Lol what did Justin Timberlake did to pitchfork? It frels personal at this point.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 2 February 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
Them and Sgum were doing the same trampoline flying dunks for Eminem's last album. They're coming for Jack White next
I think the new hipster poptimism means a real tribal sense of calling anything super mainstream either REALLY REALLY GOOD or REALLY REALLY BAD. It's almost like the old college radio vs mersh divide but recalibrated for a world where Rihanna is the Pixies
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 2 February 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
easy target & easy way to get points for dunking on a white dude perceived to be making a 'back to my roots' (white) album after years of working with black musicians
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 February 2018 19:20 (six years ago) link
The only album on that list being reviewed today besides justin’s is field music. Good enough to get recommended over JT but not good enough to get reviewed
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 2 February 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, February 2, 2018 2:20 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark
i think it's an interesting thing to track but also all the albums in this group -- JT, eminem, katy perry, even gaga to an extent -- are not very good and could easily be argued to be really really bad
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 February 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
the story might be what you're describing or what the uproxx post is describing... it could also be that major pop stars are for some reason dropping really bad albums
the taylor album is the only one to buck this trend in a sense but she's a whole other ball of wax
― J0rdan S., Friday, 2 February 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link
the miley cyrus album too
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 February 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link
xpost He'll do a new single, a medley of hits (Trolls song, Rock.Your. Body, SexyBack, Mirrors), bring out Stapleton then end with Janet doing Rhythm Nation, which will make everyone immediately forget what preceded it.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 February 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link
eh given my personal experience recently, whiney's got a point
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 2 February 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
i meant, the miley cyrus album was also trashed for being a country record
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 February 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
i like rhye :)
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 February 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
idk, the Eminem, Taylor and JT albums were all certainly on the low end of quality in their career arcs but I wouldn't call any of them "BAD" when compared to their other work.
Katy Perry was p bad tho
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 2 February 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, February 2, 2018 12:26 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
me2 sorry whiney. but I listened to the jt album early this morning so I finished my most important homework first.
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Friday, 2 February 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
you thought revival was good?? lord ave mercy
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 February 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
And then we're getting back into the whole pre-2001 record store jerkoff way of thinking once we get to "Man, Justin Timberlake is bad, but you know what is good? King Krule"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 2 February 2018 19:29 (six years ago) link
doing myself a favor by not listening to this album until the discourse makes up its damn mind as to whether it is worse to like it or dislike it
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 2 February 2018 19:29 (six years ago) link
There's a gulf of opinion between "good" and "bad"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 2 February 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
None of which make for good internet, btw
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 2 February 2018 19:31 (six years ago) link
^^^^
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 2 February 2018 19:31 (six years ago) link
also, that list of pop albums is kind of cherry-picked. lots of major mainstream pop artists have gotten middling-to-fine reviews. Fifth Harmony, Camila Cabello, the Weeknd, Halsey, Harry Styles, Kesha maybe, Bruno Mars before last week, Dua Lipa, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato...
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 2 February 2018 19:34 (six years ago) link
Literally two of those people are remotely in the same sphere of fame as Taylor, Justin and Em
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 2 February 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
5 years ago all the indie sites were breathlessly praising The 20/20 Experience despite it being fairly middling and bloated
― ufo, Friday, 2 February 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
going by relevance/charts/sales right now, opposed to cumulative. Taylor, sure, but no one would call Eminem a relevant artist today, and Timberlake's running on fumes (and Trolls).
also, that list was somewhat off the top of my head. other very mainstream pop artists in the tepid-to-decent range: Pink, maybe Britney, Adele would probably qualify, maybe even Justin Bieber, pretty much all the charting EDM acts besides the Chainsmokers
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 2 February 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, February 2, 2018 1:29 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
honestly my man you're the GOAT at strawmanning
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 2 February 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
i'm listening to highly relevant rapper skyzoo's new album today
Rhye album is good btw :( dont trash it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 2 February 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
And then there's this thread
Justin Timberlake's Man Of The Woods album reviews are in. #ManOfTheWoods pic.twitter.com/5WR9Pn9bCS— Kenny M (@kennaymart) February 2, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 February 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
What's weird about this backlash is that it's not even just about him making a dud record. There seems to be this theme running through these reviews that's like "oh, that stuff of his you thought was really good 10 years ago? It was actually really bad!".
