MIA

Prob true, but I've known Perpetua for 12 years and I've seen him not mature ONE BIT in this regard.

Fluxblog is an MP3 blog created and updated by Matthew Perpetua. The blog began in 2002, and began to host MP3 posts at the end of that year. Fluxblog has featured in many publications and programs in the mainstream media including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, The Guardian, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, and Newsweek. Rapper Obie Trice gave a "shout out" to Fluxblog in his album track "Nobody Got The Z-Man's Back", with the lines "Fluxblog man/ Fuck Pogman"; the story made the cover of the New York Times.

great days

What I don't get is how can someone appreciate Sleigh Bells, then turn around and say Maya is "too noisy".

― Soft Sad Tecmo Bowl (Spinspin Sugah), Monday, July 12, 2010 11:07 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

the perception of noisiness doesn't necessarily correlate to loudness, shrillness or sound density - or to anything, really. it's subjective, having as much to with our taste in sound as anything else. to my ears, treats does sound noisy, but not in an unpleasant way. sleigh bells make the noise aspects work with their music and even as music. the /\/\/\Y/\ tracks i've heard fail to do this. as a result, they sound unpleasantly or pointlessly noisy.

and i don't see anything so incredibly awful about the perpetua review. it's pretty ordinary, really. the facts are in order, the language is clear, the arguments reasonably well supported. not great, but hardly worth the effort it might take to clown it.

both albums sound like shit

i like maya a lot better tho

Am I wrong to be bothered by the description on Fluxblog?

"Fluxblog is the very first MP3 Blog. It was founded by me, Matthew Perpetua, in 2002."

It seems a pretty dubious claim to make that it was the "very first", I seem to remember lots of blogs hosting mp3s all popping up around the same time.

it wasn't the first obviously

should i link to the dom post about him or

amazing review dorian

It's always been a groundless claim. A better wording would be "Fluxblog was the very first 'MP3 Blog' to promote itself as such."

should i link to the dom post about him or

dom is pretty much as awful as m-perp (and in many of the same ways too)

so that's a "no, please don't"

being fat?

i was thinking more along the "super-unpleasant human beings" lines but i guess that too

btw as to the question about who cared about the MIA lynn hirschberg thing--those stories did pretty well for us at big gawks, which is admittedly not a huge audience but certainly bigger than the ilx/music crit circles. MIA is like entry-level hipster music now i think so a lot of w'burg/portland types give a shit about her

iirc matt and dom have the same taste in girls

and food too i guess

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fluxblog&oldid=152966923

is it possible to write a non custosian joke about flagpole sitta

dom's wiki vandalization is beyond words to me

Being an advocate of Greek cookery, Perpetua opened the Taverna Di Flux in Croydon, London in 2007. The most popular dish on the menu is "Flagpole Pitta", a pitta bread filled with stuffed vine leaves, homous, and perinaise.

this is seriously the funniest thing ever

dom's wiki vandalization is beyond words to me

― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Monday, July 12, 2010 9:20 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

otm

Is "Perpetua" his real last name?

The unsurprising Pitchfork and Perpetua "not thrilled" by review caveat available below (sorry if already posted). I think that's the central problem with this review. The best kickings are always administered gleefully.

I wrote a negative review of M.I.A.’s new album /\/\/\Y/\ for Pitchfork. I hope that people realize that it didn’t give me — or pretty much no one else at the publication — a thrill to do so, since we all wanted this record to be great like her earlier work. I can’t remember the last time I’ve been as disappointed in a new record by an artist I really like. I’m worried now that she’ll become the new Tricky, and end up disappearing into a rabbit hole of paranoia and solipsism after making two landmark albums that pushed at the boundaries of both pop and hip hop. I believe that she can do better, and hope that she will in the future.

http://perpetua.tumblr.com/post/802010303/me-and-m-i-a

lol he still sounds like dorians hypothetical teacher

I don't have a problem with Perpetua - dude does tend to foreground his prejudices and assumptions in his reviews (see the recent Scissor Sisters review, for ex.) which obviously can push people's buttons, but it isn't unusual in the critical world. Xgau's the same way, for example.

plus he's always loved my band and been good to us so I can't complain haha

(truffle fries joke goes here)

you're friered

and food too i guess

― max, Monday, July 12, 2010 8:15 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol at the Wiki entry, sorry.

not to get all 'in my world of young ppl' but c'mon dude. she may not be lady gaga but she's pretty famous/popular.

― some dude, Monday, July 12, 2010 2:37 PM (6 hours ago) Bookm

??? im not sure what was weird abt that phrase! it basically just means 'anecdotal ppl in their 20s i know'??

perp's review seemed a bit weird but so does dorian's "come on this is so much MEATIER than like a christina aguilera record!!!" & nicely inconsistent of lex to not observe that 1

not to get all 'in my world of young ppl' but c'mon dude. she may not be lady gaga but she's pretty famous/popular.

