Kacey Musgraves - 2013 Anticipation

also the lack of propulsion is what makes songs like "oh what a world" and "love is a wild thing" so good... i find the application of the rubric limiting!!

yeah it's kinda dreamy

it reminds me of like a pop country version of neil young harvest moon sorta?

It comes down to my aversion to her voice and the singer-songwriter staidness of the arrangements, despite the vocoders and disco-lite filigrees. The Brandy Clark album from two years ago does a lot better with similar attempts to send electrical shockers through the material.

But half this album is good! It's impossible to hate imo

it reminds me of like a pop country version of neil young harvest moon sorta?

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, April 3, 2018 8:22 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a good analogy, as well as the 99.9F analogy upthread

the only pop music whiney likes is fossilized skronky beats from 2005

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, April 3, 2018 11:19 AM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah, yes, I'm denying great progressive leap of ... sounding like Paula Cole records

In Tennessee, the sun's goin' down
But in Beijing, they're heading out to work

^^ this lyrics from Slow Burn made me think of Neil, that sort of odd aside he sometimes throws into lyrics that makes no "sense" but feels somehow more affecting than it scans on the page

the only pop music whiney likes is fossilized skronky beats from 2005
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, April 3, 2018 11:19 AM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah, yes, I'm denying great progressive leap of ... sounding like Paula Cole records

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, April 3, 2018 10:32 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

where have all the d-boys gone?

What’s wrong with Paula Cole?

she does jazz now i think

Haha, Josh, what frat guys from 1992 are you hanging out with that you’re encountering ppl tittering over the pot refs. in those songs?

Ha, I'm thinking of times I've seen Dylan and Petty live, and as soon as they started playing those songs it was suddenly like white cap frat o'clock in the crowd, like it was activating a bunch of sleeper cells.

the drums on this are tight alfred

brad otm

My wife was listening to this album a bit yesterday and the drums (and I guess bits of the album as a whole) reminded me of the way Aimee Mann albums sound.

It’s true that when Dylan played my college, a girl jumped onstage during “Rainy Day Women” and danced around for a minute or so until she was ushered off...

war frat guys never changes

Ah, yes, I'm denying great progressive leap of ... sounding like Paula Cole records

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, April 3, 2018 11:32 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark

it's no fergie song from 2016 that sounds like a rejected fergie song from 2005

I think this album sounds really nice - kinda sleepy, but that fits my mood this morning.

My sister in law said The Sundays.

y'all think too much

it's no fergie song from 2016 that sounds like a rejected fergie song from 2005

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, April 3, 2018 12:56 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

popism means embracing the pop-adjacent music embraced by a bunch of nerds who stanned for art brut instead of the stuff actually marketed to america

the populist who knows who borbetomagus is has logged on

lol

i saw the Borbetomagus documentary at Spectacle, a Brooklyn theater with 30 seats, so that's def a clean hit.

I like High Horse as a single but the sound of it is too sweet and upbeat to work with those “fuck you” lyrics imho.
agreed

i saw the Borbetomagus documentary at Spectacle, a Brooklyn theater with 30 seats, so that's def a clean hit.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, April 3, 2018 12:30 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

honestly one of the most memorably and gloriously hellish live shows i've ever seen

"High Horse" is a miss for me -- the chorus melody feels forced, in particular.

Chorus melody rules, casual eye rolls are a great way to be disdainful, whole point is her cheerful mood remains undisturbed

^^ right

surely y'all have listened to sad songs that sound happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWmPfQ-9AXQ

xp it's just a wasted opportunity to me, great melody, production and delivery but the lyrics do nothing for it

'Cause everyone knows someone who kills the buzz
Every time they open up their mouth
^^hardly lyrics imo

I think placeholder "let's go dancing" lyrics had been preferable

Feeling targeted by that lyric huh

haha, nice

the lyrics are weird -- the song is thisclose to being a dog whistle (because "high horse" is usually associated with moralizing) but decides it wants to be "That Don't Impress Me Much" at the last minute

otm!

but That Don't Impress Me Much is funny

High Horse is great, obviously. I don’t know what’s wrong with you people.

get off that fucking horse

it's a fine horse, sir, and i can see quite far when sitting on it.

fuck a horse, ride a cowboy

Love Is a Wild Thing is the best track imo

popism means embracing the pop-adjacent music embraced by a bunch of nerds who stanned for art brut instead of the stuff actually marketed to america

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, April 3, 2018 1:24 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark

yeah who can forget real america's wholesale embracing of "milf money"

milf money was a good song

what in god's name was good about milf money

xp I'm not saying High Horse isn't a good song, I just feel like the lyrics are a wasted opportunity, spending all that chorus energy dismissing some vague and indistinct character when it could have been about Kacey/me/us

I like this a lot. Thought her debut was overrated so I didn't even bother with Pageant Material but clearly I need to go back and reassess.

"Butterflies" always puts Genesis's "That's All" in my head.

*Shockingly* good this album.

why shockingly?

bc of the tingles

i dunno i thought it'd be more country-ish or sumthin. more like the Dixie Chicks.

dixie chicks? had you heard any of her music before this album?

no never, i just read she had been a country singer or something.

i gave this a proper second listen

there's a cluster of three tracks that are just amazing

mother
love is a wild thing
space cowboy

happy & sad is potentially a great track as well, which would make that four great tracks back to back, but it might be a grower

i'm a sucker for piano tracks so rainbow is a very nice outro

also what's the problem with smoking weed? she seems/sounds chill and would be cool to hang with

best track has to be love is a wild thing, though -- those keys after the music stops (at 2:56) reminds me a lot of future islands for some reason

stylistically it is a lot more varied than her previous albums i want to say, as well