I think the kindest thing I can say about this song is it sounds like something they'd use to introduce a new villain on the powerpuff girls
― rob, Friday, 30 November 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
song needs a larry david drop with "do you appreciate power?"
― Death comes sweeping through the hallway. Thank you, Death. (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 30 November 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
i...do not like this
― gbx, Friday, 30 November 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
actually, my references upthread were off; what this really reminds me is the lucy nation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM_hkAKujXU
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 30 November 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
thanks gbx, we appreciate pooh-poohers
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Friday, 30 November 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
i'm just a little disappointed! really like a lot of her other stuff, this ticks a lot stylistic references (late-90s stuff mentioned upthread) that i didn't like then and am not thrilled to see return. that's ok!
― gbx, Friday, 30 November 2018 17:32 (five years ago) link
p4k: We Appreciate Power May Be Grimes' Most Divisive Song Yet
def not, that's still "Go"
― flappy bird, Friday, 30 November 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
Did people like "Go"?
― MarkoP, Friday, 30 November 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
i'm loving this song, it's a good earworm. also being a fan of POP-era U2, it gives me "Mofo" vibes. ymmv considerably as to whether or not you find that a compliment.
― omar little, Friday, 30 November 2018 18:23 (five years ago) link
I took "appreciate" to be used in the sense of appreciating a fine wine -- Grimes is saying "We appreciate power (in a way you stupid masses never could)." It's about the fascist mindset where power is desired as an end in itself, something to be savored, something that the fascist deserves because only the fascist can appreciate it and properly wield it. Kind of an Italian Futurist style of fascism (and this song does fit with their lust for technological development too).
Given that Grimes recently went through a lot of public scrutiny for dating a technofascist billionaire, I don't think the song is satire. I think she's making a conscious heel turn to embrace the darkness.
― OneSecondBefore, Friday, 30 November 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
yea it's def a heelturn, and tbh? i'm here for it
― flappy bird, Friday, 30 November 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
While a technofascist weirdo pop-star singing about AI is about the most 2018 thing I can think of, I find it pretty repulsive myself.
― OneSecondBefore, Friday, 30 November 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
if it IS a genuine heelturn then I...don't like that? I'm only marginally more OK with fashy tech fetishists than I am with NSBM types
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 30 November 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
Come on, you're not even aliveIf you're not backed up, backed up on a drive
it's super twisted that she really sincerely believes this but there it is, in her own words
― omar little, Friday, 30 November 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
haha
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 30 November 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link
sincerity really is scary
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 30 November 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
this doesn't sound enough like fear factory
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 30 November 2018 18:40 (five years ago) link
doesn’t doomsday science fiction about AI predate the online rationalist community by like a century?
― flopson, Friday, 30 November 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
sad that grimes has succumbed to irony poisoning
― ogmor, Friday, 30 November 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
I'd prefer irony poisoning to sincerity in this case
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 30 November 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
there's only one band in the world for whom this is not the case, tbf
― crispy fun in a bun (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 30 November 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
https://theoutline.com/post/6717/grimes-we-appreciate-power-review-elon-musk?zd=1&zi=c32c35rx
― flappy bird, Friday, 30 November 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
Poppy Breaks Down New Album 'Am I A Girl?' And Says She Was 'Bullied' By Grimes
She also worked with Grimes on “Play Destroy,” which she says is one of her favorite songs on the record despite a behind-the-scenes process she “could have gone without.”“I was kind of bullied into submission by Grimes and her team of self-proclaimed feminists,” she says. “We planned the song coming out months ago, and she was preventing it. I got to watch her bully songwriters into signing NDAs and not taking credit for songs that they were a part of. She doesn't practice what she preaches. It's really upsetting to work with a female that is very outward about a topic, but behind closed doors, it's the complete opposite. It's actually very disheartening to people that are actually feminists and supporters of other females.” (Billboard reached out to Grimes’ representatives for comment.)
“I was kind of bullied into submission by Grimes and her team of self-proclaimed feminists,” she says. “We planned the song coming out months ago, and she was preventing it. I got to watch her bully songwriters into signing NDAs and not taking credit for songs that they were a part of. She doesn't practice what she preaches. It's really upsetting to work with a female that is very outward about a topic, but behind closed doors, it's the complete opposite. It's actually very disheartening to people that are actually feminists and supporters of other females.” (Billboard reached out to Grimes’ representatives for comment.)
― flappy bird, Friday, 30 November 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
ok, poppy
― fascist gwar grimes (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 30 November 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
"I was kind of bullied into submission by Grimes and her team of self-proclaimed feminists"
Iconic sentence of 2018
― very legal & very cool (morrisp), Friday, 30 November 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
fwiw grimes also followed mars argo recently
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 30 November 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
(background on that, which is a whole thing, and I'm not sure what to make of it besides the fact that virtually every dude involved in this either is or seems terrible https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/16/17346050/poppy-lawsuit-mars-argo-titanic-sinclair-youtube-explained)
Here’s a brief lesson in how context works.
*closes tab*
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 30 November 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
lol
― fascist gwar grimes (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 30 November 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
LOL
― Cousin Slappy, Saturday, 1 December 2018 02:02 (five years ago) link
wow way to disregard context brad!!!
― resident hack (Simon H.), Saturday, 1 December 2018 02:08 (five years ago) link
when we're slidin' into first and we're feelin' something burstwe appreciate power
― geoffreyess, Sunday, 2 December 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
haha!
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Sunday, 2 December 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
Aaaaahhaa
― Spottie, Sunday, 2 December 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/na7v8Mc.png
― Frozen CD, Sunday, 2 December 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link
Remember when Grimes made music, not drama?
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Sunday, 2 December 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
Drama is way more lucrative
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 2 December 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
The information that we get about all these feuds are always so fragmentary. It’s impossible to figure out what actually happened.
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 2 December 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
Like what is the “disgusting situation” Poppy drew her into?
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 2 December 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
And what does it have to do with Grimes allegedly abusing NDA’s to deny credits to Poppy’s creative partners? Why would Grimes even do that for a track that was collaborative? Every single thing with Grimes is like this. Never clear.
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 2 December 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
And who was the “team of self proclaimed feminists”? Like a feminsit lawyer squad that Grimes has that behind the scenes try to discredit female artists? I didn’t know Grimes had one of these. And why doesn’t Poppy herself mention the artists she wanted to get credited?
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 2 December 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
People are going to take sides but no one even knows what the point of disagreement is.
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 2 December 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
That's called covering your own ass, no matter the cost. Rule #1 in the So You've Decided To Be a Neo-fascist phamplet.
― Cousin Slappy, Sunday, 2 December 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
See I don’t think there is a “fascist” plot behind this.
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 2 December 2018 17:29 (five years ago) link
That seems weird and ridiculous.
Treesh r u still watching gilmore girls
― F# A# (∞), Sunday, 2 December 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
You're taking all of this waaaay too seriously.
― Cousin Slappy, Sunday, 2 December 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
I can take stuff as seriously as I want, this is ILM
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 2 December 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
I just think a lot of discourse around Grimes circles around a void of unknowability.
Thought she was addressing George H.W. Bush in that note for a minute and was very confused
― flappy bird, Sunday, 2 December 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link