tumblr rapper kitty pryde

somehow, i don't see kitty (x-men) pryde cracking elizabeth smart, teensex & stalker jokes, more's the pity

every xmen ref is thankfully lost on me

apologies for repeating myself to the two of you who read my internet presence elsewhere but i dont get why we cant just treat this like Owl City, and let it be really twee and teen-appealing & popular but almost never discuss it

― man down (D-40), Friday, May 11, 2012 2:51 PM (Yesterday)

but she did a max b cover

http://jokersintrousers.bandcamp.com/track/quarantine-max-b-cover

oh lord

I thought we had already done teenage girls rapping over the donkey kong country 2 soundtrack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYwx5A8Z1n0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yd8Kcu6Xsc

She's the female Main Attrakionz - with better songs and a less whiny voice.

yeah, I'm totally hearing this as an attentioncore/camcore/sext-pop/baitgaze/burbcore/bratstep/adderolcore/memepop spin on cloud rap

yo that's an amazing post

lot of clear narratives inspired by actual events/people:

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

undercooked but much more fun than striking a few poses lyrically speaking

of course ILX has people that would stan for this dumb garbage

Define "dumb garbage" in musical terms, please. She comes up with a lot of good lines. The sound of her voice goes well with the music. So what's the problem?

If Tumblr was a person, it would sound like Kitty Pryde, and that's a good thing

BY
DAVID SHAPIRO

This morning, The FADER brought us the premiere of Kitty Pryde's "Okay Cupid" video starring the 17-year-old Daytona Beach, FL, rapper (that name sounds familiar, right?), who lit up the internet with the song when it dropped on April 11. She calls herself "the jailbait Hayley Williams of rap," and that sounds about right.

In the vein of internet superstars like Kreayshawn and Lana Del Rey, Pryde crafts tracks and videos with wide ranges of influence (hardcore rap, MacBook cameras, teen idolatry) that sound instantly appealing. But artists of this ilk raise the worthless questions that get bloggers' and commenters' blood boiling: Is it legitimate for a 17-year-old white girl with red hair to be rapping? Does liking her make you cool or lame?

But artists of this ilk raise the worthless questions that get bloggers' and commenters' blood boiling: Is it legitimate for a 17-year-old white girl with red hair to be rapping? Does liking her make you cool or lame?

Key word here - "worthless"

not really a t-bomb but kind of cute at least

She comes up with a lot of good lines. The sound of her voice goes well with the music. So what's the problem?

it sucks.

don't think it sucks. just don't like it much. figure it's music for teens, and they can make of it what they will.

it's kind of weird but i don't know that i've ever felt so strongly that my personal response to an artist was so entirely irrelevant in trying to work out whether or not they're "any good". nor do i really care to have an opinion about the latter. to me, this shit is science fiction, like something that's maybe happening on mars.

Define "dumb garbage" in musical terms, please. She comes up with a lot of good lines. The sound of her voice goes well with the music. So what's the problem?
--誤訳侮辱

Scintillating questions from the dude who constantly brags about not listening to new rap music

nice zing, but not much of an answer

Doesn't warrant one.

誤訳侮辱 = ???

Jin

unperson

Doesn't warrant one.

come on, sure it does. there have been lots of offhand slams in this thread, but no thoughtful criticism. which makes the collective distaste seem sort of toothless and silly, like it's more a knee-jerk, prejudicial reaction to the persona* than a meaningful evaluation of the music

* like maybe just guys hating on "girly shit", perennial human theme

Yeah def the problem here is people dismissing this outright than supporting fashion mags masquerading as rap experts hitting REPOST REPOST REPOST because they see internet dollar signs whenever a cute white girl says the n-word

i have close to zero interest in this music but can i just ask - are the lyrics upthread real or made up?

"but i gotta be true to my art / and soon you'll be exactly like elizabeth smart"

this just sounds like the sort of awful awkward shit i have to listen to when humanities teachers are like "oh yeah, sure you guys can do a rap video for your history presentation"

Yeah def the problem here is people dismissing this outright than supporting fashion mags masquerading as rap experts hitting REPOST REPOST REPOST because they see internet dollar signs whenever a cute white girl says the n-word

i do agree in that if there's one thing worse than a fashion magazine, it's a fucking "rap expert". fuck anybody who thinks people who have to pass some kind of genre expertise test before their interest & enthusiasm becomes valid. different people like different things for different reasons, big surprise.

I personally like MY rap music based on what gives hueg boners to the "I like Wu Tang and Gilt Group" paedo manchildren that are propping up the careers of white people who can't rap but look good doing it

lol, i assume that this shit mostly appeals to kids and specifically to girls, not to "paedo manchildren". but who knows?

the hostility of certain ILX clubs to things that are seized upon and circulated by "the wrong people" for "the wrong reasons" never fails to baffle me

Can't believe people on a music message board would value the opinions of experts.

also, i grew up with punk, so phrases like "can't rap" don't resonate much for me. i'm more interested in what people do within their limitations than in technique for its own sake (though i definitely appreciate technique).

Let me tell you about Lil B then

the only thing i'm an expert on is knowing what i like, though i'm building strong skills in challops and appearing open-minded

contenderizer you are being a little bit too uncynical imo

Can't believe people on a music message board would value the opinions of experts.

the fact that someone is up on every punk rock record ever made doesn't make their opinion of spiral scratch any more valid to me than anyone else's. the expert can drop knowledge and make connections in ways that the novice can't match, and that's great, but taste isn't validated by expertise or invalidated by its absence. it just is. lots of vastly knowledgeable experts have shitty ideas, or no ideas at all. and relative novices often have interesting things to say. imo.

Let me tell you about Lil B then

lol, i sometimes like lil b. don't have the patience to wade through the torrent though.

cant u just admit that this shit sucks! i know you think it sucks!!

LOL

also it is hilarious & perfect that unperson of all people likes this

re: expertise, i think teens would be a better set of "experts" to consult on the worthiness of this shit than professional rap critics, who i assume would reject it out of hand

listening to everything teenagers tell you in a transparent effort to appear down is not the wave

otm

also d'uh some teens will like this, others won't

some of the teens who like it will be cool inevitably but none of the adults or music critics who do will be

"david shapiro" is like a lump of cancer cells that became sentient and then decided to spend its time writing blog posts about how cancer is misunderstood.

ouch

really though aren't all humans kind of like a lump of cancer cells that became sentient and then decided to spend its time writing blog posts about how cancer is misunderstood?