i'm not sure i'd call A$AP Rocky or Fuck Buttons obscure either, but my yardstick for 'is this obscure' is 'have i heard of them IRL?' so i may be way off the mark
chvrches is boring topmancore from a lload of people who got spat out by the sad scottish shoegaze movement because they were too boring even for them and they should go away
oneohtrix ppoint never spent eight hours livetweeting billy corgan improv synth jamming on a synth he didnt know how to use while a guy read herman hesse in the background, and it was more interesting and entertaining than anything chvrches have done ever
I like both of those artists quite a bit so I basically lose either way...
I mean, I can come up with plenty of valid criticisms of both bands/musicians in question, but why is it that whenever someone doesn't like something that I like it's never casual indifference so much as buckets of vitriol? It's kind of disheartening.
Not that casual indifference isn't occasionally just as frustrating, but I dunno.
...I think I'm more upset by this because I respect your opinions and thus feel like I'm stupid and wrong for liking something that you guys don't. Which is not the case, I know, and generally I'm not this touchy, but I dunno...
likewise i cant get much mileage out of 'i can't shake the sense that chvrches crafted their sound with things like "target demographics" in their mind as opposed to artistry'
... well, not that you can't do both, but too much thought went into the former for me to be comfortable with it. i think. and i just find them rather bland and uninspiring
nah man it's just that its music and there's lots of it and there are lots of different things to dislike/like about any given piece of music so everyone will disagree with everyone on some things because everyone has a wide range of preferences
I liked the one Oneohtrix Point Never album I heard (the one with the skull on the cover, the name of which currently escapes me), but I have also heard that most of his work is pretty different from that.
A$AP Rocky is sort of a hipster's idea of mainstream rap. He is rather popular (he's done a song with Drake) but he's not as popular as say, Rick Ross.
likewise i cant get much mileage out of 'i can't shake the sense that chvrches crafted their sound with things like "target demographics" in their mind as opposed to artistry'
perhaps, but as trends/targets go "female fronted retro synthpop with buttery analogue synths" is one i cant help but be in favor of
re:OPN i do quite like his music but i often find the things that he puts alongside it it far more interesting (visuals, videos, livetweeting billy corgan)
if anything i think the music of OPN is rather secondary to my enjoymment of him as an artistic entity
Regarding Chvrches: I get where you could draw that conclusion, although having seen interviews with them, they seem pretty earnest. Plus, there are these little touches in their production and lyrics that are a little too odd to strike me as calculated in the conventional sense. More "conform to deform" than "radio friendly unit shifter," as it were.
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i'm not sure i'd call A$AP Rocky or Fuck Buttons obscure either, but my yardstick for 'is this obscure' is 'have i heard of them IRL?' so i may be way off the mark
A$AP Rocky is sort of a hipster's idea of mainstream rap. He is rather popular (he's done a song with Drake) but he's not as popular as say, Rick Ross.
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