I liked the song before I'd heard most of the lyrics Todd took issue with.
Although someone on SA is from Denmark and said that, given the culture of Denmark and the area Lukas Graham grew up in, it's entirely possible he was toking up and drinking liquor by age 11
I honestly agree that Rihanna sounds like she's collapsing on 'ludes on "Work". That kind of messiness has its place in music, and I know that she plays with inflection a lot as part of her schtick, but it just doesn't... work on that song.
you know what does it for me on these ultra-cheese 80s synthpop songs is that super weird snare sound.
there's a similar one on "She Drives Me Crazy" by The Fine Young Cannibals, as well as a couple different ones on "Catch Me I'm Falling" by Pretty Poison.
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'm kind of amazed he didn't mention Sir Mix-a-Lot's verse on "Where Are They Now?" by NaS. It's kind of his only other serious contribution to hip-hop culture.
you know I like to think of myself as a pretty calm person most of the time and then something like this now making me cry now that I know what it's about happens and I remember that I am a sap.
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
Oh yeah, I forgot that a lot of Todd's stuff is hard to find since Blip shut down.
the only copy of the Chumbawamba episode I can find is on a site called VK and has russian subtitles.
And it's my favourite OHW, hands down, next to "Come On Eileen". I disagree with him on his interpretation of the lyrics, though: As I see it, the song is about being in a touring political band and what that's like by focusing on the downtime and what it feels like to be living like that with friends and comrades rather than just about partying. Thus the title and the chorus.
I know that song, because I know I've heard it used as a punchline background song and referenced directly by people in my company, but where and in what context entirely evades me. It's one of *those* songs, in the way that Heat Guy J is one of *those* anime or Michael Dukakis is one of *those* political figures.
I think it came from unfamiliarity with modern hip-hop (he speaks much more kindly of stuff from the 1980s and 1990s). He's had kinder things to say about Nicki in later videos, while I'm pretty sure he still thinks Lil' Wayne is annoying.
There are some people who he clearly likes and some who he clearly does not. I would not assume a lack of familiarity so much as a frustration with the state of rap on the pop charts in the last decade, which is not entirely unreasonable, I don't think.
no he clearly does not understand hip-hop at all, lol. At least not anything that came out after like 2005 or so.
or modern R&B for that matter (he describes Jeremih as a talentless hack in multiple videos).
I don't watch him for the #deepknowledge I expect to be imparted with though, I just find his videos entertaining and sometimes informative in a trivia sense.
...are you defending Jeremih on the basis of album material or something? Because *nothing* I have heard of his has ever remotely impressed me.
I'm not saying he has any deep, strong understanding of modern hip-hop and R&B here. I'm just saying you're doing that genre snob thing where you treat someone like a moron for not sharing your opinions without actually explaining them. It's not appealing.
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Admittedly, I would probably brag myself if I got to live outside of society for any point in time like he did during his childhood.
However, he picked the most dudebro way possible of expressing that sentiment.
And it's my favourite OHW, hands down, next to "Come On Eileen". I disagree with him on his interpretation of the lyrics, though: As I see it, the song is about being in a touring political band and what that's like by focusing on the downtime and what it feels like to be living like that with friends and comrades rather than just about partying. Thus the title and the chorus.
I know that song, because I know I've heard it used as a punchline background song and referenced directly by people in my company, but where and in what context entirely evades me. It's one of *those* songs, in the way that Heat Guy J is one of *those* anime or Michael Dukakis is one of *those* political figures.
*...*
I can't.
the Russians always got the hookup
I'm not saying he has any deep, strong understanding of modern hip-hop and R&B here. I'm just saying you're doing that genre snob thing where you treat someone like a moron for not sharing your opinions without actually explaining them. It's not appealing.