the 1975

I’ve decided that love it if we made it is my least favorite 1975 song.

― Celtoes Adidas (Spottie), Monday, December 10, 2018 11:05 AM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow craziness

ive tried it out in different settings, watched it live as well. it plods along and his delivery is way too "we didnt start the fire" for my liking. it's ok when the hook opens up but it just reminds me of other (better) 1975 songs that came before it.

Just listened to the whole album, which confirmed that it's not really my thing (the music isn't depressing enough, I don't care about the lyrics), but I liked it more than I thought I would.

This RYM review made me laugh, though:

Whoa. Like whoa. This is awful. I've rated 1,195 albums as of right now according to RYM, and this is one of the only 9 albums that I've given .5 stars. Everything about this is just... heinous, obnoxious, and annoying. After the newest 21 Pilots came out and I found myself actually enjoying it, I was excited for this album as well. I disliked Love It If We Made It as a teaser, but I was still slightly excited, but nope. It's like someone went on millennial twitter and wrote down a couple important memes and/or news items, and then put them in a horrendous sounding slog of autotune and electropop that just sounds like total shit. I don't enjoy a single track on this album except for maybe Be My Mistake, and that's just because it sounds vaguely reminiscent of an older Band of Horses song or something, although I could just be incorrect. This album is not revolutionary or exciting, it just rehashes cultural events that have happened over the past, I don't know, year? I'm surprised I didn't catch a reference to XXXTENTACION or something else equally embarrassing, although there is a Lil Peep reference somewhere on Love It If We Made It. I am a millennial, and I love when music speaks to things that are entirely millennial, but this just feels like some old dude in a production office said "Ya know what we should do?? Capitalize directly on millennial culture and the modern political-sphere without having any idea what it actually means!" It's just too absolutely cynical. It sounds like generic electropop, (I have absolutely no idea why, but I read some articles saying how experimental and avant-garde this is supposed to be) and offends me on a musical and cultural level. If you want to listen to something good and actually representative of being alive in this online age, check out Wide Awake!! by Parquet Courts, or Pure Comedy (as pretentious as it is) by Father John Misty. Listen to Chapo Trap House or some other millennial political podcast. Get high on a weeknight and watch Evangelion. Just literally do fucking anything but listen to this piece of fake "woke" garbage. This is painful and insulting to me and should be to anyone who considers themselves in tune with modern culture and respects genuine artistry and intelligence in their music. This album is how it feels when you open twitter or instagram and you see an awful meme that was cooked up by some corporation that belongs on the "Fellow Kids" subreddit. Please just go away with this pandering garbage and come back with something interesting and actually representative of the human experience for those who grew up alongside and with the internet. This album is the musical equivalent of the cultural saturation as evident with movies like the new Star Wars films and Marvel Movies. Get the pandering BS out of here, it's just awful. This isn't art, it's product.

Also. Just because an album has an interlude with a robot voice in it does not mean it is "This Generation's OK COMPUTER."

.5 or 1/10.

today "prominent dude critics talk about the 1975 on Twitter" day and it is ... not good

saw them described as kasabian for men who know what emotional labour is which struck me as supremely dumb

Expect to see that RYM review up onscreen behind Matty by the second leg of this tour

This is a great burn

"Love It If We Made It" is literally a Skillz year end roundup smothered in '80s sophisti-pop sauce, but okay.

— Craig Bro Dude (@CraigSJ) December 10, 2018

lol ...is it

From which part of the grocery store shelf did he get the sauce?

*cues Turn Back the Clock*

idgi at all

lyrics of ‘love it if we made it’ are objectively good

I like it and their schtick but there is an extent to which politics and life are so on the nose right now that both satire and commentary seem difficult ... the worst example of this is like idk SNL or something. in that 1975 go for a lot of commentary on ‘the times we live in’ perhaps they set themselves up for confronting that difficulty more often than most

starting a petition to replace “be my mistake” with “102”

Why do I feel like matty would kind of like that ridiculous RYM review up there

hahahaha that Skillz reference is A+

is he still doing those?

Listening to Kick by INXS this morning, and Aussie box o blues cliches aside, there are some real 1975 vibes.

xp oh yes https://youtu.be/ozlhYYBfWGk

lyrics of ‘love it if we made it’ are objectively good

I find the lyrics to this song moving, emotionally, but also obsequious and pandering and far far away from what I'd point to and say "here, observe these lyrics, which are objectively good."

