https://thump.vice.com/en_uk/article/hunting-for-the-cast-of-the-sexiest-music-video-of-all-time
I have nobody to blame but myself for clicking on a Thump link but this is woeful.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 09:50 (eight years ago) link
overrating things is good. if you accept the existentialist premise that we make the meaning we find in the world, overrating things is what makes life bearable.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link
that last message was an xp to LJ
also, lol boxedjoy. that is the worst premise for an article.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 15:59 (eight years ago) link
lol god forbid people actually love some music on ILM
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link
lj is probably just annoyed it isn't more "challenging"
― Mordy, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:04 (eight years ago) link
contrarianism can also give life meaning, to be fair
― Treeship, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:17 (eight years ago) link
The album is good, but people are being really embarrassing on that thread
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:19 (eight years ago) link
what's embarrassing about the posts on that thread? i just read it, everyone just goes "yeah wow this album is good"
― de l'asshole (flopson), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:22 (eight years ago) link
whiney himself said the album was good on that thread
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
is it Destroyer-level fawning? cuz that is scary stuff. regular fandom and WOW! shouldn't be a problem. i'm gonna go check it out! BrB.............
― scott seward, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcSXbvzW91U
― Treeship, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link
― de l'asshole (flopson), Tuesday, April 5, 2016 12:22 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Most embarrassing overpraise of the just released 'Ears' album on Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith thread
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:30 (eight years ago) link
Lol, oh god
― de l'asshole (flopson), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:33 (eight years ago) link
well at least whiney didn't poll the king thread
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
oh i see matt also made that joke
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
the difference is that the KING album is an actual masterpiece ;)
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
wait wtf is thump? how many verticals can vice possibly need
― qualx, Thursday, 7 April 2016 07:36 (eight years ago) link
I would not necessarily call this "worst ever" but I do think it just ignores/glosses over the fact that female pop-punk artists exist (it mentions Paramore but seems to have... somehow... missed the fact that Hayley is the frontwoman?) as well as female pop-punk *fans* (5SOS's fanbase is mostly women), who probably don't have much truck with the "dominant dude-bro ideology"
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 11 April 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link
shit sorry forgot the link
(pause, question priorities where one apologies for forgetting a link but not for criticizing an article)
http://www.last.fm/features/post/2259045:feature:9e81d3e2-6fac-4c64-a867-c244c2115757
Not sure if this is the right place to bemoan something like this but I'm gonna bemoan this here: http://coolmaterial.com/media/best-vinyl-records/?utm_source=Cool+Material&utm_campaign=605458e35e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f248e7d25b-605458e35e-297496053&mc_cid=605458e35e&mc_eid=6128f9e24d
Usually click bait like this isn't even worth the bandwidth but the writing and editing here is woefully bad and shallow and bad
My favorite gem, talking about Kid A: "an album that blipped, beeped, and floated effortlessly in the background when you played it."
(PS should there be a thread called something like "Shitty web links your dad sends you because he knows you're into records"?)
― MrExplorer, Saturday, 16 April 2016 02:37 (eight years ago) link
disappointed that they didn't throw a 'blooped' in there as well.
the inclusion of Joe Jackson's Body and Soul means I can't hate that article, though
― soref, Saturday, 16 April 2016 13:00 (eight years ago) link
Vinyl is back. And with the best year in terms of sales since 1988, it doesn’t seem like vinyl is going anywhere.
It's true. Astonishing numbers.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgJuCq5XEAA3hoG.jpg
― punnerist spoon here (onimo), Saturday, 16 April 2016 19:28 (eight years ago) link
I didn't know vinyl sales were on the decline a good three-to-four years before CDs came out in 1984. What were people buying in the early 80s? Cassettes?
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 17 April 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
Yes. The Walkman changed everything.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 17 April 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link
I was. And like lots of people I didn't start buying CDs until well after 1984 -- 1992, maybe?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 17 April 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
They didn't fit in the Walkman, was the thing.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 17 April 2016 16:40 (eight years ago) link
I switched in '92 as well. Went from walkman to discman.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 17 April 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link
What is the source of that graphic above?
― Wimmels, Sunday, 17 April 2016 22:43 (eight years ago) link
Home taping is killing the music industry.
― campreverb, Monday, 18 April 2016 01:54 (eight years ago) link
We got a CD player in... 1985? 1986? I know I did the Columbia House thing in 1987 to jumpstart my collection and taped them to play in my Walkman (one perk of my dad working for 3M was piles and piles and piles of cheap blank cassettes basically any time I wanted them)
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Monday, 18 April 2016 15:38 (eight years ago) link
never would have guessed that 45 single sales outstripped LPs consistently like that
xp
― Οὖτις, Monday, 18 April 2016 15:44 (eight years ago) link
i think that graph was first published on digitalmusicnews.com, which claims the figures are from the riaa
― dyl, Monday, 18 April 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
taped them to play in my Walkman
Me, too. That was the first time I started being interested in sound quality as a thing, was when I noticed how much better tapes recorded from CDs sounded than tapes recorded from vinyl.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 18 April 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
Maybe I'm being picky. because it's not the content that's bad here, but the writing is...ugh.
http://flavorwire.com/571669/grimes-reveals-that-numerous-male-producers-have-demanded-sex-from-her?utm_campaign=FlavorwireSocial&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 18 April 2016 18:31 (eight years ago) link
That second paragraph is a killer.
