thread to dis hyped releases that you don't get/don't like/wanna complain about

My attempt to listen to the Beyonce album did not last long. It was atrocious. The first song was just her making a bunch of awkward warbling noises for America. The second was a terribly overblown cover of Blackbird, which is possibly the Beatles's most precious and intimate song, the third had her complaining about how hard cooking, cleaning and earning $16 a day is. At that point I gave up on this billionaire. She seems to have forgotten Beyonce, the person who made great pop songs.

Kind of glad that some of the A-List artists released duds this year.

My attempt to listen to the Beyonce album did not last long. It was atrocious. The first song was just her making a bunch of awkward warbling noises for America. The second was a terribly overblown cover of Blackbird, which is possibly the Beatles's most precious and intimate song, the third had her complaining about how hard cooking, cleaning and earning $16 a day is. At that point I gave up on this billionaire. She seems to have forgotten Beyonce, the person who made great pop songs.

― a hoy hoy,

I treat it like a mixtape.

Whatever one might think of "Diamond Jubilee", it's pretty awesome that we still have a cultural landscape where even though we're in a year with multiple releases by massive artists (Future, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Kali Uchis), a relatively-unknown musician can find their way into the ranks of the 'hyped', to where friends of mine with very little interest in trad indie rock have asked me about the record.

― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Sunday, 28 April 2024 21:42 (yesterday) link

TBH it's just the magic of the p4k BNM in action. I also have friends who would have never given it the time of day if it weren't for that.

there have been a couple dozen bnms already this year, but this was the first 9+ bnm in years. which i guess still means something!

you say that like ilx doesn't jump every time pitchfork says it

i guess i missed the rapturous posting about hovvdy and 1010benja

naming your act well still has importance