the specific singles are definitely a surprise -- I think I voted for "No Tears Left to Cry"
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
Dazed - The 20 best tracks of 2018 http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/42515/1/best-songs-of-2018-christine-queens-ariana-grande-childish-gambino
20. DOJA CAT, “MOOO!”19. AZEALIA BANKS, “ANNA WINTOUR”18. LOTIC, “HUNTED”17. ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER, “LOVE IN THE TIME OF LEXAPRO”16. MORMOR, “HEAVEN’S ONLY WISHFUL”15. KACEY MUSGRAVES, “SLOW BURN”14. OCTAVIAN, “STAND DOWN”13. JANELLE MONÁE, “PYNK”12. JIMOTHY LACOSTE, “SUBWAY SYSTEM”11. KOJEY RADICAL, MAHALIA & SWINDLE, “WATER”10. UNKNOWN T, “HOMERTON B”09. SOCCER MOMMY, “YOUR DOG”08. LANA DEL REY, “VENICE BITCH”07. EMPRESS OF, “WHEN I’M WITH HIM”06. RINA SAWAYAMA, “CHERRY”05. SOPHIE, “IMMATERIAL”04. PEGGY GOU, “IT MAKES YOU FORGET (ITGEHANE)”03. ARIANA GRANDE, “THANK U, NEXT”02. CHILDISH GAMBINO, “THIS IS AMERICA”01. CHRISTINE & THE QUEENS, “GIRLFRIEND”
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:29 (five years ago) link
doja cat is like the anti-'baby shark'?
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
12. JIMOTHY LACOSTE, “SUBWAY SYSTEM”
I was wondering when this would happen.
― Matt DC, Monday, 10 December 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
oh that reminds me, the other big surprise is "5 Dollars" over "Girlfriend" or "Doesn't Matter"
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
"sweetener" sucks. on the whole the list is pretty good though
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
“Snow Burn” gets a lotta love for a song with this “??” verse:
In Tennessee, the sun's goin' downBut in Beijing, they're heading out to workYou know the bar down the street don't close for an hourWe should take a walk and look at all the flowers
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:34 (five years ago) link
I like Doja Cat, but "Go To Town" is easily the better track, think it might have a good position on these lists if (a) it hadn't been overshadowed by the Mooo! video and (b) that whole "saying 'faggot' is fine" / "Doja Cat cancelled" thing.
Still do not get 'It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)', it doesn't grab me at all, may try again.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
great to see cupcakKe high on that p4k list
go to down def better than mooo
― niels, Monday, 10 December 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
doja cat had zero traction critically pre-"mooo" so i doubt it's overshadowing any of her tracks in that sense
― J0rdan S., Monday, 10 December 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
I like mooo and appreciate what it's done for her career, it's just that go to town is a banger
― niels, Monday, 10 December 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link
the pitchfork list doesn't reflect a reality i recognize esp at it pertains to pop, rap and R&b but that's been the case for several years now... it's a good year to pick a crazy no 1 tho
― J0rdan S., Monday, 10 December 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
i am a little confused by snail mail so high on the p4k list, "pristine" just sounds like fairly generic indie rock to me while "heatwave" is at least pretty good generic indie rock
― ufo, Monday, 10 December 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
Is it evening? Late night? Daytime? Why does it seem to change with every line?― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, December 10, 2018 9:34 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i love this so much, reminds me of neil young lyrics
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
Is it evening? Late night? Daytime? Why does it seem to change with every line?― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), 10. december 2018 16:34 (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Also, snow doesn't burn.
― Frederik B, Monday, 10 December 2018 15:45 (five years ago) link
xp i think there's even an interview where she said that's what she was going for. great song
― ufo, Monday, 10 December 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
good thing it's called "Slow Burn" then
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
xpost lmao the Snow Expert Has Logged On
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
lol autocorrect y’allI just think her lyrics are generally weak
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
i love the lyrics to "slow moon's rose"
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
her lyrics have an awkward ESL quality that I enjoy, esp in "High Horse." "Space Cowboy" is the one I'll likely end up throwing points to though
― resident hack (Simon H.), Monday, 10 December 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
xp ?? is that the Peter Blegvad song? not sure where the reference is in this thread
― sleeve, Monday, 10 December 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
High Horse is not the best track on that album (it's decent, but surely not the best) but mostly it's not v representative, Slow Burn is
I believe there was something approximating board consensus that Love Is a Wild Thing is the best of the bunch
― niels, Monday, 10 December 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
“Space Cowboy” is my favorite of the bunch; tho when I said that on the Kacey thread, I think literally 5 ppl. jumped in and said, “Nah, that song suxx!” — so, ??
