oh my god i thought you were joking but it's actually fucking pomplamoose. amazing that all these years later they still haven't fucked off even after making their patreon(?) money
― dyl, Monday, 24 June 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
Supposedly the only Patreon money Pomplamoose guy gets and keeps is from his own account and the band's.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 24 June 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
a lot of ppl on this supposedly forward-thinking rockist-critical forum would probably legit be turning their noses up at "c'mon and ride it" today, including those who actually liked it as kids. like do some of you ever get tired of being surly every time something goes big that betrays the general public's ignorance about the types of music that you enjoy, + pointing at other major-label artists who 'should' actually be receiving the attention and such
― dyl, Monday, 24 June 2019 20:43 (one hour ago) Permalink
you act like it was all "cmon ride the train" and not also rednex "cotton eyed joe"
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
also tbf my first exposure to this song was on tiktok & as ive said before if the song had first broken through those memes instead of billboard being dumb the popular response to this song would have been different imo
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
yes this song is popular because kids are bristling at the racism of billboard
― VAR me to the end of yawn (jim in vancouver), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
my students hurled their phones across the room when they heard about Billboard's perfidy
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
hahahahahahahaha
― space invaders are smokin penises!!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 24 June 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
the song *did* initially break thru those memes! it was #51, up from 86, on the hot 100 (and flying up the streaming charts -- it had virtually no airplay at this point) the week that billboard dropped it from the country chart. the billboard goof story, which went big after elias leight's rolling stone coverage not long after, did become a galvanizing point and part of its mythos, but the song was already broken wide open.
― dyl, Monday, 24 June 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
Had my kid play me this today. Not bad! She said it was a pretty fun song, but also good. Me, it reminded me of Everlast's "What It's Like," but that's fine, there are worse things.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 June 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
that's a low blow
― VAR me to the end of yawn (jim in vancouver), Monday, 24 June 2019 23:14 (four years ago) link
LOL, I figured I was not the first to make that comparison, but googling got next to nothing! Except this cat, who is actually pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wFt0uALc24
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 June 2019 23:19 (four years ago) link
believe it or not, it is possible to like "old town road" while acknowledging that it is basically a meme
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
gonna come out of the closet as someone who actually enjoyed "what it's like". and "cotton-eye joe". i'm a lemming.
― dyl, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
Pete Buttigieg is a noted fan of "What It's Like." I wonder what he thinks of "Old Town Road."
― jaymc, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 03:06 (four years ago) link
Oh boy:
Guys, Tim Ryan’s walk-up music is Old Town Road pic.twitter.com/xfNGnOmTLg— Andy Burnstein (@thatburnstein) June 11, 2019
― jaymc, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 03:08 (four years ago) link
what little i know of pete buttigieg's music tastes seems so respectable-milquetoast-centrist so i take it back, i hate "what it's like"
― dyl, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 04:34 (four years ago) link
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― dyl, Monday, June 24, 2019 5:31 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
These posts are dumb as fuck. It was in the hot 100 like literally 99 other songs at any given time but it was not a straight shot number one cross format smash that keeps legitimate stars off the number one for weeks at a time until it received blanket media coverage in the wake of a widespread report of curatorial injustice.
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 06:16 (four years ago) link
Like it wasn’t even top 40 off tiktok? There are probably 60 songs on the hot 100 right now a plurality if ilxors haven’t even heard
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 06:17 (four years ago) link
billy ray cyrus was more important than billboard
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 25 June 2019 06:21 (four years ago) link
Billy Ray Cyrus doesn’t happen without billboard !!
