Macklemore, "Same Love"

whereas sarcasm is still fresh

that god for that

so happy that this voice is fresh

Macklefresh

Macklemore sounds like the name of a regional fish and/or tricky fairy tale troll.

Also, it makes me think of Ritchie Blackmore.

schmekelmore

Blackmore's Night:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Blackmore%27s_Night_in_2012.jpg/1200px-Blackmore%27s_Night_in_2012.jpg

man Fleetwood Mac have aged

mor is 'big' as gaeilge but by all means continue to use yr 'comedy' against my culture in yr ignorance ITT oh woe, oh woe

all the attempts to say "who macklemore fans are" is kind of weird b/c he's HUGE. macklemore fans are everybody. well, everybody except those who don't like him. but it's not as if his fans fit into some very tidy demographic.

http://macklemore.com/post/86276707372/family-friends-and-fans-alike-who-know-me-well

haha all you really need is the URL

"ask any of my friends, they'll tell you..."

I’ve got hip to some incredible groups like the ADL

this is ominous.

wish he'd Macklebeag amirite?

amateurist otm as to Macklemore's "audience." That's something I was trying to get at upthread in response to predictions that he wouldn't be a star by the next record and would go back to being a moderately successful undie rapper for the rest of his career.

macklemore fans are everybody.

In the sense that almost anyone can become part of The Borg, yes.

I still stand by "every Macklemore fan is Brian Griffin"

appreciate it nv

all the attempts to say "who macklemore fans are" is kind of weird b/c he's HUGE. macklemore fans are everybody. well, everybody except those who don't like him. but it's not as if his fans fit into some very tidy demographic.

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don't you know they're the children of reagan democrats?!

that's the kind of thing that makes me want to quit the internet (along with, you know, everything else on the internet).

no they are regan democrats, i.e. democrats possessed by demons, spinning their heads 360 degrees, barfing, etc.

all the attempts to say "who macklemore fans are" is kind of weird b/c he's HUGE. macklemore fans are everybody. well, everybody except those who don't like him. but it's not as if his fans fit into some very tidy demographic.

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it's definitely the demographic of "people who don't listen to much rap music"

if you know what i mean

Whiney are you a a preening metal hip-hop purist manbaby ? :)

xp I was going to say upthread that the defining sentiment of a Macklemore fan is probably "finally some rap music for ME"

The defining sentiment of a Macklemore fan is "I like pop music."

That came off as snarky and pejorative about pop music, though I didn't mean it to. But my guess if you made a diagram of people who like Lil Wayne, Macklemore, Drake, Eminem, Rihanna, and Beyonce, there'd be a gigantic amount of overlap.

My main point is that this dope is one of the 10 most popular artists of the past couple years, and my guess is that the average Macklemore fan is just the average fan of music that is popular right now, not someone super-stoked that there's finally a rapping white guy.

Which isn't to say that his music is good, or that there aren't gnarly racial components to his success. I just kind of feel all this "Reagan Democrat/music for white people who are afraid of rap" stuff understates the size of this guy's fan base.

It's the same audience who bought Nelly records a decade ago. It's standard-issue pop-rap crossover to me, made way easier for the American public because of Macklemore's race, but not limited to people who buy no other rap.

It's the same audience who bought Nelly records a decade ago.

how dare u

Not a qualitative judgment; Nelly's way better.

also tho i think nelly was a genuine star w/african americans

cant find it now but either rev or whiney or someone posted a link to a twitter search of the words "macklemore" and "rap" and maybe the word "like" and it was tweet after tweet of white teens proclaiming that macklemore is the only rap music they liked

Yeah, for sure re:Nelly. I guess here's what I mean, which I honestly don't feel like I'm expressing very well at all:

I actually think that race is a gigantic issue for Macklemore's success, but I think that psychoanalyzing his audience as something separate from the audience for the rest of American pop music is folly.

likewise Eminem and Beastie Boys were the only rappers played on rock radio when I was in high school

only rappers played on rock radio

For an earlier example, see Run-DMC with Aerosmith.

Yeah, I'm just saying that dude's fan base is a fish-in-a-barrel on this thread, but the reality is that they're the fish all around you. Which isn't supposed to be a more comforting thought.

sorry for the pseudo-"haven't I blown your mind??" phrasing on that last one.

I just kind of feel all this "Reagan Democrat/music for white people who are afraid of rap" stuff understates the size of this guy's fan base.

this... is a huge fan base though? as evidenced by the success of Macklemore (welcome to Tautologies R Us)

Nelly and Macklemore comparison is off for the simple fact that Hip-hop and rap stations actually played Nelly. Macklemore's songs barely have a presence on radio-based rap charts.

welcome to Tautologies R Us

where you're guaranteed to go round and round w/your cart or your money back

xps

but run-dmc/aerosmith makes sense as like rock crossover, as did at least some of the beastie boys they played (sabotage, fight for your right)

playing eminem on the other hand was just so transparently not about the music's ostensible genre

Yeah, I take back the Nelly thing, that was bogus, sorry about that.

DJP probably otm, probably should rethink before I go nuts posting again, sorry all.

eminem no longer gets played by rap radio either and hasn't for years and years

r.i.p. big man

Macklemore should hook the Nelly crowd by joining Tim McGraw on his "Sundown Heaven Town Tour"

i think there is definitely a lot of trying to define the macklemore audience as NOT LIKE ME in this thread because people dont like his music (and the unfortunate fact of his success). pretty basic distancing 101. which is not to say that he doesn't suck. and not to say that many of his fans probably suck (but find me an act that you couldn't say that about). but let's not go crazy here.

if i was a macklemore fan, i'd swear ilx hates me