Which Vaccuous Pop Irritant's "Influences" list is this?

but srsly she prob does not actually like $un ra we can all agree on that rite

she probably like lanquidity

likes

but srsly she prob does not actually like $un ra we can all agree on that rite

― ice cr?m, Monday, March 15, 2010 7:04 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lets be real no one actually likes sun ra

i heard she likes art en$emble of chicago

but srsly she prob does not actually like $un ra we can all agree on that rite

See, someone gets it.

i think she spun some tony william$ lifetime at lindsay lohan's b-day bash

but srsly she prob does not actually like $un ra we can all agree on that rite

― ice cr?m, Monday, March 15, 2010 7:04 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lets be real no one actually likes sun ra

― max, Monday, March 15, 2010 7:16 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

u toke weed, u tell me

i never smoked in my life

ice cr$m

it's worth remembering that kids these days have plain terrifying access to music, that list reads like a succession of clickthroughs on youtube

Are you honestly suggesting that teenagers are out there rampantly downloading songs by Badfinger, Jim O'Rourke and Andrew Bird? Are you going there?

andrew bird is pretty popular

Why didn't she include Todd Rundgren...I hate whoever it is...

If you want it
Here it is
Click and get it

I do believe that teenagers are probably out there downloading Jim Orourke and Badfinger but regardless, she's not a teenager! She's twenty-three!

I do think it's true that a list of favorites means something different to younger people than it does to older people -- sometimes the items refer less to in-depth long-term fandom and more to just liking something from/about an act. I mean, older people will do this with pop music, where saying "I love Stacey Q" might just mean you love "Two of Hearts" -- if you're young and on the internet a lot of stuff can work that way! An internet like a giant radio where you can love an act for whatever part of them you come across.

Plus I don't even want to get into anything about whether she can "actually" like stuff like this, but I'm not even sure there's that radical of a disjunction between most of those tastes and singing this variety of pop song! I mean, this tends to be abundantly clear to us the other way around: you'd never be surprised that Jim O'Rourke might like HER, would you? Or that I like loads of things on that list but would be reasonably impressed with myself to have made some of her music?

i'm not surprised by her list, i'm surprised people actually listen to this hideous music she makes.

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I remember when I first heard this song, I remember thinking, "What the F*** HAPPENED TO GOOD MUSIC!!!!!!" sHE SOUNDS LIKE A REALLY DRUNK WOMAN AND SHOULDN'T EVEN BE NEAR A RECORDING STUDIO!!!!!! I'm a big music fan, I know exactly what I'm talking about!! Ke$ha is a disgrace to music!!!! [/b]Ke$ha's like a giant pile of crap on Mozart's face!!![/b]

An ilx username in the making?

So I take it I'm alone in think that the whole Ke$ha album is absolutely fucking awesome?

*thinking

amped-up grainy synths and chant-along hooks about not stopping the party = is the appeal really so mysterious?

Is it wrong not to always be...wait.

Ke$ha's like a giant pile of crap on Mozart's face!!!

super upset abt this, give me a min ok

Which Vaccuous ILX Irritant's "Stupid" thread is this?

Plus I don't even want to get into anything about whether she can "actually" like stuff like this, but I'm not even sure there's that radical of a disjunction between most of those tastes and singing this variety of pop song! I mean, this tends to be abundantly clear to us the other way around: you'd never be surprised that Jim O'Rourke might like HER, would you? Or that I like loads of things on that list but would be reasonably impressed with myself to have made some of her music?

― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Monday, March 15, 2010 8:30 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah i mean...probably everyone on this board has a few favorite artists that noone would be able to guess just looking at a picture or meeting briefly, but there's always this feigned shock when famous people like less predictable stuff -- the old 'omg a rapper likes Coldplay!' thing -- as if they're not capable of the same dimensions as us. it's pretty hypocritical and condescending imo, to have hugely diverse listening tastes and then be skeptical of people who are young or pretty or rich or famous or just not on message boards all day having the same capacity.

if this is her actual influences list, she has the same favorite bands as everyone else on the internet

like i said

it's pretty "easy" to "download" "music" these days from what the "kids" tell me

no one dls anymore grandpa

oh right, they "upload" it to their "beards" and then "crawl" up the "red ladder" to listen to their "music"

now u talkin

I don't see a disconnect between having eclectic taste and creating shit music. I have pretty varied taste in music, but if you put a guitar in my hand don't expect me to turn into Elliot Smith.

Elliott Smith, obv.

also, where is it given that ke$ha's musix sucks ??

DJ BLOW MY SPEAKERS UP

VACUOUS HAS ONE "C" GOD DAMN IT

*ahem*

Carry on.

I mean, this tends to be abundantly clear to us the other way around: you'd never be surprised that Jim O'Rourke might like HER, would you?

I don't think so, no, but if he then went on to recite a long list of artists similar to Ke$ha that he claimed were influencing his music, that would strike me as a statement from out of leftfield

I don't see a disconnect between having eclectic taste and creating shit music. I have pretty varied taste in music, but if you put a guitar in my hand don't expect me to turn into Elliot Smith.

― musicfanatic, Monday, March 15, 2010 10:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Let's also realize, setting out to be the next Sun Ra or Roky Erikson isn't a sure path to fame and fortune.

...as sure a path to fame and fortune as partnering with Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco.

Her co-songwriter David Gamson was in Scritti Politti. Just sayin.

One of her other co-writers is Greg from Geggy Tah.

Not that I want to agree with the original thesis, but I can't help but feel that this notion that every young person (or thereabouts) with internet access is rocking to the Jim O'Rourke and Roky Erickson and Matmos and The Dead Milkmen is slightly inaccurate.

I agree, it's not going to be every teenager, or even a majority of them. But even 15 years ago when I was in high school, I knew girls from the cheerleading squad or the basketball team who would listen to Clash and OpIvy records. Sometimes people can be normal/preppy/popular and still be well-rounded or have eclectic tastes.

With Kesha, you have a performing-arts-oriented woman in her mid-twenties who comes from a punk rock family, so I don't think the list is at all inappropriate.

To be honest, the thing that has me most excited about this thread is that I used to listen to Void back in high school and had no idea that they were from my hometown, so I amended the Columbia, MD wikipedia page to include that fact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5yYaw_bg

^ love her reaction to Slayer

Her co-songwriter David Gamson was in Scritti Politti. Just sayin.

OMG. That is way too awesome.

ke$ha might have good taste in music but she has pretty bad taste in listmaking

"less is more", "show don't tell", etc etc

then again given her musical aesthetic I guess I shouldn't really be surprised?