Yelawolf: Trunk Muzik/ TM 0-60 / Radioactive

Also (most of) the second half of this isn't outright terrible, just boring, and the tracks don't suit Yela's personality really. He's already shown he make amazing songs about girls (Love Is Not Enough ffs) but these aren't among them. I miss the storytelling Yelawolf, either of the songs-about-girls variety or the Lynyrd-Skynyrd-listening-meth-dealer-way-over-his-head-variety.

Also also it seems like the predominant school of rap production on show here is generally way down the path that the duller end of post-Coldplay rock music went down years ago, this lack of attention played to any rhythmic interest in favour of a constant 4x4 plod. It's not always terrible but it means the beats just kind of slug along the floor rather than bounce - good rappers can do amazing things over the top of them but they're virtually impossible to sing over which is why you end up with choruses that just sound like stupid lazy musical platitudes.

is this gonna sell like lupe's lasers? which i imagine most of us hated. or is it a commercial AND creative bomb

i still havent heard it fwiw

It sounds pretty radio friendly to me, or what I imagine gets played on the radio as I haven't been a radio listener for ages.

internet killed the radio star tho

is the hook on animal brostep?

is this gonna sell like lupe's lasers?

how is a dude who has never had one song played on the radio gonna sell 200k

in one week?

i think you're not understanding my question

is this a 'bad pop album' in the sense that its a flop, or in the sense that ilx doesn't like it but it will sell boatloads with a normal eminem audience

im not actually saying its going to do exactly lupe's numbers (although i don't see how thats ruled out with a shady records affiliation)

trunk muzik 0-60 isn't significantly worse than its predecessor and definitely doesn't contain any "warning sign" change of directions.

this one has "marijuana" on it, right?

also yeah no one knows who yelawolf is, he is not doing 6 figures

omg dudes. we need to stop tearing each other down this is getting ridic

i'd like to come out against negativity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxyYP_bS_6s

(although i don't see how thats ruled out with a shady records affiliation)

― Regional Thug (D-40), Friday, November 18, 2011 3:47 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

for someone who pays more attention to rap than anyone i know you say some curious things sometimes

what would indicate that a yelawolf album would sell "boatloads"

trunk muzik 0-60 is a pretty good album btw they should've followed that blueprint - "marijuana" is such a dope song

what would indicate that a yelawolf album would sell "boatloads"

― yo zuccotti (J0rdan S.), Friday, November 18, 2011 3:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

obviously there's a strain of bland 'lyrically lyrical' rap that will sell boatloads, i.e. eminem. there's also the fact that this is obv a 'sell out' attempt, so the thing i'm trying to ascertain in asking about this record is, is this a failed crossover attempt, or is it just failed creatively.

you guys are being unnecessarily condescending chill the fuck out

second and third paragraph there are really funny side by side.

so the thing i'm trying to ascertain in asking about this record is, is this a failed crossover attempt, or is it just failed creatively.

how are these two different things? is it a failed crossover attempt? probably, idk we can all look at yelawolf's numbers and probably ascertain that. is it failed creatively? probably, i guess how much it's failed creatively is up to the listener.

"how are these two different things? "

lupe fiasco, lasers, referred to in my very first post on this particular subject

i'm curious if you guys think this has charting potential or not. this isn't a complicated question.

yes, this will likely chart but that is largely dependent on snagging some sort of single with radio play and i dunno what the single is atm
clearly he can get radio play if he really wants to; getting yr song on a WWE intro is a nice accomplishment.

clearly he can get radio play if he really wants to

hold on, what evidence is there of this

i'm curious if you guys think this has charting potential or not. this isn't a complicated question.

― Regional Thug (D-40), Friday, November 18, 2011 5:26 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

well "charting potential" and doing lupe fiasco lasers numbers are two very different things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8iMlDpqk2Q
Jordan, you don't think stations that play staind or limp bizkit won't give this airplay if the mountain dew drenched hoi polloi dig on it?

well "charting potential" and doing lupe fiasco lasers numbers are two very different things

― yo zuccotti (J0rdan S.), Friday, November 18, 2011 4:35 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well, two largely overlapping things. the lupe comparison was just intended to highlight the difference between 'ilx hates this & it feels creatively bankrupt but charts anyway' vs. 'a flop any way you look at it' but keep assuming i'm just a total idiot who thinks that yelawolf will sell exactly lupe numbers if you'd like to continue bogging this thread down in entirely unnecessary sniping & general grumpiness

what a fiasco

forks what radio stations in 2011 are playing limp bizkit

haha sorry that you asked if yelawolf was going to sell 200k albums this week

no what you did was drag down the discussion in semantic point-missing & entirely fail to answer the q

xxp kroq and FMU i guess
but i guess really i mean people who would played limp bizkit in the day will not be hard to sell on this. could also become a regional thing.

like, literally the first response to my post understood what i was asking

It sounds pretty radio friendly to me, or what I imagine gets played on the radio as I haven't been a radio listener for ages.

― pandemic, Friday, November 18, 2011 5:18 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah this was a great first post

again, i'm sorry that you decided to muck up your incredibly simple question with a horrible example

but anyway i already answered your question

yeah this was a great first post

― yo zuccotti (J0rdan S.), Friday, November 18, 2011 4:49 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

??? i never said it was a 'great first post' i said he understood wtf i was asking & i don't know why you're having so much trouble with it

and no you didn't answer it

Radioactive.

is it a failed crossover attempt? probably, idk we can all look at yelawolf's numbers and probably ascertain that. is it failed creatively? probably, i guess how much it's failed creatively is up to the listener.

― yo zuccotti (J0rdan S.), Friday, November 18, 2011 5:22 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lmfuckingo

congrats on your total non-answer

well it's a stupid question, sorry

is it a failed crossover attempt? probably, idk we can all look at yelawolf's numbers and probably ascertain that. is it failed creatively? probably, i guess how much it's failed creatively is up to the listener.

― yo zuccotti (J0rdan S.), Friday, November 18, 2011 5:22 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― yo zuccotti (J0rdan S.), Friday, November 18, 2011 4:52 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"do you think it will crossover. are there any tracks on it you could see charting." "i don't know i guess we'll find out when it happens" -- i don't need you to tell me that in the future, i'll know what happens in the future

how is it a stupid question exactly? it pertains directly w/ what we're discussing?

i mean, we do this kind of chart prognostication all the time? why is it suddenly stupid?

idk what kind of answer you're looking for? it's probably a failed crossover attempt! seeing as they've basically put out one single, i'm not sure how anyone can say for certain that it is or isn't. is it failed creatively? yeah probably! i think everyone thinks it's by far his worst album, but ppl like me & lex seem to like it more than others.

you guys.

"do you think it will crossover. are there any tracks on it you could see charting."

my answer was "probably not. yelawolf has never had a charting single before."

"i don't think this is likely to be successful because" "i do think this will be likely to be successful because" "i'm not sure, because"

or just admit that this argument was a result of kneejerk condescension that had nothing to do w/ my question being supposedly 'stupid'

well when you asked if he was going to sell lupe fiasco numbers, that part was stupid