- Location
- The Midlands.
Hah. Would it be an unpopular opinion if I said that there's a decent percentage of Christmas music that is actually enjoyable?
Such as this, for example.
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- Thread starter CallMeIsmail
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Such as this, for example.
daedalus725
Kell of Kells, godking of Planet X
- Location
- Daedalus crater, The moon
The problem isn't so much Christmas music as a genra but just how much it's played
- Location
- The Midlands.
Yeah, that's fair. It works best when mixed in with the regular stuff rather than by itself.
Spartakrod
Judeo-Spartacist Bolshevik-Kabbalist
- Location
- Sanctum Arcanorum
- Pronouns
- Fae/Faer/Faers/Faerself
There's more than twelve Christmas songs?
Also Halloween doesn't need anything but remixes of Spooky Scary Skeletons.
- Location
- USA
The amount of times a lot of songs have been played usually gives a few dozen service workers PTSD
Also I take I really don't like country music unless it has a good political message
View: https://youtu.be/FVcWEtFXwnc
View: https://youtu.be/gaXHUI6Gl1Q
View: https://youtu.be/B4---DfMJU4
The way it sung the way
Again this is more folk than country
View: https://youtu.be/U2iozyqbx1Y
View: https://youtu.be/cj02R-R8Who
It is much more guttural and can hear the pain The Joy the sorrow, compared to dude bro drinking song
View: https://youtu.be/FVcWEtFXwnc
View: https://youtu.be/gaXHUI6Gl1Q
View: https://youtu.be/B4---DfMJU4
The way it sung the way
Again this is more folk than country
View: https://youtu.be/U2iozyqbx1Y
View: https://youtu.be/cj02R-R8Who
It is much more guttural and can hear the pain The Joy the sorrow, compared to dude bro drinking song
- Location
- The Midlands.
Depends. Is it long enough to give another band member time to nip backstage to take a piss without the audience noticing when played live?
grommile
nasty-minded old cynic
- Location
- NERV-Mercia
- Pronouns
- Traditional/Animate
Not really. The solo's only a minute long; it still manages to feel pointless.
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Sick and tired of being Sick and Tired
- Location
- Alta California
- Pronouns
- They/Them
All songs are worth listening to, at least halfway, once.
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Pronouns
- She/They
ok I have a rant
JPEGMAFIA has completely fallen off as an artist and it's increasingly painful to watch. This is not about him recently collaborating with Kanye West, as amusingly hypocritical as it was considering his past lyrics about Kanye West and Burzum, though I think that represents the culmination of how his art has declined over the past few years.
The problem starts, as cliche as this is and as snobby as this makes me sound, with his first album after signing to a major label. JPEGMAFIA's work leading up to then (Black Ben Carson, The 2nd Amendment and Veteran) was often criticised for being edgelord-y and often justifiably so but fuck me at least there was some kind of passion to it, as well as clear artistic intent.
LP! and Scaring the Hoes, his two latest albums, also his acclaimed and successful, largely feature him basically spouting memes and showing off how terminally online he is while hiding his vocals behind increasingly 'zany' production (i.e. throwing unusual samples at the wall and hoping something sticks), which is technically impressive but to be an absolute ass for a moment anyone actually 'blown away' by his recent work would probably melt listening to any given thirty second snippet of Dos Siki 2nd Season, which is basically everything JPEGMAFIA is trying to do but better.
Like yeah, the guy used to say 3edgy5me stuff about other artists and making an R&B track out of dashcam audio of a police officer getting stabbed to death was, uh, a bit much (even with the context that it's footage recycled in training sessions to encourage police violence), but him stripping all that edge off in favour of cringe twitter music nerd meme shit about 'scaring the hoes', only to then do a photoshoot with Kanye West (a man he literally promised on his breakout album that he would never become) while he's wearing explicit Neo-Nazi band merch is just fucking embarrassing, man.