A handful of the college kids at the paper -- excluding the radio station guys, of course -- know her because of "Paper Planes"; she's certainly not argued about like Gaga is.

m perpetua's constant bagging on rap for being soooo traditionalist is really eye rolly to me but i dont dislike his taste any more than 90% of ilm so

A handful of the college kids at the paper -- excluding the radio station guys, of course -- know her because of "Paper Planes"; she's certainly not argued about like Gaga is.

― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, July 12, 2010 9:54 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thats .... what somedude was saying? actually a lot of folks know MIA regardless of paper planes if u know anyone in college basically

I guess we're arguing about what constitutes "popularity," which becomes complicated when Gaga enters the conversation. What I meant by my experience: Gaga's clothes, casual remarks, and longform TV interviews are discussed as much if not more than her songs. M.I.A. meanwhile is like Jason Derulo ("Oh, she did that song a couple of years ago from the Seth Rogen movie").

No one in the group I see cares about terrorism, Diplo, Tamil Tigers, truffles, etc.

It's like Madonna vs. Nu Shooz in 1986.

thats true w/ a general audience -- thats exactly what somedude was saying, shes certainly not gaga level -- but MIA def has a much bigger cult audience than effin nu shooz

OK -- fair enough

you will see perpetua change

deej, you've slightly misrepresented my point - I'm not saying that MIA is automatically "meatier" than Christina. Bionic is a very diffuse album in which Christina bends her style and even her voice to fit her producers: there's the MIA track, the Le Tigre track, the Ladytron track, and none have much to do with one another, so Perpetua's format of just listing producers would be more apt there (if still lazy). Whereas MIA is very much at the centre of Maya, so to just talk about Rusko tracks is to ignore all the industrial harshness that they have and other Rusko tracks don't, and to skip over the fact that the sound (combative, claustrophobic, besieged) mirrors the lyrics. Whatever the failings of this album, I think they come straight from MIA - she's not just dialing up hot producers and asking them to make tracks for her. So when I mention Bionic I don't mean ALL mainstream pop albums - records like Blackout or Future Sex/Love Sounds have a unity of sound and purpose which makes them more interesting to write about.

for me the prob with bionic was that it didn't seem like xtina really cared about making another album - the only reason for it to exist is because it's been four years since back to basics and i guess she's not in a position to do a timberlake and just take the foreseeable future off. so it's a very thought-through, box-ticking album, like an idea of what a credible pop album should be, that unfortunately has no real inspiration.

nonetheless i'm pretty sure that xtina's "monday morning" is better than anything on maya.

oh i'm listening to maya now. it's a bit boring, isn't it? even she sounds bored. and like she's making up lyrics on the spot.

there's a remix of "teqkilla" with nicki minaj. i'm a bit confused as to why minaj chose that song, of all songs, to jump on :/

lol @ how this album makes "born free" sound genuinely exciting because SOMETHING ACTUALLY HAPPENS

actually i think bionic is a decent comparison points and its flaws similar to maya's - neither m.i.a. nor xtina sound particularly into the music or all that inspired; both albums are somehow overthought and underdone, sort of like the main driving thought behind each was "if i was inspired, this is the kind of album i'd make" - they're trying to force creativity in both cases but coming up against a brick wall. i feel like i'm listening to actual writer's block. maya is a passable imitation of claustrophobia and alienation but it's not very effective, it feels like maya's imitating that cuz changing her direction often fools people into thinking you're making a big artistic statement.

Whatever the failings of this album, I think they come straight from MIA - she's not just dialing up hot producers and asking them to make tracks for her.

yeah, i think the failings of bionic come straight from xtina too tho.

ok this album is ending, hurrah, i don't have to think about it any more or listen to it again. feel like i've done my duty there.

LOL

hey, mia (trapez, loads others i expect) is djing at my local discotheque on saturday. anyone know what to expect from her?
― nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:00 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no, but you you should go and report back to this thread! m.i.a tracks = niceness.
― tricky disco (disco stu), Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:57 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you mean mia from germany?
― k (blue), Thursday, January 29, 2004 10:25 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, mia from germany, did she do that 'tied to the 80s' track, i used to dance in my bedroom to that. i wasn't sure how deep/minimal/thoughtful she'd play it, i want to bring friends with and don't want them all to stare at me balefully.
she must be doing some dates in london too i expect.

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, January 29, 2004 10:38 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol Lex, I have been tirelessly bumping the REAL M.I.A. thread and you're posting over here!

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