i like this better than lana del ray
― flopson, Saturday, 30 March 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
I like this better than fever ray
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 30 March 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
today in faint praise
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 30 March 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
r u billie ray?
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Saturday, 30 March 2019 20:58 (five years ago) link
This, like the Ariana Grande record, is absolute crap. Can't wait for this mostly rotten decade to fuck off.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 30 March 2019 21:28 (five years ago) link
I personally think that those involved in pop music should be aiming higher and aspiring to better.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, February 20, 2019 8:21 PM
^^You're being a dumb asshole for holding this opinion and then showing up in pop music threads to shit on it anyway. Stay the fuck away if you don't like it.
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Saturday, 30 March 2019 21:32 (five years ago) link
seven months pass...
ok listen to me now billie ellish is very good!!!― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, October 20, 2019 8:21 PM
― shoulda zagged (esby), Saturday, 30 March 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link
The mistake that you're making is assuming that this is aiming higher and aspiring to better. It isn't - it's fucking lousy.
(xpost)
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 30 March 2019 21:35 (five years ago) link
Pop musicians have got so fucking lazy that I'm getting immediately fatigued by the sameyness - and this is aaaaabsolutely no exception. Someone really needs to give things a kick up the arse - although critics accepting any old shit is hardly helping things.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 30 March 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link
Thankfully, if I feel this way then I sure as hell know others do. Can't wait for the inevitable backlash where people get bored and decide to step up their game.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 30 March 2019 21:39 (five years ago) link
I haven’t even listened to this album, I’m just not here for your dumb bullshit.
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Saturday, 30 March 2019 21:44 (five years ago) link
Thankfully, if I feel this way then I sure as hell know others do.
Lol. And also, new board description?
― Frederik B, Saturday, 30 March 2019 21:49 (five years ago) link
Okay, so you disagree that those involved in pop music should be aiming higher and aspiring to better, then, and you're prepared to wallow in blandness. Don't let me stop you!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 30 March 2019 21:50 (five years ago) link
as the person who created this thread, though I personally love the album, I am more OK with people who don't like the album posting in this thread that they don't like it than people who haven't heard the album posting in this thread to derail it about how they don't like a poster
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 30 March 2019 22:00 (five years ago) link
Thanks Katherine :)
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 30 March 2019 22:02 (five years ago) link
Stfu ur dumb
― flopson, Saturday, 30 March 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), 30. marts 2019 23:00 (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Nah, blame the troll, not the trolled.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 30 March 2019 22:07 (five years ago) link
I do not want to turn this into another thread where only positive opinions about an artist are permitted, if someone else wants to start a "billie eilish is amazing and no dissenting opinions are allowed" thread they are more than welcome to do so
(to be clear, I do in fact think the record is great, but)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 30 March 2019 22:11 (five years ago) link
have people confused about why teens like angsty music ever been teens
― nathom, Saturday, 30 March 2019 22:14 (five years ago) link
I think it's the opinions on pop music in general that are ticking people off. It's in fact explicitly what morrisp is reacting against, and I presume morrisp has at some point heard pop music.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 30 March 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link
Also damn y'all
― nathom, Saturday, 30 March 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link
Lol that's the thing. like I know it's irrational to worry too much, but it's still a weird thing seeing a kid go from constantly begging you to take her to the playground to sitting in her room in the dark blasting Billie Eilish all day.
― Roz, Sunday, 31 March 2019 02:13 (five years ago) link
Billie Eilish, a strong feminist icon. Afro-latina. Disabled (wears retainers). Queer. Honestly and truly an inspiration for the youngest. pic.twitter.com/biaBBxUMlk— david (@glitteRIP) March 29, 2019
I have questions
― Simon H., Sunday, 31 March 2019 03:31 (five years ago) link
my thread isn’t a positive opinions only thread!! god
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 31 March 2019 03:49 (five years ago) link
and i submit that billie eilish is good
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 31 March 2019 03:51 (five years ago) link
Wearing braces on your teeth is not a disibility
― plums (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 31 March 2019 07:29 (five years ago) link
the tweet is obviously facetious
― dyl, Sunday, 31 March 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
I promise it's not.
