i can’t stand (most) modern musical theater either, if that’s what we’re talking about when we say “musicals”
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 11 December 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
she has a lot more in common with dear evan hansen than rodgers & hammerstein
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Friday, 11 December 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
Sometimes I wish you'd just let the secret Brad hate flow itt. Mostly you're just defending artists from our primal scream therapy.
xp
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 December 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
there's just so much music to hear and greedy taytay has released two really long albums in a year that she knows all the pop critics and stans are going to spend the next 2 weeks listening to! o taytay why must you feed and feed and feed
― imago, Friday, 11 December 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
yes this is unfortunately true xxp
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 11 December 2020 22:58 (three years ago) link
cosign that I would read a proper Brad hatchet-job, although they don't seem to go too far beyond 'eh not my thing'. joooin usssss
― imago, Friday, 11 December 2020 22:59 (three years ago) link
tbh i think i've forgotten how to hate any kind of musical art and i prefer it this way
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
I think this was the year when I've felt the least need for pop music, defined broadly, especially contemporary pop, which I think means that I don't get every release that has been hyped.
― The New York Times' effect on man (Sund4r), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
my hate flows in other directions; talk to me about popular article writers sometime xp
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
tbh I bow to your enlightenment and hope one day to approximate it somehow. also lol fair
― imago, Friday, 11 December 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
I liked a lot of music. I don't think most of it was particularly hyped, though.
― The New York Times' effect on man (Sund4r), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:04 (three years ago) link
i thought brad hated thundercat and his fart-joke jazz-funk
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:04 (three years ago) link
i definitely do not enjoy it
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:06 (three years ago) link
I'm afraid we won't get much more out of him.
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 December 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
Brad how do you feel about Louis Cole, I like his self-deprecatory masturbation-joke jazz-funk better.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
but also i like got into phish this year. really unleashing any negative position i have toward music feels pointless bc i usually end up getting proven wrong or proving myself wrong
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
I like "You Enjoy Myself" a lot.
― The New York Times' effect on man (Sund4r), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
ha, i like thundercat (well, i liked everything before drunk) but louis cole is too much
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
brad has gotten too powerful tbh, they casually recommended me one song a few weeks ago and it might be my soty
― imago, Friday, 11 December 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
Despite my love of this thread, there is very little music I genuinely hate except for, well, musicals (whether theatrical or cinematic) and Taytay. Oh, and The Microphones's latest album.
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 December 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
oh I quite liked that
― imago, Friday, 11 December 2020 23:11 (three years ago) link
there's v little I genuinely fully despise as well, I protest, except for Cigarettes After Sex
― imago, Friday, 11 December 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
The line 'I checked themicropho✧✧✧@hotm✧✧✧.c✧✧ like once a week' threw me into a fit of irrevocable rage.
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 December 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
loool
― imago, Friday, 11 December 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
the email-bleeping has made that at least 30% funnier imo
― imago, Friday, 11 December 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
Agreed. It would also make that lyric 30% better if the bleeping were included in the delivery.
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 December 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
I viscerally loathe everything I've ever heard that was Microphones/Elverum related, absolutely Not For Me
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:17 (three years ago) link
Cigarettes After Sex I haven't heard because that band name gives me the visceral heebie jeebies
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 December 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link
a slightly controversial but positive opinion is that elverum's public processing of bereavement and its aftermath has been maybe more interesting than the music that comes with it
Cigarettes After Sex are somehow much, much worse than the name implies
― imago, Friday, 11 December 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
'Apocalypse' is a generically pretty song but dude sounds like a bona fide creep, which is not what I want from my dream poppy slowcore.
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 December 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link
Young & Dumb is my go-to 'worst thing I've ever heard'
― imago, Friday, 11 December 2020 23:24 (three years ago) link
lol don't read these comments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlBIeZi3Ko4
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 December 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
I like musicals a lot, but (with a couple of exceptions) I'm not into the ballads. I want big stomps/marches/tap solos/throwing someone in the air/synchronised swimming/whoops I killed my husband/we're a mean mean urchin gang/sex worker solidarity/jazz hands baybeeeee musicals.
Taylor Swift? Meh.
― emil.y, Friday, 11 December 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
pet shop boys nightlife album still sucks after many listens and they lost me then and afters!
― xzanfar, Friday, 11 December 2020 23:51 (three years ago) link
peace god
― imago, Saturday, 12 December 2020 00:03 (three years ago) link
My housemates love musicals, especially the recent ones that are all witty and self-aware about being a musical (my least favorite kind.) They hate Taylor Swift. I think it has something to do with being into the kind of technically accomplished singing you get in musical theater, and noticing all the weaknesses in Taylor's singing.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 12 December 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I might have issues with both things but it would have never occurred to me to connect confessional country-pop singer-songwriter Taylor Swift to the musical theatre tradition.
― The New York Times' effect on man (Sund4r), Saturday, 12 December 2020 00:40 (three years ago) link
They have nothing in common, IMO
― good karma, my aesthetic (morrisp), Saturday, 12 December 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link
^lol wuz just about to post the same thing
― brimstead, Saturday, 12 December 2020 00:53 (three years ago) link
wasn’t really a fan before, like a couple singles but I think Folklore is a pretty amazing album. its still not really “my kind of thing”, it’s the kind of sad music makes me feel sad and crappy..
― brimstead, Saturday, 12 December 2020 01:08 (three years ago) link
The last good PSBs album was Very. Like Madonna, they should have packed it in at least 25 years ago.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 12 December 2020 01:09 (three years ago) link
it’s the kind of sad music makes me feel sad and crappy.
good way of putting it, that's how I feel about it as well. I haven't been able to give it a chance to grow on me because I just never want to listen to it.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 12 December 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
We checked out the new Taylor Swift yesterday because so many people that we usually align with are talking about it and at least not panning it. Andy thought it was unremarkably pleasant, but Junior said something along the lines of,
What the fuck Andy. Do not EVER play that fucking garbage again. If I wanted to hear the soundtrack from Dawson's Creek, I'd just let you play Trembling Blue Stars again for the millionth time.
To which I have to say: okay, I'll listen to Trembling Blue Stars again. Anytime.☺
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 12 December 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
there's something to that. I adore trembling blue stars
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Saturday, 12 December 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
I live for music that makes me feel sad and crappy. I dislike music that makes me feel sad and crappy about the state of music, though. I'm aware that authenticity has been BTFO and is no longer a relevant concept in 2020, but part of the reason I can't stand Swift is because her shtick just reeks of corporate artifice (which is fine in and of itself) even as it pseudo-earnestly pretends to be more than that (this is the part I find insufferable) and I just can't imagine *not* being struck by that trait first and foremost.
– some kind of neo-rockist
― pomenitul, Saturday, 12 December 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
damn you would prefer she wrote songs about credit cards?
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 12 December 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
Yes, unironically.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 12 December 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
Dunno, the whole thing just doesn't sound felt at all. Whenever her music is playing I get the sense that someone is trying to grift me, and the attempt is about as convincing as an MLM scheme.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 12 December 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
I dont think shes a corporate stooge I just think she's often boring
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Saturday, 12 December 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
thread to dis hyped releases that you don't get/don't like/wanna complain about for projections xp
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 12 December 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link