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ree-leee-said
issued also works
released is convention as well, "dropped" smacks of attempted nowism.

― Huck Stable (Horace Mann), Monday, 2 February 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

released = implies a sense of eagerness/desperation on the part of the album, waiting to get to the public

drop = implies that the album is going to tumble down into the waiting hands of the public

Or not. I don't mind it, but hearing it on CNN would be a bit odd.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 2 February 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago) link

the english language changes alex. get over it.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 2 February 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago) link

I wouldn't mind it if it hadn't so quickly become THE phrase (like two or three years ago). Anything in moderation is fine, but "dropped" became such an arrogant "hey, look at my street cred!" ACCESSORY that anyone who uses it immediately loses points with me.

― Huck Stable (Horace Mann), Monday, 2 February 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago) link

I agree. It sounds too hip, in a faux-hip way.

Unrelated thought to Huck: I love when things smack of other things. I'll never get tired of that word, I'm sure of it.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 2 February 2004 20:39 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, i very rarely use it. But it's so perfect sometimes.

(p.s., I goofed on the 3-syllable thing, I was going stricly visual when I typed that, get over it)

― Huck Stable (Horace Mann), Monday, 2 February 2004 20:42 (twenty years ago) link

I refuse to get over it, I shall carry my outrage back to my grave each night

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Monday, 2 February 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago) link

that's yr prerogative.

― Huck Stable (Horace Mann), Monday, 2 February 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

the english language changes alex. get over it.

No.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 2 February 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago) link

The collection of digital copies of original recordings which themselves may have been made with digital equipment or possibly analog equipment but which either way now exist in a digital mastered form for ease of consumption in the current sales market will make its appearance on this particular date.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 February 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago) link

"Coming soon to a record store near YOU!"

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 2 February 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago) link

o come on! "drop" cos its "tha bomb"! (btw i don't like it either)

― mullygrubber (gaz), Monday, 2 February 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago) link

"Dropped" is pretty awful, because it just sounds so tired and stale now. It needs to go the way of phat and jiggy and, yeah, "tha bomb". Oh, and "dope" too. Kill that fucker dead, plz.

― Broheems (diamond), Monday, 2 February 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago) link

That's all I'm sayin'.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 2 February 2004 21:28 (twenty years ago) link

in canada it's three syllables.

where in canada? I've never heard anyone anywhere say "re-lee-said", it's more like "re-least" than anything.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 2 February 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago) link

oh sorry, I see you say you made a mistake upthread... just thought it was some weird prairie thing I didn't know about.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 2 February 2004 21:51 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, I hate it too, and agree with sundry folks above -- it's almost as dumb a faux-hip cliche that people bizarrely don't realize is a cliche as "rawk." (Which might be the stupidest one ever, by the way.)

― chuck, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:42 (twenty years ago) link

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