ODD FUTURE WOLF GANG KILL THEM ALL

vs. Prussian Blue

lol couldn't resist eh

nina sky win

lol couldn't resist eh

guilty

Breeders Win!!!!!

>: (

hahaha wait a second, TATU???????????

I take it you never actually, like, read anything about them or saw their videos or award show performances?

my mistake - I thought they were sisters and that was part of the schtick

(I have only seen videos)

lex, why are you so obsessed with xl's label head? he made a pretty good deal aka did his job

my mistake - I thought they were sisters and that was part of the schtick

sisters... who french kiss and fondle each other?

I would GIS examples but I am certain it would get me fired

finger-wagging is never a good look when it comes to aesthetics.

i realize that these arguments about privilege or whatever seem to be rolling right off your back, but saying "u should be talking about the AESTHETICS" is a privileged position! talking about the aesthetics of this means you are able to listen to it with a degree of dispassion, which is not always going to be possible when you're listening to something that literally invokes a feeling of dread/anger/fear in you. i don't want to go into a whole "this is the list of people in my life who have been sexually assaulted," but that list is longer than it has any fucking right to be, and in a society where that list is allowed to get so long, cool new music that makes a point to be unapologetically rapey can fucking withstand some condemnation from the people who are most likely to be assaulted.

u guys are hella wrong about tuneyards btw

omg you're right, I like her voice after all!

oh wait, I still don't, gasface to YOU

i loved the watson twins album! the last one. made my pazz & jop ballot. the only person who voted for it. have played that album a hundred times.

djp, i'll pray for you

why did tatu just go away? did they get sent to school in samoa by their parents?

they switched management, farted around for a bit, then split to pursue solo projects

yeah they got boyfriends

wasn't it their therapist that got tATu together in the first place...?

Ivan Shapovalov and his friend/business partner Alexander Voitinskyi developed plans to create a musical project in Russia. With this idea in mind, Shapovalov and Voitinskyi organized auditions in Moscow in early 1999 for teenage female vocalists. By the end of auditioning, the partners narrowed their search down to ten girls, including ex-members of the group Neposedi, Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova. Both girls stood out among the others, especially because of their appearance and vocal experience, but the producers decided to start with 14 year-old Katina, who sang "It Must Have Been Love" by Roxette. Katina began recording demos, including "Yugoslavia", a song about NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.[5][6] After the demos were cut, Shapovalov insisted that another girl be added to the project. Thus, in late 1999, 14 year old Volkova was added to the group.

same dude went on to become tyler's counselor iirc

don't know why I thought tATu was the brainchild of a Russian child psychologist

what a weirdo I am

oh wait, I still don't, gasface to YOU

lol

reddening otm

Did that TATU movie with Mischa Barton ever come out?

volkova sounds like a really poorly made eastern bloc car from the 80s

lex, why are you so obsessed with xl's label head? he made a pretty good deal aka did his job

i'm not obsessed? he's a pretty revered figure in the industry though, xl often (rightly) held up as an ideal sort of label, but it's to the extent that it seems lots of critical faculties shut down whenever it does something. and if we're holding anyone up to scrutiny for giving tyler's lyrics a free pass, surely he should be as well as any critics, given his reputation (ie not like any old major label head just out to make profit, he and his label trade on their ethical rep quite a bit)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_and_I_%28film%29

this February in Russia, apparently!

talking about the aesthetics of this means you are able to listen to it with a degree of dispassion, which is not always going to be possible when you're listening to something that literally invokes a feeling of dread/anger/fear in you.

prioritizing reactions of dread/anger/fear over dispassionate analysis is a slippery slope. I can (and have) been exposed to plenty of anti-semitic nonsense in my time, for example, and in pretty much every case I think the instances when I was able to respond with cogent analysis were preferable to the instances when I was overcome with revulsion/fear/rage/whatever.

xp

idk I've seen you mention his name a lot recently, just seems like a reach of a criticism to me xxp to lex

hey David Geffen took some heat when Axl was running off his mouth

ridicule/laughter is also a good way to react in my experience - comedy robs a lot of things of their power

xp

i think i've mentioned his name like twice this year! though the xl obeisance is something i've been gradually noticing of late. idk non-britishers prob don't get exposed to it i guess

I have never heard of XL's "rep" as an ethical label until you brought it up in this thread tbh

XP Ivan Shapovalov was trained as a child psychologist but i'm not sure he ever practiced.

