Is Keyes prez of their fanclub?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 February 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
any major some dude will tell you, my friend
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 February 2015 17:40 (nine years ago) link
xpost yes i am. I just believe their reaction would have been amusing, especially since no one would have known who Kanye was at the time, except liner notes nerds.
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Monday, 9 February 2015 17:40 (nine years ago) link
also iirc SD's win was similarly controversial, but it was because they beat Eminem.
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Monday, 9 February 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link
they also beat Beck!
― some dude, Monday, 9 February 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
the circle completes
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Monday, 9 February 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
Gonna be pumped when Iggy beats Steely Dan for best rap album in 2025
― 龜, Monday, 9 February 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/02/the-two-grammys/385156/
•A non-white artist hasn’t won Best Album since jazz legend Herbie Hancock took the award in 2008 for a record of Joni Mitchell covers; one who could conceivably be called “contemporary” or “relevant” hasn’t won since OutKast in 2004 (2005 went to a posthumous Ray Charles release).•Aside from Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers' featured work on Daft Punk's "Get Lucky," the Record of the Year winners have all been white since 2005, when Ray Charles won the award with Norah Jones. A rap song has never taken the trophy in that category.•Song of the Year went to Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" in 2010; other than that, the winners were all white after Luther Vandross in 2004.•The two Best New Artist winners of color in the past 10 years were Esperanza Spalding in 2011 and John Legend in 2006.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 9 February 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
iggy azalea's 'fancy' is better than any song on eminem's album
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 9 February 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
Song of the Year went to Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" in 2010
I still have no idea how this happened.
― Eric H., Monday, 9 February 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
great song
― when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Monday, 9 February 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
Buzz Lightyear gets secret royalties for that one like Tom Petty does for "Stay With Me"
― some dude, Monday, 9 February 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
Precisely!
― Eric H., Monday, 9 February 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
If you think Beck has consistently pastiched black music then I'm guessing you've only heard a couple of Beck records.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, February 9, 2015 3:38 AM Bookmark
This is right but it's worth pointing out that he's only good when he's pastiching black music.
― aybaybayfan (The Reverend), Monday, 9 February 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
this is pretty accurate, depending on how much black pastiche you think is happening on Guero
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Monday, 9 February 2015 21:14 (nine years ago) link
it's a pastiche of himself
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 February 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
^^^
― aybaybayfan (The Reverend), Monday, 9 February 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
Expert self-cannibalization, I think, but I haven't played the record in years.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 February 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
Midnite Vultures is my favorite Beck album, naturally.
― aybaybayfan (The Reverend), Monday, 9 February 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
The indie club I used to hit in the early 2000s loved the shit out of "Sexx Laws" and "Mixed Bizness." I'm scared to play "Debra" though.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 February 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
"Debra" is the one glaring false note on that album (obv Beck's best, duh).
― Eric H., Monday, 9 February 2015 21:28 (nine years ago) link
I remember loving how an episode of "Homicide" used "Beautiful Way."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 February 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
I remember how an episode of "Murder She Wrote" made all the lesbians scream.
― Eric H., Monday, 9 February 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
it mixed bizness withleather iirc
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 February 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
http://imgur.com/gallery/Ith2N
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 February 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link
mixed bizness is the fucking JAM
― flopson, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
lowest Grammy ratings in 6 years
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 01:52 (nine years ago) link
makes sense. i can't even think of who the big draw would be for viewers, other than Beyonce, who was on last year's Grammys and every other awards show that's aired since then.
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 01:58 (nine years ago) link
I was gonna post the cover of One Foot In The Grave but uh yeah I guess
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 02:18 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT967fUFuYw
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 02:22 (nine years ago) link
this was what was playing in my head as a dazed and confused beck accepted the second award and called up a host of industry vets to stand with himhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDwV3VU1OXUfirst two responses on that youtube are
thewirah14 hours agoKanye West makes me wanna smoke crack.
