"solidified"
― salthigh, Saturday, 17 January 2015 03:22 (nine years ago) link
During the Watergate scandal, President Richard Nixon referred to United States District Court Judge John Sirica as a "gol' darn wop."
― salthigh, Saturday, 17 January 2015 03:25 (nine years ago) link
just gonna leave this here: http://www.mtv.com/bands/e/eamon/news_feature_022404/
it's brought me a lot of joy over the years
― james brooks, Saturday, 17 January 2015 03:54 (nine years ago) link
ho-wop is legendary
― some dude, Saturday, 17 January 2015 03:55 (nine years ago) link
i went into a record store the other and they were playing her album. i didn't leave because they had a bunch of great middle eastern records i ended up buying, but i sure did consider leaving.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 17 January 2015 04:56 (nine years ago) link
what'd you end up getting?
― Mordy, Saturday, 17 January 2015 05:03 (nine years ago) link
a bunch of stuff! ali akbar khan and some pretty rare "ethnic" LPs from the 1950s.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 18 January 2015 23:36 (nine years ago) link
NICE
― breakfast josiah (los blue jeans), Monday, 19 January 2015 05:20 (nine years ago) link
http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/i-am-new-person-you-have-know-about-now-1784
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 January 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqzDy9rw8oQ
― crüt, Thursday, 25 February 2016 22:52 (eight years ago) link
this person is not going away
am i the only one who finds her swerve from lightweight novelty doowop, sorry, 'she-wop', straight into hard pop-rnb slightly... sinister?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 28 May 2016 13:26 (eight years ago) link
she's on TSA's no sing list.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 May 2016 13:28 (eight years ago) link
"me too" and "no" are fantastic
i love what she's doing
― james brooks, Saturday, 28 May 2016 16:35 (eight years ago) link
it's like the T.G.I. Friday version of pop music? I'm not sure why i like Blurred Lines but am suspicious of Meghan Trainor yet there it is.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 28 May 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
"me too" and "no" are fantastic i love what she's doing --james brooks
i love what she's doing --james brooks
Great songs, great excuses for Ricky Reed beats. People are judging her unfairly for sure
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 May 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link
i think she'll go away before long
― dyl, Saturday, 28 May 2016 17:11 (eight years ago) link
PC music is the t.g.i.fridays of pop music
an unsatisfying and overpriced parody of the actual food each meal is designed to resemble
meaghan trainor is the real thing
― james brooks, Saturday, 28 May 2016 17:27 (eight years ago) link
Her beats suck and she can't sing, but I can't wait for 2023's Stereogum retrosp5.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 May 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link
Her beats suck and she can't sing, but I can't wait for 2023's Stereogum retrosp5. --The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
The beats to those two songs are great!
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 May 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link
whiney as meghan trainor apologist is a SURPRISE PLOT REVEAL
― ulysses, Saturday, 28 May 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
whiney as meghan trainor apologist is a SURPRISE PLOT REVEAL --ulysses
I didn't like the 50s throwback thing, but half the new record is just quicker out Ricky Reed party beats which are some of the funkiest, weirdest pop beats around and nothing to be mad at. People who complain that a pop star isn't as authentic as other pop stars is a little ... rockist?
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
*quirked out
The rest of the record I do not really care for
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:24 (eight years ago) link
i'm trolling a bit but it does seem like you're swimming against popular opinion.I still think 'all about that bass' is a solid novelty song; rest of that album is terrible and I haven't even tried anything off the new one yet but NO which is NO
― ulysses, Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
Maybe I'm a rockist because if En Vogue came back in 2001 with NO I'd probably be into it?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:43 (eight years ago) link
But they can sing and can hire beats.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 May 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link
"me too" is fucking horrible you guys
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2016 20:12 (eight years ago) link
"no" sounds like late-'90s teen pop (it reminds me of "overprotected") and yes of course I would like it if anyone else were singing it but that's the point
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2016 20:16 (eight years ago) link
"no" sounds like she exhumed a serviceable c-tier r&b-pop track from 2002 that might have been intended to be a blu cantrell deep cut, but god her voice is the most pinched, perfunctory, joyless thing
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 28 May 2016 22:24 (eight years ago) link
though i find her pretty ignorable as terrible and bafflingly successful pop stars go, so there's that
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 28 May 2016 22:26 (eight years ago) link
both new singles actually are good though. largely because serviceable c-tier r&b-pop tracks from 2002 were and are generally pretty good
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 28 May 2016 22:30 (eight years ago) link
her singing tho
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Saturday, 28 May 2016 22:32 (eight years ago) link
and tracer hand otm because if almost anyone else in pop today had come out with either single, with comparable vocals even, no one would think nearly as poorly of them. (it's not all that hard to imagine who they might have been written for, too)
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 28 May 2016 22:33 (eight years ago) link
xp -- it's entirely fine! not great by any stretch, but entirely fine, especially if you imagine her vocal isn't too far removed from the demo
(I forget who here said which album reminded them of Mya's _Moodring_ but that is also something I hear -- "Me Too" feels like a lesser version of "Sophisticated Lady," i.e. a lesser version of a 10/10
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 28 May 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
like, if we're talking about bad vocals, hearing "is it too late now to say sah-REEEEEEEEEEEEEE" everywhere over the last couple months has made everyone else sound like maria callas by comparison
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 28 May 2016 22:36 (eight years ago) link
making you miss DA GUDOLDAAAAAAYZ, eh?
