What do you think of MTV Teen Mom Farrah Abraham's first single?

xiu xiu is a surprisingly apt comparison. mindfuck.

I seriously can't believe this is related to an MTV reality star, like I feel we're going to find out this is actually Har Mar Superstar with a pitchshifter

this girl's persona on the show is completely tragic btw. a lot of legitimately bad things have happened to her (boyfriend dying, her mom is abusive iirc) but she's also kind of awful. her speaking voice is one of the least appealing sounds.

oh I got the speaking voice thing from her Youtube cooking show, which was really the end of the world

this album is weirdly compelling though

like "Liar Liar" is genuinely amazing

I think Romney blasts this on his tour bus, since it's sadface android music

I wrote about her for the sci-fi website io9.

you guys

this may be my favorite release of 2012

like wtf is going on in "Caught In The Act"

a friend's girlfriend works as a producer on Teen Mom, really need to talk to them about this next time i see them

― some dude, Saturday, August 18, 2012 10:35 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

lol i called him about this and he was like "oh yeah, we know. we heard early versions of it"

haha I can't imagine that blase of a reaction to this

no it was more of an "I KNOW, shit is crazy huh"

haha even better!

i am taken with the fact that this is the soundtrack to an autobiography. are you meant to listen while reading?

"searching for closure">>>>>>>

and yes, easily the oddest music i have heard in a while

FLA
are my initials
appeal to me

i'm the push behind the swing
i know everything we ever wanted

will always love both this thread and this record for giving us the line "I haven't heard anything this alienating in years" - one of the best, funniest pieces of music criticism ever

like wtf is going on in "Caught In The Act"

man, seriously

I thought people were exaggerating upthread but this is realllllly weird

someone mentioned Crystal Castles, I'm getting like lo-fi house music via noise artist vibes. like it kind of sounds like Maria Minerva or Grimes. with added bass wobbles.

It's definitely weirdo music but I don't find it especially fascinating.. I wish it was funny-sounding but I'm not laughing. You get the jist of what the entire thing sounds like after 30 seconds, and there's no big surprises after that.

But just to be sure I should probably download the full album...

My past first impressions of stuff like this has often been deceiving..

Umm... this really is something, huh. Love "Sunshine State".

I wish it was funny-sounding but I'm not laughing.

I'm not listening to it for laughs. I really find it fascinating. Someone in the io9 comments compared it to Noise, and while I shrugged that off, I did say (and meant) that a Farrah Abraham/Dominick Fernow (of Prurient/Cold Cave) collaboration would be fucking awesome.

the video w/ her taking her kid to the father's grave kinda underscores how there's some pretty genuine emotion here that i think makes how wrong and strange it sounds more compelling than just a showbiz trainwreck lol

would buy this cd if they had it at the crappy cd store across the street. might look for it. is it on an actual label?

since it has the same title as the memoir it's pretty hard to tell if it's being sold anywhere besides digital retailers or as a package deal w/ the book.

this is great

Digital-only. No physical CDs.

want 200 gram virgin vinyl 45 rpm 2XLP. ASAP.

oh snap, i think im starting to "get it"

Where can I buy this album? Every search I make leads me to the stupid book.

Got it!

am I right in assuming the songtitles double up as chapter titles in the book

I quite like the ennervated, David Guetta-goes-witch-house vibe, and the vocals are obviously baffling.

she totally puts a stake in anything resembling witch house.

RIP witch house.

I'm still torn on whether the weirdness is intentional or accidental. From that tweet at the top of the thread obviously her mom thinks it's pop music.

DON'T LET IT GET OUT

I haven't heard anything this alienating in years

both lol and really true, with the insiderizing of outsider music (ariel pink, jet-setting superstar jandek) this is really striking as outsider stuff that's not easy to subsume into some kind of 'us'.

I agree this is really great. Sort of the dark avant-garde side of today's pop. When will it be released on CD?

Don't think there's any great mystery to the vocals, really - isn't she just reading excerpts from her book into Songify?

late pass, this is really fucked up

maybe she's just a really big fan of the last two scott walker albums.

"Phrases are of irregular length, and conform to no pattern."

http://roadsafety.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/emergency-call.jpg

"Am I A Rockist?"

the autotune abuse in the track liked to in the opening post reminds me so much of this guy: http://www.myspace.com/4poundzz

Was 4Poundz ever discussed on ILX?

"This Stuff Is Pretty Rad"

"It's Definitely Weirdo Music (Maybe)"

Goddamn this album is brilliant. This thread and that review linked upthread are the only places on the internet where I've seen people even remotely defend it. People are stupid. This album is unbelievably bizarre and fantastic, and in fact it just might be my favorite album of the year, maybe even the decade! I've never heard ANYTHING like it. Has it gotten any kind of mainstream press? Could all you music journalists please vote for it for Pazz and Jop album of the year so it might get a CD release?

seems even more striking now knowing that people like James Ferraro have dedicated their lives to finding a sound like this

this is AOTY

are the tracks only 10-15 seconds long?

come on kid, up your ante

aoty

merry xmas

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLwke9qe9t8k

Someone get those ladies a Quiznos commercial!

Holy shit, the Emily Montes album is great!! After you hear stuff like this and the Farrah album, regular pop music sounds so boring.

I like this Emily Montes album!
The disjointed Tik Tok format thing is a good addition to the My Teenage Dream Ended aesthetic.