i've only heard "whats poppin" but it's like a v normal run-of-the-mill song? not sure what's so earth-shatteringly terrible about it
it was posted in the rolling worst of 2020 thread basically immediately upon existing so perhaps i'm oblivious (yes i do realize he is a person of pallor getting played mostly at black radio, i mean other than that)
― dyl, Thursday, 9 July 2020 03:23 (four years ago) link
Try the lyrics
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 9 July 2020 03:55 (four years ago) link
yes when i described the song as very average/typical i was clearly not including the lyrics in my assessment
― dyl, Thursday, 9 July 2020 04:21 (four years ago) link
https://www.vox.com/2020/8/14/21368137/wap-meaning-megan-thee-stallion-cardi-b
But Shakespeare, while he had an unending pandemic to create King Lear, never came close to creating this rhythmic flow of genius from Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP”:Put him on his knees, give him somethin’ to believe inNever lost a fight, but I’m lookin’ for a beatingIn the food chain, I’m the one that eat yaIf he ate my ass, he’s a bottom feederIn four lines, Megan Thee Stallion exalts the privilege of performing cunnilingus on her, before issuing a taunt, a guarantee of endurance from her vagina. Megan is a religious experience, a powerhouse, an apex predator, and a provider.
Put him on his knees, give him somethin’ to believe inNever lost a fight, but I’m lookin’ for a beatingIn the food chain, I’m the one that eat yaIf he ate my ass, he’s a bottom feeder
In four lines, Megan Thee Stallion exalts the privilege of performing cunnilingus on her, before issuing a taunt, a guarantee of endurance from her vagina. Megan is a religious experience, a powerhouse, an apex predator, and a provider.
In the same way Shakespeare used monarchy, kings, and two awful daughters in King Lear to talk about family, mental illness, and fear of old age, Cardi and Megan use hyperbolic, fantastic imagery — even herpetology, the harmless garter snake versus the king cobra — to tell a story about the basic, absolutely human feelings of desire and arousal.“It’s pretty simple,” Bianca Burke, a porn actress, told me. “When anything sexy is happening — like making out with a cute guy or when you replay last night’s hookup in your head during your 15-minute break at work, your pussy may get aroused, which can lead to it getting wet.”
“It’s pretty simple,” Bianca Burke, a porn actress, told me. “When anything sexy is happening — like making out with a cute guy or when you replay last night’s hookup in your head during your 15-minute break at work, your pussy may get aroused, which can lead to it getting wet.”
― treeship., Monday, 17 August 2020 07:21 (four years ago) link
vox is so terrible
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 17 August 2020 08:20 (four years ago) link
lol
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Monday, 17 August 2020 11:11 (four years ago) link
My husband read the first line to me last night and I was like 'please stop it hurts'
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 17 August 2020 12:04 (four years ago) link
so someone expanded the "goop on ya grinch" tweet into a whole article?
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Monday, 17 August 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link
I mean, Marc Lamont Hill did a whole video about 'why WAP isn't problematic.' His intended audience was primarily more concervative Black people, from what I could tell, but the whole thing was really bizarre.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 17 August 2020 12:53 (four years ago) link
https://imgur.com/a/qRejK2Q
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Monday, 17 August 2020 12:55 (four years ago) link
defending the song is fine. saying you like it because it affirms female desire is a sound argument. so too is the counter that it does so in a way that still panders to the male gaze. this vox article with the king lear angle, however, is wildly stupid.
― treeship., Monday, 17 August 2020 12:55 (four years ago) link
imagine shoehorning Lear into this dreck and not even quoting this part:
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spoutTill you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!
― rob, Monday, 17 August 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
lmao
― treeship., Monday, 17 August 2020 13:25 (four years ago) link
i take it back -- this piece is worthwhile, after all, as a set up for that post
Haha
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Monday, 17 August 2020 13:32 (four years ago) link
One could see Shapiro’s comments as genuine concern; maybe he truly believes there’s a Sorcerer’s Apprentice situation going on with genitalia.
okay lol, article redeemed
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 17 August 2020 13:41 (four years ago) link
The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to 'tWith a more riotous appetite.Down from the waist they are Centaurs,Though women all above
― neith moon (ledge), Monday, 17 August 2020 13:42 (four years ago) link
the vox piece is clearly a stunt, probably because of a dare, probably the result of a bored digression in a slack channel
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 17 August 2020 13:44 (four years ago) link
"hey bro, dare you to write a comparative analysis of king lear and wap, but like with the kind of shoddy reasoning and inflated claims you would see in a high school paper"
― treeship., Monday, 17 August 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link
namechecking "King Lear" once is not a comparative analysis
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 17 August 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
what this piece presupposes is, what if it is?
