Macklemore, "Same Love"

lol

Neanderthal you laugh but that was a pretty uncontroversial opinion for awhile; i don't take any credit for its originality

i agree, the guy's not a great rapper or even a good one but his songs are catchy as hell. (i remember saying the same thing about jay-z at one point)

i have never heard "same love" but i read the lyrics and they seem pretty on-point for a chart rapper. rev i would be v interested to read your takedown.

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, June 23, 2013 7:31 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha i am realizing that if i like the hooks i should be praising ryan lewis? the guy looks like such an immense douche though. :(

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, June 23, 2013 7:41 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

people upthread saying catchiness in music is unimportant made me wonder if i was reading an alternate universe ILM

it's making me wonder when the last time such an explicitly political protest song had some chart burn.

green day's politics are murky at best, and then We Are the World 25 or w/e?

Maybe Dixie Chicks' "Not Ready to Make Nice," which was 2006, but seems like an eon ago

I'm not really familiar with the lyrics, but didn't Born This Way cover similar ground?

The piano is playing "Waiting on the World to Change"

Or maybe it's "People Get Ready"

I think there's a good argument that it would've been braver to have the hook sung by a dude

how's life hates lesbians

"Born This Way" > this > "Where is the Love"

http://www.shopworldph.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Jansport-Elefunk-Core-Series-Messenger-880x1024.jpg

Neanderthal you laugh but that was a pretty uncontroversial opinion for awhile; i don't take any credit for its originality

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, June 23, 2013 2:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh I know, I was actually one of those folks in my early 20s! well except that I hated him outright so I could listen to backpackers rap about the filthiness of tap water and how the periodic table was dope

did you

ok i figured it out, it was driving me nuts

"I Love College" by Asher Roth. it's in the same key and everything.

as for the content of the lyrics, i kinda don't care because he's a shitty boring rapper, although i'm sure this song will continue chart ascension throughout the next few weeks.

KROQ loves white rappers.

I like Macklemore as a rapper, he sounds precocious

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/2006956/butt-head-slapping-beavis-o.gif

he sounds precocious in the sense that he sounds like a self-impressed 15-year-old, which is not charming at all for a 30-year-old

that's just what being 30 is now right?

Macklemore is usually posted by my friends on FB, followed by the phrase

"I DON'T EVEN USUALLY LIKE RAP, BUT...."

haha yes I've experienced this.

Like a self-impressed kid is exactly what I was going for with precocious, yeah.

C'mon guys, you liked it when Kreayshawn did it. Or what about Kitty Pryde?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/the-kidz-bop-version-of-macklemores-thrift-shop-is-the-worst

Amazingly, as horrible as this is, it's more charming than the original

when i grow up i want macklemore to eat my asshole

― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Sunday, 23 June 2013 00:59 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

slept on post imo

this dude's gonna sell out a third night at Key Arena tomorrow. sorry, Rev :(

Macklemore must be stopped

i heard this song on the radio the other day. its about respecting gay people. it's really bad

and it's not really that respectful of gay people!

he could prob sell out a week's worth of key arena. surprised he didn't just go for safeco

oh, I guess the shows are in december and safeco would be a less than ideal venue at that time of year. oh well, macklemore fans can freeze for all I care.

I would be interested to hear some of the ways that the song is not respectful of gay people. Sincere query.

because the gay community is doesn't need some straight, white, over-smug clown in a Davy Crockett hat to protect them from the fact that 50 Cent says "faggot"

If you could poll "the gay community" on this song, what do you think the split would be as far as those who think it's cool and appreciate the message versus those who would prefer a rapper not cut a song supporting their cause and have it become a big hit?

among people I know, it appears to be 70% positive, 30% negative

of the 70% positives, about 90% of them are white; of the 30% negatives, 90% of them are of color and/or ILXors

ha

"if i was gay, i would think hip hop hates me" is the point where i have to reach for the dial if even get that far

because the gay community is doesn't need some straight, white, over-smug clown in a Davy Crockett hat to protect them from the fact that 50 Cent says "faggot"

― bando brothers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, July 10, 2013 11:01 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

macklemore annoys me but like i dunno if smugness and whiteness should be attributes that preclude someone from recording a song that support's the gay community

i have a problem with "same love" not so much because of the gay stuff but moreso the race stuff

supports*** wow i am sleepy

omg i want to delete that post that apostrophe is so hideously ugly and egregious

"A culture founded from oppression/Yet we don't have acceptance for 'em" is an actual lyric in this song and neither of the cultures in question are his to lecture or speak for. This straight white guy is indicting and then lecturing all of hip-hop on behalf of gay people as if he has any idea what it's like to experience the oppression either group has faced.

http://distilleryimage2.ak.instagram.com/06746cb2f32011e297b922000a1fa527_7.jpg

Insane Clown Posse dudes watch the "Can't Hold Us" video and coin the perfect nickname for Macklemore:

http://youtu.be/my9mjd0BTyY

haha

You motherfucker

reminds me of all the old rolling stones and spins i stole from the library as a kid. that was fucking awesome.

ow I just reflexively punched my monitor

bring back dzhokar

oh no, not the biggest success story of the year

Had this horrible one second moment where I thought you were saying Dzhokar was the biggest success story of the year.

ctrl + f "mackleless" -- not found?!