I liked both performances. I like the new album, but I haven't listened to it enough yet. I really loved the first one. The big trendy hits and the weird psyche stuff. I don't know if people are supposed to like them, they were hyped because 3 of the songs from the first album(and e.p.) were really catchy and merged a bunch of different trends and there's all this invented controversy about the new album not having such obvious hits, so yeah, it's funny that they're playing this stuff on SNL, and relatively mainstream radio (Matt Pinfield...), but I doubt this album will be the party jam of the summer.
― dan selzer, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:37 (fourteen years ago) link
controversy isn't really invented so much as a straight-up - this album is a disappointment - i think. "Brian Eno" is catchy though
― Nhex, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know, I think Flash Delirium is great. It's just not the anthem the past hits were. I'm not totally sold by their whole "we're really into obscure 80 psyche bands" or whatever because I think most of the first album isn't much different and it's something I like. I liked it when Jennifer Gentle did it (similarly acid-drenched syd-damaged post-indie rock neo-psych or whatever) and I like it here.
― dan selzer, Monday, 26 April 2010 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf was that cherry spitting stuff?
That was the only part of the episode I liked.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Monday, 26 April 2010 06:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Thing is, it was kind of awesome. I'm just wondering, wtf WAS it?
― Jack Human (kenan), Monday, 26 April 2010 07:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, was it a prody or something? Some phenomenon? Some culture? Anything at all? It can't have been nothing.
― Jack Human (kenan), Monday, 26 April 2010 07:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, I have never seen anyone put on a Mace Windu costume and spit cherries.
― Jack Human (kenan), Monday, 26 April 2010 07:56 (fourteen years ago) link
iron chef
― altered dominant (get bent), Monday, 26 April 2010 07:58 (fourteen years ago) link
lol Ok.
― Jack Human (kenan), Monday, 26 April 2010 08:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I felt it must have been Japanese.
― Jack Human (kenan), Monday, 26 April 2010 08:34 (fourteen years ago) link
see to me it just felt like a retread of the "extreme challenges" digital short with samberg & wiig doing a bunch of bizarre competitions
― surmudgeon (some dude), Monday, 26 April 2010 10:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Dudes, I love Betty White.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 9 May 2010 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope they give Seth the night off and let Tina and Amy do the Weekend Update.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 9 May 2010 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link
lol at bobby m literally having to help betty white get off the couch
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 03:54 (thirteen years ago) link
they should've canceled this episode and let jay do a 1.5 hour set
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I turned this on just in time. Jay-Z sounds amazing.
― Mordy, Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
snl hasn't aired anything this dope since the jeopardy parodies
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah this is killer
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link
seriously, this performance just shit on all of network television
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i assume he's not doing a second performance?
They're letting him go on and on. Fantastic.
― Pazuzu's petals (kenan), Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
the only way i can be happy about hearing "empire of state of mind" is when it interrupts "bonnie & clyde 03"
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Holy shit.
― Mordy, Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:13 (thirteen years ago) link
They don't even let U2 go on this long.
Ok yeah, that was hot.
― Pazuzu's petals (kenan), Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i hope jay-z buys NBC and replaces all their shows w/ a loop of his live performances
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Aw, you can't say that the same week as the Community paintball episode.
― Mordy, Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:20 (thirteen years ago) link
other than jay this episode has been unwatchable
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
ban mya rudolph
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
ruining the only reliable part of the show
oh well, not even doing this song w/ a hoarse flea market chris martin can ruin his set
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:52 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha mr hudson sounds so bad, wtf
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i actually dig this song on the album. unpopular opinion, i know.
― Mordy, Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
yea that dudes lil bouncin around & camera pull-back/low-angle was disturbing
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:54 (thirteen years ago) link
A friend on Twitter:
Jay!! This song is awful. I know you think everything you do is awesome but I know tapeworms more awesome than this song :(
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 May 2010 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
This was funny for awhile! Then the monologue ended.
Old lady doing 5 minutes of vag jokes = 2010 'edgy'
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:12 (thirteen years ago) link
posts very much in character
― Mordy, Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
morbs otm tho -- all the jokes where betty white saying "balls" and "lesbian"
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Fags at the gay bar were ecstatic over those gags. That's why I'm a homophobe.
hasn't Jay-Z been rapping about his 99 problems for about a decade? Wilco is about as exciting as that shit.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:15 (thirteen years ago) link
also, honestly didn't know Anglo comedians were still doing minstrel Latino shit. Someone tell Jerry Lewis to take his 'Asian' buck teeth out of mothballs.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:17 (thirteen years ago) link
morbs is hardbody
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe if Betty White had pointed out the ironies of American nuclear policies Morbs would've digged it more
― Mordy, Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm just glad they didn't call her Sue Ann Nivens in the radio sketch.
(I guess cuz Nivens isn't a synonym for snatch)
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Seriously all you guys that hated on Jay's last album loved that medley? I don't get you guys, he sounded 'meh' at best, when he wasn't all out of breath.
The digital short was k-classic!
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link
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― J0rdan S., Sunday, 9 May 2010 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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― mizzell, Sunday, 9 May 2010 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Jay-Z's rap-metal medley was passable at best, I thought. It's pretty late in the game for him to be amping up and trying to broaden his audience - the dude already knows he runs this rap shit, so why try so hard? - and the constant fading in and out between songs was disruptive. There must have been as much awkward and self-defeating dead space as music. How can you show off your flow if your rhyming is so stop and go?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 9 May 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, in retrospect this morning, props for trying something different but it didn't sound good at all most of the time and this "seriously, this performance just shit on all of network television" is just o_O
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 9 May 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I love Betty White, but after a night of drinking and weed smoking, hearing about her "cherry" was a very sobering moment...
― Heroin Kills (Brad Nowell's Soiled Undergarments), Sunday, 9 May 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link