WET LEG a girl band from the Isle of Wight on Domino Records

you joke, but that would at least demonstrate a bit of actual wit rather than the drivel they serve

WAKE UP SHEEPLE

I'm as allergic to the hype machine as imago seems to be, but I still really like this band. I think the main thing is simply that they're fun. It's nice to follow the rise of a band who don't seem to take things too seriously, and it's rare that pop music these days makes me smile and/or laugh. But they do. I can see that their music might not make any claim to posterity, but sometimes you just want to listen to some fun, catchy tunes with some personality. And they've got that. Will I burn out on them eventually? Yeah, probably. I'll just enjoy it while the feeling lasts.

If I'm keeping track, we should not do the following:

- criticize their marketing
- not criticize their marketing if we are North American
- criticize them for lacking formal complexity or innovation (which seems like an aesthetic concern and not to do with marketing or gender but is still Bad)
- compare them to other artists if they are female (even though we are talking about them in part because they won a poll that pitted women against other women [and also men])

- criticize their marketing

- not criticize their marketing if we are North American

- criticize them for lacking formal complexity or innovation (which seems like an aesthetic concern and not to do with marketing or gender but is still Bad)

- compare them to other artists if they are female (even though we are talking about them in part because they won a poll that pitted women against other women [and also men])

there's a bad habit that people get into where comparisons for a female musician are always other female musicians, as if they need to stay in their female corner, and yes this is bad and people should stop doing it

honestly this band is like, i dunno, fun? not worth all this trouble? both?

It’s okay to think that they suck! It’s just weird ascribing their success to vague ~marketing~ rather than some people actually liking their songs.

WL are going for 'cool' way more than they're going for 'fun' imo

here's more my idea of fun (rather than laconically parading one's mother-worrisome and big-d-obtaining nature, which is, after all, just banal cool-kid bragging)

no more in-character lj posts itt thanks

"big d" line is hilarious, women can be funny

so if I post examples of women being funny in pop songs (see: the Audiobooks one) I'm pitting women against each other, and if I post examples of men being funny in pop songs (see: the Chap one) I'm denying that women can be funny

*posts every GFOTY video and peaces*

*returns*

*posts every 100 gecs and every Fraxiom video*

*peaces*

I watched the video at the start of the thread, I thought it was stupid-funny (especially the random high kick) but musically it was very bad. Do pop bands not have to have melodies anymore?

Don't know anything about the hype machine, I've heard of them once or twice. But I'm in North America, so I don't count.

no more in-character lj posts itt thanks

― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, March 3, 2022 7:02 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Do pop bands not have to have melodies anymore?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc5vncyWQnY

Two notes (occasional half step down) over chord changes would be an imprrovement over a spoken slide down a chromatic scale.

Actually that would get me on board! I think the vocal is the only thing I have a problem with on the WL track.

i like this band more than I should based on the way she sings "driving in my car" and the 'here we go' chant bit.

getting insane hype and winning ILM EOY polls on the first try. I

we’re being suspicious of a girl unit winning the ILM poll without an existing fan base now?

It worked for Lily Allen, dinit?

...wut

that song by The Chap is fucking 'orrible

i'm don't think there's much stanning? i'm okay with the song, feels like a fun one hit wonder thing...i'm just constantly perplexed by "attractive young people make an extremely catchy pop song and it got popular" becoming some byzantine chaise lounge industrial complex oliver stone movie conspiracy

xp your loss tracer but for those who care, new album is out next month, gonna be called 'why the longue chaise?'

― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, March 3, 2022 7:01 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

just want to say how much i love this post

it really is excellent. would post to excelsior but fear that'd make me a pawn on Domino Records' chessboard.

The last thing I'll mention is WL putting a song called "Angelica" brought to mind this one from 1997 which think sounds like a kind-of proto Wet Leg in an odd way (although none of their other stuff did apart from this).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16indpzGa9U

Heh, the singer is in The Lovely Eggs.

in england they spell things different. like, color is "c-o-l-o-u-r" and "middle-aged poptimists" is "middle-aged p-a-e-d-o-p-h-i-l-e-s"

also I counter your lyric argument with "Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?" which is a perfect pop song non-sequitur IMHO

i didn't know this until today but

The lyric "Is your muffin buttered?/Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?" is a direct quote from the 2004 teen comedy Mean Girls.[9]

https://i.ibb.co/YfCJP6Q/03daea0a48320f3323f5c54fb88f8e11.jpg

the phrase is used by a male character btw as if you couldn't have guessed the context

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocRzU9QRJiU

Which is in turn a lift from Weird Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmgUrKYeYL8

https://slideplayer.com/slide/16428115/96/images/7/DEVIANCY+AMPLIFICATION+SPIRAL.jpg

Chet Leg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPRX3i1aOF8

it's about having character, dear folks

― imago, Thursday, March 3, 2022 5:52 AM (seven hours ago)

crying at how bad this song is. like, there actually would've been no better choice to illustrate the taste divide in this thread. just a pitch perfect punchline

eh, audiobooks are good not bad imo

this audiobooks song sounds like someone remixed Farrah Abraham and took out all of the things that made her music compelling

lmao jordan otm

lmao jordan otm

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, March 3, 2022 1:30 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

one of these bands has a calculated, overly polished, cool-kids-trying-too-hard vibe covering for songs that are barely there. the other is wet leg.

thank you normies

Some band with a name like Power Nap: OI ME VIBES HAVE CHANGED CALL THE OOOOOBAH *autotune gibberish*

imago:
https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/4f6/886/69dd4f6bea4966df9c8d167c03c8c909b3-13-wojak-00.2x.h473.w710.jpg

song's vibe is more like "Oh No" than "Chaise Longue". also the lyrics -- she says "Oh No" a bunch.

i listened to "chaise longue" and it sounds like a standard rock song. should i read this thread and find out what all the controversy is?

no

the exact same argument crops up every couple months, so just wait til next time

but what these advantages are seems hard to pin down.

that's only because it's considered gauche and tacky to assume the obvious

doesn't usually stop you

should i read this thread and find out what all the controversy is?

― aegis philbin (crüt), Thursday, March 3, 2022 2:50 PM (one hour ago)

yes

omg you guys
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sorry
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idgi

the last line

yeah fuck the Red Cross I don't understand if you meant "omg good" or "omg surprising" or ?