been cut up and pasted together.

considering what else is in this thread .... i cant endorse that post

yeah, it's certainly ragged production but aretha's earned a pass from me for life; there are parts of this that are pretty fun

oof, i did just get to the ain't no mountain part though, ow

wow that's weird. it almost sounds like one of those "brian williams rapping" youtube videos

Done on such a shoestring budget you can actually tell where he vocal takes have been cut up and pasted together.

I read this and assumed some amateur had put together a 'cover' by chopping up syllables from old Aretha vocals and sticking them together with autotune. Didn't really notice this wasn't actually the case till I got to the chorus.

Yeah just b/c aretha is a legend doesn't mean she can't fall flat every now and again. The cover is dreadful.

I guess we're finally immune to Karmin.

oh my god when she starts singing "no flex zone" ughhhhhhhhh

why did click on that?

I deserve what I get

why did I click on that, rather

Watsky's flow is like Eminem at his annoyingest crossed with MC Paul Barman at his, er, anythingest

Also repeating "the beat bump like an ingrown hair" a half-dozen times = ugh

okay, this is not THE WORST if only by dint of its sheer overwhelming wtf'ness but prepare yourself for herb alpert's dubstep reimagining of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
https://soundcloud.com/shorefire-media/01-chattanoogachoochoo-usse91434974-1644-eqdmaster/s-G8YL5

I still lol every time the "Rude" guitar solo comes on, btw

That Alpert thing is so terrible. Yikes.

lol i listened to that alpert album. it's kind of enjoyably bad

it is! ostentatiously so. like bad enough that my gf explicitly asked me to put on headphones and she puts up with all manner of horrible music from me.

...I like this

brb quitting music-opinions-having forever