hearing "concrete" was a lot like hearing jellyfish's "joining a fan club" for the first time
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 16:08 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwoGhpYdebQ
wish i could vote for it in the ilm poll tbh
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
You know, this kinda reminds me of Shiina Ringo to an extent.
the Shiina Ringo thread
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 16:32 (four years ago) link
i enjoy a lot of this! "concrete" is friggin great.
i do feel like the juxtaposition of pop and heavier stuff works best when the heavy stuff is as well thought-out and complex as the poppy stuff -- like the power metal-type leads and straight industrial moments are a lot more interesting than like, chunky limp bizkit riffs.
love the "wouldn't it be nice" reference in concrete too
― idgaf (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
watched a couple of the videos and I don't hate it but so far I'm struggling to hear how it's much more than a basic version of Grimes.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, January 14, 2020 8:59 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lemme know when grimes goes full nu-metal psych-pop
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, January 14, 2020 11:06 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is a good description of one of the videos I watched ("X") but idk it felt less like peanut butter and chocolate and more like peanut butter and mayo (ftr I like mayo).
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
i have no beef with grimes but she can't write 1 hook let alone 3 in one song
― idgaf (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
i should say: i have no MUSICAL beef with grimes
― idgaf (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
also: https://www.metalsucks.net/2020/01/13/hulu-made-a-tv-show-about-the-poppy-mars-argo-titanic-sinclair-drama-and-people-are-pissed/
― idgaf (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:12 (four years ago) link
this is probably entirely the wrong question to ask but to what extent was that sinclair character involved in this new album?
― opden gnash (imago), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
she split from him (and made similar accusations against him)
― idgaf (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link
he has credits on the record but iirc his actual involvement in the songwriting is disputed
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
didn't realize she just split from him in dec
― idgaf (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
yep
pic.twitter.com/IJwCBLYiuW— Poppy (@poppy) December 28, 2019
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link
not that it devalues the music or her art if he is heavily involved obv - just a bit unfortunate
― opden gnash (imago), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link
yeah he also directed several of the videos iirc
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
what is this opening track omg
― opden gnash (imago), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
lol i was waiting for this
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
the zombies have gone prog hardcore
― opden gnash (imago), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
ok the rest of the album is imo good-to-very-good rather than great (and as i say, tt has already played me like three of its tracks!) but man Concrete
― opden gnash (imago), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
the grimes comparison really only makes sense for "sit/stay", which belongs to the same sort of industrial pop territory as "kill v maim". though if grimes actually made the metal album she kept threatening to i'd imagine it'd probably sound fairly similar to this but probably not as good.
― ufo, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
some people like candysome people like coffeebut these lifeless flaaaavors don't saaatisfyyy meeee
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 16 January 2020 00:17 (four years ago) link
I am not sure how much staying power this will have for me, but it is bringing the lols for me right now. Concrete and Sit/Stay are great. A lot of the twists and turns in other tracks are interesting. At the very least it will be a good gym album.
― An Oral History of Deez Nutz (PBKR), Thursday, 16 January 2020 01:06 (four years ago) link
I like this
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 16 January 2020 01:33 (four years ago) link
I'm a fan. I am digging Poppy. not sure about her ballads but Concrete is a doozy. Turn me into a street indeed.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 16 January 2020 03:33 (four years ago) link
This is ... something. Very 90's sounding somehow. 'Concrete' and 'Sit/Stay' the clear highlights. The jarring shifts between "songs within songs" are pretty crazy but kinda gimmicky and distract from some genuinely great musical sequences.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 16 January 2020 10:42 (four years ago) link
i def thought "this sounds like the late 90s" when i was listening to it
― idgaf (roxymuzak), Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
The worst thing that could happen to her is turning into a real person, with real feelings.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link
Def see the '90s thing.
I'm struggling to hear how it's much more than a basic version of Grimes.
Poppy & Grimes are both mining the same Japanese styles, which, tbf, is a completely irrational thing for me to be annoyed about because people can take influence from wherever, but it does annoy me.
― emil.y, Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
i definitely hear the jpop metal/rock-tinged idol (ie babymetal, momoiro clover z, bis) influence on poppy but i think the influence of jpop on grimes has been pretty overstated beyond her saying she's a fan of like, perfume and kyary in interviews
― ufo, Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
As I suspected, I loved it this morning when I played it at the gym.
― An Oral History of Deez Nutz (PBKR), Thursday, 16 January 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
I'm digging this Grimes-goes-Nitzer-Ebb approach.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 January 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link
This & Hot Pink basically most listened on Spotify this month. Don’t really care for the slow ones tbh.