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 06:38 (four years ago) link
Literally every media platform covered that story. It was like on local tv stations and shit
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 06:39 (four years ago) link
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, June 25, 2019 2:38 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark sure but what you describe -- a song so big that it keeps artists like drake and taylor swift from no 1 -- is solely bcuz of the decision to put billy ray cyrus on the remix
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 25 June 2019 06:44 (four years ago) link
billboard doesn't even appear to be charting the original at this point
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 25 June 2019 06:49 (four years ago) link
legitimate starslegitimate starslegitimate starslegitimate starslegitimate starslegitimate starslegitimate starslegitimate starslegitimate stars
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 07:13 (four years ago) link
When it’s not a legitimate star the Billboard has a way of shutting that whole thing down
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 12:49 (four years ago) link
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, June 25, 2019 2:17 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
exactly how popular is this song among the kids? let's see if generation X and some older millennials have ever heard of it
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
my 4yo son has been singing it constantly. He went into school yesterday and sang it to his 30-ish teacher. She said she was singing that song at karaoke on Friday. This is total saturation, folks.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
Conclusion: the song is crazy popular, you don't have to like it, and it may not get play in 2032, especially if the polar ice shelves melt and wreak havoc on coastal cities.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
my eight year old just asked me "Have you heard of a song called 'Old Town Road' it's a very good song" they played it at their dance time during daycare
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
I feel like it will get play 20 years from now, like Baby Got Back or Push It
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
yeah I don't think it's going away
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
Reznor finally has a crossover for the pre-teens.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
Would love it if the NIN "Ghosts" album becomes this sort of Violent Femmes-esque entry/talisman for this generation.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
haven’t heard the ep yet but i want to say that i disagree with this from the p4k review. Old town road is obviously a good song. not so bad it’s good or so good it’s bad; just good. i don’t know what it means for the song to be ‘aware it’s a meme’; it only became a meme because it is very good. i wasn’t ‘in on the joke’ and i don’t really think there is or was a ‘joke’
― flopson, Sunday, June 23, 2019 9:51 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
??? its clearly a parody of country music from a guy who played a lot of red dead redemption i think its obvi that theres a joke element to it
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, June 24, 2019 12:02 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that paragraph to me is simply describing the intense alienation that comes from a song you dislike becoming absurdly popular; I felt an even stronger dislike of "Fuck You" by Cee Lo which was also one of those songs that felt pretty intensely "popular" in both the charts & critically (& on ILX) in a way that felt "critic proof" (ie it was a success and lots of ppl liked it & its effective therefor it is good)
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, June 24, 2019 12:03 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah my interpretation was that the author didn't like the song as music (wrong but fair) but instead of just coming out and saying that tried to over-intellectualize others' enjoyment to pretend that he understood its appeal
― flopson, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
you refer to deej, right
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
I was meh on Old Town Road at first, now I love it, haven’t heard the EP but A. Pierre’s trashing of it was one of the most entertaining reviews I’ve read in a while. The only weak/lazy writing in the whole piece is the passage cited above.
― thewufs, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
Old Town Road >>>>>>> Fuck You
― flopson, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
Old Town Road="fuck you"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
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― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, June 25, 2019 9:43 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, June 25, 2019 9:47 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
are you guys incapable of reading? we're talking about how popular it was BEFORE the billboard snafu
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
it was a random tiktok song like tons of others that chart & no one here talks about
The Billboard thing happens, which isn't what catapults it
the RESPONSE to the Billboard thing is what catapults it. It becomes a major news story so awareness of it completely saturates
"Bottoms Up (We Was A the Club)" was in like the same area as this at the time & now it's completely forgotten
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YwAaNFJwRA
― space invaders are smokin penises!!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
― flopson, Tuesday, June 25, 2019 10:31 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm though i've also been always allergic to Fuck You (and Crazy)
― omar little, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
egitimate starslegitimate starslegitimate starslegitimate starslegitimate starslegitimate starslegitimate starslegitimate starslegitimate stars
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, June 25, 2019 2:13 AM (twelve hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, June 25, 2019 7:49 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
u can tell its a deej pile on when ppl start purposefully misreading things that are not hard to understand...obviously i like plenty of one hit wonders & dont think "legitimate star" is a real thing but there's also obviously a clear difference between IE Drake & Lil Nas X at the current moment in terms of their nature to stardom, stop being willfully stupid
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
― omar little, Tuesday, June 25, 2019 2:18 PM (fifty-three seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i wonder if I meant "Crazy" instead of "Fuck You"? I think I did. "Crazy" was more acclaimed. "Fuck You" was probably slightly more divisive
But "Crazy" Definitely got the exact same "You lost, this song is popular and good and arguing about it means you're wrong" treatment at the time
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
Deej, I don't think anyone disputes that the Billboard fuckery literally occurred right before the song exploded, but I think everyone but you agrees that correlation is not causation
― space invaders are smokin penises!!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
old town road is better than anything chief keef ever released
― VAR me to the end of yawn (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
laughing at these lames like yee haw haw haw
― space invaders are smokin penises!!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
I will NEVER forget the BoyBoy Westcoast
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
― space invaders are smokin penises!!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, June 25, 2019 2:20 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
everyone does not agree with that!
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
both things can be true--the song very well may have faded away had Billboard not f'ed up AND many of the people who were exposed it to it and liked it after it's profile was raised don't know or care much about the Billboard thing
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link