9. literally have never heard this before, but it actually sounds conceptually interesting
8. i think i've heard this! which is a shame, because it's atrocious in every respect. no clue who Rob Schneider is? "sounds like the black keys" is backhanded, right?
7. haven't heard this either. i... like the chunky synth bass? Not bad! :D
6. Yeah, i've heard this. caaaaaaan't say i'm glad about that
5. Avoided this too! Kanye's outfit is bad. and the guitar is bad. The organ is bad. I never what to see Rihanna ever again.
4. THOSE SYNTH PLUCKS KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT. Formant lead is also unforgivable! send everyone involved to The Shame Zone
3. This is unforgivably dull. I change my mind, bring back the shitty formant lead.... please?
2. 2007 called it wants its gratuitous sidechained rocknrollcore back, at least Justice had a sense of fun.
Honorable mentions: Justin's new voice is bad, Adele's old voice is a chore, more stuff ive never heard before, though i have heard Uptown Funk? that song is ok
1. Haven't heard this before. Oh, I have! this was playing at H&M one time i think. I'm glad I bring headphones with me wherever I go, because that slow-burning synth arp does not a happy cat make me. THOUGH THAT REMINDS ME they totally play Hey QT at H&M sometimes too, all is forgiven.
as to the actual criticismness: i liked him more this time around, even though we disagreed more. though maybe that's just because i am too tired to get angry at people on the internet right now. mostly i watched because i heard that Danny L Harle actually got some radioplay and i thought that maybe i would get to hear his thoughts on Forever, but i guess I was mistaken. u~u
Funny thing: I recently rewatched the Folding Ideas video on the application of critical tools to real-world scenarios—i.e. Gators—and aside from other Chez contributors, one of the people who supplied the video with clips was none other than Zennistrad, who I am assuming is the same one from IJBM and TVT.
^ He has warmed to Todd's stuff over time, comparatively speaking. So why not?
Well, yes, he dated a woman who said things on the Internet at one point.
I know you don't mean it that way, but that's the gamergate narrative of "person x is being pussy strangled into being a SJW by their wife/girlfriend/sister/mother/abstract awareness of the existence of women as part of the human race"
I think Kex's point was that observing someone you care about being harassed by a kooky fringe group kind of makes you predisposed to dislike said kooky fringe group very passionately.
Speaking of Internet critics, I've honestly begun treating people like Northernlion and RockLeeSmile as incidental lite versions of more formal types. It helps that the former has been doing his Let's Look At's a bit more.
I mean, I would like more types I enjoy listening to, but it's something.
^ To add onto Jane's latter part: I cut my stuff because I've got little interest in what prompted that, or the misunderstanding or whatever itself, so.
I actually really like "I Can't Feel My Face", because unlike most of The Weeknd's music, it's sleazy in a way that's fun and tongue-in-cheek, and it actually has a really great understated hook. "In the Night" is arguably even better, in that it manages to bridge the more self-serious stuff with the fun stuff in a satisfying, propulsive manner, but it's not quite so immediate.
I did not want to offend anyone, and I just kinda didn't know what to say, and I guess I communicated ineffecitvely and hit a sore spot I've hit before.
I can totally get why Todd put "Style" as #1, and really I can understand the logic of all of his picks, even if I don't entirely agree with them in the way that I did this year's worsts. "I Don't Fuck With You" and "Downtown" are pretty great choices, though, if only because I have great respect for songs that do not take themselves seriously in the slightest.
It is rather admirable how Macklemore seems to be only getting more bold rather than less, considering the fierce and mostly undeserved criticism he comes in for.
It also features a zillion now-little-known '80s MCs on the verses, which to me really speaks to who he is and how he approaches what he does in a very positive way. As time goes on, I just like him more and more. I get why some people can hate him, but I don't feel like the hate is really about him, and that's really just very irritating.
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Don't feel like dealing with this today
And I have several of those memories and I don't like having things added to the list and
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Again, don't feel like dealing with this today
(I'm not upset at you here, however. I was more kinda confused when I posted my last post.)
"The Hills" continues to escape me, however, because I'm not even sure what he's trying to convey with it.
I have the same problem with Kanye, really.