Pop stars >>> reality TV stars
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 15:05 (eight months ago) link
I for one welcome a future in which our leaders are determined by pop stars
yes, this is a worrying turn away from the high-minded debate that normally decides the electoral process
― Steve Bully IX (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 15:07 (eight months ago) link
maybe she can help flip Kansas
― omar little, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 16:13 (eight months ago) link
or missouri. or both!
― omar little, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 16:14 (eight months ago) link
I am hearing that women are dumping somewhat conservative men at accelerated rates so that they can better relate to Taylor Swift songs
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 17:16 (eight months ago) link
iirc Taylor Swift dates guys with Fuck the Patriarchy keychains
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 17:44 (eight months ago) link
jfchttps://x.com/perpetua/status/1727145778072948985?s=20
― campreverb, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:20 (six months ago) link
Not a piece of music writing really
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:29 (six months ago) link
And it's a fairly standard "I'm noticing something you guys aren't" thing. Which is annoying, but then again I don't know who Tate McRae is.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:31 (six months ago) link
no not a piece of writing per se, but it is a kind of superficial analysis that sends me over the edge.
― campreverb, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:59 (six months ago) link
he's saying we're being suffocated by something that is invisible to us?
― Evan, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 18:09 (six months ago) link
Which Gen Z artists is he talking about?
― This field is required (morrisp), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 18:10 (six months ago) link
Taylor Swift, I assume
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 18:12 (six months ago) link
We cannot know because we are too old
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 18:12 (six months ago) link
sorry, mis-read that. He mentions Troye Slivin or whatever
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 18:13 (six months ago) link
He mentions____________or whatever
huh??
― Evan, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 18:16 (six months ago) link
These artists make music in frequencies that can't be heard if you're over 25.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 18:17 (six months ago) link
and also they're SUFFOCATING me
― Evan, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 18:18 (six months ago) link
Like, Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo come immediately to mind as “massively successful” Gen Z artists who are surely invisible to no one…
― This field is required (morrisp), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 18:21 (six months ago) link
old people don’t know who the musicians are that young people are listening to? shocking!
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 20:01 (six months ago) link
Can’t we just ignore him?
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 20:09 (six months ago) link
It worked on here
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 20:15 (six months ago) link
sadly no longer an option due to the theory of Perpetua motion
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 20:17 (six months ago) link
inside out, outside in
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 21:03 (six months ago) link
Not writing but I don’t think we have a worst music-related podcast thread.
Dissect from Ringer - the episode on “Nosetalgia” starts out by explaining ‘nose - which you use to snort cocaine’ and nostalgia, followed quickly by ‘Johnson and Johnson makes baby powder, used to cut cocaine.’
I had to bail at that point.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 November 2023 20:17 (six months ago) link
I mean, what did you honestly expect from a 56 minute podcast about one Pusha T song
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 24 November 2023 20:31 (six months ago) link
wait so there's a Pusha T song about coke?
― symsymsym, Friday, 24 November 2023 21:16 (six months ago) link
Bandsplain and 60 Songs That Explain The '90s aren't bad, I expected more of that than 7th grade essay.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 November 2023 22:45 (six months ago) link
Why does 60 Songs That Explain the 90s have 111 episodes?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Saturday, 25 November 2023 00:59 (six months ago) link
the '90s never ended
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 25 November 2023 01:30 (six months ago) link
There's 52 episodes about the "girls who Abercrombie and Fitch" song
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 25 November 2023 01:50 (six months ago) link
Similarly I had the “Switched on Pop” podcast recommended to me after the dudes treated some basic double entendres in a Weeknd song like rich and evocative symbolism
― intheblanks, Saturday, 25 November 2023 02:17 (six months ago) link
“And I dropped it after I heard the dudes” I mean
lol Halfway
― This field is required (morrisp), Saturday, 25 November 2023 03:14 (six months ago) link
woof: https://www.spin.com/2023/12/album-of-the-year-killer-mike-michael/
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 03:13 (five months ago) link
Layers upon layers of stink in there.
― BrianB, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 03:35 (five months ago) link
Michael is for Killer Mike's given name
whoa
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 03:59 (five months ago) link
oh my god what the fuck is that
― ivy., Tuesday, 26 December 2023 04:01 (five months ago) link
what blathering dreck!
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 04:04 (five months ago) link
lmao that suuuucks
― rob, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 04:16 (five months ago) link
That's sad.
― jmm, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 04:18 (five months ago) link
tempted to start a poll for everyone's favourite line in this piece
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 04:20 (five months ago) link
1st reaction was OK dad, 2nd reaction was this is overwrought and underwritten at the same time how is this dude a publisher, then he dissed the pitchfork person and things got exciting for a minute but he denies us a decent rant and just gestures at the bootstraps party line of his class which is honestly a bit of a letdown, he clearly sees Mike as a fellow capitalist striver
he definitely writes like the kind of guy who inherited his dad's porn empire and published nude pics of teenagers to sell his own magazine while also sexually harassing his employees
― Left, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 04:23 (five months ago) link
https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJwaWN0dXJlcy5jLXNwYW52aWRlby5vcmciLCJrZXkiOiJGaWxlc1wvZGJhXC8xNjQyNC0xNTI1OC0xLmpwZyIsImVkaXRzIjp7InJlc2l6ZSI6eyJmaXQiOiJjb3ZlciIsImhlaWdodCI6MjAwLCJ3aWR0aCI6MjAwfX19
"I’m not a fan of most rap, and of what I do like I prefer old school to new."
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 04:29 (five months ago) link
well, fuck, that didn't work out the way I wanted it to
― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 04:30 (five months ago) link
I think Omni Magazine was his passion project, not Spin. In it’s 80s-90s heyday Spin was essential reading
― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 04:34 (five months ago) link
I like getting a peek behind the curtain and seeing the failupwardsons that run everything now and how little they bring to the table in terms of ideas and how their one ideological move is always meritocracy which is refuted by their own existence
― Left, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 04:47 (five months ago) link
Last September, the rapper Killer Mike was DJing hip-hop classics like Snoop Dogg’s Ain’t No Fun at a music festival afterparty in Louisville, Kentucky. “The inspiration for the night’s set is freedom of speech, so say what the fuck you want!” he told a crowd of hundreds. Killer Mike, half of the duo Run the Jewels, is known for speaking out against police brutality and racial injustice, as well as campaigning for Bernie Sanders.But this night’s set was co-sponsored by Stand Together Music, an organization backed by the libertarian billionaire Charles Koch, who made his fortune in fossil fuels. Other sponsors of the party included the free-speech group Fire (which has received millions of dollars in contributions from the Charles G Koch charitable foundation), as well as the music outlet Spin, an official partner of Stand Together Music.
But this night’s set was co-sponsored by Stand Together Music, an organization backed by the libertarian billionaire Charles Koch, who made his fortune in fossil fuels. Other sponsors of the party included the free-speech group Fire (which has received millions of dollars in contributions from the Charles G Koch charitable foundation), as well as the music outlet Spin, an official partner of Stand Together Music.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/07/koch-family-stand-together-music
― Frozen CD, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 06:08 (five months ago) link
― rob, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 06:10 (five months ago) link
I feel bad for the section editor, who presumably / hopefully cringed the whole way through that process, starting when Bob messaged one day and was like "This is the best rap record in decades, I'll write about it for album of the year!" ... and from that point there was no stopping it.
Maybe it didn't go that way, but you can picture it.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 17:53 (five months ago) link