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

if Cindy Lee is not your thing, that's fine, but to say there's no actual songs there is actually insane

the “problem” with the cindy lee album is that the second half is miles better than the first, and it takes an hour to get there!

listening to the cindy lee now and enjoying it but the impeccable vibes are somewhat disrupted by listening on youtube and having tom brady pop up every 10 minutes to shill for hertz

the official youtube upload is ad free, no?

I was getting ads so now I'm downloading it

i'm listening to the one linked by pitchfork and getting ads
anyways this is very good

"this is too vibey" is the new "sounds dated"

what are the good songs on the cindy lee album? i listened to the whole thing twice and nothing really stood out at all

for a start: all i want is you, government cheque, wild one, stone faces, always dreaming, kingdom come

"stone faces," "dracula," "government cheque," "if you hear me crying," "crime of passion"

tho none are as good as last year's "in a moment divine" with freak heat waves.

sorry, confused "crime of passion" (tho i do like that one) with "durham city limit"

absolutely love government cheque. real stand out to me

Sometimes it takes me a while to get around to a band, and I get that "Why did I wait so long?" feeling. Today I finally got around to listening to Knocked Loose and instead I thought, "Ugh, really?" The riffs are just reheated Emmure, and the vocalist suuuuucks.

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.

I love the Still House Plants. I was patient and let the album rewire me.

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

i don't care if ll cool j has good beats now, he's still a cancer on the culture and i think less of q-tip for throwing him a bone.

you're acting like he was a racist on purpose

yes, good response. the only attention he deserves is to be memed into permanent irrelevance.

wait what did i miss that makes ll "a cancer"?

Navy SEAL

The Basquiat energy line in that one chorus is so bad that I cut off the album and haven't revisited. Even before that I wasn't really getting the hype though.

Tbh I think Q-Tip's production is what is really carrying the weight for people, he's the real mvp

wait what did i miss that makes ll "a cancer"?

Black republican for much of his career if not still, is my guess. Not that this would make me use that term or dismiss a fire album, myself.

he's toxic. if you look at just his history of battles on record, he's a sore losing bully, at the very least. also a known practitioner of bitch moves iirc.

lmao at starting a criticism with “he’s toxic” and ending it with “bitch moves”

'educate yourself'

imago otm, dj musta missed "second round ko"

I can see this conversation going well.

canibus : ll :: kendrick : drake

i don't think imago's post means what you thought it means

I think if the dude who wants to make Diddy jokes after hearing the details of the indictment wants to make grand pronouncements about LL being “bad for the culture”, he is welcome to enjoy the version of the culture he has chosen to inhabit

when i was younger, i used to be impressed with someone's music knowledge, but many years on ilm has taught me kind of conclusively that 'listening to and knowing a lot about music' positively correlates with 'saying a lot of weird, bad and wrong things'. the only thing about that that offends me personally is that it does a disservice to the music. like, do i want to read a random bump about an r&b artist from the early 2000s i don't know anything about? yes i do. but wait, it's by this guy who has aggressively bad opinions on the regular, bummer, i'll skip it.

lol

All I could find re LL's politics is this 2012 interview:

LL Cool J joined the Tom Joyner Morning Show crew to discuss his political preferences. Check out what LL had to say about being a Republican.

Tom: Hey LL, did I read that you’re a Republican?

LL Cool J: I don’t know where people get this strange information from, but I’m not a Republican.

Sybil: Are you political at all?

LL Cool J: I’m not like trying to dive in there and be extra political this year. I’m going to vote for our man and hopefully he gets four more; but I’m not out there on the stump. That’s not my thing. I feel like I’m an entertainer my job is not to tell people who vote for what to do in their political lives. My job is to try to help them forget about their problems and escape from all the issues going on and just be entertained. That’s what I do.

maybe he's gone Trump idk

Rap battles were part of “the culture” before people even realized you could make songs out of it

LL Cool J gives the impression of being "socially liberal, fiscally conservative." I remember many years ago he gave an interview and talked about driving a leased Toyota rather than blowing all his money on a fleet of impractical luxury vehicles.

It's not a political album, but the opening track is not exactly giving right-wing talking points. "That badge is the mob/a big blue gang"

I was gonna say...

like LL i too drive a Toyota instead of blowing my money on a fleet of impractical luxury vehicles

"guy who hates ll out of loyalty to a 25-year-old beef with canibus" is a great bit, i will say

lol indeed