Nina Reyes4 months agoIm 77 and i love Beck <3
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 02:25 (nine years ago) link
Ha, true.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 11:09 (nine years ago) link
"FourFiveSeconds" additionally zooms 2-1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/6465909/hot-100-rihanna-kanye-west-paul-mccartney-ellie-goulding-mark-ronson
― dyl, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link
Rihanna rising up the Hot 100 just broke the 5-week streak of zero black artists in the top 10 (last one was The Weeknd on Ariana Grande's "Love Me Harder").
― some dude, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:08 (nine years ago) link
glad this is look like a real sustainable hit
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:17 (nine years ago) link
that Billboard article went into a real lather over the McCartney records broken by this hit.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:19 (nine years ago) link
surely we can all agree that "Spies Like Us" is a worthier epitaph.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:20 (nine years ago) link
four five seconds from spyin'
― some dude, Thursday, 12 February 2015 01:46 (nine years ago) link
But rap has decentralized, and the Internet — not New York City — is now its spiritual center. These days, Mr. Ferro said, the station can “dabble” in more mainstream music, like the current No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart, “Uptown Funk!” by Mark Ronson. But he also acknowledged that there was the possibility of going “overboard” with nonrap songs. “There is absolutely a line that cannot be crossed,” he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/14/arts/music/hot-97-a-hip-hop-pioneer-on-radio-reaches-a-crossroads.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-middle-span-region®ion=c-column-middle-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-middle-span-region
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 February 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
line is apparently back behind royals tho'
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 14 February 2015 17:08 (nine years ago) link
chart minutiae: making a strong gain to #12 this week, "trap queen" could very well be the next rap song to sneak into hot 100's top 10. ^____^ (erm other than pitbull/ne-yo lol.) its viral appeal seems to be doing most of the work: it's #6 in streaming and selling pretty healthily too (#17 digital songs) despite only having major support at r&b radio right now, where it is almost top 10.
a couple lingering outside the top 10 that might not make it: usher's "i don't mind" (#11) and nicki's "truffle butter" (#14). they're #s 10 and 11 in all-format play rn, supported almost completely by rhythmic and r&b, but more modest in streaming and sales (altho "truffle butter" is selling about as well as "trap queen"). they're both lacking music videos and i'm not sure if one is planned for either. (iirc it's common for young money not to shoot videos for their radio hits or to put them out way late.) pop is actually playing "i don't mind" a little albeit not enthusiastically -- the edit the station here is playing cuts out so many of the words in the chorus that it is nearly unlistenable.
― dyl, Thursday, 12 March 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
The pleasing success of "Truffle Butter" affirms to me that (a) it should have been on the standard tracklisting of the Pinkprint and (b) it should have been the Drake x Wayne single instead of "Only"
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Thursday, 12 March 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
they just put out a "truffle butter" lyric video
given everything going on with cash money right now i would be pretty surprised if they ever put a video out for that
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 12 March 2015 22:16 (nine years ago) link
also the natalie la rose/jeremih song is in the top 20 now and has been rising pretty steadily for weeks
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 12 March 2015 22:17 (nine years ago) link
"i don't mind" has been hanging around that ~12 spot for a few weeks now, i figured it was stalling out but maybe it will tick up one more place again
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 12 March 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
i had no idea trap queen was blowing up nationally, good for him
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 March 2015 04:51 (nine years ago) link
Some Dude in a recent noisey.vice article:
It’s obnoxious that Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk” pastiched 80s funk bands like The Time and topped the Hot 100 this year during a monthlong stretch in which no African American artists had a top ten hit (although Trinidad James got a check for his lyrical inspiration for the song).
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 March 2015 14:09 (nine years ago) link
And yet people are worried the blurred lines verdict will deny us similar endeavors
― da croupier, Friday, 13 March 2015 14:16 (nine years ago) link
Trap Queen is amazing, mad @ Whiney for confining it to his stupid spongebob thread
― 龜, Friday, 13 March 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
fetty wap in the top 10
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 19 March 2015 13:44 (nine years ago) link