Last (x) Movies you are going to Avoid
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 21:57 (four years ago) link
new single is uhhhhhh
not good
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 4 March 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link
For anyone else that is interested, I think it's this? Maybe I've been out of the game for a while, but she is completely unrecognizable to me, here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUTu65AXrJw
New album, "Daddy's Home"
― hourspass, Thursday, 4 March 2021 17:58 (three years ago) link
Also, not to double post, but I get really weird sort of Momus-y vibes from this.
― hourspass, Thursday, 4 March 2021 17:59 (three years ago) link
The song writing seems to exist as a pretext for the high concept and visual aesthetic and the sound design. Or is that harsh?
― 29 facepalms, Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
Yeah, this does not get me super excited about the new one, but hard to imagine I won't like some of it considering how much I love the rest of her catalog. I mean, it feels increasingly like leaning into the high concept/visual aesthetic thing is just as big as the new music she's making with each cycle.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
maybe but that's been my sense with her stuff for a few cycles now
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
Prob need to investigate her more, and probably hear her live, but what I've heard just sounds like an 80s prince side project production.
― candyman, Thursday, 4 March 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
I love her and I'm very excited for this record
― winters (josh), Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:13 (three years ago) link
extremely blatant bowie/prince homage, misses the mark
― akm, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
could grow on me though. wonder what the rest of the album sounds like
― akm, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link
young americans is my least fave classic bowie era
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link
here she comes to clog up the EOYs again
― imago, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
“The song writing seems to exist as a pretext for the high concept and visual aesthetic and the sound design. Or is that harsh?“
Not only is it not harsh its most music these days, with low budget types relegated to Instagram for their visual concepts. Music is just a vessel for individual personality: all artists have been reduced to influencers/content creators
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:25 (three years ago) link
other than the outfit it doesn't sound like young americans, it seems more Lodger-ish to me. But what it mostly reminds me of is Midnight Vultures which is an album I never return to.
― akm, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:26 (three years ago) link
tbh I never cared for Lodgers much, lol and I do not like Midnight Vultures either
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
The Beck comparison is apt, I think they share they same tolerance of the vapid where it aligns with the haircut. But then probably people said that about Bowie, and particularly his plastic soul iteration.
― 29 facepalms, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link
what i did hear of her, she made me think of what prince protege jill jones might have made if she made more albums.
but also kinda over produced. a lot of 80s production touches i dont need to be brought back.
all of this makes me want to check her out properly though.
im a sucker for people with agreeable references that align into something vapid.
― candyman, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:34 (three years ago) link
the single cover looks like Tina Fey's character from Date Night when she's pretending to be a Russian prostitute
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
the song itself is all right
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
"other than the outfit it doesn't sound like young americans, it seems more Lodger-ish to me."
It's a pretty straight 'Fame' pastiche, no?
― Piedie Gimbel, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:38 (three years ago) link
I like it. Seems shaggier and looser than she usually works.
Concept seems to be veering into US Girls territory.
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
My FB friends seem to all love it.
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 4 March 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link
I'm 100% on board with it. Let it play on a loop about 15 times earlier, but I still haven't watched the video, which I gather might be a distraction.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
also idg all the Bowie name-dropping people are doing. This sounds like Sly Stone and Eurythmics and a smidge of Nikka Costa.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
again, that's mainly driven by the aesthetics of the video which look like a slew of videos bowie made in the very late 70's
― akm, Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:21 (three years ago) link
i think, anyway
and the fact it sounds like Fame.
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
I've listened to Fame a thousand times. These two songs don't sound like each other.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
Fame is a tight guitar driven song. This sloshes around a bit. Actually reminds me of 'All I Wanna Do' by Sheryl Crow:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGr6i5Sar5s
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
...and throw in a word or two that rhyme with "fame".
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 4 March 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
It sounds like "Fame"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:08 (three years ago) link
She looks a LOT like a well-known blonde actress in this video, but I can't think of whom. Cathy Moriarty? idk
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
The first few notes of the bass synth sound like 'Sweet Dreams'. But the lyrics are about what exactly? I suppose they make as much sense as Lou Reed's 'Lady Day'. But the comparison I keep coming back to is Muse:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rf1Sj6EIFELyrics that sound weighty but mean nothing (Bellamy is singing about his guitar yeah right), instrumental twiddlyness, style over substance, appearance over communicating anything.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:15 (three years ago) link
FB ads are informing that she's offering online classes on prepared guitar techniques these days??
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:35 (three years ago) link
Do you mean the Masterclass course?
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 4 March 2021 22:37 (three years ago) link
i'm not much of a fan of her but this new song is a definite improvement from the last album which was pretty dire
― ufo, Thursday, 4 March 2021 23:43 (three years ago) link
Oh I see that there's a whole Masterclass course on creativity and songwriting. In the ad I saw, she was demonstrating some prepared guitar techniques, e.g. approximating a ring modulator by weaving paper through the strings.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Thursday, 4 March 2021 23:46 (three years ago) link
Really don't like anything about the new single. New York and Birth In Reverse weren't the best songs on the last two albums, but they still had me hyped for the release. Hopefully this doesn't represent the new album at all.
― kitchen person, Friday, 5 March 2021 00:48 (three years ago) link
I hope it does. I crave this kind of kitchen sink alt funk.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 5 March 2021 01:44 (three years ago) link
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP)
The song itself also sounds like it. Top comment on r/indieheads is: “ this has such drunk aunt at a family gathering vibes”.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 5 March 2021 06:06 (three years ago) link
Which is considered the best of her work among the ILX hardcore fans? The self-titled album seems to be thought of as some kind of peak elsewhere. I saw a festival warm-up type date in Cambridge toward the end of the last tour (2018) which was pretty great but eleven songs of the then-current album was a bit much.
― piscesx, Friday, 5 March 2021 13:26 (three years ago) link
self titled > actor > marry me > masseduction > ... stuff i don't remember
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 5 March 2021 13:29 (three years ago) link
I think she's so talented, but has become increasingly exhausting. I don't really hear much in the direct way of Prince or Bowie (maybe a little bit of Iggy's "Idiot"), but as far as Beck goes it's very much in that "Midnite Vultures" mode.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 March 2021 13:44 (three years ago) link
Midnite Vultures >>>> Mellow Gold > Odelay > stuff
feel like i should like St V more than i do but oh well
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 5 March 2021 13:45 (three years ago) link
She's obviously an immensely talented guitarist at the very least, but I do not like her production style at all and I can't shake the feeling she's not up to much conceptually either
― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Friday, 5 March 2021 13:47 (three years ago) link
I agree totally on all three points.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 March 2021 14:17 (three years ago) link
am i the only one getting betty davis vibes from this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf5NUBIcEyU
― BringTheAuBonPain, Friday, 5 March 2021 14:25 (three years ago) link
I don't call myself a hardcore fan, but I have heard all her records except the Byrne collaboration. I'd pick Strange Mercy as the best, though I could see a case being made for any but her debut.
Her lead singles aren't always the best songs on the albums, but this song has a little less of the compressed, squashed synth sound of the last two records, which wasn't always successful.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 5 March 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link