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Here's something I discovered the other day: An EDM album from Megaupload owner, Kim Dotcom

MarkoP, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link

okay I got around it, holy fucking lol

SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link

(yes I am dissecting the lyrics of the other songs posted in this thread in order to avoid having to comment on "I wanna dance with a black woman")

my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link

And just to emphasize, *nothing* they've released to date suggested they'd ever try anything that wrongheaded. I am completely dumbfounded as to why they thought that would be a good or acceptable idea.

Simon H., Wednesday, 29 January 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link

so glad I didn't scroll down before clicking that link. mississippi nailed my experience perfectly. sweet, merciless god.

president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link

on the most charitable reading, it seems like postmodern genre satire ('Hello, I am a rock singer, expressing a prevalent rock music trope in its most-naked, least-tolerable form') but even then the punchline-iness of it falls flat for me

I should maybe add that this is my first exposure to the music of Timber Timbre

my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link

That Timber Timbre track is somehow harder to get through than the Lenka one.

Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Thursday, 30 January 2014 03:41 (ten years ago) link

the video makes it a million times worse

katherine, Thursday, 30 January 2014 04:35 (ten years ago) link

Were it not for THAT opening I could kinda see the video as simply a deliberately skeevy Fire Walk With Me homage and shrug it off. And yet...

Simon H., Thursday, 30 January 2014 04:40 (ten years ago) link

OMG thank u for the Kimdotcom tip, wau

just got back from NZ and that dude was everywhere

his album of lol/posi-core self-help bangerz is chillingly "on message" throughout, amazing

the tune was space, Thursday, 30 January 2014 05:59 (ten years ago) link

I can't believe I'm going to say this out loud, but ... there's something that I kinda like about Rude. I think it's mostly his voice, and I find the melody appealing. The white-boy reggae is regrettable, certainly.

Plus I kinda feel bad for him! He puts on his best suit and goes to ask her dad about marrying his daughter, and he seems sincere ... dad seems like a jerk.

alpine static, Thursday, 30 January 2014 07:45 (ten years ago) link

What are the qualifiers for being white-boy reggae?

Iain Mew (if), Thursday, 30 January 2014 08:48 (ten years ago) link

Asking because seeing the descriptor used so much for a group led by someome who isn't a white boy made me wonder. I wouldn't have used it.

Also I hate the song and think he's the one who comes off as more of a jerk thanks to some of the phrasing ('have your daughter'?)

Iain Mew (if), Thursday, 30 January 2014 09:16 (ten years ago) link

"I wanna dance
I wanna dance
I wanna dance..."

*okay yeah this sucks but i dunno it's not THAT bad*

"...with black woman"

*click*

― Zen Dawson (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, January 29, 2014 8:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Exactly this. At 0:05 I was thinking "Shit, what can happen in the next two seconds?" Crazy that someone would sabotage their own song in this way.

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 30 January 2014 10:36 (ten years ago) link

I can't believe I'm going to say this out loud, but ... there's something that I kinda like about Rude. I think it's mostly his voice, and I find the melody appealing. The white-boy reggae is regrettable, certainly.

Plus I kinda feel bad for him! He puts on his best suit and goes to ask her dad about marrying his daughter, and he seems sincere ... dad seems like a jerk.

― alpine static, Thursday, January 30, 2014 7:45 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Exactly this. There's just something about this song that manages to beat the odds.

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 30 January 2014 10:37 (ten years ago) link

That Kim "Dotcom" Schmitz album sounds like stereotypical German Techno music sometimes but is not that horrible

DDD, Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:10 (ten years ago) link

yeah, the music is competent and hitting the target that it's going for, I think it's just the KimDotCom-ness of it all that amazes me- it's got this manic positivity selfhelp vibe that is really funny to me- dude is so shameless- but yeah, it's not like miles away from, say, the Schlager-Techno of DJ Scooter or something:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygWV__SMt7M

the tune was space, Thursday, 30 January 2014 15:14 (ten years ago) link

Kim Dotcom reaching out to literally every media outlet available to raise awareness about net neutrality and his cause is more desperate than shameless - he was pretty secretive before the Megaupload bust.

DDD, Thursday, 30 January 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link

And now he's trying to be the Internet Neutrality Guru

DDD, Thursday, 30 January 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link

Hey, Timber Timbre, Richard Hawley wants his song back, just so he can write a better lyric.*

*A major lunchbag letdown, this one, as I really liked the first Timber Timbre album.

kim dotcom i love you

goole, Thursday, 30 January 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link

but you're bringing me downloads

the Norwegians are leaving! (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 30 January 2014 21:15 (ten years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqackdaUED8

DDD, Friday, 31 January 2014 10:40 (ten years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxPDAtWnqN0

EZ Snappin made me listen to this on Facebook so I'm now sharing it with all of you

SHAUN (DJP), Friday, 31 January 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link

OMG

Johnny Fever, Friday, 31 January 2014 20:22 (ten years ago) link

that poor woman

goole, Friday, 31 January 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link

holy shit

avant gardener (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 31 January 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link

shaggs'n'b

goole, Friday, 31 January 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link

trying to work out which Sesame Street character he sounds like, think it might be Big Bird

141 Jute Gyte - Discontinuities 142 drake - nothing was the same (imago), Friday, 31 January 2014 20:35 (ten years ago) link

ThatRaw.com Presents

alpine static, Friday, 31 January 2014 20:39 (ten years ago) link

ThatRaw.com Presents D'Angelo & Wesley Willis

skip, Friday, 31 January 2014 20:50 (ten years ago) link

ugh Lenka, she was also responsible for this shite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ2cftjyHys

everyday sheeple (Michael B), Friday, 31 January 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link

major lolz at icejjfish

PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 February 2014 00:34 (ten years ago) link

aw, this is trolling and not serious; i am less interested now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgOH9VAh0mM

PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 February 2014 00:35 (ten years ago) link

though i will admit his freestyle covers of "thuggish ruggish bone" and this "woman's worth" have something to recommend them. once.

PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 February 2014 00:38 (ten years ago) link

that windows 8 commercial looks like steve jobs haunting microsoft from the grave jesus

worthless lucubrations w/ ill-concealed apathy bro (zachlyon), Saturday, 1 February 2014 02:11 (ten years ago) link

"everryww-h-ee-e-e-rree" love those harmonies lol

ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Saturday, 1 February 2014 03:20 (ten years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go3dsyGflGE

We're young hearts, look at us go, all we really need is a stereo
We're young hearts, look at us go, there's no stopping us we will carry on

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 6 February 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link

Gorgon City waitin for love

cog, Friday, 7 February 2014 11:53 (ten years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXh8B4yWVKk

maura, Monday, 10 February 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link

She is awful all round. Ed Sheeran protege who covered Don't Stop for a John Lewis ad.

What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Monday, 10 February 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link

I admire her devotion to bringing back chokers.

maura, Monday, 10 February 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link

I feel like someone re/makes this song about every six weeks now.

Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 February 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link

Yeah, that might have been an interesting track if it hadn't been done dozens of times the last couple years.

skip, Monday, 10 February 2014 19:43 (ten years ago) link

oh god that is really bad

the line about "desperation" leaps out of the video and side-eyes the whole song surrounding it and reads it to filth

the real desperation is the music industry desperately trying to comment upon the triumph of social media, as if it were still some kind of older/wiser/truer aesthetically rocksolid platform in some kind of secure position to judge this new upstart- but when it comes up with garbage like this it only reifies its own insecurity and looks even more "tryhard"

music industry, you lookin thirsty

the tune was space, Monday, 10 February 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link

yeah the weird removal really is palpable ain't it
like there should be one about twerking
wait

PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Monday, 10 February 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72WhEqeS6AQ

Murgatroid, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link

And speaking of twerking...

MarkoP, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link

is billy ray cyrus one of those hollywood parents that lives vicariously through, or rides the coattails of, his daughter's career? this video (which generally seems kinda desperate) playing-up the "twerking" thing is creepy.

Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 01:17 (ten years ago) link

Dude's not getting any Miley money anymore, so he had to reboot Achy Breaky.

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 01:29 (ten years ago) link

Hope you're not implying by posting that Austerlitz piece that somehow my dislike of Uzi means that I don't like pop music or am somehow akin to Austerlitz.

I like pop music just fine. I just don't like poorly executed bullshit.

No worries if I'm reading you wrong, just checking.

the tune was space, Friday, 21 November 2014 03:39 (nine years ago) link

nah he was trolling a whole bunch of threads with that piece it stems from a dogfight over some BS in another thread. long story.

search datpiff, you'll find it (slothroprhymes), Friday, 21 November 2014 04:24 (nine years ago) link

(trust me he feels similarly to the dipshit caucasoid austerlitz)

search datpiff, you'll find it (slothroprhymes), Friday, 21 November 2014 04:25 (nine years ago) link

i think we have a winner for the absolute worst ever, like ever ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLYoJgbybes

hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link

that was last year! iirc unperson defended it

emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link

oh my b i was only just informed this vomitous genre of "deathcore" is a think that exists

always great to see that some wites still think it's ok to say n---a *backflips into lake of fire*

hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link

*thing

hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link

I would like to reiterate this appeal

we should really poll these, so many contenders this year

Simon H., Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link

the guitar solo guy with the denim jacket looks so awkward and lost in the group shots outside the house

soref, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 16:27 (nine years ago) link

:( That Lil Dicky song upthread is not even close to his worst song
I am not reposting shit
I want to die

mango unchained (fgti), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link

Yeah, that Attila song was from last year. They do have a new album out this year, though - it's called Guilty Pleasure. I wrote a feature on them for Alternative Press. The singer has a solo album coming out next year sometime. Here's the first single/video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_97IcSgDcBo

Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 28 November 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link

RIP Uncle John From Jamaica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byH-eq_1TFU

boxedjoy, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link

http://youtu.be/Bznxx12Ptl0

Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Saturday, 13 December 2014 07:03 (nine years ago) link

three months pass...

Yikes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kpWkV7IBUw

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 15 March 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link

Outstays its welcome, but better than "Punk Rock 101," and at least not totally underwritten lyrically. Should have mixed up the chorus a bit more, and the video isn't funny enough.

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 15 March 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link

Their follow up single might be worse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKIPh1w4s18

And also has a blatant "Call Me Maybe" mention.

MarkoP, Sunday, 15 March 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link

two years pass...

calvin harris "open wide" feat big sean ticks so many boxes of badness

it's hard to believe that there is much worse than this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVzhpkFBFP8

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 December 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link


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