ITT: Tell The Beatles to Fuck Off

Actually, I hate when any popular artist, current or classic, is crammed down my throat as required listening (Kanye and Lady Gaga, I'm staring at you two). It's like forcing a school kid to read classic literature, they end up unjustly hating it.

otm

fuck off, the beatles, fuck off

Actually, I hate when any popular artist, current or classic, is crammed down my throat as required listening (Kanye and Lady Gaga, I'm staring at you two). It's like forcing a school kid to read classic literature, they end up unjustly hating it.

otm

― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Wednesday, December 8, 2010 9:26 AM (1 minute ago)

jazmine sullivan's something special, isn't she? 'need u bad' was real slow burn for me but it got there in the end. that middle 8! sadly all trace of 'lions, tigers & bears' has vanished from youtube and the internet is not providing an mp3, but i loved it when i heard it this morning, that line about how "the most frightening thing is you and me" is brilliant. 'bust your windows' is great too. i like that she's ~not~ obsessed with wanting to be mary j, pace keyshia.

― lex pretend, Monday, July 21, 2008 3:14 PM (2 years ago)

basically if you have any clue at all you'll be too busy listening to 'high price' by ciara ("MY BODY LOOK SOFTER THAN A MCDONALD'S HAMBURGER BUN!") and 'need u bad' by jazmine sullivan on loop to have time to give a shit. i am off to do just that, have fun stewing in your own tedium kidz xxx

― lex pretend, Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:11 AM (2 years ago)

am really hyped for jazmine's album, 'in love with another man' and 'lions, tigers and bears' are astonishing too.

― lex pretend, Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:19 AM (2 years ago)

jazmine sullivan album being biked to me today :DDDDD

― lex pretend, Thursday, September 11, 2008 5:30 AM (2 years ago)

jazmine sullivan! 'need u bad' is amazing and i am hype hyped for her album.

― lex pretend, Monday, September 15, 2008 5:40 PM (2 years ago)

and jazmine sullivan was astonishing on one listen.

― lex pretend, Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:21 AM (2 years ago)

(best grammy nom = JAZMINE SULLIVAN in best newcomer)

― lex pretend, Thursday, December 4, 2008 8:50 AM (2 years ago)

the others are just indie bands right? not wasting my time on that. need to cleanse ears w/some jazmine sullivan (who, incidentally, should be fucking at the TOP of this list)

― lex pretend, Thursday, December 11, 2008 6:01 AM (1 year ago)

sacrificed my jazmine trax in the hope that the album will place...couldn't decide between my favourites ('in love with another man' and 'lions, tigers & bears') and the most likely track to place ('need u bad') anyway

― lex pretend, Friday, February 6, 2009 6:26 PM (1 year ago)

jazmine repped for in neither albums nor trax polls...that is a poor, poor loss :(

― lex pretend, Wednesday, February 11, 2009 5:10 PM (1 year ago)

anyone heard the jadakiss album> feeling the joint w/jazmine sullivan...

― lex pretend, Thursday, April 30, 2009 6:33 PM (1 year ago)

how do chancers like this bitch get no 1 hits out of nowhere while ~true talents~~ like jazmine sullivan can't get played in this country?

― lex pretend, Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:38 AM (1 year ago)

"hit em in the mouth" is amazing

what i ain't gon do is: call my pops
what i ain't gon do is: call no cops
i'm no jazmine sullivan, bustin all your windows out
i'm from memphis, tennekee: imma bust you in your mouth

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, July 15, 2010 7:17 PM (4 months ago)

oh yeah, i heard half the jazmine sullivan album today. wait'll you all hear "redemption", that song will blow you away. spoken word/rapped verses, one from a crack whore's perspective and one from a male domestic abuser's perspective, and an absolutely massive gospel chorus. there's also a mj-esque disco number called "don't make me wait" where she actually sings with restraint and subtlety (!). and a big retro-sounding ballad called "excuse me" where she does not, at all. looking good so far, basically.

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, October 12, 2010 2:03 PM (1 month ago)

oh yeah jazmine sullivan! def a contender based on the 5 songs i've heard.

― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Wednesday, November 17, 2010 5:36 PM (3 weeks ago)

has everyone heard the jazmine sullivan album yet? think it's out there now. really good - fantastic backing vox throughout ("love you long time" is spectacular, esp w/the military tattoo) and i'm really taken by how concise she is - most songs clock in well under 4 minutes - they get in, do their thing and get out.

― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Friday, November 26, 2010 6:28 PM (1 week ago)

it's soooo frustrating that an album as inventive and full of ideas as well as trad r&b values like the jazmine sullivan one will get like 1% of the critical attention of janelle monáe's (let alone kanye's)

― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Sunday, November 28, 2010 6:34 PM (1 week ago)

as far as i can tell she has even less of a profile than jazmine sullivan outside the US. trying to drum up editorial interest in jazmine is some blood/stone ish - i just can't even face trying with fantasia ;_;

fucking hate rock criticism sometimes.

― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, December 7, 2010 10:08 AM (Yesterday)

i mean i like jazmine sullivan but that's some hypocritical ish right there

It reads like that's his job.

are you both really that dim?

i mean i could start explaining why enthusing about a niche artist over the course of HALF A YEAR in the run-up to her new album is not quite the same thing as the entrenched canonisation of bigger artists but if you're that dim then there's not really any point

I was joking, kinda.

