the 1975

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

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.”

― Tim F, Tuesday, December 11, 2018 4:10 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark

lol

Tsrodobo otm

Idk there’s this unexamined western millenerian eschatological affect wherein being overwhelmed by apocalyptic feelings becomes its own sort of solipsistic romance rather than an impetus to build and make horizontal connections or fight

i mean it seems like thats what the song's about!

Yeah. But ... I think that feeling is bad. So that rubs weirdly against my feeling that the song is good. I guess it gets at the question of whether critique is possible via exaggeration/reduction or is it better to posit an alternative, to say nothing of the question as to whether art’s job is critique in the first place

i didnt get the impression that was tsrobodo's point exactly

maybe im wrong idk but i find it weirdly affirming that my experience of being ineffectual in a society that disempowers the individual is also an experience shared by others

"how to draw/petrichor" is becoming my favorite on the new album

ranked:

'I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)'
'Inside Your Mind'
'Love It If We Made It'
'It's Not Living (If It's Not With You)'
'TooTimeTooTimeTooTime'
'How to Draw/Petrichor'
'Be My Mistake'
'I Couldn't Be More in Love'
'Surrounded by Heads and Bodies'
'Give Yourself a Try'
'I Like America & America Likes Me'
'Sincerity Is Scary'
'The Man Who Married a Robot/Love Theme'
'Mine'
'The 1975'

"how to draw/petrichor" is becoming my favorite on the new album

whyyy is it not 12+ minutes

It's a cool song, though I like the "How to Draw" half a little more. There's still a lot of songs in the back half of this album I can't really get into tho. Wish I could hear what you all hear in "Inside Your Mind". But others have grown a lot on me: "Sincerity is Scary" and "It's Not Living" are A+. So generous that this band continues to throw bones like "It's Not Living" to fans like me that adore the first album most

Bon Iver must be lying in a ditch somewhere in the woods, wrapped up in fetus position and bawling his eyes out, because he knows he'll never write a song as gorgeous as 'I Couldn't Be More In Love'.

Editing to The 1975: pic.twitter.com/HdnukQJKjP

— monet p. thomas (@monetwithlove) December 30, 2018