Azealia Banks

A "backlash" is a popular negative reaction to something which has gained popularity, prominence, or influence. Although it can sometimes represent a categorical rejection of the idea, aesthetic, product, or fad in question, it is usually a reflection of a collective resentment of that thing's ubiquity in culture and media, rather than a denial of its existence. The term is commonly applied to gender and racial discrimination and religious discrimination against minority groups, as well, such as in response to certain events or circumstances (e.g. the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001).

i meant 'in most situations like this involving a hot new artist that get described as backlash' but yeah i didn't really state that explicitly sorry

like Britney, Janet, etc., that's definitely classic backlash archetype material, which is exactly why i bristle at it being used to describe the first 6 months of a YouTube meme's career

i think both some dude and DJP are right about backlash. two different tendencies can figure in: the spite of non-fans who become incensed by what they see as undeserved hype, and the spite of fans disappointed by changes in an artist's material or public persona.

I dunno, britney and janet situations seem like intentionally generated controversies, can you create your own backlash?

cuz in that case about 80% of madonna's career is backlash

yeah i guess the britney/janet things are a little too complex to be archetypal -- but those were big beloved artists who experienced a genuine wave of disinterest or distaste toward their new material, even beyond the media circus aspects of what happened

wow you guys really CAN argue about anything

Pile on cause there's lotsa room on the backlash train wooowoooo

― Wie wol ich bin der vogel has noch den erfret mich das (forksclovetofu), Friday, February 3, 2012 2:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe if you don't want to see an argument don't say shit like this, DJ Non-Drama

ha, it's not like i came here gunzablazing! that was in response to like five comments in a row about how not hot the artist in question was!

should've posted a gif of a choo choo train to keep the tone light

or at least a picture of Quad City DJs

http://static.tvfanatic.com/images/gallery/i-choo-choo-choose-you.jpg

tracklash

wow you guys really CAN argue about anything

― Wie wol ich bin der vogel has noch den erfret mich das (forksclovetofu), Friday, February 3, 2012 4:04 PM

wrong

i stand corrected

no you don't

*sobs*

http://www.factmag.com/2012/03/26/diplo-in-the-dock-did-he-steal-that-azealia-banks-beat/

^ naughty diplo!

shocked, simply SHOCKED that diplo might've lifted a beat

It's drumline. It all sounds vaguely the same.

nah

oh come on, AB's entire steez is to rap over other people's music

(that was to Eric)

can't believe diplo's in the dock

Yeah, but "stealing" drum cadences? Is this high school state competition?

(Was in HS drumline, tho, so I'm sort of predisposed toward liking anything with that as a backing track.)

liking/disliking has nothing to do with whether one is a direct lift of the other!

Don't I know it.

seven years after "bucky done gun" people are surprised by diplo jacking a beat?

it's not about copying a rhythm, he pretty clearly jacked someone else's whole recording (which probably used drum sounds from a sample pack, but still) and barely even changed it.

Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" defense just leaped to mind

"the Queen song goes 'dun-dun-dun-dududun-dun/dun-dun-dun-dududun-dun', but MY song goes 'dun-dun-dun-dududun-dun/DUN-dun-dun-dun-dududun-dun', it's completely different"

*consults the movie Drumline*

conclusion: Nick Cannon

otm

its a nearly exact copy while at the same time being incredibly generic, in conclusion the guy prob deserved it

yo can't copyright no beats man

but im giving it a new name --diplo

but you can copyright sound recordings, right? although like i said, these drums are probably from some royalty-free commercial sample pack.

way cooler to record your own drumline samples imo.

i was just quoting flav man

obv if you're using the same master recording there's a legal issue that wouldn't exist if you're just emulating

i have been told BY THE INTERNET so it is true that this is from a pile of beats diplo gave AB to freestyle over when he was getting to know her, was not intended for mass consumption necessarily

with people e-mailing tracks back and forth and posting them to soundcloud as soon as they're done etc. honestly this kind of thing is just going to inevitably become more and more common. but again diplo has done very little to make people not assume the worst when there's any confusion about authorship in things with his name on it.

had high hopes for Azealia, but I haven't really dug any of her shit aside from "212". actually, her Interpol cover isn't bad either.

i quite dislike her. the guntalk on this record is not very becoming, and as brainwasher pointed out to me, its odd for someone to diss nicki minaj on twitter than bite her style from a few years back so completely

Huh, that's surprising

More and more I am realizing that "212" was a brilliant fluke

she is someone we've been aware of for like, all of what, five months? let's...... relax

maybe nothing will be as great as "212" but then again, to my mind that's a very high bar anyway

I don't get the adulation tbh. I don't think she's terrible but the only thing I find really distinctive or interesting about her is that she said "cunt" 5000 times in "212".

Guys I read recently that in Jamaica producers reuse each others' beats all the time but that it's ok because its is a culturally acceptable practice and the beats are called "riddims."

hahaha