For job, read "role" then.

i'm not sure there's a niche vs. bigger distinction worth making -- the point is artists being "crammed down my throat as required listening"

it actually comes across more like lex is on her street team, he's so enthusiastic, which is great..... but it's not much different than people extolling the virtues of the beatles over and fucking over, imo

-20 posts in half a year = street team? posting on relevant threads (rolling r&b, best-of-year) = cramming down people's throats? what the fuck?

posting about the beatles on beatles threads = cramming, too, then?

btw i skipped over AT LEAST half of yr jazmine posts for the more meaty ones :/

including at least one which has nothing to do with her, and - i've only just noticed the date stamps - not just going back half a year but TWO YEARS? is that all you've got?

look on the bright side, if you keep telling the beatles to fuck off maybe you'll have 40 posts about that someday, too!

^^^lol

lex I do think it's weird for you to complain about omnipresence when you consistently rep for things that are ... well, omnipresent. and insist that they're relevant precisely BECAUSE they are so omnipresent.

i don't do that though.

jazmine sullivan is omnipresent? i wish.

I have no idea who she is so, no not her.

would v much enjoy a lex liveblog of these four beatles guitar solos (about 2.5 minutes altogether) --

Best 'Let It Be' Guitar Solo

in less than the time it takes to hear ONE jazmine sullivan song, you can complain about FOUR beatles solos!!

lex mostly I'm thinking back to some old thread (a year ago? maybe more) where you were enthusing about how chart pop's relevance to you personally was based (at least in part) on the fact that it connects you to an active, vital cultural discourse, its commonality and widespread nature going hand in hand with that. does this ring a bell.

i was referring more to "music being made now" as opposed to "music made 20-30 years ago", not chart pop specifically. i do think awareness of stuff of a certain stature is kinda important but while i roll my eyes whenever people boast about not having heard a lady gaga/kanye song ever, and not even knowing who they are, i don't think their fame means they're Important.

well mostly it just means those people choose not to expose themselves to certain avenues of music more than anything. which is, y'know, fairly common for a lot of people. I dip my toes into chartpop every now and then (I spent several hours over the last weekend lol'ing at MTV2 video playlists) but it's not really that difficult in this day and age to just be oblivious to various things (including the Beatles and Kanye), no matter how popular they are.

-20 posts in half a year = street team?

Um, seems about right.

(don't sweat it...)

it's more taking issue w/the way it's often presented, which is a faux-superior "i am so above knowing who lady gaga is"

xp what the hell are you talking about

well I guess you know who the Beatles ARE, but I still think there's a little pot/kettle going on here

Guys while you're busy arguing Macca's considering another reunion and wants telling.

Hey, Stuart Sutcliffe? Fuck off.

Best brain hemorrhage ever amirite?

"For our next number, if those of you in in the cheap seats could fuck off, and the rest of you just rattle your jewellery. And, also fuck off."

Yesterday...
Everybody told me to fuck off

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101222/music_nm/us_abbeyroad

just heard that on the radio. shouted "fuck off"

Dear Beatles, you don't have to fuck off. Have a merry Christmas.

We need a thread where we tell Live to fuck off.

i'm only an arrow shooting into the bright vista of possibility that is telling bands to fuck off, let a million fuck offs bloom

dear beatles, i will love you forever. so fuck off.

Fucking off is over if you want it.

LONDON (Reuters) – The most famous pedestrian crossing in popular music, outside Abbey Road Studios in north London, was designated a site of national importance by the British government on Wednesday.

Does that mean more foreigners posing like dicks? 'OH HAI I AM HOLDING UP ST JOHN'S WOOD FOR THIS HILARIOUS PHOTO'

So what you'd have is tradies in white vans telling Beatles fans to fuck off.

(again/still)

So that's why it's trending on Yahoo's front page.

Abbey Road and Diane Sawyer.

Oh fuck off, the Beatles!

You know my name, FUCK OFF!

fuck off is a concept
by which we measure our pain
I'll say it again
fuck off is a concept
By which we measure
Our pain

I don't fuck off magic
I don't fuck off I-Ching
I don't fuck off Bible
I don't fuck off tarot
I don't fuck off Hitler
I don't fuck off Jesus
I don't fuck off Kennedy
I don't fuck off in Buddha
I don't fuck off in mantra
I don't fuck off in Gita
I don't fuck off in yoga
I don't fuck off kings
I don't fuck off Elvis
I don't fuck off Zimmerman
I don't fuck off Beatles
I just fuck off me
Yoko and me
And that's reality

John Lennon take your third-rate childhood traumas and FUCK OFF with them
George "The Dull One" Harrison FUCK OFF
Paul you misanthropic weedhead dullard FUCK RIGHT THE FUCK OFF
Ringo I don't mind tbh

― Satantango! (Matt #2), Saturday, December 4, 2010 2:24 PM (2 years ago)

this is the best post ever pretty much

Paul is misanthropic?? i lolled at 'third-rate childhood traumas' though.

yeah and i love the sudden last-minute acknowledgement that even within the legit world of beatles-hating it would be inexcusable to hate ringo

Mr Thomas the alky train conductor can fuck right off

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