I’ll expose you, when I snow youOffer feed with the crumbs I throw youI’m ferocious and I sell just what itTakes to make your cheeks blushBitch better have my money
― let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Thursday, 16 February 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link
I'm def of the Lefsetz school of "No one knows what's going on in music anymore" but "Umbrella" is a huge, omnipresent fucking song
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 16 February 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
Like, in the Kim Carnes era there was like one of those songs every week. In the Rihanna era there's maybe two a year if you're lucky. But "Umbrella" is assuredly one of them!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 16 February 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
rihanna has enough hits that anyone who has been to a bar or restaurant or grocery store in the past fifteen years will have heard a few of them
― la vie wokisme (voodoo chili), Thursday, 16 February 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link
> but what an odd reference.
Really odd! But now I'm noticing a mild resemblance between Rhianna and Bette Davis.
― bendy, Thursday, 16 February 2023 18:30 (one year ago) link
Tommy Tutone is more popular than Rhianna it's science
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 February 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
He says he doesn’t listen to pop radio, just his fave Sirius XM stations; he says he doesn’t surf for new music; and apparently must just get his groceries delivered.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 16 February 2023 18:46 (one year ago) link
if he wanted to be topical, should've gone with Nena
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 February 2023 19:20 (one year ago) link
xp and of course he assumes that everyone else in the world is just like him
― la vie wokisme (voodoo chili), Thursday, 16 February 2023 19:47 (one year ago) link
jt’s not like 1981’s 70-year-olds would have been familiar with “Bette Davis Eyes”
― let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Thursday, 16 February 2023 19:59 (one year ago) link
In 1981 they had Helen O’connell in the halftime show, so maybe Lefs has a point
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 17 February 2023 14:56 (one year ago) link
I know I can’t say “rape and pillage” anymore
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
The Lefsetz letter--that's where I'm a Viking!
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 15:08 (one year ago) link
Talk to a millennial, ask them what is hot. Chances are they'll mention a TikTokker or YouTube influencer you've never heard of.
sir, millennials are pushing 40
― avatár the way of watár (voodoo chili), Monday, 13 March 2023 13:46 (one year ago) link
"hey youngster, what's hot?"
― ''can be prusuaded to show gayness'' (Austin), Monday, 13 March 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
Millennial: "I'll ask my kid."
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 13 March 2023 15:07 (one year ago) link
the funny thing is a lot of the "boring suburban parents" i know are more plugged into youth culture than a lot of cool culture writers just because they have multiple teens in their house
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 13 March 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link
lefsetz makes more sense once you realize he's writing for people pushing 70
― avatár the way of watár (voodoo chili), Monday, 13 March 2023 15:20 (one year ago) link
(thinks of people i know pushing 70)
no, this doesn't help i'm still struggling =/
― ''can be prusuaded to show gayness'' (Austin), Monday, 13 March 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
It's for 70 year olds who keep up with the new bands--you know, like R.E.M.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 13 March 2023 15:56 (one year ago) link
people who genuinely think kim carnes is more famous in 2022 than rihanna
― avatár the way of watár (voodoo chili), Monday, 13 March 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
or whatever year this is
― avatár the way of watár (voodoo chili), Monday, 13 March 2023 16:00 (one year ago) link
we're getting infected by lefsetz brain
― mh, Monday, 13 March 2023 17:05 (one year ago) link
it's better than righsetz brain
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 13 March 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
righsetz fred
― avatár the way of watár (voodoo chili), Monday, 13 March 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link
no way I'm disco dancing
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 13 March 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link
Stephanie Setz
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 13 March 2023 20:44 (one year ago) link
It's not your father's music business anymore. And we're the fathers, if not the grandfathers! As great as Giraldo and Benatar are, they appeared quaint compared to the rest of the acts. They were a blast from the past. Today image is key. And dancing. The trappings. Once again, it's not the seventies anymore. Not even the eighties!
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 23:00 (one year ago) link
Once, it wasn’t the seventies any more. Now, it isn’t the seventies again!
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 23:43 (one year ago) link
This still ain‘t no summer of love
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 23:52 (one year ago) link
ah yes the '80s when pop stars didn't care about their image or dancing or...trappings
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 00:09 (one year ago) link
Can we return to the image-free 1970s musics of glam rock, P-funk, punk, hippies, disco, Bowie and Kraftwerk
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 02:10 (one year ago) link
Lol
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 02:11 (one year ago) link
Should have just said Psst! Come over here!
― It’s Only Her Factory, Girl! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 02:13 (one year ago) link
sic i would ultimately like to return to the image-free 1960s musics of motown, ed sullivan, and also hippies
― ''i am the kanye west kanye west thinks he is.'' (Austin), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 03:02 (one year ago) link
perhaps the image-free 1950s of elvis and little richard will provide a safe space for all of us.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 03:44 (one year ago) link
tbfttl The Lef did not make any claims about those decades in his current assertion
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 05:40 (one year ago) link
Seymour loved not only Chinese, but other cuisines
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 03:02 (one year ago) link
Clearly Stein died so he would never have to encounter a Lefsetz letter again.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 03:19 (one year ago) link
OMG
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 03:44 (one year ago) link
Believe me, unless you were living in NYC you didn’t know about CBGB’s. And the Ramones… Even aficionados didn’t know the band had released records until the second, “Leave Home.” It was only by time the third, “Rocket to Russia” with “Rockaway Beach,” was released, that people realized this was a real act, committed to success, much more talented than they’d originally perceived. You see the Ramones were seen as a novelty, a curio, a one and done. I mean when were they gonna give up on the joke?yes the first Ramones record, famously didn't have much of an influence.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 03:45 (one year ago) link
what a fuckin dildo
Served up on a pu pu platter.(xps)
― Beatles in My Passway (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 03:46 (one year ago) link
Unbelievable this Lefsetz blurb for the Rap Capital book:
“You’ll be dining out on the book for a week. Telling all the incredible stories to your friends. Atlanta is hiding in plain sight, still most people don’t see it. But if you read Rap Capital, you will.” --Bob Lefsetz, Lefsetz Letter
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 9 April 2023 02:35 (one year ago) link
I've said it in this thread before. I definitely — on a primal level — *agree* with Lefsetz's underlying viewpoint that the monoculture is dead. In contrast to life in the '70s and '80s, fewer people have a grasp on an agreed "music narrative" because there's so fewer universal music narratives everyone can agree on, thanks to the ala carte nature of the streaming landscape + death of genre tribalism + record labels only betting on sure things post-recession + death of mtv/omnipresence of rock radio.
But to sit here as a grown man being like, "You know there's a secret little diamond in the rough called "Atlanta hip-hop"
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 9 April 2023 02:42 (one year ago) link
Like it feels like fake naïveté, but just might be ... naïveté?
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 9 April 2023 02:43 (one year ago) link
loved his column yesterday when he explained that most people don’t realize that atlanta has a big rap scene
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Tuesday, September 13, 2022 10:50 PM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Sunday, 9 April 2023 02:50 (one year ago) link
Tell us more, Bob, about this...Watergate thing?
If you weren't of age back then you have no idea how big the Watergate story was. Not only did they write a book about it, "All the President's Men," they made a first class movie based on the book.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 01:34 (one year ago) link
LOL
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 01:35 (one year ago) link
They mentioned it in a Skynyrd song!
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 01:40 (one year ago) link