if "lost boy" is to be considered one of the worst hits this year based on chatter in here, that is actually an example of a black woman singing a song that fits into a largely white-identified idiom
― dyl, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link
i have no idea what 'lost boy' is and have not heard it (i'm talking about trainor, g-eazy, 'seven years,' puth, etc.), although a glance at my local pop station's playlist would indicate that it's in rotation. and oh dear:
She eventually posted it, and the reaction was immediate: people wanted more. She started to add lines in Vine-able increments. “I would finish studying, come down stairs, and add a line to the chorus,” she explains. “In a week, I had a chorus, so I decided I should turn this into a full song and take it to YouTube.”
The result, built six seconds at a time, is a beatless piano ballad. Chords hang in the air, never pressing on top of each other. Ruth occasionally climbs into falsetto, but the track doesn’t have much movement or drama. Although it’s about finding friends, Ruth sings alone, and this isolation is emphasized by an echo effect. Her Neverland is a place of complete liberty -- “lost boys like me are free” -- and the singer avoids taking sides in the frequently violent squabbles that divide the island’s characters in the original story: “Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, Wendy darling, even Captain Hook/ You are my perfect storybook.”
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7334174/ruth-b-lost-boy-hot-100-hit-finding-neverland
― maura, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 17:28 (eight years ago) link
hoo boy this ... yeah
― maura, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
that song is like some kind of balladry degree zero.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 19:18 (eight years ago) link
I get that there are a couple of novelties going on with this song that some people are finding worthy of discussion, but I'm still smdh @ something this amateurish actually getting airplay and warranting analysis.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 19:31 (eight years ago) link
lol, this is straight garbage
― ulysses, Thursday, 28 April 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link
Playlist updated up to end of April:
ILM's Rolling Worst Songs 2016 Spotify Playlist
― ulysses, Thursday, 28 April 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link
two car trips w top 40 stations in the last two days means i've been exposed to 'seven years' twice now. probably the most grating pop radio song i've heard since 'hey brother' but it's so deeply lodged in my skull so i feel like i've heard it 50 times already. the only joy i get from it is the goofy-ass non sequitur of "i made a man so happy when i wrote a letter once". like i get what he's saying but it (and the whole song really) sounds like a small child telling a story, so hearing that line makes me laugh and offers the smallest respite.
tried to listen to this ruth b song twice and both times i forgot it was playing, which means it's infinitely better than lukas graham who i just learnt also sung that mama don't like you song, god i hate him/them so much.
― olly, Monday, 2 May 2016 12:14 (eight years ago) link
no, 'mama don't like you' is bieber.
― maura, Monday, 2 May 2016 15:56 (eight years ago) link
(it's called 'love yourself.')
― maura, Monday, 2 May 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcyFJLrBVhA
wow
― maura, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link
I'm sure genius.com has an extremely helpful annotation for the 'scroot scoot' noise he makes, but...I'm not sure if I'm ready for that knowledge
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Thursday, 5 May 2016 03:41 (eight years ago) link
lol, this is currently #7 on the itunes chart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duXnGGGjKlA
http://www.famousbirthdays.com/people/jacob-sartorius.html
Jacob Sartorius Popularity # 4Most Popular Person# 1 Instagram Star# 113 Year Old
# 4Most Popular Person
# 1 Instagram Star
# 113 Year Old
it's typical Ark Music Factory shit, except he already has legions of adoring (unironic) fans, and the inevitable backlash (like this reaction video, which got 1.5 million views in two days) is only going to drive his own subscriptions/views counts. I doubt anyone involved in its creation believes it's a good song, but that's beside the point — 3 minutes of white noise with this kid's name attached to it would have produced an identical reaction.
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Thursday, 5 May 2016 19:38 (eight years ago) link
('vanity singles by internet stars' would be a good thread concept, but I can't think of that many)
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Thursday, 5 May 2016 19:39 (eight years ago) link
haha, look up 5quad
― maura, Friday, 6 May 2016 04:11 (eight years ago) link
lol, I love how half the audience knows every word of this song and the other half only knows the 5-second clip they heard on vine/'musical.ly'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEWz6MTNhXs
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Friday, 6 May 2016 23:27 (eight years ago) link
"Fucked Over" deleted from Youtube? Is nothing sacred
https://soundcloud.com/770rd/fucked-over-prod-ducko-mcfli
The fact that someone called Jacob Sartorius had a song titled "Sweatshirt" sounded very promising, until I heard it. It's a hand-me-down of a hand-me-down. He can still regain some important musical cred if he names all of his songs after garments, in increasing order of intimacy when he's reached a more mature age. (That's probably the plan.) On a less relevant note, why did Vevo allow the song to be remixed by a coked-up Noel Gallagher? Really makes that embed painful.
