xpost - please don't post again
― jaxon, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay (shit!)
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Props to my homegirl Lorna who turned me on to this shizzle after hearing about it from two groovy guys she worked with in Urban Outfitters in SF.
you cant make this shit up.
― artdamages, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
ok, you could.
― artdamages, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I was just taking the piss a bit. I don't actually sound like that but whatevs.
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
So... it appears you can easily.
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Chromeo: The Next Crossover Band That We Feel Like We're Not Allowed to Like Any More?
MTV's Buzzworthy Blog features Chromeo this week.
Of course they make amazing music, but maybe it's just going to be annoying when all of the mainstreamers are post-post ironically having fun while listening to Chromeo, and saying "Let's have a party where we dress up like we're in the 1980s." Then you'll log into facebook one Monday morning, and see a bunch of pictures of girls dressed like they are from the 1980s, and having a lot of fun.
So Buzzworthy.
Chromeo's good, but I think the blogosphere will probably focus more on Calvin Harris now that Chromeo is 'no longer ours.'
― artdamages, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
"Let's have a party where we dress up like we're in the 1980s."
didn't this happen about 3 years ago anyway?
― max r, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
all those mainstreamers
― deej, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I hate hate hate Calvin Harris. It sounds so cheaply cobbled together.
And yeah, all the art school girls are so past 80's. Its all nu-rave nostalgia. Or so it would seem. I would have thought it a little early, but who am I to judge.
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
And why would anyone care about someone crossing over into the mainstream?
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/courses/spring04/V22.0002-001/Escher_hands_2.jpg
― artdamages, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
>>>>>>>fuck these guys
-- omar little, Monday, October 8, 2007 6:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link<<<<<<<<<
^^^^^^^^
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i would like chromeo, but deej enjoys it because people don't enjoy it because hipster douchebags enjoy it except they don't know because they are on mtv so maybe i do like them. you wouldn't believe how hard it is to smugly contrary sometimes.
― artdamages, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 19:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I can imagine.
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb5FOa3DrkY
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 06:46 (sixteen years ago) link
is this stuff out of control yet
i really am having trouble figuring out how to be er 'smugly contrary' or whatever here!!! this is fun but diminishing returns the more of these groups show up i think
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 06:47 (sixteen years ago) link
something about their willingness to throw every pastiche cliche into it + dudes mj imitation is leaving me feeling very conflicted
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 06:49 (sixteen years ago) link
hm wow this is good. i guess if you wanna make this type of music— and i guess that's probably where this problem starts, but it's fine w/ me— you might as well jump all the way into the deep end and have a video like this and carry on like they do, or else it seems like your half-assing it, and intense self-conciousness would probably hinder the success of the music.
i guess part of why i stand/actively like stuff like this is because i don't have an intense emotional attachment to the music it so obviously mines, so my immediate reaction isn't "fuck you!"
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:00 (sixteen years ago) link
its really quite well done
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm just afraid we're getting very close to, i dunno, The Caesars of 80s electro pastiche groups or something
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:05 (sixteen years ago) link
and some things are lost in the sort of lyrical vaguenesses required to keep it 'timeless'
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:07 (sixteen years ago) link
based on the two other songs i've just heard on myspace, private (ugh, btw) seem to be stretching their legs pretty well within the kind of box they're inherently in by making the music they're making. they seem way less one trick pony than chromeo, like "crucify my heart" has that awesome singing by the woman at the end that's just really genuinely awesome, super-talented singing, and something like that is way more rewarding than a lot of the things chromeo do.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i agree. chromeo had the freshness of being first tho. i think what rubs the wrong way about this is that you can really see the limits of the style they're working with
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:25 (sixteen years ago) link
that kind of thing frustrates me more w/ something like new young pony club, who seem to want to work within the mold more than these guys, but then again maybe private are just much better at what they do.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:35 (sixteen years ago) link
or maybe i'm giving private too much credit. i guess the flipside is appreciating when something is this good because you can see the limits of the style they're working with, however self-imposed they may be.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:39 (sixteen years ago) link
now im confused
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:44 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah idk maybe i am too. i don't pay enough attention to stuff like this to have reached a satuartion point, really. good shit tho, thx for the link.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:48 (sixteen years ago) link
new young pony club is super terrible. not sure what that has to do w/cromeo, but whatever.
re: cromeo - more of the music, more of the choruses, less of moustache dude talk rapping.
― John Justen, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 07:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Eh...I like both Chromeo and NYPC (not really sure why the latter are being brought into this, they're a different pastiche), but this feels kind of embarrassing. I don't know how to put this really, but where Chromeo are equal parts genuine enthusiasm and aloof distance, this tips too far toward the latter. It also feels like they're trying too damn hard. The forced MJ vocals, the nauseating "rap" section, it's...icky.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I love New Young Pony Club.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, but what of Private?
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Never heard of them.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
chromeo were not the first at anything
― chaki, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link
they were first at not being first
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
what is other successful mid-80s R&B/funk pastiche groups not actually from this era
i think i agree w/ reverend but some of these songs aren't really bad either
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i like that they try to hard.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I enjoy Chromeo's album (its all about the keyb fills) but ugh not feeling "Private." This song is tepid!
― da croupier, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
too*
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
im gonna stop riding the fence and say i agree, dollars to donuts this ends up in an ipod commercial in a couple months and i'll never want to hear it again.
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
chromeo still good tho
I'd rather hear Chromeo than look at them, though
― da croupier, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
yah chromeo is good but theres been doods dancing with their laptops to prince style shit way before them
― chaki, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I am always up for a good Zapp rip
― da croupier, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
word
― chaki, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
eh well i am generally outside of their target audience i guess
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Private = good song - rap bit. video = good - watching that dude dance
other 80s funk/disco groups out now = Escort
― jaxon, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Swade
― deej, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link