I already hate this guy, but this is bad even for him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD2rhdFRehU
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Saturday, 23 August 2014 02:36 (ten years ago) link
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/videos/id.17381/title.aer-pretty-lady-around-me-
Best yet.
― ball games w/ james (calibrate), Sunday, 24 August 2014 20:17 (ten years ago) link
so what do we do when we actually capture the zeitgeist? do we kill it and eat it? put it in a cage? poke it? throw it back in the ocean? is it like a fish. what did it do to deserve this
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 5 September 2014 07:35 (ten years ago) link
i've come to really love that jessi/ariana/nicki song tho
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 5 September 2014 07:36 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNnBcCk7eDA
― avant-sarsgaard (litel), Monday, 15 September 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link
I almost kinda like this song.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Monday, 15 September 2014 04:34 (ten years ago) link
oh lol that's pink?
it isn't really any worse than the zillion other folk duos that play in chain cafes everywhere
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 15 September 2014 04:44 (ten years ago) link
YouplusmeVEVO
― dyl, Monday, 15 September 2014 05:01 (ten years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/embed/9OGde2j3d8M
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 15 September 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link
Cross Gene was due a new song but this being such a huge step down from their last one just adds insult to injury.
You+Me (Pink+Green?) is not a bad song but I hate hate HATE the aesthetic of that video. lyrics are kinda laughable too but would be easy enough to ignore if I heard it come on the radio
― Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Monday, 15 September 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link
My first initial reaction was that the lyrics seemed pretty corny and cliched, but not completely terrible. Then I looked up who this mysterious band was and just laughed. And here I thought Americans would be spared from having to put up with having to listen to Dallas Green.
― MarkoP, Monday, 15 September 2014 21:41 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocGiulPm3IU
― katherine, Sunday, 21 September 2014 05:54 (ten years ago) link
seriously why are we posting pretty songs when rank garbage like this exists in the world
― katherine, Sunday, 21 September 2014 05:55 (ten years ago) link
brb leaving earth
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 21 September 2014 05:56 (ten years ago) link
IT GETS WORSE
― katherine, Sunday, 21 September 2014 05:57 (ten years ago) link
Not even worth my disdain. Whatever.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Sunday, 21 September 2014 07:15 (ten years ago) link
jesus... kill all men
― Popture, Sunday, 21 September 2014 07:45 (ten years ago) link
I feel unclean
― The Reverend, Sunday, 21 September 2014 07:55 (ten years ago) link
redlight '90ts' and tiga 'bugatti' are doing my nut these days
― r|t|c, Sunday, 21 September 2014 12:02 (ten years ago) link
Haaa how has 90ts avoided being posted itt yet. Irl gasp of horror when I first heard it, what is he playing at
― lex pretend, Sunday, 21 September 2014 12:53 (ten years ago) link
oh I don't know, i kind of appreciate that he's skipped to the grisly self-parodic end of early 90s revivalism so that Australia doesn't have to invent an entire cottage industry around the notion like we did for 80s revivalism.
Really is hard to imagine a more impressively cynical and lazy exercise than "Shiny Disco Balls" X "Au Seve" X "...but I'm a 90's bitch!"
― Tim F, Sunday, 21 September 2014 13:02 (ten years ago) link
omg according to the comments apparently lots of traffic has been directed "lil dicky's" way via reddit lolololol
― dyl, Sunday, 21 September 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
I mean that's p much reddit: the song
― Simon H., Sunday, 21 September 2014 16:43 (ten years ago) link
sorta more brobible: the song but yeah there's overlap
― katherine, Sunday, 21 September 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
Burd grew up in an upper middle class family in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, a township on the north border of Philadelphia.[1] He attended the University of Richmond.[2] He then relocated to San Francisco, California,[3] where he worked in account management at the advertising agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners. After reimagining his monthly progress report as a rap video, the company brought him to work in their creative department, where he wrote copy for ads like the NBA's "BIG" campaign.[1]
Rap career
Burd says he initiated his rap career "simply to get attention comedically, so I could write movies, write TV shows and act." However, he "fell in love with rapping" and says he's "not leaving that game until I've proved my point."[4]
Burd had been working on his songs and music videos for two years before he began releasing them as part of his debut mixtape So Hard in April 2013. His music video for his song "Ex-Boyfriend" went viral almost instantly, receiving 1 million hits within 24 hours of being posted on YouTube.[2][5][6] Once a week for 5 straight months, Burd released a new song or music video. Following the release of 32 songs and 15 music videos, Burd launched a Kickstarter, stating, "I've officially run out of money... In a nutshell, you are funding phase two of my rap career." The month-long crowdfunding period began on November 20, 2013, with the goal of raising $70,000 in order to enable Lil Dicky to create and produce more music, music videos, and go touring.[7][8] The Kickstarter well exceeded its target, raising $113,000.[9]
Lil Dicky held his first live concert at TLA in Philadelphia on February 19, 2014.[10] Burd has signed with Pop-Up, the management arm of creative music agency Jingle Punks.[8][11] He plans "on having two concurrent careers going on at the same time, as a rapper, and as a comedian/actor/writer."[4]
Music style and influences