― Simon H., Sunday, 31 March 2019 14:49 (five years ago) link
how can you even tell
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Sunday, 31 March 2019 15:03 (five years ago) link
I assumed it was a joke
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 31 March 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link
holy shit where's my retainerbuxx
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 31 March 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
I get more Kate Bush than Lana Del Ray. Granted, I think i have barely heard any Lana Del Ray songs.
I don't feel old listening to this. It seems pretty universal pre-teen/teen all serious, mood and gloom.
― Yerac, Sunday, 31 March 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link
I think most teenage girls go through a phase where their parents think they are sociopaths.
― Yerac, Sunday, 31 March 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
I am specifically referring to "^^You're being a dumb asshole for holding this opinion and then showing up in pop music threads to shit on it anyway. Stay the fuck away if you don't like it." this isn't a stan forum
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 31 March 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
yeah that attitude is really childish. dissent is fine, it's just that turrican is really bad at it
― brimstead, Sunday, 31 March 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
Don't say, I'm not your typeJust say that I'm not your preferred sexual orientation
how do grownups listen to this
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 31 March 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
huh didn’t know she was afro latina
― flopson, Sunday, 31 March 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
I apologize for getting hot under the collar; guess I was successfully trolled. FTR, though, it had nothing to do with suppressing dissent or wanting to see only stan posts — much less anything to do with this record, which as I said I haven’t even heard all the way through (I listened to a few tracks and decided it wasn’t even enough “for me” to have/express an opinion on).IMO, pop is no different from hip-hop, metal, etc. — if your stated opinion is “it all sucks nowadays,” and yet you feel the need to pipe up and proclaim that you also think individual examples of it also suck (without even explaining why), you’re going to draw some heat. But I know I’m not the board police, so sorry again.
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Sunday, 31 March 2019 19:47 (five years ago) link
you still don't get it -- you were not trolled, you encountered someone whose opinion about a piece and/or genre of music differed from yours.
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 31 March 2019 21:43 (five years ago) link
(it's particularly weird with regard to an album like this, where it's not hard to see why it might be polarizing for some people -- it isn't engineered for maximum likability, it is gen z as fuck without leaning into "omg so precociously beyond her years!" in the music itself, it is clearly influenced by genres a lot of people really, really hate, like soundcloud rap)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 31 March 2019 21:47 (five years ago) link
I must be thick, to me it just sounds like a well engineered dark pop record with a sense of humour.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, 31 March 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
Trolled, “triggered,” whatever — sorry again. I hear enough “pop music sucks” IRL that I guess I reached a breaking point.
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Sunday, 31 March 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
(Though IMO spreading unproductive hate in threads about a genre you’ve already stated you don’t like is a kind of trolling.)
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Sunday, 31 March 2019 21:58 (five years ago) link
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Sunday, March 31, 2019 5:53 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah, this is my stance, but I've read so many comments on reviews/profiles that are like "sorry this actually sucks," and then there was that whole attempt at a mini-backlash a few days ago
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 31 March 2019 22:41 (five years ago) link
"Xanny" could be like a '73/'74 era Roxy track.
If you like melody, modernism and a colorful personality, she really ain't that hard to enjoy?
― mr.raffles, Monday, 1 April 2019 03:24 (five years ago) link
I hear enough “pop music sucks” IRL that I guess I reached a breaking point.― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Sunday, March 31, 2019 9:55 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Sunday, March 31, 2019 9:55 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well, I'd be the last person to say that pop music sucks. I like pop music, and some days believe there's very little that beats the thrill and rush of a really good pop song/track. I just really hate it when creators of pop music insult the artform by either getting lazy or putting out shite, and I've heard a lot of music which falls under this umbrella this decade.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 00:38 (five years ago) link
'putting out shite'
― cheese canopy (map), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 02:36 (five years ago) link
what is lazier than literally anyone who records anything is what turrican says about music he doesn't like.
― cheese canopy (map), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 02:39 (five years ago) link
Judging by the music, I completely disagree.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 02:42 (five years ago) link
my 10 year old goddaughter is really interested in this album, which makes me want to listen to it
― Dan S, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 03:10 (five years ago) link