that sounds like it deserves its own campaigning thread
― Simon H., Saturday, 21 February 2015 02:16 (nine years ago) link
see the emp thread
― katherine, Saturday, 21 February 2015 02:32 (nine years ago) link
"acoustic cover of pop banger" is a long-standing pox but this is next-level hideousness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf_ldxntwJg
about as dirty as mould in a student bedsit
the redman bit that you knew was coming :((((((((((
― lex pretend, Thursday, 26 February 2015 11:30 (nine years ago) link
This twerp may be my very least favourite thing in music right now.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 26 February 2015 14:05 (nine years ago) link
ewww i am not brave enough to click the play button
― dyl, Thursday, 26 February 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
a good time to remember that "thinking out loud" is the worst radio hit ever
― lucas castro, Thursday, 26 February 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
yeah :(
― if you're reading this is an ed sheeran album (o_sailor), Thursday, 26 February 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
I didn't hate All About That Bass, but from that to Future Husband to that Marvin Gaye thing is really some death spiral.
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 26 February 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
I thought ironic indie covers of pop songs were the worst things ever, but the earnest ones are possibly worse on the whole
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 February 2015 19:26 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlC-uR7TnyM
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 01:34 (nine years ago) link
15k youtube plays1 million spotify plays
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 03:36 (nine years ago) link
WHERE'S MY GUN?
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
Train - Bulletproof Picasso (starring Emily Kinney & Reid Ewing)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNHJ7zz16bY
"Am I made of paper? / Because I tear so easily"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link
I had to look up who those two people are.
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
Can we agree that this dude is the absolute worst lyricist of the last fifteen years? Never forget: "Now that she's back from that soul vacation / Tracing her way through the constellation, hey / She checks out Mozart while she does Tae-Bo / Reminds me that there's room to grow, hey"
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
lol i like that song a lot but i suppose it helps that i was somehow able to hear it w/o rly noticing the lyrics much/at all (it took me a minute to recognize in yr post what they were from)
― dyl, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
my long tradition of defending Train singles does not stop here
― some dude, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link
Awwwww, that Death Team video is shot at O'Connor Bowl in Toronto! (the 5-pin bowling being a dead giveaway that they are getting the American 'hood vibe all wrong).
― everything, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
they're getting pretty much every vibe wrong imo
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 19:23 (nine years ago) link
christ even the spiderman 2 song?
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
this is pretty wtf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hZRHpCBt9Y
― Frobisher, Friday, 6 March 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
This wants so desperately to be some mutant combo of The Weeknd, Miley's "We Can't Stop" and Kitty (Pryde), but it just sounds so ridiculously strained and awkward.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Friday, 6 March 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfB_K4RGtDo
― flopson, Friday, 6 March 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
I kind of like that
(from the description I was expecting "The Weekend" to load)
― katherine, Friday, 6 March 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
I don't specifically like it, but it might be the least objectionable nickleback song I've ever heard.
― how's life, Friday, 6 March 2015 23:40 (nine years ago) link
just poking my head in this thread to say that I actually kinda like fucking bitches in the hood
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Friday, 6 March 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link
oh christ did the xp make me "like" nickelback, I regret it all
(I meant the roslyn moore, reminds me of my favorite katy rose/shut up stella tracks)
― katherine, Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:21 (nine years ago) link
The vocals in the Roslyn Moore track don't seem to be off-key in certain parts. It's through the whole thing! She's either sharp or flat vs. the beat, but just a little, and that's enough to drive me insane.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:39 (nine years ago) link
That Nickelback is indefensible solely for the lyric "everybody wants to be the sister's mister ,Coca-Cola rollercoaster".
I don't understand "Fucking Bitches in the Hood" and that's a nightmarishly awful name for a song.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Saturday, 7 March 2015 04:32 (nine years ago) link
oh wait it's just an awful Uffie song
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Saturday, 7 March 2015 04:34 (nine years ago) link
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, March 4, 2015 2:28 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i didn't mean ALL of them. that one is kind of entertaining just to hear them try to do brooding hard rock, but not one of my favorites.
― some dude, Saturday, 7 March 2015 04:46 (nine years ago) link
"Fucking Bitches" = most teenaged girls are awful again. It's cyclical.
― Three Word Username, Saturday, 7 March 2015 11:39 (nine years ago) link
think death team are in their thirties though.
― how's life, Saturday, 7 March 2015 12:23 (nine years ago) link
yeah, i was surprised by how old they look in the video, when i heard the song i was like 'well, this is pretty bad, but these have to be some clueless teens'
― some dude, Saturday, 7 March 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link
I meant the teenaged girls who are consuming, not creating, that awful, awful song.
― Three Word Username, Saturday, 7 March 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
I'd been hearing Hozier's "Take Me to Church" for a long time until I found out who did it--I just thought of it as the Elton-John-soundalike. I don't hate the first half-minute or so.
― clemenza, Sunday, 8 March 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link
"Fucking Bitches in the Hood" is kinda harmless relatively speaking - like "Mouldy Old Dough" subbing in as this year's novelty hipster shareable (Cameltoe, Pizza Hut Taco Bell)... at least it's not shrill, loud and in your face. Definitely too much chorus to too little verse but w/e. Compared to "Marvin Gaye" it's fucking Marvin Gaye.
"In The Burbs" mainly suffering from identity confusion and production issues - slide BPM up for Miley, slide down for Lorde, but doesn't have the oomph for either. Super dinky sounding. At some point in time this coulda been an okay indie track but it got waylaid somewhere.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 15 March 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
i'm seeing meghan trainor for work on tuesday
― maura, Sunday, 15 March 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
i gather you don't have much good to say in advance of that meeting.
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 15 March 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Lunchmoney Lewis' "Bills" was mentioned in rolling pop but not here.consider it mentioned here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IrQHeDcMi8
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 15 March 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
lol i had a feeling it would end up here
― dyl, Sunday, 15 March 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link
Bit of trivia about LunchMoney Lewis: His father and Uncle were members of the reggae group Inner Circle.
― MarkoP, Sunday, 15 March 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
Oh, so terrible earworm-laden music runs in the family.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 March 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
everything about this is eugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShlW5plD_40&feature=player_embedded
― Roz, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 05:58 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge7mozA-ptI
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 06:06 (nine years ago) link
btw, i had my moments with "all about that bass" so i approached Title with an open mind and "dear future husband" was the track that closed the door hard
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 06:09 (nine years ago) link
Lunch Money Lewis is dope i'm not into that song either but he's a super talented dude who's had a hand in a bunch of great records on the hip-hop side of things
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 07:00 (nine years ago) link
"dear future husband" seems a pathetic misstep - what an unappealing persona to emphasize as she's building her identity. i guess it overlaps with the impish/"sassy" thing that people went for on her hit, but i feel like at least some portion of people that liked or shared that song did so because they felt like it stood for some kind of vaguely progressive, sisters-are-butting-it-for-themselves kinda idea if not a very nuanced or thought-out one. but this hands us a much much more conventional "am i right, girls?" spree of lame cliches that i imagine those same people won't actually relate to at all.
OTOH doubling down on a 'novelty' sound might be the right business decision since she doesn't seem to have much else to sustain a career on. the thing is i'd just rather hear dion and the belmonts than this insulting drivel. the carnival scene in the video made me hope we were headed in the direction of a "dead zone" plot but no such luck.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
wow this is terrible
― maura, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 18:44 (nine years ago) link
FIVE HOURS TO GO