"Use other words please."

i saw some great artists last night at brownie's. man, some really good performances. i can't wait to hear the new projects they're working on.

I blame Alan Parsons

make a certain sense from the artist’s pov tho - these days who knows in what form(at) the stuff you’re working on will see the light of day: mixtape? album? EP?

this is otm

The line btw “mixtape” and “album” seems to have become blurred, but that’s another story.

I was thinking about how people often start a follow-on sentence with ‘Indeed...’ when they’re writing but rarely when speaking. I’m not a fan, but indeed, it’s often a useful way to show your workings out

It makes sense with the likes of Ty Segall or Ethan Miller, who lead a few different bands at any given time. But for a specific release, no.

I say "Indeed" in face to face conversations all the time. It's a very useful word.

I don’t say “indeed” (in speech or writing) — though sometimes I do try to write using my “speaking voice,” and the language ends up sounding impoverished. Hemingway I’m not, I guess.

OK, I laughed at it here. I guess she uses the term b/c it’s more than an EP, but less than an album?

https://i.imgur.com/vKnc67w_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

"classically trained"

I feel like "self-taught"/"autodidact" is the inverted equivalent of this. Brought to mind by:

His mother Susan Collier is a violinist, conductor, and professor at the Royal Academy of Music's Junior Academy.[8] Collier's maternal grandfather, Derek Collier, was a violinist who also taught at the Royal Academy and performed with orchestras around the world. Collier says, "We sing Bach chorales together as family – it's just so much fun."[7]...

Collier attended Mill Hill County High School in north London and The Purcell School for Young Musicians in Bushey, Hertfordshire.[11] He briefly studied jazz piano at the Royal Academy.[12]... Collier received the ABRSM Gold Medal for the highest mark in the country for his grade eight singing result in 2008.[14]...

Collier is a self-declared autodidact.

“jabs”
“shots in arms”

luv 2 see it happening; but cringe when I encounter those words, for some reason

It’s either that or ‘microchipped’.

How do u feel about "fauci ouchie"

lol, the worst

I mean they literally are "shots" so I don't get the second one, unless it's just the "in arms" part you object to

Yeah, maybe there’s something kind of dehumanizing about it? It feels sort of like a military-style figure of speech (akin to “boots on the ground”)... guess there’s nothing inherently wrong with that—a military campaign metaphor is not inapt here—I don’t know why it bugs me. I’d be fine with just “shots.”

pump n dump

sorry

I think "shots in arms" is public health jargon. It does sound kind of militaristic, but it's the way doctors think.

Yeah it would refer to vaccine doses actually deployed in disease control, as opposed to available reserves.
“Jab” is twee English public school slang and I wince every time I hear it.

I suppose you can only say “administered vaccines” so many times (especially in a short communication that already uses the words “vaccine supply,” “vaccinated,” and “vaccinators”).

it’s akin to “bums on seats” which is even more unpleasant

Yea who sits that way. I sit on my head

“tirelessly”

^still don’t like this one

"loosies" (for unreleased songs)

Thought it meant singleton cigarettes for sale in a bodega.

Ok boomer

ok fine, I've only ever heard "loosies" used that way in one place (an ad for a podcast). But that term is absolutely what makes the ad annoying. morrisp OTM.

“unserious”

I've never heard this

You should Yahoo unserious

Joke worked better in 1998

Lol, took me a while.

lol

needle drop

Yes, when did this become a thing all of a sudden?

when the first Interpol vinyl pressing came out

this is why we can't have nice things

…Hoh-nayy

Saying a new artist is "very much in dialog with" some shit from the 90's. That's a monologue, they can't hear you.

howcum when a band breaks up they "implode"? isn't "explode" more accurate? altho too dramatic i guess.

'problematic', 'de rieguer (?)', 'mainstream', 'pretentious', 'glitchcore', 'Your round,Geordie !'

― Geordie Racer, Saturday, 14 April 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ahead of their time (n.b. it doesn't bother me personally)

"exactly"

^ exactly

“, right? so”

lol westbury white horse, I almost called that out last time I looked in this thread. if Geordie only knew.

Yes to "in dialogue with"

Saying a new artist is "very much in dialog with" some shit from the 90's. That's a monologue, they can't hear you.

― enochroot, Sunday, October 8, 2023 4:57 PM

agree with this discrepancy, but poor example imo. especially at this point (just search "90s infomercial" on youtube). one doesn't have to have lived through or be currently living through something to be in dialogue. putting search stringent rules on it -especially in the context of creativity and imagination- kinda misses the point.

i'm reminded of midge ure, years later, reflecting that, while the song was gaining popularity, he felt a little like a fraud because he had never even been austria at that point. "vienna" was definitely part of that tune's dialogue though.

My issue isn't with the concept of an artistic dialogue, it's just with leaning on the phrase as a smarty-pants way to say "is influenced by"...
Such as this:

But as much as Infinite Spring is in dialogue with the pop-rock canon...