Least convincing / most lol-worthy aspect of The Weeknd's quick rise to Internet fame

all of the above option please.

missing vowel.

lock thread.

lock thread.

― Nult AGL (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:51 AM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

glad ilxor's weighed in on this now that theres a pfork review to react to

oh i've seen the ilx thread trust me, just didn't care to waste time weighing in & getting involved

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http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/images/smiles/burnsauce.gif

good thing you used your time so wisely on this thread instead

yeah can't believe i took 45 seconds to make a poll. no one EVER wastes time on ilx, what was i thinking??

"Glass Table Girls" is pretty clearly about doing coke Una Stubbs

oh god is that in the review? wow

would vote for temporarily fashionable influx of PBR&B* in general

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* © Eric Harvey, 2011

yeah can't believe i took 45 seconds to make a poll. no one EVER wastes time on ilx, what was i thinking??

― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:59 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

you introduced the concept that one thread about this topic is a waste of time, i'm just following through on your premise dogg

4th thread on this? gtfo

the ddrake co-sign obv

hahaha

!!!

missing vowel

When we were kicking around potential names for our band, one of the rejects was "The Vwls"

You made the right choice

"missing vowel" should have been quoted not boldfaced. Someday i'll stop confusing the b and q formatting codes...

watched a couple of the youtube links on the other thread and seriously do not get why anybody gives a fuck

^ new board description?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

PBR'n'B!

idk what pbr is, we've been going with tumblr&b

different worlds, mayne

Pabst Blue Ribbon - afaik skanky brand of beer drunk by Williamsburg hipsters, usually ironically.

Am I right about this?

why are those people so gross

as far as cheap beer goes pb&r is really on the high end of the spectrum

but yeah it has a reputation as a 'hipster beer'

i don't think we have a "hipster beer" in the UK. so either we win, as a nation, or i win for not being aware of it

but then i mostly drink wine or spirits unless i'm hungover

the PBR thing is funny. i thought the whole point of embracing something like PBR was to not give a shit (or show that you don't give a shit) (or both) about fancy foods, having the correct taste, etc. and then this one beer out of maybe 30 common cheap beers becomes the "cool" cheap beer. it's like congratulations, you are shipping the same quantity of tribalist plumage as your peers but are also stuck with shitty beer.

that's pretty much hipsterdom summed up in one paragraph tracer!

like, i never ever get that "omg everyone around me looks the same, talks the same, behaves the same" feeling as much as i do when i'm in shoreditch or dalston

well i think i lot of hipsterdom is actually about giving quite a lot of a shit, and i like that aspect of it! even if people do look the same (my mom was commenting about that yesterday, in london fields. she noticed that most people who were walking together dressed extremely similarly, and the younger they were the more true that seemed to be). it's the brand fetishization of certain willfully crap durables and consumables that kind of boggles me.

UK hipster beer = Red Stripe

yeah I don't think there has ever been a UK equivalent to PBR

which, and I don't say this very often, is a credit to Britain imo

xp nah not convinced

lol red stripe = expensive as fuck over here

Coming from out of London, I'm not so frequently subjected to hipster culture as others, but I did notice this when I was in Farringdon last week. Literally everyone had the same stephawk haircut, same skinny jeans, same baseball jackets, same high-top trainers. Truly weird. I don't have a problem with fashion trends per se, as this is what they are, but it's bizarre that these ostensibly forward-thinking trend-conscious people are so willing to copy each other note-for-note.

definitely not red stripe, only place where that's the definite beer of choice is among jamaicans

maybe it had some exotic rasta cachet in like 1987 but it just seems like one of many just-about-acceptable drink-it-cos-it's-there options to me

You can get Stripe everywhere now, and obviously it's going to have the Rasta-cred thing that hipsters will latch onto. Plus it's as close to a low-qual beer without tasting like pissy Fosters or Carling.

