https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEXMJfvuQcQ
― j., Tuesday, 25 April 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
that's the first time i've ever heard those trivia, they are interesting and I'm glad I know em but I wouldn't begrudge someone for not knowing them and not writing about them.
― flopson, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link
I dont think "trivia" is the right word though? I think these things are all absolutely integral in understanding the main conceit of the story!
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 16:59 (seven years ago) link
Like Diplo eventually collaborating with an actual member of the Clash on a Converse ad is "trivia." M.I.A. detourning the melody and lyrics of 90s butt-shaking song to be about globalism is 100% integral to what makes is a good chorus
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link
trivia or not, i've been able to enjoy all those choruses without knowing those facts. also, i googled for like 2 mins and couldn't find ANY piece of writing (aside from your ilx post and whosampled.com) that mentions them
― flopson, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 17:39 (seven years ago) link
I hate to encourage the circular entropic flow of information between people writing chart articles and fucking genius.com, but genius does have the rumpshaker ref re:MIA
the "get low" annotations are worthless
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:16 (seven years ago) link
less than five google searches and I get from "to the windows, to the walls" to this article, which at least cites a 1994 track
asking people writing articles on pop culture to do more than two google searches is nearly impossible afaict
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:20 (seven years ago) link
forgot article link:https://www.redbullradio.com/shows/united-states-of-bass/episodes/mr-collipark
I mean it's not really a lack of googling, more just the whole regurgitated received wisdom with a chyme gloss of celebrity gossip and fun blog voice thing, but
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link
I guess writing doesn't necessarily imply anyone did research
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 20:36 (seven years ago) link
I mean, honestly, on one level there's the skill of digging into some material, which used to be paging through Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature and hoping nothing really recent was relevant, and hopefully being able to have a couple sources that weren't just churn off the same article. (middle school library nerd here)
Now the actual digging is much easier with google, but the critical skills to find original sources to determine if you've found a traceable fact or just the same half-dozen people regurgitating one questionable source gets tricky.
I guess if you're churning out stuff in the ol' billboard post mill it might not matter
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 20:41 (seven years ago) link
http://www.sfweekly.com/music/hearthis/colleen-green-is-the-queen-of-blase/
― Frozen CD, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 03:05 (seven years ago) link
that owns
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 04:39 (seven years ago) link
San Francisco's on the Trump Train, baby
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 04:50 (seven years ago) link
That openness reverberates through “Want You Back”’s verses, which have a Don Henley glimmer and a Christine McVie yearning
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 23:39 (seven years ago) link
can't see what's particularly bad about that
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 23:52 (seven years ago) link
they forgot to work in a Twin Peaks reference too
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 23:56 (seven years ago) link
i hate to give mr. thenardlebop any attention at all, but this is so egregious how is he this uninformed
And here we have one of the ugliest attempts at capitalizing on the Caribbean craze: pic.twitter.com/U4ZtKtUkFy— Thee Anthony Fantano (@theneedledrop) May 3, 2017
@theneedledrop Wow man .. ugly attempt at Caribbean ? Man that's Afro beat that's my naija culture . I was born into this sound . This is OUR sound— Wale (@Wale) May 3, 2017
― austinb, Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:05 (seven years ago) link
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, May 3, 2017 4:56 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haim make pop-rock full of deliberate callbacks to '70s los angeles pop-rock i.e. what are you talking about
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:13 (seven years ago) link
make it a Mulholland Drive reference then
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:16 (seven years ago) link
my point was, yes they make that style of music so obviously that one could have written that sentence without hearing a second of music.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:17 (seven years ago) link
Jesus fuck fantano scolding wale unreal lack of awareness
― I got da Midas touch as you fucking were LG x (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:18 (seven years ago) link
*billy ocean voice* caribbean craze
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:19 (seven years ago) link
looks like "know how to diss diplo, i'll run with it" without recognizing wale whatsoever
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:24 (seven years ago) link
What's a Don Henley glimmer
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:26 (seven years ago) link
The gleam of the LAPD badge as they search his partment?
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:27 (seven years ago) link
the reflection the lights off his coke mirror.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:38 (seven years ago) link
The fact that Wale responded to Fantano at all is an amazing self-ether
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 4 May 2017 02:43 (seven years ago) link
i get that ATDI is important but this is the most hagiographic, labored-over, critically uninteresting thing i've ever seen
http://thequietus.com/articles/22339-at-the-drive-in-inter-alia-album-review
― austinb, Friday, 5 May 2017 18:37 (seven years ago) link
I got halfway through that before thinking "is this is a review of a new record or a fucking history lesson?" ... a couple of paragraphs later and I was like "is this a review of a new record or is this just the writer telling us how much he likes the previous one?"
