...Wow, he successfully managed to give a more tool-ish first impression on me than Porter Robinson did, and Porter Robinson... well, just go to his Wikipedia page.
At least I like Porter's music, it doesn't stay in one place like "Harlem Shake" does.
Influenced heavily by southern hip-hop and UK bass sounds, Baauer has found himself smack dab in the middle of the electronic renaissance. He is the delectable fusion of future-crunk and leather shaken aggressively in a bottle for years and has only just opened the top to pour the mixture out.
The issue is that the song took its name from a dance style while basically rubbing out its namesake. There's also the fact that Baauer's reaction to Banks rapping over his track while riding on a wave of viral internet popularity is more than a little disingenuous in spirit.
Basically, the article might be hyperbolic, but I can understand the anger. Baauer is kind of a douche-nozzle.
He and his company have also engaged in a fair bit of social media manipulation to have effectively erased the original Harlem Shake dance from existence (trying to google "original harlem shake" just gets you the first video the meme was used in). Whether or not you want to call that cultural appropriation (taking a piece of something and then pretending that it never existed) it's a fucking dick move no matter how you cut it.
didn't azealia banks call him a faggot on twitter
Probably. But Azealia Banks is also a twit.
Point is, the C&S shouldn't have been sent. And it wasn't sent to just her, there were a couple other people too.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
So, wait, why is it called "Harlem Shake" if it has nothing to do with the actual Harlem Shake?
Influenced heavily by southern hip-hop and UK bass sounds, Baauer has found himself smack dab in the middle of the electronic renaissance. He is the delectable fusion of future-crunk and leather shaken aggressively in a bottle for years and has only just opened the top to pour the mixture out.
He and his company have also engaged in a fair bit of social media manipulation to have effectively erased the original Harlem Shake dance from existence (trying to google "original harlem shake" just gets you the first video the meme was used in). Whether or not you want to call that cultural appropriation (taking a piece of something and then pretending that it never existed) it's a fucking dick move no matter how you cut it.
Yeah, this. Had the meme coincidentally usurped the earlier use of the term, that would have been irksome but acceptable, but the fact that the whole things seems so calculated is pretty astronomically dickish.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I think this song may be turning me into an SJW.
I mean, first of all, white guy invoking Harlem irritates me. Of all the places in New York you could have named your shitty song after, why pick the one that's famous for being an African-American cultural center?
And I could let that slide, if not for the fact that the song completely ignores, y'know, the actual Harlem shake, which was actually from fucking Harlem.
I'm pretty sure the only authorized Harlem Shake rapover that's still up is the one El-P and Despot did. Which is fine, y'know, I like them, but it's because it was done for a Pitchfork tv feature which thus lets Baauer get a cut of the royalties.
Going on a "only if I get my money" philosophy and then denying not only compensation but credit and acknowledgement of its mere existence to your own sources just seems hypocritical at absolute best.
iunno, there isn't like an official vid or anything, why not go after the peeps who are not doing the harlem shake right?
People have tried. It's really hard to correct a misconception once it goes memetic.
Taken with the fact that most of the people who care about this are also from Harlem (or at least New York) and that memes in general tend to be a suburban thing, and...yeah.
Neocrunk! Cybercrunk! Steampunkcrunk! There's a whole world of nonexistent genres that we can visit!
(After reading through this thread and reading/watching all videos related to the subject, I have come to the same conclusion that Mojave has: Bear-dude makes uninteresting music that only got popular because some kids made it into a meme; he's being a jerk about sampling; Mojave could easily out-compose this guy; if I knew how to use FL Studio, I could probably out-compose this guy; really, anyone who's a regular in the Music thread could create something more interesting than Bauer's mess; the original dance looks kind of silly, to be honest)
I believe that the proper insult to use against Bauuer is
That he should stop making music
And go back to 24.
^ I could train you. But you'd have to retrieve my family sword from some dungeon that's in a completely different freaking hold from where you live. Else it'll cost you.
Technically it's actually two related but distinct genres but...yeah.
What exactly is the difference between trap-rave and trap-rap, exactly? It seems pretty vague...
Mainly the former (people like Hudson Mohawke, for instance) has some influences from dubstep and isn't inherently designed to be rapped over, whereas the latter (Lex Luger is probably the most well known trap-rap producer) usually is.
Technically it's actually two related but distinct genres but...yeah.
What exactly is the difference between trap-rave and trap-rap, exactly? It seems pretty vague...
Mainly the former (people like Hudson Mohawke, for instance) has some influences from dubstep and isn't inherently designed to be rapped over, whereas the latter (Lex Luger is probably the most well known trap-rap producer) usually is.
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At least I like Porter's music, it doesn't stay in one place like "Harlem Shake" does.
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He and his company have also engaged in a fair bit of social media manipulation to have effectively erased the original Harlem Shake dance from existence (trying to google "original harlem shake" just gets you the first video the meme was used in). Whether or not you want to call that cultural appropriation (taking a piece of something and then pretending that it never existed) it's a fucking dick move no matter how you cut it.
Probably. But Azealia Banks is also a twit.
Point is, the C&S shouldn't have been sent. And it wasn't sent to just her, there were a couple other people too.
ninja'd
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but it failed!
I can't go against the current on this one. He's a fucking tool.
She said that after he made her take it down.
And again there were several other rap-overs that either got taken down or had their copyright claimed and monetized.
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"future crunk" isn't a thing.
Like I'm pretty sure no one ever said that before that article existed.
although better than sadcore in that regard
I'm pretty sure the only authorized Harlem Shake rapover that's still up is the one El-P and Despot did. Which is fine, y'know, I like them, but it's because it was done for a Pitchfork tv feature which thus lets Baauer get a cut of the royalties.
Going on a "only if I get my money" philosophy and then denying not only compensation but credit and acknowledgement of its mere existence to your own sources just seems hypocritical at absolute best.
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People have tried. It's really hard to correct a misconception once it goes memetic.
Taken with the fact that most of the people who care about this are also from Harlem (or at least New York) and that memes in general tend to be a suburban thing, and...yeah.
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on the flipside of things, King Krule is an artist with only about a dozen songs under his belt who is absolutely lovely.
He's like, soul or something though. Not trap.
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the vague genre Baauer is filed under.
Technically it's actually two related but distinct genres but...yeah.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Neocrunk! Cybercrunk! Steampunkcrunk! There's a whole world of nonexistent genres that we can visit!
(After reading through this thread and reading/watching all videos related to the subject, I have come to the same conclusion that Mojave has: Bear-dude makes uninteresting music that only got popular because some kids made it into a meme; he's being a jerk about sampling; Mojave could easily out-compose this guy; if I knew how to use FL Studio, I could probably out-compose this guy; really, anyone who's a regular in the Music thread could create something more interesting than Bauer's mess; the original dance looks kind of silly, to be honest)
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I feel so out of my expertise. I only got like, 13 in my Music skill, I haven't leveled up at all.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
That he should stop making music
And go back to 24.
^ I could train you. But you'd have to retrieve my family sword from some dungeon that's in a completely different freaking hold from where you live. Else it'll cost you.
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But Baauer sounds like a douchebag.
if Levelgrind were a music genre it would probably be some cross of chiptune and grindcore.
But it's not.
like Hit-Boy
Hit-Boy makes good beats.
He made the beat to "Backseat Freestyle".