thread to dis hyped releases that you don't get/don't like/wanna complain about

Can't argue with that tbh.

Tbf I only said it merits further investigation.

i can’t stand (most) modern musical theater either, if that’s what we’re talking about when we say “musicals”

she has a lot more in common with dear evan hansen than rodgers & hammerstein

Sometimes I wish you'd just let the secret Brad hate flow itt. Mostly you're just defending artists from our primal scream therapy.

xp

there's just so much music to hear and greedy taytay has released two really long albums in a year that she knows all the pop critics and stans are going to spend the next 2 weeks listening to! o taytay why must you feed and feed and feed

yes this is unfortunately true xxp

cosign that I would read a proper Brad hatchet-job, although they don't seem to go too far beyond 'eh not my thing'. joooin usssss

tbh i think i've forgotten how to hate any kind of musical art and i prefer it this way

I think this was the year when I've felt the least need for pop music, defined broadly, especially contemporary pop, which I think means that I don't get every release that has been hyped.

my hate flows in other directions; talk to me about popular article writers sometime xp

tbh I bow to your enlightenment and hope one day to approximate it somehow. also lol fair

I liked a lot of music. I don't think most of it was particularly hyped, though.

i thought brad hated thundercat and his fart-joke jazz-funk

i definitely do not enjoy it

I'm afraid we won't get much more out of him.

Brad how do you feel about Louis Cole, I like his self-deprecatory masturbation-joke jazz-funk better.

but also i like got into phish this year. really unleashing any negative position i have toward music feels pointless bc i usually end up getting proven wrong or proving myself wrong

I like "You Enjoy Myself" a lot.

ha, i like thundercat (well, i liked everything before drunk) but louis cole is too much

brad has gotten too powerful tbh, they casually recommended me one song a few weeks ago and it might be my soty

Despite my love of this thread, there is very little music I genuinely hate except for, well, musicals (whether theatrical or cinematic) and Taytay. Oh, and The Microphones's latest album.

oh I quite liked that

there's v little I genuinely fully despise as well, I protest, except for Cigarettes After Sex

The line 'I checked themicropho✧✧✧@hotm✧✧✧.c✧✧ like once a week' threw me into a fit of irrevocable rage.

loool

the email-bleeping has made that at least 30% funnier imo

Agreed. It would also make that lyric 30% better if the bleeping were included in the delivery.

I viscerally loathe everything I've ever heard that was Microphones/Elverum related, absolutely Not For Me

Cigarettes After Sex I haven't heard because that band name gives me the visceral heebie jeebies

a slightly controversial but positive opinion is that elverum's public processing of bereavement and its aftermath has been maybe more interesting than the music that comes with it

Cigarettes After Sex are somehow much, much worse than the name implies

'Apocalypse' is a generically pretty song but dude sounds like a bona fide creep, which is not what I want from my dream poppy slowcore.

Young & Dumb is my go-to 'worst thing I've ever heard'

lol don't read these comments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlBIeZi3Ko4

I like musicals a lot, but (with a couple of exceptions) I'm not into the ballads. I want big stomps/marches/tap solos/throwing someone in the air/synchronised swimming/whoops I killed my husband/we're a mean mean urchin gang/sex worker solidarity/jazz hands baybeeeee musicals.

Taylor Swift? Meh.

pet shop boys nightlife album still sucks after many listens and they lost me then and afters!

peace god

My housemates love musicals, especially the recent ones that are all witty and self-aware about being a musical (my least favorite kind.) They hate Taylor Swift. I think it has something to do with being into the kind of technically accomplished singing you get in musical theater, and noticing all the weaknesses in Taylor's singing.

Yeah, I might have issues with both things but it would have never occurred to me to connect confessional country-pop singer-songwriter Taylor Swift to the musical theatre tradition.

They have nothing in common, IMO

^lol wuz just about to post the same thing

wasn’t really a fan before, like a couple singles but I think Folklore is a pretty amazing album. its still not really “my kind of thing”, it’s the kind of sad music makes me feel sad and crappy..

pet shop boys nightlife album still sucks after many listens and they lost me then and afters!

The last good PSBs album was Very. Like Madonna, they should have packed it in at least 25 years ago.

it’s the kind of sad music makes me feel sad and crappy.

good way of putting it, that's how I feel about it as well. I haven't been able to give it a chance to grow on me because I just never want to listen to it.

We checked out the new Taylor Swift yesterday because so many people that we usually align with are talking about it and at least not panning it. Andy thought it was unremarkably pleasant, but Junior said something along the lines of,

What the fuck Andy. Do not EVER play that fucking garbage again. If I wanted to hear the soundtrack from Dawson's Creek, I'd just let you play Trembling Blue Stars again for the millionth time.

To which I have to say: okay, I'll listen to Trembling Blue Stars again. Anytime.☺

there's something to that. I adore trembling blue stars

I live for music that makes me feel sad and crappy. I dislike music that makes me feel sad and crappy about the state of music, though. I'm aware that authenticity has been BTFO and is no longer a relevant concept in 2020, but part of the reason I can't stand Swift is because her shtick just reeks of corporate artifice (which is fine in and of itself) even as it pseudo-earnestly pretends to be more than that (this is the part I find insufferable) and I just can't imagine *not* being struck by that trait first and foremost.

– some kind of neo-rockist

damn you would prefer she wrote songs about credit cards?

Yes, unironically.

Dunno, the whole thing just doesn't sound felt at all. Whenever her music is playing I get the sense that someone is trying to grift me, and the attempt is about as convincing as an MLM scheme.