she could also work on her enunciation ... I didn't really understand what she was saying half the time ... maybe it's just me being old
― sarahell, Monday, 26 July 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
no that was my first reaction even before the pitch. I'm like "is this mumblecountry"?
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 July 2021 16:52 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I couldn't make any of it out before I read the lyrics.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, 26 July 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
you actually read the lyrics?!
― sarahell, Monday, 26 July 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
They're right there in the video description.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, 26 July 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
I've clearly been thinking too much about it. Reading the lyrics was basic level.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, 26 July 2021 17:13 (two years ago) link
Feels like a lot of people itt investing way too much thought into this terrible song and terrible singer. Y'all really want a new Farrah Abraham that badly, huh?
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 26 July 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
I will give her this much: as awful as the song + singer are, the cumulative 45 seconds or so that I've heard of this (once for myself, once for my gf who probably noped out quicker than I did) have lodged themselves very firmly in my head.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 July 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link
"Fantasy" is good!
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, 26 July 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link
Red Dress with an actual singer is a good song
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 July 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
Loathed the Farrah Abraham, but I wouldn’t mind a new Laurel Halo - the unadorned pitchiness of Quarantine was a thing of great beauty.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 26 July 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
Gordon Haskell was kinda pitchy on this one, to the surprise of no one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNhfdZe5njk
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 July 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
the lyrics of this are very very bad btw
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 July 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
i do like "fluffennamp timebaschwain fennehsquaf" thought that was a good line
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 July 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
xpost Why do u judge in disgust
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 July 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
brilliant video moment with the cutaway on "letting someone else steer" to a red cow
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 July 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, July 26, 2021 10:09 AM (three hours ago)
tl;dr
― sarahell, Monday, 26 July 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
I like the ii to II modulation in the chorus, that's what sticks in my head.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 26 July 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
This is kind of like the time Wes Bentley tearfully engaged with the beauty of a plastic shopping bag caught in an updraft
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 July 2021 21:20 (two years ago) link
oh thank god, I thought I maybe was patient zero for a new variant with COVID ears symptoms
― StanM, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 11:26 (two years ago) link
This is the funniest fucking thing
― Karl Havoc (DJP), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 11:35 (two years ago) link
I only sent that once
― StanM, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 11:45 (two years ago) link
oh thank god, I thought I maybe was patient zero for a new variant with COVID triple vision symptoms
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 11:51 (two years ago) link
Microtonal vision is a thing.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 11:56 (two years ago) link
lol xp
― StanM, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 12:16 (two years ago) link
Lyrics on this are also really, impressively bad. I vote calculated effort to go viral. And good on her.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 12:23 (two years ago) link
The only thing about this that even hints at calculation is that I'd think an Oxford grad student would generally have a better notion of how words go together.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 12:46 (two years ago) link
her thesis is on five dimensional chess
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link
Which could it be:
Calculated avant-garde exercise or wealthy person without self-awareness or talent
Hmm, we'll never know.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 13:15 (two years ago) link
I can't imagine another board with people trying to do the required mental gymnastics to turn the latter into the former though. Sometimes bad is just bad.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
https://artinfiction.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/asc-3a.jpg
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 13:46 (two years ago) link
This song's proponents have iirc all said they like it because of the pleasure of hearing it
― imago, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
I probably slightly prefer the pleasure of thinking and talking about it.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
xpost - Fine, then I'll amend my post to say I'm completely lost as to how anyone could find pleasure in anything about that song.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
The tang of unusual tonal harmonies within a pop-country context is pretty irresistible, what can I say
― imago, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:30 (two years ago) link
this song is A+, it's clearly intentional and it is not easy to be off key on every single note.
― akm, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
^ would've been agreed upon already if this board wasn't almost entirely people over 30
― ri, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
it being bait, that is
― ri, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:48 (two years ago) link
another Sarah Brand rapidly updates her profile...
https://twitter.com/sarahgailbrand?s=20
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
― akm, Wednesday, July 28, 2021 10:34 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Sure, sure. I will believe this when she releases the song where she is on key on every single note.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
Green Templeton College obviously think any publicity's good publicity:
https://www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/sarah-brand-fantasy-music-video/
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
it was manifestly obvious on the first listen that it was deliberate. she is hitting the same notes over and over again
― imago, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
It's totally possible to be off key on every note, esp if you make certain (common) errors in vocal technique. (See for reference: any group not made up of professional singers singing "Happy Birthday"). I think Brand is probably genuinely limited as a singer. I just think it's more likely to be a case of accepting it and running with it than of massive self-delusion. Not sure what the basis is for assuming she's exceptionally wealthy, either.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
Should have called herself Sarah Off-Brand.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:15 (two years ago) link
Hey guys is this where I sign up for the three-day symposium on the works of Sarah Brand, also can I get a list of featured speakers
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
Moondog, Daniel Johnson, Schoenberg, Rebecca Black, Pitbull
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:35 (two years ago) link
Not Daniel Johnston. The real heads know Daniel Johnson is where it's at.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:40 (two years ago) link
surely this deserves its own thread
― sleeve, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link