if this is her actual influences list, she has the same favorite bands as everyone else on the internet
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 16 March 2010 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
like i said
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
it's pretty "easy" to "download" "music" these days from what the "kids" tell me
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
no one dls anymore grandpa
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 02:19 (fourteen years ago) link
oh right, they "upload" it to their "beards" and then "crawl" up the "red ladder" to listen to their "music"
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
now u talkin
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Elliott Smith, obv.
― musicfanatic, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
also, where is it given that ke$ha's musix sucks ??
DJ BLOW MY SPEAKERS UP
― tramp steamer, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 05:16 (fourteen years ago) link
VACUOUS HAS ONE "C" GOD DAMN IT
*ahem*
Carry on.
― a passing basscadet (ctrl-s), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 05:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, this tends to be abundantly clear to us the other way around: you'd never be surprised that Jim O'Rourke might like HER, would you?
I don't think so, no, but if he then went on to recite a long list of artists similar to Ke$ha that he claimed were influencing his music, that would strike me as a statement from out of leftfield
― Markelby's Greasy Spoon (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 08:44 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 09:07 (fourteen years ago) link
...as sure a path to fame and fortune as partnering with Dr. Luke and Benny Blanco.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 09:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Her co-songwriter David Gamson was in Scritti Politti. Just sayin.
― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 11:43 (fourteen years ago) link
One of her other co-writers is Greg from Geggy Tah.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 12:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 12:33 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 12:37 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5yYaw_bg
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 12:48 (fourteen years ago) link
^ love her reaction to Slayer
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link
OMG. That is way too awesome.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 13:07 (fourteen years ago) link
ke$ha might have good taste in music but she has pretty bad taste in listmaking
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
"less is more", "show don't tell", etc etc
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 13:17 (fourteen years ago) link
then again given her musical aesthetic I guess I shouldn't really be surprised?
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 13:19 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PlqRPu7td8
― smoking cigarette shades? it doesn't even make any sense. (HI DERE), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I hated the video version of the single but that live version is actually pretty damn good. Maybe it's just the production and the horrible autotune processing of the single that I didn't like. eep. When she sings it normally it's just fun bubblegum.
― There's Always Been A Dance Element To (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
The best thing about C.O.C. was their tshirts.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ "ackron family"
― :( (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 13:39 (fourteen years ago) link
worst 4-entry stretch: "the streets, the streets, the strokes, surfjan stevens"
― INSUFFICIENT FUN (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
This was my wife's reaction almost to a T.
― smoking cigarette shades? it doesn't even make any sense. (HI DERE), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
TS: Kraftwork vs Kraftwerk
― Maraca Son Sistema (Matt DC), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
This should be merged with the UK Funky thread.
― seandalai, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
all threads should be merged on ilm, since everyone knows that everyone listens to the same music, all the time, it is the only way to be fair. mods, please get on it.
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Nas vs. Jay-z: Have One On Me
― akon/family (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 14:22 (fourteen years ago) link
jayzanna nassum
― akon/family (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
sleepytime jayzanna muse
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
wow this is pretty otm - found the original all sorts of unlistenable but take the trebly autotune vomit away and the hooky bubblegum pop song is revealed - it's almost too nursery-rhymey and lite now. i said on the jukebox that i don't think her songs suck because she's incapable of better, but more because trebly autotune vomit is the common currency of the charts these days, and she seems intent on being more trebly, more autotuney and more vomity than anyone else.
talking of the uk funky thread, we are aware that for some inexplicable reason there are remixes of "tik tok" by cooly g and untold, right?
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 14:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Vampire Newsom
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I think her mom being a hardcore industry insider makes her getting seemingly random cred remixes somewhat more explicable.
― smoking cigarette shades? it doesn't even make any sense. (HI DERE), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Dreamboat Joanna
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezbyAQ9AOZg
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
(not lol enough that I'd listen to it all the way through, but it's cute)
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:21 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahahahahahaha this is awesome
― smoking cigarette shades? it doesn't even make any sense. (HI DERE), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I tried searching for this thread but I couldn't find it because I forgot that vacuous was misspelled.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh that's right, none of you have EVER misspelled a word in your lives. Silly me.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
cufk you alex
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
lern how to spel, it makes your arguments seems more coherent
― Mr. Que, Monday, March 15, 2010 7:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
this post
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Que has been on some next-level shit lately.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
found the original all sorts of unlistenable but take the trebly autotune vomit away and the hooky bubblegum pop song is revealed - it's almost too nursery-rhymey and lite now
ha, that is just about exactly the mental process that led to me throwing together this bit of cheap:
http://agrammar.tumblr.com/post/450150718/ke-ha-came-over-and-was-all-like-gray-skies-are
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link