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why

kind of appropriate for this trainwreck

kids who dress like brandon walsh's mom from 90210 gone gutter punk

lmao

seriously tho it's everywhere

xp let's not pretend this trainwreck is about anything other than paying attention to imago

seriously tho it's everywhere

Links?

matt nailed it

strange spike in GIS requests for cindy walsh today

Why are you being assholes, especially after thomp tried to raise the level of discourse?

stop begging for people to say what you want

I'm going to use that one during the EOYs, ty

my level of discourse is fine!

don't feel bad cuz you type 8 zillion words of b.s. then i come in the thread like a boss and for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass

didn't mean you, your post at least had some content germane to the discussion even if its spiritual guide ernest hemingway would be proud of its bullheaded dismissive machismo

lol matt

Like it's cool that some indie kids have mastered Ableton enough to create this collection of stuttery production tics and English accent voicemail system sex doll vocals but I feel like pop and dance and hip hop has done stuff like this better for years

'English accent voicemail system sex doll vocals'

ok now you're just showing off

can someone throw up a link to another example of the pervasive electronic 'Cindy Walsh' twee scene?

almost every PC Music track I've played has made me want to turn it off and listen to 2 Bad Mice instead

That is the best idea on earth, DJP.

I guess I have trouble getting what's meant to be new or unique or particularly clever here given that dance remixers have been (literally) deconstructing, recontextualising, reconnecting, interrogating, exaggerating and yes sometimes taking the piss out of pop music (actual pop music that people listen to) for decades. And without expecting a gold star for having done so.

No gold stars expected. It's just a bit of fun, with some cool sonics and a dab of self-exploration. If this site would just admit that it fucking despises young people, that'd be a relief

gotta keep reminding myself that this is the place which voted clean bandit into its top 77 tracks of the year

"Just a bit of fun"

That Clean Bandit record was bought by young people in their hundreds of thousands, possibly in their millions, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.

clean bandit into its top 77 tracks of the year

The music in that list was just as much an affront to personal well being as the two youtubes above

And since i started a new job I am now unfortunately well versed in grating horrific sounds due to the menace of spotify and an office speaker system

I am sort of interested in what gets played in your office actually.

Bought by young people != itself naive, exploratory or youthfully experimental, those fuckers had their eye on the dollar all along, I was educated with them and their sort

Not that PC Music aren't commercially interested, but there's more to them than that

Wait is it just a bit of fun or not? I can't keep up.

You are not so much shifting the goalposts as picking them up and walking them from one end of the pitch to the other.

You claim you love pop music but you sneer at music intended to make money. You claim PC Music is just pop fun one minute and then talk about it being "more than" that the next. You claim ILM hates young people and then sneer at music that young people actually like the next. I guess I'm having trouble discerning your ideological position here?

I think LJ's ideological position is best summed up by the following:

lol

I am sort of interested in what gets played in your office actually.

Its on the worst music of 2015 thread. I am very selective about music that gets played in the forest so the only preparation I had for this garbage was the EOY poll, which was horrible at the time but did prepare me a bit for what happens out there in the world

I had to google the lyrics for most of these, but these were the main offenders. Katy Perry, Skrillrex, Muse, Clean Bandit, Bastille, Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Disclosure, Yellowcard, Tove Lo, Lady Gaga. Sometimes he hums along. He whistled once

i wrote them all down

No gold stars expected. It's just a bit of fun, with some cool sonics and a dab of self-exploration. If this site would just admit that it fucking despises young people, that'd be a relief

― imago, Thursday, June 11, 2015 1:24 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahahaha yeah this site hates youth oriented music c'mon louis get a grip

this site really hates taylor swift and fetty wap and keef and speedy ortiz and and and and

in fairness, I do actually hate Keef

One day he played the thing called Muse, and then later he played something which was like Muse but also like the pc music at the same time. This thing was called Bastille. I wrote it down just to be on the safe side

(Basically I think you like this stuff for one reason and you are pretending to like it for another reason entirely because you know that the first reason is under attack. It's okay to be attracted to intellectual pretensions! Just do so honestly!)

Some good posts itt that made me lol, mostly Katherine using the diss "wikipedia brown" and matt bringing up the passing of ornette coleman

Had to skim some of the headier posts but

That Clean Bandit track definitely says 'fun' and 'cool sonics' to me more than any PC Music-related thing I've heard! I feel bad for saer though.

kids who dress like brandon walsh's mom from 90210 gone gutter punk

lmao

seriously tho it's everywhere

― goole, Thursday, June 11, 2015 11:39 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Links?

― everything, Thursday, June 11, 2015 11:50 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can someone throw up a link to another example of the pervasive electronic 'Cindy Walsh' twee scene?

― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Thursday, June 11, 2015 12:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

folks i was talking about the style, not a 'scene'

so many questions about the authenticity of enjoyment, so many better things in the world to do than think about them

When a person is destroying the environment and making horrible sounds the question of whether this unprovoked attack is a parody or heartfelt destruction is a question I have felt too under threat and anxious to really address. I raise my glass in a motion of bonhomie and conviviality to those that are made of sterner stuff though

(Alternatively you like this stuff for one reason but you are only heavily stanning for because of another, it doesn't really matter which)

@goole, ah I see. still think it might be helpful to have an example of the style being considered here

or you could all continue to keep dumping on this imago fellow

You claim you love pop music but you sneer at music intended to make money. You claim PC Music is just pop fun one minute and then talk about it being "more than" that the next. You claim ILM hates young people and then sneer at music that young people actually like the next. I guess I'm having trouble discerning your ideological position here?

― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 June 2015 18:43 (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

clean bandit quip an own goal here but to me they sound like a band playing to formula and refusing to deviate from this formula as it will risk their image and their product, they sound like an inflexible contrivance and therefore the most boring sort of pop

pop making money is cool but I prefer to see the moneymaking as a means rather than an end

pc music are more than moneymakers, they are pop funsmiths - yours was a disingenuous misreading of what I wrote

ILM is deeply suspicious of music that codes youthful, unlike the often prodigious artists h3lg names

I like this music because it gets stuck in my head and I listen to it a lot and it makes me happy, I wouldn't cast myself on the ILX pyre over stuff I thought was a laugh but without musical value, I'm not gonna ride for ICP here

the only current exception to the codes youthful suspicion is like rae sremmurd and young thug but all their songs are produced by olds or w/e

ok i'm genuinely confused now, you think fetty wap and taylor swift don't "code youthful"?