It's, it's like Michael Jackson on a budgethttps://youtu.be/cMnbZ4AU60k
― sbahnhof, Saturday, 7 May 2016 09:34 (eight years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2016/04/20/475025719/sister-sparrow-the-dirty-birds-tiny-desk-concert
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 15:14 (eight years ago) link
lol holy shit
― adam, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 15:47 (eight years ago) link
He can still regain some important musical cred if he names all of his songs after garments, in increasing order of intimacy when he's reached a more mature age. (That's probably the plan.)
Jacob Sartorialist
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 15:52 (eight years ago) link
did you see this video though?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMTAUr3Nm6I
my ears say no, my eyes say no.
― jamiesummerz, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 16:54 (eight years ago) link
Sounds like she's downplaying her hat voice and trying for a more basic pop voice.
― how's life, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
sounds like 2000
― ejemplo (crüt), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, very good point. It's still retro/flashback, down to the silver trench coat.
― how's life, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link
silver trench coats were a thing?
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 17:53 (eight years ago) link
I can't think of any off the top of my head, but if you went back in time dressed like that no one would notice.
― how's life, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
Oh, here we go. http://photos1.blogger.com/img/39/2594/1024/missy.1.jpg
― how's life, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link
Ugh
― skip, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 20:20 (eight years ago) link
two years in a row for meghan winning the poll, huh
― ulysses, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link
'No' isn't at all original or inspired, and her voice is still annoying, but it's still significantly less annoying than her previous work - a 3/10 rather than a 0/10, and there is a lot of other 3/10 stuff out there.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 09:39 (eight years ago) link
Xp: obviously she's still making some of the worst music, but you may have stacked the deck by showcasing her in the thread title.
― how's life, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 10:25 (eight years ago) link
she is an axiom of bad music.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 10:38 (eight years ago) link
her new single "me too" makes "no" look like a masterpiece
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 19:01 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVFwuq44UTQ
― maura, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 11:32 (eight years ago) link
Oh wow. Where'd you find that?
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 11:51 (eight years ago) link
lmao
― ejemplo (crüt), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 12:11 (eight years ago) link
something something RHCP something gamergate something
― ulysses, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 14:00 (eight years ago) link
recommended for this thread by ilxors on facebook:Spraygun War (featuring Joshua Todd and Stevie D of Buckcherry) - "OMG"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWXCNVlYbbE
it's not very good.
― ulysses, Thursday, 19 May 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
that's more sad than bad (though it's very bad).
― skip, Thursday, 19 May 2016 17:04 (eight years ago) link
twenty one pilots are awful― maura, Monday, February 15, 2016 3:11 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― maura, Monday, February 15, 2016 3:11 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Despite the Stressed Out song, I went back to listen to their album this morning because I was reading an old Hayley Williams interview where she mentioned them briefly. I made it about 30 seconds into the opening track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hts6PzULHSY
― how's life, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 12:42 (eight years ago) link
why do i not hate Stressed Out as much as everyone else
― alpine static, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
Because your name isn't Blurryface and you don't care what we think?
― how's life, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 17:51 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahwQhkvMFuI
― avant-sarsgaard (litel), Thursday, 2 June 2016 06:29 (eight years ago) link
well that was annoying.
― how's life, Thursday, 2 June 2016 09:00 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjfspM5sDIA
― MarkoP, Thursday, 2 June 2016 13:20 (eight years ago) link
I'd never heard of the Avalanches before this week. Was their last album a steaming pile like that?
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 2 June 2016 15:33 (eight years ago) link
Their last album (which was released in 2000) was just boring rather than actively bad.
― DJP, Thursday, 2 June 2016 15:35 (eight years ago) link
Self-described redneck metal band Hellyeah (one ex-member of Pantera, one ex-member of Mudvayne, some other schmucks) covering Phil Collins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMMrMhuxqg4
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 2 June 2016 18:24 (eight years ago) link
Wow, today has been a fertile day for the Rolling Worst thread! One of those guys lives in my neighborhood.
― how's life, Thursday, 2 June 2016 18:35 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZlbahhoEIo
― ejemplo (crüt), Friday, 3 June 2016 11:57 (eight years ago) link