It's a Whole Vibe™
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 20:29 (two years ago) link
are you still talking about the cover art or
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
I can tell you that my daughters (15 and 19) revere Lorde as a young auteur with integrity, in the pantheon with Mitski and Billie Eilish. They’ve been waiting for this return for 4 years and are deeply underwhelmed.
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
There's something specific to this song
i guess there's very much a feeling of wasted potential to it? that makes it a little more interesting to discuss than if it had just been a bland failure or something. or more of the same in a decent but uninteresting way
― ufo, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 20:37 (two years ago) link
but... it is just a bland failure, the issue is because it's LORDE people are acting confused about her putting out a boring song as a single instead of burying it on the back half of the album
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
xp I agree - we've certainly gotten a lot of mileage here out of discussing how it sort of reaches and fails, its relation to similar & more "successful" tracks, etc.
― like a d4mn sociopath! (morrisp), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
Mitski rules
― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
"Stoned at the Nail Salon"
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 21 June 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
"secrets from a girl (who's seen it all)"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 21 June 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
Wut
According to a press release, as an alternative to being released on CD, Solar Power will be available as “an eco-conscious Music Box,” which has visual content, handwritten notes, photos, and a download card. “I decided early on in the process of making this album that I also wanted to create an environmentally kind, forward-thinking alternative to the CD,” Lorde said in a statement. “I wanted this Music Box product to be similar in size, shape and price to a CD, to live alongside it in a retail environment, but be something which stands apart and that’s committed to the evolving nature of a modern album.”
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Monday, 21 June 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link
I mean I wouldn’t buy it anyway, but digital download sucks ass.
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Monday, 21 June 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
the download card gives you a link to Mariah's Music Box instead
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 21 June 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
theoretically i love this idea and would love for someone to do something interesting with it, but ultimately lol @ $22 for a box full of paper
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 21 June 2021 18:54 (two years ago) link
Sounds like what Biophilia Records has been doing for several years. (They send out CD-Rs as promos, though, which kinda subverts the point.)
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 21 June 2021 18:56 (two years ago) link
this isn't a bad idea honestly, j-pop and k-pop artists already incentivize their fans to buy their physical media by including collectible items, lorde is just taking it a step further by removing the physical media lol
is $22 a high price for what's essentially a scrapbook, sure, but it does price in the cost of the digital album as well.
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Monday, 21 June 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
tbh it has grown on me since i made fun of it
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 21 June 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
When an artist big enough to still sell physical media decides only to sell MP3s, I fear it further normalizes/promotes the devaluing of audio quality. But sadly I may be fighting a losing battle there.
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Monday, 21 June 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
making out you're ecologically friendly by selling and shipping any sort of physical media is charlatanry of a profound order lmao
― imago, Monday, 21 June 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
what if it's all made from bamboo
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Monday, 21 June 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
does this music box include the chapbook that dude from Animal Collective was supposed to make about his trip to Mali
― an eco-conscious Music Box (DJP), Monday, 21 June 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
It’s like when Richard D. James did an NFT thing a few months ago, and wrote about how he would maybe give some money to a tree-related charity, if he could find one, mumble mumble
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Monday, 21 June 2021 19:11 (two years ago) link
even if made from bamboo it needs to be distributed by bicycle courier or else it's bullshit
― imago, Monday, 21 June 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
or tie in 'solar power' and distribute them all by photovoltaic drone
― imago, Monday, 21 June 2021 19:13 (two years ago) link
the fact lorde passed up THAT opportunity reveals herself as the creatively bankrupt dickhead we know her to be
as mockable as the idea is, we're in "you're using an iPhone to text about climate change???" territory and we should avoid that tbh
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 21 June 2021 19:13 (two years ago) link
we're in 'she said she was doing it to be ecologically friendly, lol' territory tbf
― imago, Monday, 21 June 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
imago otm, she's selling a product not speaking out politically
― trap door to hell opens underneath (rob), Monday, 21 June 2021 19:17 (two years ago) link
Melodrama's vinyl release lagged the digital release by almost a year... I couldn't be bothered with it by that point. That was pretty eco conscious of her.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 21 June 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link
Don't know what Lorde is doing but the Biophilia people sell downloads in the format of your choice. FLAC, WAV, whatever.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 21 June 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
it's all solar power, really. some of it just goes through inefficient processes that make the energy easier to store and transport, also releasing byproducts that increase the mean temperature of Earth and change the climate. So is she really even a hypocrite? think about it.