Leffe was the one I was thinking of at first - it's much more expensive, though

http://www.thefancarpet.com/uploaded_assets/images/gallery/668/Back_to_the_Future_Part_II_7838_Medium.jpg

Which thread do we do the awkward shuffling/raucous lolling on when a commercial R&B diva inevitably comes out massively in favour of The Weeknd?

if we've survived kelis cosigning la roux and the beyoncé/sleigh bells rumours, we can survive anything

also insert drake-already-has joke here

Also we don't have "hipster beers" we have "music venue beers", which used to mean Red Stripe and increasingly means either Carling or Tuborg - ie weak piss.

Coming from out of London, I'm not so frequently subjected to hipster culture as others, but I did notice this when I was in Farringdon last week. Literally everyone had the same stephawk haircut, same skinny jeans, same baseball jackets, same high-top trainers. Truly weird. I don't have a problem with fashion trends per se, as this is what they are, but it's bizarre that these ostensibly forward-thinking trend-conscious people are so willing to copy each other note-for-note.

You know this has been true of pretty much every fashion trend man has ever created, right?

btw Beyonce cosigning Sleigh Bells makes up for her being into Grizzly Bear IMO

what does gbx's gf drink??

i have all the time in the world for craft beers

wtf is a craft beer

I have no idea but I'd definitely be into one

i went to trader joe's yesterday and got a sixer of name tag (pretty sure this is worse than PBR) and some cheap white wine that looked decent

am i a hipster / should i listen to the weeknd while i drink this shit

right now i'm massively into asahi. love how dry it is + they have in on tap in loads of places in london now

best derailed thread ever!

my dad got me a brewing kit for xmas. i haven't broken it out but i should during this snow week, cause it's as good a time as any.

was just thinking, what a top quality derail, so glad the end of the thread isn't about artist y is shit cos fan x etc.

could bump the other thread but I feel like this is a better place for this HIGH PRAISE from a press release:

"2015 has been a breakout year for THE WEEKND, he is just the third artist to have two songs in the Top 10 of the Hot 100 simultaneously in 2015, and the first male. Only Taylor Swift and Meghan Trainor have previously held that honor this year."

also, I'm not sure about the exact dates so the stat may well be right, but wouldn't the first male be fetty wap

it's refreshing to see someone described as the "first male artist to" do anything.

i will always rep for "the morning"

What baffles me about hipsterdom is how thoughtless it can be. Up here in Canada you never used to be able to get PBR (thank god). The kind of people who would've started the PBR thing in the US drank shitty regional beers - the stuff your drunken uncle would drink - in order to signify "I don't give a shit about your elitist tastes" or whatever. In the west it was Pilsner, or back when you could get it, O'Keefe's Extra Old Stock. In Ontario, Labatt 50. But what are the kids drinking now, coast to coast? Somebody else's drunken uncle's beer. Weird.

uh why isn't "hair" an option

can't believe "free mixtape" didn't get any votes, that's always the reason I hear anything

iirc he didn't have weird hair back then?

(btw, lol at this thread's long detour into beer talk)

Some foreigner's drunken uncle's beer.

That's specially imported to give an air of being nothing special.

haha, i missed this stealth beer thread. now i want to get to the bottom of what UK people think "craft beer" is.

for a musician/artist is the weeknd's hair really that weird?

i think cad had this down pretty good

pbr thing isn't really complicated:

1) hipsters need a cheap beer
2) mainstream/fratty brands, lite beers, and brands that cost a dollar or two more are out
3) pbr is is a little better than schlitz, old mil, etc.
4) as an added bonus it's a brand with a strong tradition that can be "reclaimed"

ime miller high life was equivalent in terms of test, value, and cache, esp after they redesigned the bottle. the brand that hipsters really missed on is regular coors, which costs about the same and tests much much better.

― call all destroyer, Monday, April 4, 2011 1:09 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

high life has this chimerical quality of going from great to nauseating with the drop of a few degrees

in what universe is pbr better than schlitz??

also here is as good a place as any to say fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck the term "pbr&b" ban music journalists forever

^^^^^^^^^^^

high life has this chimerical quality of going from great to nauseating with the drop of a few degrees

― goole, Wednesday, August 5, 2015 12:03 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the fuck am i saying, the *rise* of a few degrees.

i had a chart in my head i was trying to describe. wrong axis.