My second hot take which is sort of similar is that I don't like how Black Country, New Road did this thing where they initially released/previewed a song with skeevy or uncomfortable lyrics, and then rewrote it later for the official release to make it safer and more palatable. In particular, I'm thinking of how the original version of 'Sunglasses' climaxed (heh) with the singer's girlfriend telling him to fuck her like he means it next time, and how 'Basketball Shoes' used to explicitly describe a wet dream about Charli XCX rather than a fictional woman named Charlie (lol). So everyone following the band knows what the songs originally did but then the album versions suppress the excesses.
Moreover I think, especially given the fact that the band looks like someone typed "gang of preppy white Oxbridge hipsters" into DALL-E and that their lead singer for this period sang with the most 'sexually repressed upper-class English twit' voice imaginable (and wrote that way too), that it would have been much more creatively interesting if they'd actually committed to the bit of being weirdly unpleasant wankers instead of sanding off the edges to become a boring indie rock band. They don't even seem to incorporate klezmer into their sound anymore, which was like the most instrumentally interesting thing about them in the first place!
JPEGMAFIA has completely fallen off as an artist and it's increasingly painful to watch. This is not about him recently collaborating with Kanye West, as amusingly hypocritical as it was considering his past lyrics about Kanye West and Burzum, though I think that represents the culmination of how his art has declined over the past few years.
The problem starts, as cliche as this is and as snobby as this makes me sound, with his first album after signing to a major label. JPEGMAFIA's work leading up to then (Black Ben Carson, The 2nd Amendment and Veteran) was often criticised for being edgelord-y and often justifiably so but fuck me at least there was some kind of passion to it, as well as clear artistic intent.
LP! and Scaring the Hoes, his two latest albums, also his acclaimed and successful, largely feature him basically spouting memes and showing off how terminally online he is while hiding his vocals behind increasingly 'zany' production (i.e. throwing unusual samples at the wall and hoping something sticks), which is technically impressive but to be an absolute ass for a moment anyone actually 'blown away' by his recent work would probably melt listening to any given thirty second snippet of Dos Siki 2nd Season, which is basically everything JPEGMAFIA is trying to do but better.
Like yeah, the guy used to say 3edgy5me stuff about other artists and making an R&B track out of dashcam audio of a police officer getting stabbed to death was, uh, a bit much (even with the context that it's footage recycled in training sessions to encourage police violence), but him stripping all that edge off in favour of cringe twitter music nerd meme shit about 'scaring the hoes', only to then do a photoshoot with Kanye West (a man he literally promised on his breakout album that he would never become) while he's wearing explicit Neo-Nazi band merch is just fucking embarrassing, man.
My second hot take which is sort of similar is that I don't like how Black Country, New Road did this thing where they initially released/previewed a song with skeevy or uncomfortable lyrics, and then rewrote it later for the official release to make it safer and more palatable. In particular, I'm thinking of how the original version of 'Sunglasses' climaxed (heh) with the singer's girlfriend telling him to fuck her like he means it next time, and how 'Basketball Shoes' used to explicitly describe a wet dream about Charli XCX rather than a fictional woman named Charlie (lol). So everyone following the band knows what the songs originally did but then the album versions suppress the excesses.
Moreover I think, especially given the fact that the band looks like someone typed "gang of preppy white Oxbridge hipsters" into DALL-E and that their lead singer for this period sang with the most 'sexually repressed upper-class English twit' voice imaginable (and wrote that way too), that it would have been much more creatively interesting if they'd actually committed to the bit of being weirdly unpleasant wankers instead of sanding off the edges to become a boring indie rock band. They don't even seem to incorporate klezmer into their sound anymore, which was like the most instrumentally interesting thing about them in the first place!
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Mechasaurian
Big Bossu
- Location
- Lost among fields of history
- Pronouns
- They/Them
I don't like the music of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance that much.
Partly because the instrumentals drown out the lyrics to the point it's basically impossible to understand them.
Partly because the instrumentals drown out the lyrics to the point it's basically impossible to understand them.
- Location
- The Midlands.
I had never heard of either of these acts before, and I kind of wish I hadn't.
Also, since he came up, controversial but not necessarily unpopular opinion: Kanye West used to be a genuinely good artist.
