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Also I'm replying to a joke post from the first page of this thread, but Get Lucky wasn't even the best summer song on that album, let along song of the summer. I mean sure, it got played ad nauseum and is objectively the biggest song on that album, but when Nile Rodgers is agreeing that Lose Yourself To Dance is "going to be the song of the summer" you trust him
As someone comically inept at music/modern music, I like this thread. And with the internet, I can easily listen to back catalogs of all of these artists, including this Ted Leo and his Pharmacists I've heard so much about for years (mostly from my one HS friend who was always "the music guy", now lives in the DMV area, and works at NPR)
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Please enjoy some white boy reggae about how they love their lives because they landed their dream job and anyone else who is unhappy with they life should just abandon whatever they are doing and try something else
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
Oh go on, just make some basic reggae-ish music about how being a successful musician is great.
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Theodore Flooseveltproud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelodorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered Userregular
cut to the feeling has really grown on me
but i've been listening to emotion a lot lately and for two years now, pop music as a whole has yet to produce a better synth line of the summer than run away with me
The two big sax (or synth bagpipe, if you're a fucking idiot) tracks on the album that come to mind, Run Away With Me and All That, weren't really my faves when I first heard the album. Run Away With Me has grown on me since it's got that really good driving beat, but All That is still too slow of a jam for my tastes. But it's great if you like bass.
Also the video for Cut to the Feeling is odd, because it appears to be a music video about the filming of a different music video. I'm not even sure if that's CRJ or CRJ playing a character, because during the video they interview some one who says that CRJ "should be signed to a label", which IRL CRJ very much is, unless her career has stalled significantly in recent months while I wasn't paying attention.
With that haircut, Carly Rae kinda reminds me of the waitress from Always Sunny and it's weirding me out.
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Theodore Flooseveltproud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelodorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered Userregular
The two big sax (or synth bagpipe, if you're a fucking idiot) tracks on the album that come to mind, Run Away With Me and All That, weren't really my faves when I first heard the album. Run Away With Me has grown on me since it's got that really good driving beat, but All That is still too slow of a jam for my tastes. But it's great if you like bass.
am I the fucking idiot
i couldn't even tell that opening line was a saxophone until you said this
QuetziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderatormod
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He wrote a 150 page deconstruction of Carly Rae Jepsen's music, even though he isn't really into music criticism or pop music (and if you've heard those phrase before, you know exactly what you're getting here). It is some hot bullshit.
It took me a very long time to try Carly Rae Jepsen specifically because of the way people (let's be real, pretty much just men) flip their shit over her in a way that feels very performative
She's just a very good pop musician, and as someone who doesn't listen to a lot of pop music, she's very pleasant to listen to.
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QuetziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderatormod
When people who don't listen to pop music for whatever reason (most frequently for external reasons) actually listen to some pop and really dig it, there's this weird thing that happens. Frequently it's because they've convinced themselves that the reason that they don't listen to pop music is because pop music is dumb and trite and so on. And then they hear a pop song that they like, so that means that there must be something more to it. They're an enlightened mind that can't enjoy pop music just because it is good music - they are above pop. So you get these insane justifications for what makes this different, what makes this special.
I've done it myself, in the days before I listened to a lot of pop. I remember talking about the "well-constructed Hitchcock references" of Lady Gaga back in like sophomore year of college or whatever.
But most people don't write 150 pages on it.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
Well yeah but I mean Lady Gaga is pretty fucking fantastic.
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As with anything involving internet fandom, you have to sift through a stifling amount of bullshit, but Carly'a music is both catchy and earnest without being corny which is a miracle in the year two thousand seventeen
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QuetziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderatormod
It's not really a miracle. There's a lot of good music out there.
Like, yeah, CRJ does some really good pop, she's one of my favorite pop artists, but calling it miraculous is that same sort of thing as what Landis is doing.
I got REALLY into Emotion a while back, and a lot of CRJ's detractors expressed skepticism at her claims that her album sounds the way it does because she just suddenly got into Blood Orange.
It's not really a miracle. There's a lot of good music out there.
Like, yeah, CRJ does some really good pop, she's one of my favorite pop artists, but calling it miraculous is that same sort of thing as what Landis is doing.
I meant that less in a 'pop is a desolate genre outside of Carly's visionary genius' sense and more in a 'the artists who write in the same strain of emotionally baring pop have been fucking up recently for various reasons'. There's plenty of good pop out there, it's just moving away from what Carly does and her direct counterparts aren't up to where she's at right now
It's a REALLY tricky thing to write a pop song that is both personal and universal. "Generic Love Song #5" is a hard thing to avoid, as is "Here is a page where I bitch about Gretchen in specific". CRJ manages to thread that needle really well, is most of why I like her.
Like, Taylor Swift managed to do it pretty well on 1989, with Style in particular. But her old stuff skews really hard towards the generic, and her new stuff is just way too clearly about her and only her and no one else to really click with me any more than a TMZ article would.
It's a big trick.
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Theodore Flooseveltproud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelodorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered Userregular
It took me a very long time to try Carly Rae Jepsen specifically because of the way people (let's be real, pretty much just men) flip their shit over her in a way that feels very performative
I really enjoyed me some call me maybe, but i'll admit this facet of CRJ discussions kept me away from emotion for way too long
I will readily admit I got into CRJ because Griffin McElroy kept flipping out over it and I decided to see if it was a goof or not
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Theodore Flooseveltproud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelodorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered Userregular
I will readily admit I got into CRJ because Griffin McElroy kept flipping out over it and I decided to see if it was a goof or not
yeah me trying to be mr too-cool took this and basically ignored her output because of it
I dunno why! despite loving griffin I can't say I've ever put any stock in a single one of his media opinions so... actually maybe that's why I chafed against it? anyhow, it's a stupid instinct
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I'm sure he cries into his many large sacks full of diamonds on a regular schedule.
Please enjoy some white boy reggae about how they love their lives because they landed their dream job and anyone else who is unhappy with they life should just abandon whatever they are doing and try something else
but i've been listening to emotion a lot lately and for two years now, pop music as a whole has yet to produce a better synth line of the summer than run away with me
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am I the fucking idiot
i couldn't even tell that opening line was a saxophone until you said this
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The most notable part is probably this:
That thread has a bunch of highlights though.
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I've done it myself, in the days before I listened to a lot of pop. I remember talking about the "well-constructed Hitchcock references" of Lady Gaga back in like sophomore year of college or whatever.
But most people don't write 150 pages on it.
God you just know that motherfucker was updating his own Wikipedia page with that bullshit.
Like, yeah, CRJ does some really good pop, she's one of my favorite pop artists, but calling it miraculous is that same sort of thing as what Landis is doing.
But really only that first 1.5, 2 albums.
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I meant that less in a 'pop is a desolate genre outside of Carly's visionary genius' sense and more in a 'the artists who write in the same strain of emotionally baring pop have been fucking up recently for various reasons'. There's plenty of good pop out there, it's just moving away from what Carly does and her direct counterparts aren't up to where she's at right now
Like, Taylor Swift managed to do it pretty well on 1989, with Style in particular. But her old stuff skews really hard towards the generic, and her new stuff is just way too clearly about her and only her and no one else to really click with me any more than a TMZ article would.
It's a big trick.
I really enjoyed me some call me maybe, but i'll admit this facet of CRJ discussions kept me away from emotion for way too long
yeah me trying to be mr too-cool took this and basically ignored her output because of it
I dunno why! despite loving griffin I can't say I've ever put any stock in a single one of his media opinions so... actually maybe that's why I chafed against it? anyhow, it's a stupid instinct