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Monday, 17 August 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
king lear is discussed throughout the article
― treeship., Monday, 17 August 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link
at least throughout the first couple paragraphs, which is all i read
― treeship., Monday, 17 August 2020 13:52 (four years ago) link
CORDELIA: I cannot heave my heart into my mouth
― all we are is durst in the wind (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 17 August 2020 13:54 (four years ago) link
Cordi B
― jmm, Monday, 17 August 2020 13:57 (four years ago) link
but Regan Thee Stallion
― rob, Monday, 17 August 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link
Omg y'all I'm dyyyyin over here lol
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 17 August 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
thou borest thy ass on thy back o'erthe dirt
― pomenitul, Monday, 17 August 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link
shall I compare Thee to a Hot Girl Summer's day?
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 17 August 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
i thought you meant country matters
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 17 August 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
once a week is ample
― poparse's eye (sic), Monday, 17 August 2020 17:57 (four years ago) link
i looked up the author and slack-dare pieces like this are his wheelhouse
― maura, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 11:48 (four years ago) link
“Megan Thee Stallion” sounds like a Billy Childish project
― Boring, Maryland, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 13:22 (four years ago) link
If, like me, you spent an unfortunate amount of your young adult life digging through the record stacks at thrift stores, you probably realized it at some point: Nobody actually listened to Jimi Hendrix in the 1960s. Setting a period picture montage of Vietnam protests and assassination to footage to "All Along the Watchtower" is Boomer Whig history. The crates don't lie: Most people were listening to Andy Williams and Herb Alpert, not whatever San Francisco Blueshammer crap you just bought in a deluxe vinyl reissue.
Until very recently the ghost of easy listening still haunted FM radio. But Train and Savage Garden were just neutered and spayed version of the same adolescent product you could hear on the top 40 station in the late '90s, not an attempt to do something radically different, much less "adult." The good news, though, is that nothing really stands in the way of an easy listening revival. (The only reason Cheek to Cheek didn't work is that Tony Bennett no longer has the pipes and Lady Gaga never will.)Spend a month alternating between old Angel pressings of Beethoven symphonies and Perry Como. I bet you will never want to hear an overdriven guitar again.
Spend a month alternating between old Angel pressings of Beethoven symphonies and Perry Como. I bet you will never want to hear an overdriven guitar again.
https://theweek.com/articles/827454/strange-death-easy-listening
Someone needs to tell this guy about the Easy Listening revival that happened around twenty-five years ago, it'd blow his mind.
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link
That was more of a hipster thing, though, right? In the 80s, we still had radio stations that played this stuff. Sitcom themes were sung by Johnny Mathis instead of Barenaked Ladies. "Feelings" was a song that everyone knew. Someone who wants that world back is still waiting. Even the adult contemporary chart is now topped by people like Maroon 5 and Post Malone; there's not even a Celine Dion. (Maybe Adele??)
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
That said, I have a bunch of these records and I still prefer Hendrix (who I don't think was ever sold to me as 'what everyone listened to in the 60s').
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
That opening is stupid though. Obviously "nobody listened to Hendrix" is hyperbole, which fine I'm not that pedantic, but then saying it's anachronistic to play it over footage of protestors, presumably among the small minority of people who maybe actually did listen to Jimi (unless dude has never seen Woodstock?), makes you seem like a bullshitter in the Frankfurt sense.
― rob, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah, not saying the article is any good. Do non-Nrx people talk about 'Whig history' btw?
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
I've never heard that phrase.
― Get your filthy hands off my asp (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
what is NRX? In my line of work "Whig history" is definitely something people talk about.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:43 (four years ago) link
Whig history is a standard designation in historiography ime
― rob, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:43 (four years ago) link
NRX = dark enlightenment
― rob, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
i.e., neo-reactionary
(I am also today literally working on Whig history, as in, history of the Whigs (well, of one prominent Whig in particularly, and of his Whigness, fwiw))
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
dark enlightenment? think I will stay away.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
I feel like Mordy started a thread on it at some point, but maybe it was just a strand within the alt-right one?
― rob, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:48 (four years ago) link
yeah I don't touch that stuff
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
I also don't get the premise of the crate-digging revelation. Maybe he's not finding a lot of Hendrix records because everyone's hanging onto them(?)
― Get your filthy hands off my asp (morrisp), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
Oh cool, thanks, genuinely didn't know it was a mainstream historical term. Yeah, you're fine staying away from NRx.
― magnet of the elk park (Sund4r), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 14:58 (four years ago) link
yeah I'm not a chart nerd, but this whole list seems like a solid refutation of the claim: https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1968-10-19
― rob, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link