as if that wasn't a huge vector of influence on terry!
― best beloved george benson (The Reverend), Monday, 7 September 2015 01:30 (eight years ago) link
what i'm saying
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 01:36 (eight years ago) link
just heard the hills on local hiphop/r&b radio now and I thought it was right tbh
― marcos, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link
lol and then CFMF on the other urban station like a minute later. Not right imo, that song kinda sucks
― marcos, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 22:22 (eight years ago) link
it def sucks. it has some superficial appeal but only insofar as you can ignore how underwritten and underperformed it is.
also that lame-ass descending counterpoint vocal on the chorus that comes in after the first eight bars is weak even as something to spice up a final go-around, but the fact that it happens from the second chorus on (and a total of four times) is where CFMF becomes actively comical. and using the exact same pre-chorus three fucking times in a song is such overkill, esp when you throw a low-pass filter sweep behind one of 'em and make it work overtime as a bridge (so that your song, by the way, literally ends with: pre-chorus, chorus, pre-chorus, chorus). it's the type of try-hard anthem i imagined i would like the first time i heard the opening, but it's total boredom before it even gets to the first verse
― soyrev, Wednesday, 9 September 2015 23:54 (eight years ago) link
Cfmf is amazing knock it off
― mods = chickenshit idiots (D-40), Thursday, 10 September 2015 03:53 (eight years ago) link
maybe if the craterous landfill of western chart pop in 2015 is the only contemporary chart pop you follow
(disclaimer: talking about pop specifically made for the charts, not the crossover stuff that sometimes winds up there – western rap radio is a very fertile crescent rn)
― soyrev, Thursday, 10 September 2015 04:06 (eight years ago) link
the point however is cfmf is a good as hell
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 September 2015 04:52 (eight years ago) link
insufficiently familiar w/ grammar too tho
― soyrev, Thursday, 10 September 2015 07:15 (eight years ago) link
oh lol sorry don't drink and message board
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 10 September 2015 12:51 (eight years ago) link
gawd, what a lousy review of (the indeed sophomorically titled) album in the New Yorker. Is carrie battan a Pitchfork person? Her paternalistic, banal shit therein suggests as such around…what year did they decide to talk about Ne-Yo and trey Songz again? was the year of PR&B 2011?
― veronica moser, Friday, 11 September 2015 01:03 (eight years ago) link
I was gonna post here to make fun of it too. She puts the cliches in the windows like new toys.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 September 2015 02:28 (eight years ago) link
resale ticket prices for this dudes tour are out of control ime
― johnny crunch, Monday, 26 October 2015 13:46 (eight years ago) link
I like a few of the songs on the album but I don't understand the monstrous appeal of The Hills at all - it's arguably Abel at his most contrived. What do people love about it?
― longneck, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 09:05 (eight years ago) link
People loving 'honesty.'
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 10:42 (eight years ago) link
and "hooks."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 10:43 (eight years ago) link
lol
― longneck, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 13:28 (eight years ago) link
saw this tour last nite, p good his voice still sounds great even in a big arenaevery teen girl around us knew every single word to every song but i guess thats not surprisingminor complaint that he turned glass table girls into kindof a rock song :(
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 15 November 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usSj7U6vOtM
kmt
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
http://screenprism.com/assets/img/article/starboy.png
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
first the dj q album now this
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cs5aF63WIAARI7k.jpg
^my sentiments exactly
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
i like the single
― esempiu (crüt), Thursday, 22 September 2016 08:30 (seven years ago) link
yeah it's alright
― r|t|c, Thursday, 22 September 2016 11:00 (seven years ago) link
it's good
― dyl, Thursday, 22 September 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
It's a pop song.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 22 September 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link
Wizkid should sue
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:00 (seven years ago) link
or mavado i suppose
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 22 September 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link
the verses are pretty good, hook feels a little limp compared to "can't feel my face" (though what wouldn't?)
mostly i think it's pretty hard to pick up on any traces of daft punk so i feel like this is mostly a flex on his part and he prob has better shit in the holster
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 22 September 2016 18:58 (seven years ago) link
I like his voice on this but the whole "I'm a muhfuckin starboy" chorus makes him sound so... small, in a mean mugging selfie kind of way. .
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 22 September 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/MNEK/status/778861282237767680
the weeknd ate my hamster
― r|t|c, Thursday, 22 September 2016 19:55 (seven years ago) link
biffy clyro pic suitably much shittier looking at least
― nashwan, Thursday, 22 September 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
feat daft punk is def a flex but i was greatly relieved not to hear them so it's cool
have already forgotten this song anyway. lot of waiting around for the lookwhatchadone! meth shiver
― r|t|c, Thursday, 22 September 2016 20:02 (seven years ago) link
i finally decided to listen to "i can't feel my face" for the first timeit's p catchystarboy seems decent, both songs really fancy but he seems like a piece of shit misogynist but i spose that's supposed to be the appeal?
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 September 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
starboy feels forgettable to me
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 22 September 2016 21:28 (seven years ago) link
anyone from the rap caviar wave tht isn't a pos misognynist pls step fwd
― ||||||||, Thursday, 22 September 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
haha rap caviar wave
who is in that wave
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 22 September 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link
anyone that goes hard seeminglyhttps://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/5yolys8XG4q7YfjYGl5Lff
― ||||||||, Thursday, 22 September 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
haha yeah i subscribe to that playlist
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 September 2016 21:48 (seven years ago) link
Starboy feels like a classic already.
― Popture, Friday, 23 September 2016 11:06 (seven years ago) link
ilx needs a thinking guy emoji button
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 23 September 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link
No
― flopson, Friday, 23 September 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
― r|t|c, Thursday, September 22, 2016 3:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
whotf is Biff Clyro lol
― flopson, Friday, 23 September 2016 17:58 (seven years ago) link
Starboy feels like a classic already.― Popture, Friday, September 23, 2016 11:06 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
suggest halpert
― ||||||||, Friday, 23 September 2016 18:02 (seven years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 23 September 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
is there a double entendre i am missing or does abel think the name of the movie is "the wraith of khan"
― esempiu (crüt), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
he seems to be in a pretty jaunty mood in the video! also lol @ daft punk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Na4j8AVgA
― esempiu (crüt), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 18:12 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cxf-O9VVQAElM4y.jpg
― qop (crüt), Friday, 18 November 2016 01:19 (seven years ago) link
"I Feel It Coming" is so good
― qop (crüt), Friday, 18 November 2016 05:49 (seven years ago) link
yeah that one sounds awesome
― J0rdan S., Friday, 18 November 2016 14:47 (seven years ago) link