"Regardless of the crap nature of Hirschberg's article, the phone number thing was a straight-up dick move.A hilarious straight-up dick move."
Does Buddyhead still post Fred Durst's new phone number every Ash Wednesday?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 14 June 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
http://rebelfrequencies.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-hirschberg-is-wrong.html
Okay, as someone who thought the Hirschberg story was a piece of shit, I kind of feel obligated to tell this person that massively brownnosing M.I.A. will not convince her to fuck you.
― rugged and unrelenting (even brutal) (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 00:13 (thirteen years ago) link
What would M.I.A. think if Hirschberg had posted her cell phone number? Dick move?
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 03:54 (thirteen years ago) link
M.I.A. doesn't use technology created by the CIA, duh
― ksh, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
So any thoughts on the album yet? The two reggae-ish cuts are sort of weird, and I liked Meds and Feds better when it didnt have vocals and was called "Treats" but otherwise, it's pretty decent. Mostly unexpected/not at all reminiscent of the first two albums - a less direct/foreseeable step but a neat one nonetheless.
― Alex in Montreal, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 04:58 (thirteen years ago) link
It Takes A Muscle is a cover of.. this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMVX5EH4lvs
― piscesx, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Supposedly this has leaked...and there's been no discussion. It can't be that disappointing right?
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 20 June 2010 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I heard it leaked in pretty low quality.
Apparently I have "standards" about leaks.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Sunday, 20 June 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i really don't think any conclusions can be drawn, at this point, about what the critical and/or popular response to the album will be. in fact, if i had to guess, i think the backlash against mia won't arrive until album no. 4.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 20 June 2010 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
ppl will care about the record itself for at least a week
― ksh, Sunday, 20 June 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i rather like it. it's sharp and noisy.
― borntohula, Monday, 21 June 2010 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
― Alex in Montreal
Then you might want to listen to the source sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSuRHiW988
― Moka, Monday, 21 June 2010 06:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I have! That was what I meant. I adore the Sleigh Bells LP and when I heard that Derek Miller would be doing some production on /\/\/\Y/\ I had anticipated Sleigh Bells-esque beats for M.I.A., not a straight rip of one of my favourite moments on Treats, marred by so-so vocals.
― Alex in Montreal, Monday, 21 June 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
lol ok sorry, I sort of expected you already knew the source sample but didn't want to draw any conclusions since it seems noone else has mentioned the Sleigh Bells connection in this thread. Yeah, gotta agree MIA's vocals on this one are extremely lazy... feels like she's excusing her apathy by quoting post-punk.
― Moka, Monday, 21 June 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean on the whole album, not just this song.
http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201007/mia-profile
no mention of truffle fries
― johnny crunch, Friday, 25 June 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
When GQ asks me for a 7,000-word piece on M.I.A., I agree quickly. (M.I.A.—what fun!) The next day, I wake up with buyer's remorse. Did they say 7,000 words?
what the
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 25 June 2010 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
is that really
― super sl0cki double dare (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 June 2010 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
who the hell is g4ry sht3yngart -- never seen that byline in GQ before from what i can recall
― ripe dick clark (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Novelist who wrote "The Russian Debutante's Handbook" and "Absurdistan"; some of his work has been featured in the New Yorker.
― o. nate, Friday, 25 June 2010 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
lol for all the similarities in our cultural interests jordan there are clearly some large non overlapping territories
― max, Friday, 25 June 2010 03:10 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i don't read the new yorker
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
hes a pretty famous novelist
― max, Friday, 25 June 2010 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
you know, for a novelist
― max, Friday, 25 June 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I should write that line down.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe he should stick to novels
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
She also drops finer lyrics than just about anyone with a gold chain knocking against his chest.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand there it is
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
lmao super ilxor convo just there
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
xp
Seven thousand words, though. Holy shit.
For me, listening to contemporary hip-hop is just a way to summon an attitude, to blend in with a more powerful person's sense of himself and to pretend that I also possess some of that ineffable power
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i meant message board ilxor btw not ilxor 'ilxor'
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I think to myself, The refugee is strong in this one.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yo this is insufferable -- is this guy "famous for a novelist" to the point where he thinks it's okay to start writing about what he was like in college or?
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
like, it's not cute to be all "they want me to write so many words!" and then just write boring bullshit and then print it in a magazine -- this is why we have had editors
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Ice Cube seemed like he came from a world where the apocalypse had already wiped clean any vestige of hope—an exciting, existentialist posture for a 20-year-old cracker still unsure of how to play the opposite sex.
HOW AM I READING ANOTHER ONE OF THESE ARTICLES
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
he can peer right into Ice Cube's mind
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Since its East Coast inception and up to its recent blinged-out downfall, hip-hop has always been an exhilarating form of tourism for privileged young Americans, a journey into that shit-stained part of the country that always seems so near and yet so far. Bitch, you shoulda put a sock on the pickle, Ice Cube rapped firmly as he educated two guys in a Saab about the correct uses of birth control in a tone no Oberlin woman would ever tolerate. And your pussy wouldn't be blowing smoke signals. Uh, yes, I'll take that with fries.
seriously how can someone even print this -- even a magazine by and for old white men
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I stopped seriously listening to music when Ice Cube began appearing in the Friday movies
its recent blinged-out downfall
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
ban novelists
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"Since its East Coast inceptionand up to its recent blinged-out downfallhip-hop has always been an exhilarating form of tourism for privileged young Americans, a journey into that shit-stained part of the country that always seems so near and yet so far. Bitch, you shoulda put a sock on the pickle,Ice Cube rapped firmly as he educated two guys in a Saab bout the correct uses of birth control in a tone no Oberlin woman would ever tolerateAnd your pussy wouldn't be blowing smoke signals. Uh, yes, I'll take that with fries."
http://blog.reidreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/steele-intern.jpg
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
a tone no Oberlin woman would ever tolerate
amazing
― pass le corbusier (s1ocki), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
like many men and women stumbling headlong into middle age, I just stopped giving a shit about music.
Despite her ubiquity on every iPhone in Williamsburg, there's clearly still some brand-building ahead for Maya and her label.
a highly valuable opinion
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda wish people would just stop writing about williamsburg, like, forever.
― pass le corbusier (s1ocki), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Six hours later, she approaches my table with a just-got-out-of-bed look, resembling one of the sloe-eyed Israeli girls who sleepily haunted my Hebrew school.
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
ok i'm down with that
― pass le corbusier (s1ocki), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess you have to be really good at writing in one genre to be allowed to write so flagrantly bad in another
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
lol Alfred
― an artist-mutant going beyond gender (The Reverend), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
theres always something corny when white writers self-referentially refer to themselves as crackers -- like, its referencing quoting black dudes talking about white ppl so why is it quoting what maybe a black panther would have said in '68?? just weirdly outdated -- but other than that this sentence is alright
the others i dunno
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
this gets much better once he stops talking about himself & what he did with MIA during the interview
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, diplo stole a line directly from gucci mane for this album, apparently -- i wonder if he'll get a songwriting credit
But if there's another "Paper Planes" on this album, it's "Tell Me Why," a Diplo-produced ditty that has probably the most instant catchphrase—Start throwing your hands up like you're mad at the ceiling!—since André 3000 told us to shake it like a Polaroid picture.
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link