― steer karma (gyac), Friday, 17 January 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
I Disagree joining Concrete and Sit/Stay as the upper tier tracks. Don't Go Outside with all the reprises of previous tracks is awesome too.
― The Traveling Wilkes-Barre's (PBKR), Friday, 17 January 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
What's cool about this record is, if you don't care for a song, it will change genres in about 20 seconds so just sit tight.
She needs to go all in on the whole post-genre thing, and make an entire record like Concrete, which covers about 5 in one song.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 17 January 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
I'm a 47 year old man and I spent the better part of the day on a Poppy internet trawl. I have learned a great deal, not all of it good. She may in fact be an awful, terrible person.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 18 January 2020 02:18 (four years ago) link
It is quite the thing to get a friend into this album and then to drop Moshi Moshi on her.
― steer karma (gyac), Monday, 20 January 2020 10:26 (four years ago) link
It's all a scam. Poppy just wants our money. I've gone from never heard of her, to a huge fan, to disillusioned in less than a week.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 20 January 2020 21:07 (four years ago) link
Do we have Poppy truthers on ILM now?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 20 January 2020 21:08 (four years ago) link
Yes. I've been on this board for 15 years, just lying in wait to expose the sham that is Poppy.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 20 January 2020 22:56 (four years ago) link
I can't help but admire your tenacity
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 20 January 2020 23:04 (four years ago) link
Admittedly, it's been a long slog. Do you know how many threads on grime I had to get through, just waiting for the moment to strike?
Poppy thinks she's David Bowie, and can just change styles and concepts every couple years. But she'd be nowhere wtihout Titanic Sinclair. He made her. And she cheated on him with a performer named Ghostemane, fired him and then tried to erase his contributions. Then she leaked that he attempted suicide out of despair, and made it sound like she was the real victim...and then used it to promote her stupid album. Poppy is a piece of garbage.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 20 January 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
"I got rid of titanic sinclair, and yeah he tried to kill himself because I abaondoned him but whatevs...buy my new album"
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 20 January 2020 23:51 (four years ago) link
imo it’s weird that you never got the sense that titanic sinclair himself is abusive
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 04:04 (four years ago) link
^^^
― idgaf (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 11:45 (four years ago) link
This is Poppy's comment on it fwiw
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 12:09 (four years ago) link
This is Titanic Sinclair's brother speaking at length on the whole thing. He has more experience with Mars Argo than Poppy, but he knows Poppy fairly well. I understand it's his brother and fairly biased, but the details are not flattering.
SPREAD THIS LIKE A WILDFIRE. MAXIMUM RT. TITANIC'S BROTHER REVEALS HIS SIDE OF THE STORY. A THREAD. pic.twitter.com/GbmpipR25G— Elaine (@Loyallaine) December 29, 2019
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
are you his brother
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
no he's a middle aged man who has decided to come down hard on the side of an alleged abuser in a "he said she said" situation where there's 2 shes and one he
― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
I honestly don't have time to parse all that text
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
What are you, the queen of England? You say you don't have time to learn the truth about Poppy? OK, keep your head in the sand.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reMPqmtYtpU
record's getting not much of a reception but as usual i think it's great. the dnb drum track in this is so good
― ivy., Thursday, 9 November 2023 16:10 (four months ago) link
this feels like the electro record i was expecting kylie minogue to put out this year
― ivy., Thursday, 9 November 2023 16:19 (four months ago) link
the fake pop music in vox lux should've sounded like this
― ivy., Thursday, 9 November 2023 16:47 (four months ago) link
excited to hear
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Friday, 10 November 2023 00:58 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I6di1S0Mqw
"the attic" is the exact same vibe as this great batten girls track
― ufo, Friday, 10 November 2023 02:05 (four months ago) link
weird album, it's pretty all over the place stylistically. some of it is great but a lot is just ok at best
highlights are "linger" (the burial impression here lol), "the attic" and "prove it"
― ufo, Friday, 10 November 2023 11:40 (four months ago) link
I just made this my first Poppy album. I really don't like her voice tbh. Good musical ideas though - esp Church Outfit, Hard and Zig.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 10 November 2023 11:50 (four months ago) link
the ones you should actually listen to are i disagree and the eat ep
― ufo, Friday, 10 November 2023 12:00 (four months ago) link
Loving 'Motorbike' although the video is disappointingly literal.
― nashwan, Friday, 10 November 2023 14:19 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev_vPbqUlZs
― ivy., Thursday, 25 January 2024 16:57 (two months ago) link