OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

I know some people who tell stories like that too, where they try to make shrug-worthy things or events sound interesting by applying melodrama. It's either desperate or delusional.

maura, it was nice to see you write about Palm in RS. they played a great show at my store this year.

― scott seward, Saturday, November 28, 2015 1:22 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love this band. weezer back!

people have been writing music for other people forever. what's the difference this time?

uhhhh...sweden?

dimbulb seabrook interview.

https://recode.net/2015/11/30/adele-owned-last-week-but-a-guy-youve-never-heard-of-owns-pop-music-heres-how-he-did-it/

"It’s also interesting that the [song-producing] technology was [initially] not used by the mainstream songwriting people, but it sort of came from the margins — from hip-hop people, that didn’t have access to the studios."

marginal hip-hop basement tech. until the swedes arrived...

is he talking drum machines

i have no idea.

apparently, if i'm reading the interview correctly, pop music was two guys banging away on a piano writing songs until the studio-less hip-hoppers showed the swedes how to do things quicker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CwwCbMq320

so how many times do I have to read about max martin before I've heard of him

until an old white guy lets him produce an album, he is only a myth carried on the wind by sylvan messengers

he's your little swedish secret that you keep in your pocket when you want money. shhhhhhh.........

that sort of thing ain't my bag

used to be just 2 people sitting at a piano. now its a rapper and a producer sitting at a keyboard. TOTALLY different.

gimme a C, a bouncy C!

http://www.abbatimeline.com/media/img/RNfWQH_53305407d910a.jpg

wake me up when robots are writing our songs please!

here go
http://francoispachet.fr/
http://francoispachet.fr/markovconstraints/audio/boulez_blues.mp3

It's not really about music. It's barely writing. But.
http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/does-jermaine-jackson-have-a-jacket-potato-in-his-trousers-or-something-more-sinister

Still, makes you think, doesn't it?

wtf

Haha. Poor NME.

how the fuck can you have jermaine jackson and an alleged potato in the same article and yet not ask the question, can you peel it?

Still, makes you think, doesn't it?

peel potato and see

not know potato

lol stevie

"jacket potato"?

I mean first off it's clearly a trouser potato

tell me i'm not dreaming (of an era where pageviews mean nothing)

take off your pants and jacket potato

this is the last one like this forever. promise!

https://www.vice.com/read/hw-the-definitive-guide-to-hipster-music-genres-hipster-week

i don't actually think its the worst or whatever. just a whatever nevermind kinda thing.

i mean it's almost 2016...

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/the-decade-in-music-genre-hype-6393275

our own lil' trailblazer. god bless.

but also yeah that's what i'm talking about. and also you should get a lawyer! jeez.

you put dubstep in the microtrend graveyard. who knew?

"Ghettotech, microhouse, folktronica, New Weird America, schaffel, crunk, trap-rap, post-metal, screw, baile, Baltimore club, snap, nu-balearic, moan-wave, grindie, deathcore, nu-rave, juke, wonky, skweee, dubstep, kuduro, jerk, hypnagogic pop, crabcore."

microhouse still HUGE at my house by the way. i just never stopped listening. now i want some baile funk crabcore to listen to.

even mentioning psych horseshit in that vice thing is grounds for a lawsuit. who mentions them in 2015?

you put dubstep in the microtrend graveyard. who knew?

― scott seward, Tuesday, December 15, 2015 11:19 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also trap-rap!

I'm not clicking on Vice unless it's by accident; has anyone linked Whiney's piece in the comments yet?

okay i just did.

I knew I'd read that one before...

i actually liked that Vice piece.

i feel like they weren't even trying, instead of talking about actual 'hipster' genres they just put 'acceptable' (or some other euphemism for 'hipster') in front of the name of some super broad genre that's existed for decades.

it's more accurate

it is! but in a way that undermines the point/structure of the piece

which is?

ok, you got me!

http://www.independent.co.uk/student/istudents/grime-isn-t-just-music-it-s-about-working-class-struggle-and-its-new-middle-class-fans-need-to-a6777256.html

new contender here

She seems to be a student and has deleted her Twitter account after getting a lot of stick online. You'd have to be under 19 to think that there's anything new in middle-class ppl getting into grime. It kind of looks like another throw-the-intern-to-the-wolves thing.