High Life definitely better than PBR or Coors imo. At this point Budweiser is probably the most slept on beer in that class tbh.

In Boston, Narragansett has largely replaced PBR as Cheap Beer of Choice, at least the last time I was at the Middle East and Church. Surprisingly, as close to Boston as Manchester, NH (one hour north on I-93) still has PBR as their cheapest option and yet doesn't stock Narragansett.

yeahh pbr&b has gotta be the worst microgenre neologism ever

and i agree that his hair is terrible

Seattle reverted to type and Rainier (ghastly bullshit) became the cheap beer of choice again, although I feel like Hamm's has been replacing it lately.

nah I love his hair

theres a lot about him thats never benen convincing, much like drake, but who needs gravitas when you have dudes mopeing about having to have sex with tens of models every night over dark synths while cursing unnecessarily to show how much attitude they have beyond the sensitively damaged persona?

I missed out on the fact that Max Martin produced his chart topping single. That guy gets around.

I love several tracks from House of Balloons, but his collective output to date, especially what they play on the radio has been very underwhelming and uninspiring

New album is largely horrible, like a Pick up Artist who wants you to think he's deep.

i'm honestly amazed i haven't read a thinkpiece linking him to PUA/MRA etc culture (and, in a different way, drake)

His hair can be divided into roughly four sectors, each with its own distinct personality (front left: flopped-over moose antler; back left: tiny octopus).

apparently guy-man will only produce tracks for the weeknd at 93bpm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKDU5pXhf5o

The Weeknd has earned it.

somewhat-but-not-entirely surprised to see that the music from his latest album cycle, despite being quite successful, appears not to have elicited any comment on here yet

i still have to roll my eyes a little at the compulsory nostalgic touchstones in all his big '''pop''' hits but "blinding lights" might also feature some of the best production max martin has been involved in for years

I'm impressed by the ambition and I guess audacity of cancelling $100 million in ticket sales for a four-time rescheduled arena tour in a gamble that all those fans and more will again shell out for a future stadium tour.

he's come a long way from the days of free mixtapes

"blinding lights" now #1 all time song on spotify

it's a nasty top 10 anyway and fine to have sheeran displaced from the spot but I can't fathom the missed opportunity of those placeholder mercedes commercial lyrics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-streamed_songs_on_Spotify

So new song with Madonna and Playboy Carti is ok. Probably one of the best Madonna singles in years. Weeknd still sticking to copying styles. Sounds influenced by 00’s Timbaland/Neptunes.

jesus christ! his show is SO BAD! the protagonist pop star has not one thing to do with the way any contemporary artist as such operates; and most importantly. this is very clearly "what noted pop scholar Abel believes about popular music of the of the past 40 years "(utterly on the nose observations re: Prince and Donna Summer) "and the way he would make a boring pop automaton into something REAL and EDGY, via drugs and cults and dirty fucking." and in creating the music boring, wounded automaton Jocelyn makes before Tedros gets involved with her, noted pop scholar Abel fails to make music that doesn't sound exactly like the templates he has popularized for a decade. I am a pretty big fan of his, and I so I do wish that this pitch was rejected…my god, that last scene…

I liked the interview with the journalist scene. that was the only thing really.

hey hipsters remember them what was that about

Oh joy:

Some of the harassment was specific to Temori’s sexual orientation, the lawsuit claims, with one HBO employee allegedly slapping Temori’s butt, blowing kisses, and “commenting about personal and sexual matters.” When Temori began to push back against some of the treatment he was experiencing, Martinez and the lawsuit allege that HBO executives made Temori believe he was being offered a better career opportunity with a role as a script coordinator on The Idol in August 2021. On set, the lawsuit alleges Temori faced similar discriminatory and harassing behavior from The Weeknd and some The Idol producers. But by October, he was terminated. “Higher executives at HBO in the department he was working were pushing this position on him — that they were doing him a favor,” Martinez says. “What he discovered is it was more likely an opportunity for HBO to rid itself of him because it put him in a space where it was easier to terminate or eliminate his position.”