Which artists legacies have improved/worsened during the 2010s?

Zappa would have been a pretty old dude by now, he may have ended up just chilling in the Canyon.

wow, i've never watched "this is 40" but for a movie released this decade it sounds like it's aged incredibly poorly

― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, July 19, 2019 9:33 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

It was garbage when it was released, and I can't remember when it was released, and I'd forgotten the movie even existed until yesterday. Albert Brooks is the only watchable element of the film, and Melissa McCarthy also had a funny second or two, but christ, it was insufferable.

It was def a big letdown after Knocked Up. The scenes with John Lithgow are good, and I find Jason Segal’s creepy chick-magnet character to be kinda funny. It’s an ok movie to half-watch on tv when it comes on now.

this is 40 was where it became evident that apatow didnt think his shit stank

^totally agree

(though points off for grossness, lol)

I'd argue that happened with Funny People. When James Taylor has the only funny line in a movie, there's a problem.

was it worse than Pineapple Express? Because yuck, that's one of the few films I've ever walked out of

xp lol i got those two mixed up.

"alexa, find that apatow movie about men figuring out fatherhood and marriage where his wife plays the lead actress role and his kids are in it"

*alexa melts from overheating*

apatow: stock down

seth rogen's line from knocked up "steely dan gargles my balls": stock down

Stock down: West LA / Brentwood
Stock up: Neighborhoods east of Hollywood

feel like LCD's music was designed to have this ephemeral feeling to it, half their songs are about getting older and "the last party" and not being cool anymore so yeah I kinda figured they'd fall by the wayside once the moment was over. I know the reunion album was a big deal but people stopped talking about it pretty much immediately after its release and I never heard any of the songs anywhere

― frogbs, 18. juli 2019 00:06 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Late response, but Oh Baby was in Booksmart, and in a pretty prominent position. Made me feel quite old, but I was also literally the second oldest man at the press screening.

was it worse than Pineapple Express?

it's not good, but Apatow didn't direct that, David Gordon Green did

I think the only thing I've seen actually directed by Apatow in the last decade was Trainwreck because a friend wanted to go to the movies and it was playing. It was more boring than anything?

it's not good, but Apatow didn't direct that, David Gordon Green did

he didn't write it either

(also it is funny iirc)

Trainwreck def boring

I'd argue that happened with Funny People. When James Taylor has the only funny line in a movie, there's a problem.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, July 19, 2019 8:02 AM (two hours ago)

yeah funny people was garbage and were i got off the apatow train

was it worse than Pineapple Express? Because yuck, that's one of the few films I've ever walked out of

― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, July 19, 2019 3:02 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Really? I just watched this again last year and it's still pretty damn funny.

I like Pineapple Express

speaking of which, how is Huey Lewis faring these days?

he's been doing better ever since it became hip to be square

I heard that “working for a living” song in a big record/cd store the other day

Funny People is def Apatow’s shark-jumping moment

It's in the first episode of the new season of Stranger Things.

Fun fact: it didn't even make the top 40! Its highest chart position was #41 in 1982.

xp

this sounds weird in a way because I feel like the Beatles legacy is still huge

but John Lennon as a solo artist I feel like isn't nearly as well regarded or talked about? (whereas there's been a reappraisal of McCartney, esp McCartney II)

Haha. I was just thinking about John Lennon in regards to this topic and CTRL+F'd "Lennon" before I even read this latest reply.

Lennon's solo material basically = "Imagine" in the popular consciousness, and there's been a huge amount of backlash to that song

Lennon has become the Lennon Legend/Greatest Hits artist that McCartney was for a long time, rightly or wrongly

wrongly, mostly

"Imagine" def. one of the most insufferably covered songs that shouldn't really be covered, let alone as much as it's been covered.

How's Beck holding up?

Lennon has also been low-key CANCELLED by some millennials because spousal abuse.

I feel like if he had survived into the 80s and had a chance to do some shitty new wave/synthy albums his stock would be higher with millennials these days

Lennon's legacy for many also been reduced down to inspirational quote memes.

--Bob Marley

xxp new wave Lennon would have probably ruled, IMO

feel like he's the type whose politics would have really gotten bad with age

At least he died before he got to collaborate with Jeff Lynne

also this is hopefully the wisdom of age but i used to be impressed with him in interviews when i was a kid like oh what a provocative smart guy now he just seems like a dumbo combative dickhead complete so far up his own butt

feel like he's the type whose politics would have really gotten bad with age

idk, would've depended on whether he and Yoko stayed together imo

But would Ono be Ono if Lennon had lived? I mean, getting together with him sidetracked her career in a pretty major way. If he'd stuck around, he might have overshadowed her even more than he did by dying (the whole professional-widow/keeper-of-the-legacy thing).

Lennon would've been fascinating to follow politically. I can't imagine he'd ever be a Republican given his experience getting citizenship, but he'd 100% be the first Beatle to go on Joe Rogan, InfoWars, Howard obviously (maybe even in the 80s), Coast to Coast, anything conspiracy related.

lennon go on ch

I wish we had some signs of experimentation and crazy/weird/noise music from the '79-'80 batch of songs. I remember reading an anecdote from some guy that worked in a music store in Manhattan when Lennon came in circa '78 and bought a fancy ass new synth because he was excited about new wave.

xp exactly

Some weird takes here.

Lennon probably would have had a good Twitter account

getting together with him sidetracked her career in a pretty major way.

lol waht this is completely wrong

I'll just note that Paul's reputation had nowhere to go but up because so many Wings albums were OPP.

The same sympathy for poor Paul albums hasn't extended to George's miserable Ford-era albums

Beatles narrative is so tight and self-contained at this point. No reunions (really), no US albums or Beatles Ballads type comps, nothing left in the vaults really. No reason to dig beyond the non-canon stuff for most people, where there's so much Phantom Menace.

Lennon was a spousal abuser?