This is all starting to feel like the thing in the suitcase in Pulp Fiction, except it's a pile of dung.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 June 2017 22:21 (six years ago) link
i wasn't a fan of the one that wondered if she was being held back by being a pop artist...
― nomar, Monday, 19 June 2017 22:29 (six years ago) link
generally there have been a lot of lorde thinkpieces
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 19 June 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
I don't know if it's the one Brad was thinking of, but the one on Uproxx is by someone who should be kept away from keyboards for at least a decade.
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 19 June 2017 22:34 (six years ago) link
I don't know, as a general rule I would rather prevent old dudes from writing about Lorde than young women
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Monday, 19 June 2017 22:39 (six years ago) link
I hear there is a really great Father John Misty interview out there!
― mh, Monday, 19 June 2017 22:40 (six years ago) link
Katherine otm though
some young women need editors who aren't themselves
― maura, Monday, 19 June 2017 23:11 (six years ago) link
tbh everyone needs editors who aren't themselves
― maura, Monday, 19 June 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
https://68.media.tumblr.com/0ae4a458b02b1705c96dd846493e2aad/tumblr_inline_n3ghj9J3u91qcklud.gif
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 19 June 2017 23:22 (six years ago) link
that whole movie is a cringefest
― leprechaundriac (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, May 31, 2017 5:15 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Just makes me feel grateful that the planned Robert Zemeckis Yellow Submarine remake got scrapped. Small mercies.
― Pheeel, Monday, 19 June 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Monday, 19 June 2017 22:39 (yesterday) Permalink
ok the piece still sucks tho
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 13:42 (six years ago) link
Piece on Lorde that no one will link to and ILM can't reach a consensus on where it was published is definitely the worst piece of music writing ever.
― Position Position, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
otoh if this guy hates it, there's probably some merit
― mh, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link
o lorde tupac mansplain to them
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
i'm issuing subpoenas to everyone on this thread, give up your sources on the Lorde review!!!!!!!
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
tick tick tick
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
ilx melodrama
― Evan, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
ilx d-d-d-d-dynamite
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
Wasn't really sure if it should go here or not but I think the 'hats of, chief' is worthy of it.
This is apparently in Q magazine.
http://i.imgur.com/Fk9phey.jpg
― Odysseus, Monday, 3 July 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link
Whew! Close one.
― space chipmunk (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 3 July 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
I certainly can't remember the likes of Baby Ford or A Guy Called Gerald sawing up fenders back then, was that really a thing?
― calzino, Monday, 3 July 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
wallop! etc
― marcos, Monday, 3 July 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
same guy as this dude? Worst Thing In This Daily Telegraph "10 ways Britpop changed modern manhood" Article
― marcos, Monday, 3 July 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
tbh, everyone needs editors who aren't themselves
― maura, Monday, June 19, 2017 6:12 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― j., Monday, 3 July 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
I certainly can't remember the likes of Baby Ford or A Guy Called Gerald sawing up fenders back then, was that really a thing?― calzino,
― calzino,
I dont recall anyone doing that
― Odysseus, Monday, 3 July 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
Guitar Music means Stars of the Lid and Oren Ambarchi, right?
― more polls about food and reactionary art (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 July 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVG9u_nxWBI
^^^my dance hero
― mark s, Monday, 3 July 2017 18:26 (six years ago) link
It's not entirely imaginary - there was an ad for The White Room with Cauty and Drummond in mining gear showering sparks by taking hand grinders to a couple of guitars which Sounds also issued as a poster.
― everything, Monday, 3 July 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
This Facsist Kills Machines
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 12:48 (six years ago) link
Lorde: Melodrama (Lava/Republic) Having achieved world renown as a 16-year-old innocent with a throaty voice, a head on her shoulders, and the nerve to dissent from a style of upward mobility invented by black people a pole away, she returns four years later as what else—a pop property with a sex life. Thus her chief musical collaborator is Taylor/Sia/Carly Rae helpmeet Jack Antonoff rather than New Zealand svengali Joel Little, and it's Antonoff plus the extra grain in her voice that make the difference here. For me, the most meaningful line is "Put my hands under your T-shirt," because it suggests someone who's thought about how this sex thing works. Deep, no. Real, in theory. Sex life, presumably. Pop property, absolutely. B PLUS
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 7 July 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
gross
Lorde: now with shoulders AND a head!
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 July 2017 23:39 (six years ago) link
What's the record sound like? Who cares! Lorde's having sex (probably)!
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 7 July 2017 23:40 (six years ago) link
Think that's the point of the review.
― everything, Saturday, 8 July 2017 02:53 (six years ago) link
to write about how awesome Lorde is for inspiring a male fantasy
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 July 2017 02:59 (six years ago) link
Not too awesome, only a B+! Not being devils advocate or anything but he's criticizing the disc for compromising/stereotyping a promising& unique talent or something like that.
― everything, Saturday, 8 July 2017 03:10 (six years ago) link
or something
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 July 2017 03:17 (six years ago) link
"a pole away" strikes me as very... off
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Saturday, 8 July 2017 03:41 (six years ago) link
Should be "across the Indian Ocean" ?
― everything, Saturday, 8 July 2017 05:25 (six years ago) link
a hemisphere away
― maura, Saturday, 8 July 2017 11:53 (six years ago) link
excited to find out black people invented vulgar materialism
― ramen play on 10 (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 July 2017 12:10 (six years ago) link
hardly controversial to suggest Royals plays on a type of materialism associated with successful black artists, iirc Beyonce is name checked
― niels, Saturday, 8 July 2017 13:57 (six years ago) link
Dude's such a fucking creep
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 8 July 2017 15:28 (six years ago) link
Lol @ "hardly controversial"; ILM argued the point for a month iirc.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 8 July 2017 15:50 (six years ago) link
one reason i can't be bothered to reargue, also i suspect niels was commenting without reading the review clearly
― ramen play on 10 (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 July 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
A lifetime of witty irrelevance behind him, self-proclaimed Dean aims for - and achieves! - for par on this creepy course. B-
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 8 July 2017 16:29 (six years ago) link
Male critics don't seem to get that even when like Christgau they've spent a lifetime extolling powerful, intelligent women these men still become drooling fools at the thought that these powerful, intelligent women can slip hands between their T-shirts and jerk them off. These women still exist as fantasy objects.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 July 2017 16:35 (six years ago) link
not seeing the creeping here, "most meaningful line" != most meaningful line, but banal pop property? that Antonoff has packaged her as another pop property fantasy object?
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Saturday, 8 July 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
(well aware that C has form for creeping, just not seeing it here)
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Saturday, 8 July 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
not seeing the creeping here
Let me run it down for you:
- the most meaningful line is one that makes Christgau think Lorde has been having (or at least thinking about) sex- the most important fact about the new album, for Christgau, is that she's working with the same producer as Taylor Swift, Sia, and Carly Rae Jepsen- given limited space, he'd rather talk about her (presumed) sex life than any aspect of the music he's supposedly reviewing
He's a fucking creep. And has been for decades. To paraphrase one of his own (in)famous lines, he should fold up his penis and stop typing with it.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 8 July 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link