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Friday, 5 May 2017 18:56 (seven years ago) link
The review didn't really click for me until paragraph seven:
Peers in my Devon sixth form college didn’t know what to make of them when I brought Relationship of Command into the common room
which is where I stopped reading. Especially once I noticed there were like 17 paragraphs to go. Pull your pants back up, buddy, it's just an album.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 5 May 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
I like At the Drive In quite a bit but I don't really know how "important" they are, they were solidly part of an emo-influence/mathy post-fugazi scene of underground rock
― I got da Midas touch as you fucking were LG x (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 May 2017 19:04 (seven years ago) link
holy crap it's almost 6,000 words. that's like Wright Thompson or Spencer Hall longform strokejob length.
― evol j, Friday, 5 May 2017 19:33 (seven years ago) link
Is there a Caribbean craze?
― Evan, Friday, 5 May 2017 19:38 (seven years ago) link
Pfft
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/three-days-at-stagecoach-californias-pro-trump-honkytonk/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 May 2017 23:15 (seven years ago) link
Sitting on another set of lawn chairs was Craig, a civil engineer who’d spent the morning perfecting a spill-proof beer bong. The only thing more sculpted than its arrangement of PVC pipes and valves was his body.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 May 2017 23:18 (seven years ago) link
Amazingly, this was not written by Bob Lefsetz.
Closing paragraph:
The hippie movement is actually a great case study in the intersection of pop music and activism. Listen to Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock.” (Yes, she famously missed performing at the festival she wrote the definitive song about.) “We are stardust, we are golden, and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.” Listen to Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young calling out police in the wake of the Kent State shooting in “Ohio.” Listen to Bob Dylan skewering government warmongering on “Masters of War.” 2017’s ambitious pop crop could wield this same power if they wanted. But do they?
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 23:18 (seven years ago) link
hey Katy Perry pricked her finger on a rose thorn in that one video. that's about as deep as you're gonna get these days
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 23:48 (seven years ago) link
Before I heard you, I didn’t think it was possible for someone to front three separate bands over their career, and on top of that, release several albums as a solo artist. How could someone be that universal?Your voice sends chills to the spine. Your words stir the wheels of thought. Your melodies invent emotions most of us never even knew existed.Your songs have gotten me, as well as many other people, through some of the darkest, as well as some of the best times in our lives. You touched more people than you can imagine. And now you’ve hurt us.
Your voice sends chills to the spine. Your words stir the wheels of thought. Your melodies invent emotions most of us never even knew existed.
Your songs have gotten me, as well as many other people, through some of the darkest, as well as some of the best times in our lives. You touched more people than you can imagine. And now you’ve hurt us.
http://www.alternativenation.net/say-hello-2-heaven-open-letter-chris-cornell/
― Frozen CD, Saturday, 20 May 2017 02:20 (seven years ago) link
nah
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 May 2017 02:22 (seven years ago) link
i wrote worse than that in my journal in college. she's 21 ffs
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 May 2017 02:43 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, post denied
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 20 May 2017 12:55 (seven years ago) link
http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2017/05/donald-glover-pop-culture-streak-is-unprecedented
https://media4.giphy.com/media/xT1XH3nKVJMCvzAc8M/giphy.gif
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 22 May 2017 15:44 (seven years ago) link
donald glover's pop culture streak is unprecedented....if you woke of from a coma in 2016 and have total amnesia
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 May 2017 17:41 (seven years ago) link
if you woke from a coma in 2016 and have total amnesia
Primary qualifications for being a pop culture journalist in 2017
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 22 May 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link
I don't like the Beatles at all, but even bands I hate don't deserve to be the subject of an Amanda Marcotte piece.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 12:15 (seven years ago) link
oh *that's* what people were talking about
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 12:18 (seven years ago) link
I Wrote the 500th Sgt Peppers Challops Article...and that's okay!
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 12:36 (seven years ago) link
It’s no surprise, then, that the Beatles’ shift toward a more respectable and artistic branding meant shedding their sex appeal. The “Sgt. Pepper” album cover features the Fab Four dressed in goofy-looking uniforms that couldn’t be better suited to repel the female gaze. Beyond the title track and “Lucy in the Sky with the Diamonds,” there’s very little on the record that makes a lady want to shake her hips on the dance floor.“Sgt. Pepper” is a good pop record, don’t get me wrong. But it’s a record I resent, because it helped cement this notion that music for girls is silly and music for men is artistically significant. It’s a notion that is doubly appalling because history shows, time and time again, that girl-tastes are the ones that are ahead of the curve.
“Sgt. Pepper” is a good pop record, don’t get me wrong. But it’s a record I resent, because it helped cement this notion that music for girls is silly and music for men is artistically significant. It’s a notion that is doubly appalling because history shows, time and time again, that girl-tastes are the ones that are ahead of the curve.
waht
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 12:40 (seven years ago) link
have we done a t/s: sgt pepper vs sgt pepper's? feel like we should put the thorny matter of how to shorten references to this album to bed once and for all
personally i believe anyone who prefers to say sgt pepper's should be dragged into the street and summarily executed
― heck i've even been an 'oyster pirate' (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 12:41 (seven years ago) link