Pazz and Jop "paste your comments here" thread.

its called 'squawking'

It's called a British accent.

-- Frank Kogan (edcasua...), February 2nd, 2006.

Thanks Frank! I was hoping some anti-Kanye rant would make it in, but to no avail. Anyway, I thought to ask you, what do you like/find important about "What's Luv"? Cos I really can't stand the song, but that might fit into your point. Is it the "thug-n-slush" aspect? I haven't heard it in years, so I'm not sure I can cite examples of dislike beyond "the melody's annoying" and "the refrain sounds cutesily scripted". And I even liked Fat Joe's '05 CD!

it's also called annoying, forgotten in 2 years time, overhyped, non-selling,fodder for lonely fanboy fantasies,..........

I can't figure out if this is a dig at electronic-music listeners like myself, or electronic purists (not like myself, despite what y'all may think). Or just coincidental. But actually, 2005 was a fantastic year for techno (in the broadest possible definition of the term; you can say "electronica" if you like too, i don't care). Fucking fantastic, the great stuff just kept coming. In fact, probably the reason I heard so little OUTSIDE the electronic diaspora was that the e-music was so good (plus I am sort of lazy), I didn't feel much need to go straying elsewhere. I used to feel guilty about living in such a narrow little corner, but no longer.

Re: MIA and grime, I don't really see the connection--the rhythmic signatures are quite different, and grime's way heavier on the low end. MIA's is quite sunny music, at the end of the day; it doesn't have the same cavernous, apocalyptic qualities as grime. But then again, I haven't really heard any new grime for 18 months or so, so perhaps it's all changed; I lost interest when the emphasis shifted from beats/production to lyrics.

Maybe next year I should actually submit some P&J comments or something, so y'all don't have to listen to me thinking about loud on threads like these.

Does Lady Sovereign? (Just asking.) (I mean, I don't know that apocalyptic cavernousness is something I associate with *any* of the grime I've heard, to be honest. But obviously there are people out there, including Phil I'm guessing, who've heard way more of it than I have.)

>people who think 2005 was bad because "nothing new happened in grime/microhouse/schaffel plus that Daft Punk album really stunk"<

...may well have been a *strawman*; I'm not sure. But I *think* I heard people saying stuff like that about 2005. Can't name any names off hand though. Was I just imagining things?

re: strawmen & 2005 in techno - obviously i can't say what you may have heard people saying, but i don't think i heard anything like that (aside from, yeah, a litany of complaints about the daft punk album); maybe i just hang out with shameless boosters, but everyone i know shared my boundless enthusiasm, in real and netspace alike. and judging by what i've heard so far, 2006 is going to be even better. if people were saying things like that, chuck, fuck'em!

This makes me think of Henri Michaux, for some reason.