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, 10 December 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
Maybe I’m just not meant to be a Kacey Head
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, 10 December 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
(Oh wait, it was “Velvet Elvis”)
Space Cowboy is my favorite too!
― No Smockin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 December 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
"high horse" is pretty lame as the song off that ppl have galvanized around... every other song on the record is a classic tho
― J0rdan S., Monday, 10 December 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
for the "outre" choice I would have expected "Oh, What a World"
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 10 December 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
Is it evening? Late night? Daytime? Why does it seem to change with every line?
this is not a personal attack on morrisp, but i'm so glad i'm the kind of listener who would never even notice this, much less care
― alpine static, Monday, 10 December 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
also, if pressed, i *might* argue that's the best verse on the best song on the best album of 2018, so *shrug*
also also ... i love "Mother" so much
― alpine static, Monday, 10 December 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
No attack taken... (and I’m not usually even the type to get hung up on lyrix, so i dunno)
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, 10 December 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
Mother is a beautiful little song, the vocal melody reminds me of Rapture
― niels, Monday, 10 December 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
Joaquin Oliver, an avowed Frank Ocean fan who loved Blonde so much he’d dyed his own hair to match, was only 17 when he was gunned down in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting this past February. The same day, Ocean released a cover of the melancholy “Moon River,” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s. It was a coincidence;
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 10 December 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
xp I think that song (“Slow Burn”) feels like an accumulation of banalities that are supposed to strike the listener as little epiphanies, but it just doesn’t work for me personally... it’s no big deal.
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, 10 December 2018 17:32 (five years ago) link
(Like talking to someone who’s high when you’re not, and maybe that’s actually the idea, lol)
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, 10 December 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
Textura's top picks for 2018
― doug watson, Monday, 10 December 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, December 10, 2018 12:32 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is where I'm at with it -- there's this sense, it seems to me, that "In Tennessee, the sun's goin' down / But in Beijing, they're heading out to work" is supposed to elicit a #whoa #wow reaction, which it really doesn't. it's still a pleasant song! it's just strange to rally around, being so unassuming. the unassumingness is what's good about it, too.
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Monday, 10 December 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
xxp definitely no big deal :)
and let's be honest, the primary reason to love Slow Burn is the vibe, the space, the *sound* ... I do love those lines (and all the lines) but there is no song in 2018 more worth living inside than Slow Burn
― alpine static, Monday, 10 December 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link
"born in a hurry, always late, haven't been early since '88" is a good opening long for a song called "slow burn"
― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Monday, 10 December 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
https://www.popmatters.com/best-albums-of-2018-2622492661.html
popmatters list has a bunch of things i haven't heard of at all that sound interesting
― ufo, Monday, 10 December 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
xp to me **opening line, d'oh
― big crime for a SPECIAL WHATEVER (voodoo chili), Monday, 10 December 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
I rate that Anne Garner #1 from the Textura list very highly.
― Siegbran, Monday, 10 December 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
― sleeve
lyrics were written to make no sense
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Monday, 10 December 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
popmatters list far less interesting than it looks
textura seems intriguing tho
― imago, Monday, 10 December 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
As usual, Textura has zero overlap with any other publication’s list.
― Siegbran, Monday, 10 December 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
Anne Garner sounding great so far.
― pomenitul, Monday, 10 December 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
slow burn has great lyrics and i'm not sure what the criticism of the quoted lines is supposed to be ...?
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 10 December 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
so the earth is a globe,
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 10 December 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link
well, if the sun's going down in Tennessee and the bars are closing in an hour where she is, then she's probably somewhere in Europe. Seems like a detail you might want to mention, Kacey!
― President Keyes, Monday, 10 December 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link