(tyler, the creator is also a sony music artist)
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Thursday, 24 June 2021 12:28 (two years ago) link
xxp Though Pitchfork’s brief piece on Billie’s apology (which deployed some mighty weasel words like “she now claims”) also simply linked to the Tyler song on YT – and their 8.0 review of the album – without really interrogating the point of why it’s ok for Tyler to say it. (The TMZ article they linked to, which was better than theirs, actually did mention it at the end!)
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Thursday, 24 June 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
(it's also telling that they don't frame it in the context of stan wars, just - "an old video which surfaced on TikTok over the weekend," or whatever)
― search term: buttrock (morrisp), Thursday, 24 June 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
Why telling? (If I'm missing an obvious point, I blame insomnia -- in which case you can just tell me to get some sleep and leave it at that.)
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I should also note that while I don't really rate his new work highly in general, his guest verse on 327 was a standout for me last year.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 25 June 2021 05:16 (two years ago) link
new album is really pretty good, production is lovely & lush same as the last two
― ufo, Friday, 25 June 2021 05:26 (two years ago) link
Yeah respectfully Lumberjack is the only track off it I gave a close listen to, and I wouldn't call it lovely or lush. What gives, is it my headphones? Could you give any particularly lush recommendation from the release?
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Friday, 25 June 2021 05:43 (two years ago) link
RUNITUP, LEMONHEAD, MASSA so far
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 25 June 2021 06:49 (two years ago) link
"wusyaname", "hot wind blows", "massa", "run it up", "sweet / i thought you wanted to dance", "rise" and "safari" are all pretty lush?
obviously "lumberjack" is going for a different thing
― ufo, Friday, 25 June 2021 08:11 (two years ago) link
I'm loving this, the first Tyler that I really feel like I can enjoy instead of admiring and respecting itbut I'm not very invested in Tyler and his whole narrative, this is a just a really fun and quirky backpack rap album which is what I'm intosame reason I will always love uknowwhatimsayin? by Danny Brown more than Atrocity Exhibition
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 June 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
i skimmed this, some cool & fun production which is a refreshing change of pace, still not really into him as a rapper
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 25 June 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
wtf the wayne verse on this is so good lol
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Friday, 25 June 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
the youngboy verse is insane also
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 25 June 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
i went back to igor and yeah the new one's a lot better than it. igor was him experimenting & is more about the vibes than anything else, it really de-emphasises the vocals & ends up feeling kinda formless as a result, and his different vocal style doesn't really mesh as well with his production? like his gravelly voice was important for anchoring his sound, so with him avoiding that the balance is off & the contrast between the lush higher end & the distorted bass/drums of his style clashes more.
while the new one is just playing to his established strengths from flower boy and might be even better than it too. "this is a just a really fun and quirky backpack rap album which is what I'm into" otm
― ufo, Saturday, 26 June 2021 04:04 (two years ago) link
love all three, it's his imperial phase I reckonwhat's good: when this dropped my 19yo daughter, who had been going out of her mind waiting, didn't know - so I got to tell her, and then we synced up streams while I was at work.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 26 June 2021 04:57 (two years ago) link
xpost
Right, upper MS shakedown OTM.
Out of what's been recommended so far, Massa is the strongest to me. The second half of it is really what I was hoping for from him, but it still sounds like through much of this material he's bored; or despite the braggadocio about how courageous he is, he's still quite guarded.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Saturday, 26 June 2021 05:23 (two years ago) link
this is the first thing of his that's completely clicked for me I think
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Sunday, 27 June 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
BET AWARDS 2021: LUMBERJACK @BET <3 LOVE pic.twitter.com/Bqzh7dLMxl— Tyler, The Creator (@tylerthecreator) June 28, 2021
― too cool for zen talk (Eazy), Monday, 28 June 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
hooked on the first listen to the new stuff. not been fussed since the early days
DAE feel like odd future were the last exciting & punk thing to happen to music. nothing has been as forward and fun in identity since
― maelin, Wednesday, 30 June 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
show streaming right now https://twitch.tv/amazonmusic
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 2 July 2021 00:21 (two years ago) link
this is pretty great on first listen
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 July 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
holding up very nicely in the rising heat
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
am I the only person who has had the opposite reaction? two listens and this doesn't grab me the way Igor or Flower Boy did.
― akm, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
I loved Igor but have had a hard time getting into this one despite it sounding fairly similar to me. Guest verses are quite strong throughout, though. He still seems like a singular artist with a sound that I don't hear much precedence for and/or followers. Thoughts? Someone mentioned Soundcloud rap up thread...this doesn't sound anything like what I think of when I think of Soundcloud rap?
― Indexed, Thursday, 2 September 2021 21:19 (two years ago) link
i love ‘wilshire’
― flopson, Friday, 3 September 2021 03:28 (two years ago) link
I think it's a pretty great one - I've listened a lot over the weeks since its release and haven't tired of it. Interesting to see him reaching for the oldschool vibe, classic beats, DJ Drama as hypeman etc., while the content is pushing a global perspective as the antidote to 'hood vibes. Him saying "call me when you get lost" is a challenge, not a safety net. Anyway for me this music and especially IGOR feels like I feel about Frank Ocean, the artist's own emotional voyage is the centrepiece, the lyrics and bars are a tapestry of moods and anecdotes which give a complex character portrait which I find really engaging. Also "Juggernaut" slams. Thanks for reading my essay.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 3 September 2021 04:06 (two years ago) link
also the crossover between "I Thought You Wanted to Dance" and Steve McQueen's LOVERS ROCK is cool
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 3 September 2021 04:07 (two years ago) link
this is illuminating (and beautiful) https://www.vogue.com/article/tyler-mitchell-and-tyler-the-creator-talk-picnics-dreaming-and-mariah-carey/amp
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 23:47 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh1pJqEXdsg
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 16 September 2021 19:20 (two years ago) link
want to like that but don't.
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link