ILM's 2010's blindspots

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ilm has always had big blind spots in popular music but to have the biggest pop star as a joke entry in tracks of the year? beyond parody

Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:12 (three years ago) link

oh yea ... i mean tbf i dont understand the joke in those posts at all

ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:13 (three years ago) link

the joke entries used to be more deliberate trolling but this time moka went for a different vibe i guess. like in the past it was usually "here's something you all hate lol" with ed sheeran (who is a gigantic pop star) etc. but this year moka went for something more vaguely plausible with bad bunny who people seem just more indifferent about here than active dislike or anything

ufo, Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link

yeah I didn't want to go on about it (more) in the thread, but the fakes this year were legit confusing to me. like it did not seem implausible to me that the BB track would place, I was just taken aback by the unexpected (false) enthusiasm

rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:24 (three years ago) link

opening track of the album, he made a video for it. not a filler track, whether or not you think it's any good (it's not one of my favourites on the album either)

― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Thursday, January 28, 2021 4:52 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's a hip-hop tradition to have the intro be kind of a nothing track lol, and didn't he make a video for every song on the album?

tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:27 (three years ago) link

oh yeah he did make a video for every song but it was one of the first batch to be released iirc

Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:51 (three years ago) link

since we're on the topic: I don't speak Spanish, what is happening at the beginning of that video?

rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:52 (three years ago) link

this is like when the consensus pick off the Rosalia album was Malamente rather than any of the ensuing tracks, all of which were way better by dint of not being a low-key intro

imago, Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:55 (three years ago) link

xp. from memory, it's a new years eve party, a guy is about to hang himself and a kid comes up to him. the gist is: the kid asks him (the dude about to hang himself) what he's doing. he replies that his life is a mess, his family doesn't love him, his friends don't listen to him etc. the kid says "my parents don't listen to me either. you know what i do when im feeling bad? listen to bad bunny". the guy says 'bad who?" or something similar, and the kid says "come, let me show you"

Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:56 (three years ago) link

thanks jim

rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:58 (three years ago) link

xxp iirc Rosalia had 2 songs - Pienso en tu mira and Malamente back to back in the poll 2 years ago.

danzig, Thursday, 28 January 2021 23:03 (three years ago) link

also imago, ^that actually happened unlike the Bad Bunny placement

rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link

people were sleeping on “Di Mi Nombre”

Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link

Yeah Pienso en tu mira banged iirc

imago, Thursday, 28 January 2021 23:06 (three years ago) link

six months pass...

"Indie folk" like The Head and the Heart, Avett Brothers, Lord Huron, Dawes, etc.

― jaymc, Tuesday, December 15, 2020 1:08 PM (eight months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Heh, just heard two of these for the first time in the past few days.

Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 03:43 (three years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOz3VJD4L0o
I really liked this the first few times I heard it but could imagine getting sick of it.

Hitsville Ukase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 03:51 (three years ago) link

Still in the Latin American & Caribbean zone, Brazilian funk carioca and its subgenres surely ? The Modern Brazil thread is also not the most active and artists like Elza Soares or Meta Meta do not have threads to their name.
I have also come recently to consider Spanish Pop as its own sub-world, not just as pop that happens to be in Spanish, if that makes sense.
Another could be folk maybe ? Rhiannon Giddens for example does not return any results

Nabozo, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 07:03 (three years ago) link

nabozo otp

Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Wednesday, 25 August 2021 00:14 (three years ago) link


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