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kill yourself

Have fun and be yourself

>>73408800
Stop doing that. He makes shitty party music. You can like him as a person, but have some self-respect

>>73408766
not ITAOTS

This album and a couple albums have been out of season. I can feel it deep in the occult, around this time, ITAOTS, The Glow pt. 2, and Sung Tongs are all going to be on the rise.

>>73408751
such a shit race bait album

Imagine you are the head of an online publication that writes reviews on a form of media. The type of media is inconsequential: whether it's film/theatre, music, interactive; it 's all applicable. Since you are the head of an online publication, you have access to analytics and metrics which can often be quite comprehensive. You can also likely see how people use your website, how they migrate from one article to the other.

You want to increase readership, and thereby worth in your website. However, this requires the antithesis of what the idea of a "critique" is. Instead of impartial analysis, you must impart guided advertising. Rather than opinion, you express manipulative rhetoric. There's an easy way to do this: have the media creators or curators pay for positive reviews. But that's too blatant, too messy: if word were to get out about the pay-to-play method of your publication, serious ethics complaints would afflict your organization.

So complete advertising, devoid of critique is not practical if you want to increase value. But remember: you have the gift of analytics!

Overwhelmingly, the readership prefers Hip Hop over Rock, Social Politics over Meta-Drama, or Action-Adventure to Real-Time Strategy. An album to get high marks prompts much more clicks and certain writers get greater public reaction than others. This data is very important: with it, you can make seemingly innocuous opinions into dangerously marketable pieces. Oftentimes, you can catch people into cycles of habitually returning to your website simply because you've catered to the way they browse the most.

I always thought a lot of the acclaim was political

Loved both their first albums and then self-titled was awful. I liked some of it but it just felt like they were trying too hard to break from the electro-pop image they had been branded with.

Aren't they planning on releasing another album sometime this year? Fairly certain I've read that but don't care enough to look it up. Either way I'm approaching it with cautious optimism, hopefully it's not more of the incoherent bullshit on the third album

>>73408719
>/Mu
jesus fucking christ.

>>73408775
Sometime this summer I think, they're on tour with some new songs
Hope it's as good as Congratulations

wow, I remember those days. nothing came close except for mbv

>>73408730

I've never gotten the appeal of MBV or any shoegaze, are you implying these tracks are a gateway to it?

>>73408934
I just don't get Eno, honestly. This sounds like a shitty MBV to me.

Well for one thing, they aren't a grunge band. They are a band that became prevalent during the grunge era that shared some characteristics.

What about Mudhoney?
Nirvana is drastically overrated but they made some quality music.

>>73408700
Yeah, that's why I put quotes around grunge. They're definitely sludge in my book. It's weird to me that they're lumped in with grunge.

Fucking genius. Lorde captures emotions like no other. She is so full of wisdom.

Most of these songs were written when she was 18 or 19. That's insane. She's a beautiful lyricist.

Did you know Lorde wrote her first symphony at only 8 years old!

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I just love him

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So iconic

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I dare you to find me a more badass picture

Almost, Lonerism is pop AOTD

sounds ok, wouldn't go back to it for any reason

No, but Eventually is compositionally one of the best pop songs of all time.

Kevin Parker has had a reputation for a while as a "chord wizard" or at least someone who is able to come up with some of the catchiest melodies and funkiest chord progressions. What I found interesting as well is his use of text painting. As an example, I wanted to use Eventually, one of the lead singles from Currents.

The song's lyrics describe the pain in having to break up with a lover, and how he knows the relationship won't last. But it is also about the putting off of the break up, and how while he knows it is for the best for them to break ties he is afraid of that moment. This suspension of emotional calamity is what makes up the bulk of the text painting in this song.

Aside from the way his voice, along with the looming synth chords, seems imply nervousness and fragility (as it did earlier in Let It Happen, about a similar suspenseful moment that never comes) Kevin uses the chord progression to show the stress in himself. There is never any true tonic resolution throughout the song: even though the opening and chorus seem to heavily lean towards resolution it's always the wrong chord. In the opening, he substitutes I (Cmaj) for iii (Emin); in the chorus, he adds a 9th to the I chord, giving the sense that he's dodging the resolution and dodging the question. This also happens on the enormous punch on the song title, as he resolves instead to IV (Fmaj).

It's always nice to find this sort of thing in popular music (and especially pop music) since most artists don't seem to put the care in to work this way. There are other songs like this on the album but this is definitely the most obvious example I could think of.

>>73408386
I don't think most people on /mu/ hate them for their music. (Some definitely do.) I think people hate the band for what it represents in culture. It spawned a wave of edgy teenagers who have only listened to the singles and think they are "unique" and "creative" just because they've listened to Nirvana once or twice at age 13.

Because everyone else likes Nirvana.

>>73408630
This. Kids with Nirvana and Pink Floyd shirts that don't even know what they're wearing.

https://youtu.be/uzR5jM9UeJA

go and grab some free alcohol until you do feel comfortable

>>73408381
thanks

real niggas use styrofoam cups my g

>>73408371
you mean real niggas can't afford glass

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>>73408345
>listen to trap song
>rapper layers his voice 40 times and starts barking like a dog

this entire album was even worse than I expected it to be, possible contender for WAOTY not even joking

Yes. Me

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>>73408322
hope not
>>73408365
it was decent for what it was, not like corey feldman

First i fuck my sister then i fuck my mom

>>73408298
spiderland is better

>>73408298
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmUs2v8XAVU

>>73408298
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOWIfGwdCcI

>>73408291
faggots

>>73408319
on the MTV?

>listening to dadrock