I remember "Lovefool" as an omnipresent American radio hit in spring '97 at the same time that Jamiroquai, Daft Punk, and Puff were doing their thing.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9PT4CM8LQc
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
(it stopped being their thing fairly soon after "Lovefool," at least not as obviously)
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
interesting. don't know much about the cardigans.
i'm not sure what mitski is doing is, like, ironic pastiche of disco--not sure if you were implying that katherine, or just saying the cardigans did that. she seems pretty willing to draw on whatever sounds feel right for the song.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
i mean, there is some humor in the frisson that comes from singing "i'm a coward" as the beat picks up steam. but idk.
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:22 (five years ago) link
yeah, the big and small verse is heartbreaking, kinda feels like at least a little tongue-in-cheek to juxtapose against that fun lil' guitar darting in
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:27 (five years ago) link
yeah, there is irony but it is very bitter
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
lonesome love is dope
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
I wrote this elsewhere but the real comparison point for me isn't "Lovefool" but "Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)"
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:32 (five years ago) link
oh yeah, that's a good point
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:36 (five years ago) link
coincidentally one of the best songs ever
idk maybe i'm just caught up but i legitimately cannot think of an artist whose music i've enjoyed more this decade, am i what the internet calls a "stan" now?
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
only if you start personally attacking people who think otherwise
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
but the only person who i hear talk shit about mitski is... mitski
oh no
― challops trap house (Will M.), Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
cardigans talk is on point in that i think a lot of mitski's musical refs are out of the mid to late 90s.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 23 August 2018 23:11 (five years ago) link
I really enjoy the yellow bedroom in the Nobody video.
I'd really like DJ Koze to remix Nobody along the lines of his remix of Lapsley's Operator.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Friday, 24 August 2018 00:00 (five years ago) link
ya need some edits of that track def
― flopson, Friday, 24 August 2018 07:20 (five years ago) link
Wow. My favorite album of hers so far by a long shot. Elliott Smith comparison is otm, not only the arrangements but the vocal melodies. But not something I would've heard if you hadn't mentioned it or something I ever heard on her first two records.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 25 August 2018 06:55 (five years ago) link
the more time i spend with this album the more blown away i am
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 16 September 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
only a shitty curmudgeon or an idiot would hate this music
― imago, Sunday, 16 September 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
sorry i don't know why i put it like that. but yeah it's sensational
i agree. or someone is afraid of examining what loneliness has done to them over the years, because this is something mitski gets right into
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 16 September 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
while also doing (CRASS ANALOGY ALERT) for indie what wire did for punk
― imago, Sunday, 16 September 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
i do know why i put it like that btw - loads of the RYM reviews have been low-to-tepid, and the only track they want to talk about is Nobody, because people are shit listeners
― imago, Sunday, 16 September 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
i think over time it will become some kind of classic. it hits a certain mood that i haven't quite heard in anything else, but that feels very of our moment.
the one that is killing me today is "lonesome love."
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 16 September 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
maybe universal not of our moment. but it hits something nothing else does and there will be listeners in the future that will go back to it over and over
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 16 September 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
the mood is pure undistilled ¬_¬
― imago, Sunday, 16 September 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
yeah but all the while under the surface you're a geyer, hear it call, hear it call, hear it call to me
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 16 September 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
yeah that is part of ¬_¬ though - the desire to burst out, to be something, to be romantic
― imago, Sunday, 16 September 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
bang it up inside ¬_¬
― maffew12, Monday, 17 September 2018 00:18 (five years ago) link
I am still blown away by the brilliance of “Me and My Husband”
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 12:17 (five years ago) link
her deployment of Britpop horns (and that jaunty organ!) on that song and elsewhere on the album is amazing
― imago, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 12:43 (five years ago) link
Any article I read about Mitski totally turns me off from her music. Especially the exclaim one. She’s probably good tho - just a reminder that interviews with artists can be bad
― Ross, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 17:09 (five years ago) link
I don't... really get why?
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 18:20 (five years ago) link
I don't get it either.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 18:24 (five years ago) link
yea me neither, the one about Hitchcock heroines?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 19:03 (five years ago) link
There’s no way I can respond to this without pissing someone off. I’ll get round to the music eventually
― Ross, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
I'm not pissed off just confused, I read the Exclaim interview and it seemed fine
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
Is it the comment about her supposedly not being allowed to noodle because she's not a straight white guy? That wasn't in the Exclaim interview, though.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
Xpost no - not saying anyone here will be pissed off, it just doesn’t benefit to diss well liked artists on ilm, hopefully that’s fair
― Ross, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
not really no. it's actually worse and more frustrating to say that an interview annoyed you without saying why. also it makes us wonder about your motivations
― imago, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 21:35 (five years ago) link
I just found it highly serious and high concept, the film stuff etc
Not the first one I’ve read either. Anyways I’m not going to argue this further but Christ.
― Ross, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
Sure the music is perfectly fine
Not everyone respects artists philosophies the same way. I’m sure some of you don’t like artists I like
― Ross, Tuesday, 18 September 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
¬_¬
― imago, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 07:40 (five years ago) link
Talking about film: a new milestone in highbrow contempt.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 07:47 (five years ago) link
fair enuffshe makes good tunes tho ross i think you'll like it
start with 'townie' i reckon
― nxd, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 08:42 (five years ago) link
Townie is good thanks Nxd
― Ross, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 12:39 (five years ago) link
I never really read her interviews but I’m enthusiastic about the music. Maybe this is a new phase in listening for me—I used to always want to know who I was listening to.
― Trϵϵship, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 12:47 (five years ago) link
mitski is an extremely intelligent person who is great in interviews and on social media :)
― monotony, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link
also this record is one of my favourites of 2018!