― butyrate humbucker bobbins (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 21 June 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
if they're actually handwritten notes, it's a good idea. just sell all your scrap paper.
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 03:39 (two years ago) link
i don't think it's a bad song really but "solar power" could be redeemed by a remix... or it could also become legendarily awful. either way i want to see it happen
― dyl, Monday, 5 July 2021 01:14 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_A20lBsBMM
Stoned at the nail salon
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 22 July 2021 04:53 (two years ago) link
Was just listening to this; I think it's nice...
― Max Ice (morrisp), Thursday, 22 July 2021 04:54 (two years ago) link
(p-fork with the neg, lol)
― Max Ice (morrisp), Thursday, 22 July 2021 04:58 (two years ago) link
it's an ok enough album track but nothing to be excited about
― ufo, Thursday, 22 July 2021 05:05 (two years ago) link
It’s super weak as a single assuming this is even a single.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 22 July 2021 05:23 (two years ago) link
i'm assuming it's the thing pop artists often do where they put out an album track for buzz without intending to give it a big radio push? idk
― ufo, Thursday, 22 July 2021 05:26 (two years ago) link
Not sure how “singles” are even supposed to work in 2021 tbh
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 22 July 2021 05:32 (two years ago) link
Turns out Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo both guest on it (I didn’t even register other vox)
― Max Ice (morrisp), Thursday, 22 July 2021 06:05 (two years ago) link
they did backing vocals on "solar power" too
― ufo, Thursday, 22 July 2021 06:25 (two years ago) link
sub-LDR
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Thursday, 22 July 2021 11:33 (two years ago) link
Boring tune, sadly.
I also think the “all the music you loved when you’re 16 you’ll grow out of” line sticks out to me as a particularly bad one, partly because it’s trying to pass itself off as wisdom, but comes across as naive. And mostly because it makes me cringe out of recognition. It’s the exact sort of thing I know I would’ve said at Lorde’s age, as I tried to convince myself I had grown up, become an adult and left anything that could be considered childish. And now I keep getting older and I realise I absolutely love the shit out of the music I loved when I was 16, but with an even deeper intensity because of the memories that I’ve accumulated related to it over the years.
― triggercut, Thursday, 22 July 2021 13:22 (two years ago) link
lorde probably thinks that line is well clever and deliciously ironic or something
― imago, Thursday, 22 July 2021 13:26 (two years ago) link
We'll always have the beach
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 22 July 2021 13:32 (two years ago) link
I still like most of the music I liked when I was 16.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 22 July 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
Past Lorde albums are very consistent in terms of sound palette and moods and this seems to be on par. This time I guess she’s going for a “campfire on the beach” vibe which I don’t mind and could be the laying ground for some great music but so far the two songs released sound very unremarkable to me.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 22 July 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link
have been trying to work out what I don't like about her new stuff and think I've finally figured it out.https://i.postimg.cc/dVp69wYQ/Screen-Shot-2015-11-09-at-7-12-14-PM-thumb-png-521ae0913e2f6741ad3df0f04008c56a.png
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 23 July 2021 13:16 (two years ago) link
Pretty much!
― peace, man, Friday, 23 July 2021 13:18 (two years ago) link
"all the music you loved when you're 16 and you now think you've grown out of you'll grow out of thinking you grew out of"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:45 (two years ago) link