"So it’s no surprise that Grimes, who, as a completely autonomous artist — Claire Boucher writes, records, produces, mixes, and masters everything that she attaches the “Grimes” label to — has routinely criticized both the music industry and the media at large for misrepresenting her as simply a muse, a singer that attaches her voice to other people’s (note: male’s) productions, would eventually have to speak on the subject."
or is it just me? Maybe I'm having a morning.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 18 April 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
"So apparently Dr. Luke isn’t the only male producer in the industry who might be awful."
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 18 April 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Monday, April 18, 2016 11:44 AM (2 hours ago)
hard to tell if the light green + dark green are supposed to be = total vinyl sales, in which case LPs outsold 45s except for like a 10-year stretch in the 90s. not sure what the explanation of that would be
― k3vin k., Monday, 18 April 2016 18:36 (eight years ago) link
yeah, when compared to this chart, also produced by the riaa, it becomes clear that the amounts sold are stacked. so, LPs were outselling singles for most of the period in question here. makes sense, aor heyday.
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Monday, 18 April 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
^ shows that vinyl sales are still a tiny portion of the total, with CDs and downloads making up the bulk. also, perhaps suggests that CD sales and downloads are both establishing a plateau?
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Monday, 18 April 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
Grimes’ outspokenness is an important step to guaranteeing that accusations such as Kesha’s are treated with the respect they deserve, rather than as the complaints of someone who is simply unhappy in a recording contract.
jesus christ
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 18 April 2016 20:23 (eight years ago) link
So apparently Dr. Luke isn’t the only male producer in the industry who might be awful.
you don't say
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Monday, 18 April 2016 20:31 (eight years ago) link
"You know what I really want? I want to watch the Beyonce videos." (googles)
"Long Live Queen Bey, for she has graced us with an unparalleled release event combining music, video, and everything that we already love about Beyoncé. Building on everything that she promised when she debuted the video for "Formation" the weekend of the Super Bowl, Beyoncé's Lemonade HBO premiere event took an equally important television slot (the Game of Thrones premiere weekend), and made it entirely her own. Now that everyone has taken the time to fully absorb all of Beyoncé's new music that has just been unleashed onto the world (although if you need more time, that's understandable), the first step is to figure out how to watch all of that goodness again. So where can you stream the Lemonade music videos? Like a real glass of lemonade, Beyonce's Lemonade special was a sweet, refreshing treat and I would like more of it ASAP. With the HBO special also comes a new album of Beyoncé material ready to be listened to over and over again. And much like how Beyoncé's last release Beyoncé featured a video for every single song, it seems as though Lemonade is doing something similar. Beyonce's latest visual album has set the internet on absolute fire, spawning analysis of the images and lyrics that comprise Lemonade. Beyoncé fans hoping to revisit the dense project can find the project available for streaming on HBOGo, as well as on Tidal alongside the album itself. The film lends a power to the words that is lost when listening only to the album, so be sure to revisit Lemonade as it was intended to be consumed, as a visual album."
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Sunday, 24 April 2016 03:45 (eight years ago) link
Like a real glass of lemonade, Beyonce's Lemonade special was a sweet, refreshing treat and I would like more of it ASAP.
wow
― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Sunday, 24 April 2016 03:50 (eight years ago) link
popular drink iirc
― glandular lansbury (sic), Sunday, 24 April 2016 04:11 (eight years ago) link
the best part is how half the time it says Beyoncé and half the time it just says Beyonce
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Sunday, 24 April 2016 04:13 (eight years ago) link
(also, I promised myself I'd spend less time criticizing other people's writing, but this is so cynical and empty and blatant an attempt to waste readers' time and divert them away from good artistry that it's infuriating. at least What Time Is The Super Bowl told you what time the goddamn Super Bowl was!)
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Sunday, 24 April 2016 04:15 (eight years ago) link
The answer to that question is a little difficult for many fans to answer because, well, neither Jay Z or Beyoncé seem to know a Becky. Neither of them have mentioned one in a song before, nor have they ever been connected to a person named Becky. The only celebrity who has been connected with a Becky in any big way in the news would be Taylor Swift, i.e. in 2014 when she wore that no its Becky shirt in response to that famous internet meme in which someone purposefully confused a picture of her with that of their friend Becky. Of course, the chances of Taylor Swift being "Becky with the good hair" is pretty slim to none. She does have good hair, but she doesn't spend much time hanging out with Beyoncé or Jay Z.
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 24 April 2016 15:44 (eight years ago) link
obligatory youtube herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcKG4EJ6rsQ
― ulysses, Sunday, 24 April 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link
Brad that quote made my brain bleed.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 25 April 2016 14:46 (eight years ago) link