Lil Dicky's style blends the comical with the relatable. According to Boston magazine, "Content-wise, Lil Dicky comes up with his material from everyday occurrences and everyday experiences. From there, he crafts his videos around those topics to create a visual narrative that accompanies his talent as an emcee. 'It’s like a comedian. They are out in the world, and writing things down,' he said. What followed 'Ex-Boyfriend' was a series of other videos that covered similarly average everyday experiences—songs about staying in for the night, songs about being a Jewish kid—he even has a rap battle with Adolf Hitler in one of his videos."[5]
He says style is a response to the excessive egotistical nature of rap today: "I really wanted to embody the exact opposite of that, and I think people are appreciating it. There just hasn't been a voice for that normal dude when it comes to rap."[5] He added, "I think a lot of rap is just escalated to a place that many people can't relate to... My niche is that I’m relatable. I don’t rap about going to the club and popping bottles."[12] In terms of his rapping skills, Lil Dicky is able "to manipulate words at an excessive speed, and weave rhyme patterns together in a way that's funny while also making viewers want to rewind parts of his videos."[5]
Burd says his musical inspirations are Drake, J. Cole, A$AP Rocky, as well as Donald Glover "as a guy with similar aspirations."[13]
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Sunday, 21 September 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
idk it's basically a passable Lonely Island song/video with a less-whimsical/more-misogynistic concept
― Your hippie magic has no effect on (bernard snowy), Sunday, 21 September 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
he is a guy with similar aspirations1.2 million views is the saddest thingyou never knew you were taking asher roth for granted until now
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 21 September 2014 20:30 (ten years ago) link
oh i just remembered something about redlight 9ts
it is still >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 'all under one roof raving' by jamie xx
― r|t|c, Sunday, 21 September 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
I don't think I have the strength to rewatch the Lil Dicky vid right now, but one thing that impressed me on first viewing (even if it ended up being *waaayyy* overused) was the surprisingly graceful way he works that stuttery, self-conscious, deliberately uncool anti-flow ('I'm like, wait, that didn't come out right, let me start over')--flailing around for juuuust long enough before finding another rhyme word to move the verse along. it's like he falls off the bars in the middle of his routine, but still manages to stick the landing somehow.
― Your hippie magic has no effect on (bernard snowy), Sunday, 21 September 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
NB I don't think this is something anyone actually wants, though
― Your hippie magic has no effect on (bernard snowy), Sunday, 21 September 2014 23:30 (ten years ago) link
+ trying to sell it as "the antidote" to mainstream rap is like, dude, go jump in a lake
― Your hippie magic has no effect on (bernard snowy), Sunday, 21 September 2014 23:31 (ten years ago) link
Nickelback - "Edge of a Revolution". Cor.
http://youtu.be/IYnuSsM7tRw
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Monday, 22 September 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
It sounds like he's adding an extra syllable to the word "revolution."
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 02:57 (ten years ago) link
After hearing that, I almost wish he'd go back to plain old misogyny.
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 02:58 (ten years ago) link
oof that lil dicky is horrible
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX-QaNzd-0Y
― maura, Thursday, 25 September 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link
oh my god i hope that guy's neck explodes
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 September 2014 17:41 (ten years ago) link
Dunno. I wasn't paying attention to the lyrics, but musically that seems at best not terrible and at worst ignorable.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 25 September 2014 17:50 (ten years ago) link
That's probably my least favourite hit this year, yeah. It was in the Australian charts for quite a while earlier this year. There's a follow up song too which is just as bad.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Thursday, 25 September 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
i don't mind the song but just look at him
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 25 September 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link
that sound on the backbeat
― example (crüt), Thursday, 25 September 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
He sounds like he learned to sing by listening to Wolf Parade records (not a compliment)
― Your hippie magic has no effect on (bernard snowy), Friday, 26 September 2014 02:55 (ten years ago) link
aka third-Bowie, once-removed
― Your hippie magic has no effect on (bernard snowy), Friday, 26 September 2014 02:56 (ten years ago) link
feel like that Little Dicky video should be the end of all "rolling worst songs" threads forever
― alpine static, Friday, 26 September 2014 07:03 (ten years ago) link
little dicky song goes on for fucking ever too
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 26 September 2014 07:34 (ten years ago) link
Karmin and Watsky "No Flex Zone (remix)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YO0w62af5c
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 26 September 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link
Barf
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 27 September 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNWeGngQqOI
Nope.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 29 September 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
Done on such a shoestring budget you can actually tell where he vocal takes have been cut up and pasted together.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 29 September 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link