Re: Miley, I think what she's been doing the last few years is conceptually more interesting than anyone else mentioned here so far. Bangerz is solid front to back, and Dead Petz is weird and cool. Her new EP is rock solid as well. Her messy search for identity and how to fuse her disparate influences and backgrounds together, and doing it very publicly and on her records, has been a really fascinating process to see. That it seems like she's putting it all together on this round of music is narratively very satisfying as well.matedog wrote: ↑15 Aug 2019, 12:43amKaty Perry hasn’t had a decent song in forever (though the new single is alright). That being said there were like eight really good singles off that Teenage Dream. Also “Hot and Cold” is a banger from the first big album.
But yeah, CRJ is amazing. She’s the only artist that has made my Tasty Cutz playlists every year since 2015 and hell yeah she’s going to make 2019. Either “Too Much” or “Want You In My Room” if you are curious.
Miley has three good songs - Party In the USA, Wrecking Ball, and We Can’t Stop. She’s a few tiers below the others.
The Mighty Musical Observations Thread
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toPost Punk is essentially art rock played by art students. Not Gentle Giant or Genesis prog, with all the crazy time changes and shit, but more the Eno-Kraut-Floyd orbits. But Robert Smith and Geordie Walker both had classical guitar training, which you can tell by the weird 7add9sus13dim or whatever chords they drove through their Memory Men and flangers. It's funny how the punk ethos made a lot of people who clearly had real training pretend to be street urchins raised by wolves who happened to find a bass in the trash or something.
in three posts gave me whiplash.I'm far from the biggest Katy Perry fan but tell me this pre chorus isn't simply beautiful. The whole song isnt bad and worth a listen but the pre chorus from 1.35-1.55 is outstanding. Headphones. Loud.
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Bob and I finally got together to evaluate the state of popular music.
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Jepsen doesn't belong in that list - she's actually talented.
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If Cut to the Feeling doesn't move you, I don't know what to tell you. That song is stellar.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Admittedly, I haven't listened to too much new Miley and am doing so because of your post. Mark Ronson collabs usually end well.Flex wrote: ↑15 Aug 2019, 12:59amRe: Miley, I think what she's been doing the last few years is conceptually more interesting than anyone else mentioned here so far. Bangerz is solid front to back, and Dead Petz is weird and cool. Her new EP is rock solid as well. Her messy search for identity and how to fuse her disparate influences and backgrounds together, and doing it very publicly and on her records, has been a really fascinating process to see. That it seems like she's putting it all together on this round of music is narratively very satisfying as well.matedog wrote: ↑15 Aug 2019, 12:43amKaty Perry hasn’t had a decent song in forever (though the new single is alright). That being said there were like eight really good singles off that Teenage Dream. Also “Hot and Cold” is a banger from the first big album.
But yeah, CRJ is amazing. She’s the only artist that has made my Tasty Cutz playlists every year since 2015 and hell yeah she’s going to make 2019. Either “Too Much” or “Want You In My Room” if you are curious.
Miley has three good songs - Party In the USA, Wrecking Ball, and We Can’t Stop. She’s a few tiers below the others.
That brings up a point about CRJ. As much as I love her, I'm waiting for her to get weird. The closest is that song "Backseat" she did with Charli XCX (another female pop singer who I really enjoy). Also, I'm not sure I'd have such a soft spot for CRJ if she was really popular. Part of it is like how gays and a faction of hipsters are her main fanbase.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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The sudden "earnest appreciation of frankly indifferent radio pop which is now artful and subversive" thing (especially after Emotion) makes me wonder what planet I've been living on for the past fifteen years.
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Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
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The left's faith in subverting mainstream culture is the right's faith in the justice of the market. There are always little examples that proponents can point to, but it's fundamentally nonsense.
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I don’t get it, but I’m cool with people that used to be too cool for well made pop finally appreciating it. It helps tremendously that CRJ isn’t popular.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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What's all this about subversion?
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board