the elite gymnastics thread

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I’m so tired of people jumping on every possible controversy they can conjure because they need web traffic.

Grimes tumblr otm

https://twitter.com/elite_gz/status/363402960954339328

link to the site he's talking about?

good point. here you go: http://www.spin.com/articles/dead-girlfriends-on-fraternity-controversy-grimes-fugazi/

That's a good discussion, they're not just all dumping on him. controversy's good for yr career, James!

if i was a woman i would think chillwave hates me

― Does the RS Tsarnaev Cover Offend You, Yeah? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, July 29, 2013 11:00 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

thanking u

Wait was that tweet actually the petulant bs it reads like? Jesus Christ dude you are so lucky* to have their thoughtful attention.

*privileged

women, man. can't they just listen to a guy who's trying to help

haha yeah I love how this guy follows up his weak garbled male appropriation of women's experiences by asking "why do I have no voice in this discussion?" to a group of women who have actual insightful things to say

maybe we should send him a link to our "death of the author" discussion so he gets that interpretation doesn't mean the lyricist telling you exactly what the lyrics are supposed to mean

obviously cant speak for the guy (of whose music i am a big fan so, idk, im biased i guess!) but the post he made immediately after the first 'wave' of controversy more or less seemed to imply that the song was about his own experience of (being) sexual(ly) assault(ed). he didnt come out and say that, so if youre really cynical maybe you assume hes just trying to imply that, or hes trying to weasel out or whatever. but id be wary at least for now of saying hes appropriating womens experiences.

other than that, idk, i have nothing to say really besides, huh.

I liked the noisy bit

http://defaultgenders.tumblr.com/post/57247050954/name-change

In two weeks: PostHuman

Two weeks after that: "Surprise! I was Hugo Schwyzer all along!"

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121031153246/community-sitcom/images/1/1a/Human_Being.jpeg

I'm glad he changed the name.

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

http://www.spin.com/articles/default-genders-james-brooks-on-fraternity-controversy-response/

this guy and grimes are frustrating because they're on point a lot of the time and obviously have a lot of shit to say, much of which is really important and timely, but when i read their tumblr posts they're so rambling and ill-thought-through (or overthought) and when i listen to their music i just want to turn it off because it str8-up sucks so much (elite gymnastics even more than grimes b/c i hear nothing of note going on there at all)

^ otm

they're too tumblr-y for me.

irl kmt @

There's lot of stuff that maybe when I'm 60 and I don't give a shit, I'll write the Tumblr post to end all Tumblr posts and completely out everybody

the Tumblr post to end all Tumblr posts
the Tumblr post to end all Tumblr posts
the Tumblr post to end all Tumblr posts
the Tumblr post to end all Tumblr posts
the Tumblr post to end all Tumblr posts

That would just be a self-reblogged selfie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbling_%28gymnastics%29

haha he seems so sure that Tumblr will still be everywhere in the 2040s or w/e

I'll send you a telegraph

guess dude was too young for geocities

seems like people aren't really trying to give this guy any benefit of the doubt because stuff like this i think comes off pretty well:

And so, "On Fraternity" — it's called "On Fraternity." I don't want women to hear it and not be able to relate to it. I don't want to tell any of the women who are listening to it that your reaction to it, positive or negative, is not valid. But the purpose of "On Fraternity," in the context of the EP especially, is to call out my male peers for creating a situation where other people are victimized. I totally failed to do that. I guess if there was any reaction I was expecting, it was that the people, especially in the music industry, who are doing this stuff that's upsetting me would have a problem with it.

How else could it be framed?
Even just singing about the rape experience, that's another weird thing that's hard to talk about. Obviously women are much more vulnerable, and it's perpetrated against them much more than other demographics, but the rape experience doesn't belong to women. It's my place as a survivor of sexual assault to sing about that if I want to. I don't want to make that a big issue, because the point of "On Fraternity," like I said before, was to call out other men for creating a situation where victimization is enabled, and the silence that allows victimizers to run around and act with impunity is also something that my peers in the music industry perpetuate. So I don't want to make it about me, like, "Oh, it's about my rape experience." But it's not like I wrote those lines from a place of complete ignorance. The fact that so many people assumed that, based on my race and my gender or whatever minimal biographic information people know about me? That was the roughest part of it.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/b77f4dab70a2db5a61a486363c0cd0c5/tumblr_mprff1dVGa1r67k03o1_500.jpg

I didn't like his last few singles, but the new Default Genders album is okay imo: http://magicalpessimism.bandcamp.com/album/magical-pessimism-2014

Last year he posted about making a conscious decision to place his vocals higher in the mix and not process them as much, but I think that was a mistake cause his voice sounds like fucking Owl City to me lol

'on fraternity' is probably the only good indie rock song in years

i actually blieve that

wasn't sure if I should bump this one or start a new thread, but the new Default Genders is really doing it for me. Springsteen + breakbeats is something I never knew I needed. I also want way more music that uses Air France/Sincerely Yours stuff as a jumping off point and ends up somewhere else entirely.

https://magicalpessimism.bandcamp.com/album/main-pop-girl-2019

^yeah that's so good. early aoty contender for me tbh.

I'm bad at articulating my thoughts on music (and I mostly lurk here as a result), but I feel like this is really special.

It is actually an amazing album. It reminds me of The Russian Futurists except with the best lyrics I've ever heard

whew, reading through this thread was a wild ride

Thank you for the great record, James <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHVMdGL0kno

congrats on the new video, james

it is i who should be thanking y'all for being willing to listen to new stuff from me in the first place

now i'm going to go and dip my head into molten lava until i burn out the memory of ever having hit play on the video whiney posted

:P

<333333333333333333 JB

james you made an amazing album thank you

absolutely love this, it's a little world I keep wanting to revisit. heart emoji xo and vietato calpestare i prati probably my favs atm

new album, a kind of reimagining of the previous one https://magicalpessimism.bandcamp.com/album/pain-mop-girl-2020

Jaime Brooks just surprise-dropped "the first album by elite gymnastics"!
https://magicalpessimism.bandcamp.com/album/snow-flakes-2022

So far sounds like more primo breakbeat pop à la main pop/pain mop girl. Gonna have to pay close attention to these lyrics as usual...