Lena's got some solo stuff coming up.

Tapes n' Tapes' The Loon was the most ethical album I'd have ever heard in my life

prioritizing reactions of dread/anger/fear over dispassionate analysis is a slippery slope.

http://www.fallacyfiles.org/slipslop.html

I seriously cannot believe your response to a clear explanation about why it's bullshit for a person in the position of privilege to dictate/suggest/advise the person not in privilege how they might better react is "slippery" fuckin "slope"

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I don't think XL have ever really stood out, they're just kind of there. Even in their high moments: Dizzee's first one, the odd Basement Jaxx track... ummm Prodigy and another one... They're just the ultimate wall paper label. They're pretty much a Skint records that caught on to indie pop accidently. most of their catalouge is Badly Drawn Boy lol

xp to shakey -- serious question, has your experience with expressions of anti-semitism A) reminded you of a time when you or others were physically violated as a direct result of anti-semitism, B) been excused by those around you as not a big deal, contributing to an overall feeling that culture doesn't really take your safety seriously?

i get that you're coming from a position of "i want to react in the way that best addresses the problem i have." but guess what, it's not a moral imperative to make sure you react "appropriately" to things that are hurtful/threatening to you! for you to take your own ability to remain dispassionate in the face of violent shit and extrapolate it out to "everyone else also should act this way" is not respectful/is silencing of the people who can't.

getting back on track though, I'm kind of bummed this album didn't showcase OFWGKTA that well. Tyler was never the strongest link on his own so it was kinda expected but I thought he'd step up a bit morefor a full album. Bring on Earl and MellowHype I say those guys are ace.

man, looking at the XL roster now compared to what it used to be... I'm old

has your experience with expressions of anti-semitism A) reminded you of a time when you or others were physically violated as a direct result of anti-semitism Yes

B) been excused by those around you as not a big deal Yes. By both Jews and non-Jews, incidentally.

contributing to an overall feeling that culture doesn't really take your safety seriously? I've always felt that part of being Jewish is to be threatened, for better or worse. People hate us, it's pretty deeply ingrained in a lot of cultures. This doesn't mean that my intermittent feelings of paranoia or rage are all that healthy or helpful or even justified.

xp

but guess what, it's not a moral imperative to make sure you react "appropriately" to things that are hurtful/threatening to you

really I just disagree with this, I think

in some ways those are the MOST important times to act appropriately

in some ways those are the MOST important times to act appropriately

and that's fine for you to say for yourself. when you start telling marginalized persons in whose numbers you yourself are not included how to respond, that's when you cross over into being offensively full of shit. which I say w/o rancor for real dude but a straight white man telling a queer woman that she's processing her rage in an unhelpful way is 100% fuckin' bullshit and you know this.

xp okay, so say we've got analogous situations. someone expresses anti-semitism in a song, and it reminds of you of a violent incident personal to you/people in your life. it upsets you, but instead of writing an op-ed piece condemning the message like Sara Q did, you just focus on the aesthetics/don't be a scold about it, in the hopes that being low-key and moderate and reasonable will be a better argument against it.

first, that's cool that you can do that, and it undoubtedly can be a positive thing in the overall discourse. but second, why is this the only response that has legitimacy in your mind? take sady doyle's recent piece on odd future. she is fucking furious about odd future. tyler isn't going to read that article and say "wow, i see the error of my ways." but women like me are going to read that article, and sady's anger might make some of us go "FUCKING FINALLY someone is angry about this super-infuriating thing!" it makes me feel validated and energized and supported, which gives me the ability to come here and have this argument, instead of just assuming everyone will take me for a lol feminist killjoy and not post at all. while i bet sady would be happy if the overall mainstream culture really changed as a result of that post, and sara q would be too, a lot of these posts function as calls to rally allies, as much as they are call-outs to larger culture.

/in some ways those are the MOST important times to act appropriately/

and that's fine for you to say for yourself. when you start telling marginalized persons in whose numbers you yourself are not included how to respond, that's when you cross over into being offensively full of shit. which I say w/o rancor for real dude but a straight white man telling a queer woman that she's processing her rage in an unhelpful way is 100% fuckin' bullshit and you know this.

^^^amazed that this even needs to e articulated, tbh, since it is so patently obvious.