Feels like a lot of people itt investing way too much thought into this terrible song and terrible singer. Y'all really want a new Farrah Abraham that badly, huh?
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 26 July 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
I will give her this much: as awful as the song + singer are, the cumulative 45 seconds or so that I've heard of this (once for myself, once for my gf who probably noped out quicker than I did) have lodged themselves very firmly in my head.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 July 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link
"Fantasy" is good!
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, 26 July 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link
Red Dress with an actual singer is a good song
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 July 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
Loathed the Farrah Abraham, but I wouldn’t mind a new Laurel Halo - the unadorned pitchiness of Quarantine was a thing of great beauty.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 26 July 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
Gordon Haskell was kinda pitchy on this one, to the surprise of no one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNhfdZe5njk
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 July 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
the lyrics of this are very very bad btw
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 July 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
i do like "fluffennamp timebaschwain fennehsquaf" thought that was a good line
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 July 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
xpost Why do u judge in disgust
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 July 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
brilliant video moment with the cutaway on "letting someone else steer" to a red cow
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 July 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
They're right there in the video description.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, July 26, 2021 10:09 AM (three hours ago)
tl;dr
― sarahell, Monday, 26 July 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
I like the ii to II modulation in the chorus, that's what sticks in my head.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 26 July 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
This is kind of like the time Wes Bentley tearfully engaged with the beauty of a plastic shopping bag caught in an updraft
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 July 2021 21:20 (two years ago) link
oh thank god, I thought I maybe was patient zero for a new variant with COVID ears symptoms
― StanM, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 11:26 (two years ago) link
This is the funniest fucking thing
― Karl Havoc (DJP), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 11:35 (two years ago) link
I only sent that once
― StanM, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 11:45 (two years ago) link
oh thank god, I thought I maybe was patient zero for a new variant with COVID triple vision symptoms
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 11:51 (two years ago) link
Microtonal vision is a thing.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 11:56 (two years ago) link
lol xp
― StanM, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 12:16 (two years ago) link
Lyrics on this are also really, impressively bad. I vote calculated effort to go viral. And good on her.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 12:23 (two years ago) link
The only thing about this that even hints at calculation is that I'd think an Oxford grad student would generally have a better notion of how words go together.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 12:46 (two years ago) link
her thesis is on five dimensional chess
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link
Which could it be:
Calculated avant-garde exercise or wealthy person without self-awareness or talent
Hmm, we'll never know.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 13:15 (two years ago) link
I can't imagine another board with people trying to do the required mental gymnastics to turn the latter into the former though. Sometimes bad is just bad.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
https://artinfiction.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/asc-3a.jpg
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 13:46 (two years ago) link
This song's proponents have iirc all said they like it because of the pleasure of hearing it
― imago, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link
I probably slightly prefer the pleasure of thinking and talking about it.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
xpost - Fine, then I'll amend my post to say I'm completely lost as to how anyone could find pleasure in anything about that song.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
The tang of unusual tonal harmonies within a pop-country context is pretty irresistible, what can I say
― imago, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:30 (two years ago) link
this song is A+, it's clearly intentional and it is not easy to be off key on every single note.
― akm, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
^ would've been agreed upon already if this board wasn't almost entirely people over 30
― ri, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
it being bait, that is
― ri, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:48 (two years ago) link
another Sarah Brand rapidly updates her profile...
https://twitter.com/sarahgailbrand?s=20
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
― akm, Wednesday, July 28, 2021 10:34 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Sure, sure. I will believe this when she releases the song where she is on key on every single note.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
Green Templeton College obviously think any publicity's good publicity:
https://www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/sarah-brand-fantasy-music-video/
― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
it was manifestly obvious on the first listen that it was deliberate. she is hitting the same notes over and over again
― imago, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
It's totally possible to be off key on every note, esp if you make certain (common) errors in vocal technique. (See for reference: any group not made up of professional singers singing "Happy Birthday"). I think Brand is probably genuinely limited as a singer. I just think it's more likely to be a case of accepting it and running with it than of massive self-delusion. Not sure what the basis is for assuming she's exceptionally wealthy, either.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
Should have called herself Sarah Off-Brand.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:15 (two years ago) link
Hey guys is this where I sign up for the three-day symposium on the works of Sarah Brand, also can I get a list of featured speakers
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
Moondog, Daniel Johnson, Schoenberg, Rebecca Black, Pitbull
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:35 (two years ago) link
Not Daniel Johnston. The real heads know Daniel Johnson is where it's at.
― Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:40 (two years ago) link
surely this deserves its own thread
― sleeve, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
yeah this thread is for Rebecca Black news and updates only
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:48 (two years ago) link
Sarah Brand
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
I'm almost 50!
― akm, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 16:23 (two years ago) link
― imago, Wednesday, July 28, 2021 11:10 AM bookmarkflaglink
doesn't really prove anything tbh - one can be off-key in a consistent way without intentionally doing so. I have a friend who for some reason can never find the correct key for "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" at karaoke night and she consistently sings the same wrong notes, but she's not trying to! and she's a legit singer.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
what am i doin' heeeeeeeee(*earth tilts off its axis and spins into infinite darkness*)eeeeeeeeeere
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
the other thing is she wrote the song, and there are definitely people that can mimic other people's songs, but can't actually tell that what they're writing doesn't fit the key they're in. also people who aren't used to using melisma and don't have a good ear often melisma into Allan Holdsworth territory
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link