― ulysses, Sunday, 29 May 2016 01:10 (eight years ago) link
no is a very bad song
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 29 May 2016 02:27 (eight years ago) link
I think she is bad
― kind of lolth but mostly strahd (los blue jeans), Sunday, 29 May 2016 03:07 (eight years ago) link
xp - except it really isn't. it's not great, but it's hardly any notable offense against music. at worst, it's bland
love "me too"
― like $500 billion in stuffed fart sales and I have an idea (contenderizer), Sunday, 29 May 2016 03:17 (eight years ago) link
you are all making me question my immediate loathing of "me too"
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Sunday, 29 May 2016 03:25 (eight years ago) link
I haven't heard me too but if it isn't about the day AOL got on usenet then I'm not interested
― kind of lolth but mostly strahd (los blue jeans), Sunday, 29 May 2016 03:44 (eight years ago) link
I like the boingy, rubbery synth; I like the kind of Beck-ish pre-chorus; I'm not mad at the chorus which is a little affectless but gets the job done. There's a dog in the video.
― queen elseq of ærendelle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 29 May 2016 04:03 (eight years ago) link
"no" does sound like a subpar album cut from that late 90s/early 00s era. or maybe an interlude.
― dyl, Sunday, 29 May 2016 06:29 (eight years ago) link
lotta dismissive attitudes towards m-train for a message board that was once ground zero for pipettes hyperfandom imo
― james brooks, Sunday, 29 May 2016 06:57 (eight years ago) link
pipettes were so terrible
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Sunday, 29 May 2016 07:54 (eight years ago) link
"pull shapes" was great sorry
― dyl, Sunday, 29 May 2016 16:02 (eight years ago) link
your disses are wasted on me
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Sunday, 29 May 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
Meghan Trainor is against Photoshop and objectifying women, but she doesn’t give AF who runs the United States of America. The “No” singer told Billboard in a new interview that she’s not only never voted before, but that she’s just not going to be into it … ever.“I should be way more aware,” Trainor told the magazine while talking about politics. “If it was [Hillary Clinton] or [Donald] Trump, I’d definitely vote for her — but I’ve never voted and I don’t have any desire to.”The LGBTQ advocate didn’t expand on her decision to shirk her civic duties, but she did express her disbelief when it comes to the recent shootings across the country. “I think it’s ridiculous that random crazy people can buy guns,” she told Billboard.The songstress also tooted her own horn during the interview.“I always say, ‘I s--t hits,’” Trainor boasted. “Because they come out so quick I can’t even keep up with myself.” (In her defense, the Grammy winner has written chart-toppers for Jennifer Lopez, Fifth Harmony and Rascal Flatts, as well as her own jams.)And while the 22-year-old from Nantucket, Massachusetts, has made a name by embracing her curves, she’s the first to admit that she didn’t set out to be a role model.“I don’t really have a choice,” she said about being a spokesperson for body positivity. “It’s not like I’m trying to go out there and be a famous person who’s all about being a role model for curves. I mean, if it’s helping other people, then that’s amazing and I will be that role model.”Growing up in Massachusetts, Trainor was introduced to musicians such as Bob Marley through her uncle Burton Toney, a Trinidadian soca star.“I’d show [photos to] people in high school, like, ‘That’s my uncle!’ And they’d be like, ‘What?’” she recalled while showing Billboard a photo of her black uncle. “I always say, ‘I’m Trini to the bone,’ which means you have Trini blood. I don’t. I just wish I did.”
“I should be way more aware,” Trainor told the magazine while talking about politics. “If it was [Hillary Clinton] or [Donald] Trump, I’d definitely vote for her — but I’ve never voted and I don’t have any desire to.”
The LGBTQ advocate didn’t expand on her decision to shirk her civic duties, but she did express her disbelief when it comes to the recent shootings across the country. “I think it’s ridiculous that random crazy people can buy guns,” she told Billboard.
The songstress also tooted her own horn during the interview.
“I always say, ‘I s--t hits,’” Trainor boasted. “Because they come out so quick I can’t even keep up with myself.” (In her defense, the Grammy winner has written chart-toppers for Jennifer Lopez, Fifth Harmony and Rascal Flatts, as well as her own jams.)
And while the 22-year-old from Nantucket, Massachusetts, has made a name by embracing her curves, she’s the first to admit that she didn’t set out to be a role model.
“I don’t really have a choice,” she said about being a spokesperson for body positivity. “It’s not like I’m trying to go out there and be a famous person who’s all about being a role model for curves. I mean, if it’s helping other people, then that’s amazing and I will be that role model.”
Growing up in Massachusetts, Trainor was introduced to musicians such as Bob Marley through her uncle Burton Toney, a Trinidadian soca star.
“I’d show [photos to] people in high school, like, ‘That’s my uncle!’ And they’d be like, ‘What?’” she recalled while showing Billboard a photo of her black uncle. “I always say, ‘I’m Trini to the bone,’ which means you have Trini blood. I don’t. I just wish I did.”
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/meghan-trainor-has-never-voted-has-no-desire-to-w213085
― art baengels (monotony), Friday, 15 July 2016 02:49 (seven years ago) link
wow, only two pages of google results for "I shit hits", surely some other famous hit-shitter has thought to say this before now, Lionel Richie maybe?
― it's sort of a layered stunt (sheesh), Friday, 15 July 2016 03:58 (seven years ago) link
lol
― dyl, Friday, 15 July 2016 07:54 (seven years ago) link