The Uproxx article is hypocritical, sure, but it also seems pretty otm.
― triggercut, Friday, 2 February 2018 23:55 (six years ago) link
i dislike this record but i hate the internet
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 2 February 2018 23:56 (six years ago) link
Purpose was a pretty great pop album, actually.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 3 February 2018 00:18 (six years ago) link
it was not
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 3 February 2018 00:24 (six years ago) link
while “Breeze Off the Pond” leans on a layered-harmony trick Timberlake’s been using for a solid decade, it also invites you to imagine him taking a stoned canoe trip soundtracked by “Tiny Dancer.” Timberlake is such an abjectly poor lyricist that scraps like these feel like manna from heaven.
wtf that sounds rad.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 3 February 2018 00:55 (six years ago) link
"Breeze Off the Pond" sounds like some "On the Beach" b-side
the words, not the song, obviously. the song is just generic dance pop
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 3 February 2018 00:57 (six years ago) link
do you dance?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 February 2018 01:44 (six years ago) link
"Breeze Off the Pond" is my favorite song, but no way is it a dance song.
Montana is decent
― i know kore-eda (or something), Saturday, 3 February 2018 02:15 (six years ago) link
Montana is great yeah.
― piscesx, Saturday, 3 February 2018 02:37 (six years ago) link
JT solo and no songs from the new record. Wise choice. The logistics behind the halftime show are insane
Oh hey I’m at the superbowl btw! Greetings from Minneapolis.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:39 (six years ago) link
lol Man of the Woods! still looks like a Nilla Wafer
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:52 (six years ago) link
the vocals seemed really recessed?
thought he did fine but not performinh like i love you was a real misstep imo.
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Monday, 5 February 2018 04:14 (six years ago) link
didn't watch :)
― dyl, Monday, 5 February 2018 04:24 (six years ago) link
How's you end up at the Super Bowl moka?
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 February 2018 04:33 (six years ago) link
my mom liked the halftime show
― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Monday, 5 February 2018 04:54 (six years ago) link
I got invited by inbev with other 15 people from all over Mexico for selling too much beer in 2017 in our bars.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 5 February 2018 05:32 (six years ago) link
Also I won $600 dollars for betting against patriots with some of them haha they’re bad losers and they’re a bit salty now. Great vibes all around despite the patriots sore fans but minnesota is way to fucking cold and noone is in the streets partying in here.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 5 February 2018 05:34 (six years ago) link
Great vibes all around despite the patriots sore fans but minnesota is way to fucking cold and noone is in the streets partying in here.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka)
Yeah, it's been brutal today. The last couple of weeks have been pretty unbearable in general. I moved here from the U.K, so still get used to how crazy it can get.
Watching the performance just now, it looks like he really didn't do much singing and when he did it sounded a kinda off. The Prince tribute didn't really work either, especially when he tried to sing along. It all seemed a bit flat.
― kitchen person, Monday, 5 February 2018 05:47 (six years ago) link
Cant get the bbcode to work but I took this one during the prince tribute:
https://m.imgur.com/a/hxxmU
Dont know how it look on tv but there were some purple led lights in each seat and we were instructed to turn them on qhen the prince tribute started. It looked beautiful from my view.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 5 February 2018 06:55 (six years ago) link
I thought the halftime show was fine, I guess I never understand what ppl expect out of it. it was weird how the knives are out for Timberlake, felt like the thinkpieces were half written before the thing even happened, especially since they went up so quick
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 February 2018 12:41 (six years ago) link