I know I keep hammering on this but Pitchfork also said the best song of the 1970s was the one that goes "MICKEY MOUSE HAS GROWN UP A COW" so lets not pretend that "POISON ME DADDY" isn't the modern internet irony bro version

I like the song, uncomfortably so. Reminds of the criticism Springsteen got for "Born in the U.S.A." It's easy to imagine a Trumpist chanting I FUCKED HER LIKE A BITCH in his car. A beat that irresistible shreds the irony.

OUTSIDE KENT STATE IN DIAPERS GOT A RARE GROYPER MURDER MY PUSSY GRITTY CUCK A DOODLE DOOOOO

BLICKY GOT THE STIFFY, MURDER MY PUSSY GRITTY, IN COMET PING PONG, QANON,

DAVE DO NOT READ THS TARA HELLO SANTAYANA GOODBYE

I find the lyrics to this song moving, emotionally, but also obsequious and pandering and far far away from what I'd point to and say "here, observe these lyrics, which are objectively good."

― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 16:24 (three hours ago) Permalink

How so? Bc they don’t say (and that’s bad, btw) at the end?

(And that’s bad, btw) will end up a lyric on the next album lol

I know I keep hammering on this but Pitchfork also said the best song of the 1970s was the one that goes "MICKEY MOUSE HAS GROWN UP A COW" so lets not pretend that "POISON ME DADDY" isn't the modern internet irony bro version

― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, December 11, 2018 1:05 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Most of the modern internet irony bros don’t seem to like this

we need a thread called Modern Internet Irony Bros or at least a mid '90s Blur dub melodica instrumental with the same name

xpost Dude, the Gawker EIC was Tweeting about the 1975

You mean the ilx poster who was brainwashed by Tom Ewing ? He’s a hand wringing sincerity bro like all the new radicals fans pumping up the 1975

I'm not gonna get into hair-splitting arguments about irony bros on the 1975 thread

I mean that in the sense that we are all brainwashed by Tom Ewing

Saying max is a “irony bro” is a mega misreading of his place in teh discourse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt0_oPPK6eA

fwiw I follow a lot of lronic hipster left ppl on Twitter and all they could talk about when the singles list came out was how they either hated or were profoundly baffled by them

Yes. They like parquet courts

Max is being somewhat (tho I don’t think disingenuously) iconoclastic in his support, and while he’s conversant with irony bros I think he tends to be pretty sincere

there was some really funny twitter post last year that I can't find that was like "I wish there was a Pitchfork for indie rock"

A Brief Inquiry Into Hair-Splitting Arguments About Irony Bros.

Would have been a better title.

What idiot called it 'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships' and not 'I'm Literally Shaking RN'

max is like a previous gen irony bro imo. he's graduated from irony and now writes posts titled 'Why Mark Zuckerberg is FaceBook's Biggest Liability'

I find the lyrics to this song moving, emotionally, but also obsequious and pandering and far far away from what I'd point to and say "here, observe these lyrics, which are objectively good."

― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 16:24 (three hours ago) Permalink

i don't think it's obsequious. like most of us i'm predisposed to not like songs that are too topical and try to capture the zeitgeist or wtv, but they pulled it off

What idiot called it 'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships' and not 'I'm Literally Shaking RN'

― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, December 11, 2018 2:14 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

See, THIS is an ironybro post

There’s probably an implied “(and that’s bad, btw)” already on this album after “the smell of your hair reminds me of her feet.”

https://frinkiac.com/img/S04E05/234750.jpg

lol

i don't think it's obsequious. like most of us i'm predisposed to not like songs that are too topical and try to capture the zeitgeist or wtv, but they pulled it off

Fair enough. Maybe I should give them more credit for that success!

The chorus is cathartic af but I feel like that just adds to the bathos.

Not sure if intentional but probably best captures the zeitgeist in how empty and myopic the title sentiment feels relative to the anxiety of the verses.

Yes good post agreed

Something about it’s concept + “give yourself a try” which seem very rhetorically clever, ways of standing out by framing things in a way that reflects our time better

I think "Give Yourself a Try" does it better by default. Self deprecation and wit are never not relatable.

I do think the first couplet "We're fucking in a car, shooting heroin / saying controversial things just for the hell of it" is top-tier but I'm a sucker for meta