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2010 in Music
KvP:
Yes, we live in the age of the internet.
Here is a (very incomplete) list of music I've listened to and owned this year. I'll do my best to update it in the coming days.
- I love it I love it I love it so much
Swans
Nest
Ital Tek
Deerhunter
Solar Bears
Ramadanman / Pearson Sound
Girl Unit
Squawk
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Instra:Mental / dBridge
- Pretty great, to be honest
Cloaks
Jam City
Starkey
Hyetal
Space Dimension Controller
The Internal Tulips
Cosmic Revenge
Subeena
LCD Soundsystem
- First I said “No”, then I was all “Yeah”
Breach
Loops Haunt
Slugabed
Swindle
DJ Nate
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Lego
Transparent Sounds
Altered Natives
Kingdom
Taz Buckfaster
Peverelist
Forest Swords
- I can’t tell where the irony ends and the enjoyment begins
Lil B
Nite Jewel
- Points for effort I guess
Rudi Zygadlo
Jimmy Edgar
Eskmo
Optimum
- I need some time
Point B
DJ Rashad
DJ Roc
- I expected better
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Squarepusher
FaltyDL
Ikonika
- Please stop you’re boring me
Gorillaz
Girl Talk
Four Tet
Bassnectar
Pretty Lights
Professor Snuggles:
--- Quote from: Tom on 24 Nov 2010, 23:29 ---New Kanye is unbearably boring.
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Nope, guess again.
scarred:
--- Quote from: KvP on 25 Nov 2010, 01:14 ---Yes, we live in the age of the internet.
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SINCE WHEN
scarred:
speaking of which, Marla Hansen just dropped a new single without anybody noticing. crossing my fingers that she's got a new release in the works. i cannot get enough of her.
Professor Snuggles:
--- Quote from: De_El on 24 Nov 2010, 14:34 ---
--- Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 24 Nov 2010, 07:26 ---Dude I mean, really? She's just Lil Kim: The Return. Like her verse on Monster is sicc but "most interesting thing to happen in American Pop Music in Years?" Like, dude, Gaga. Kanye. Even Katy fuccin Perry is doing more interesting stuff than Minaj.
That said the album is like, aight on first listen.
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Yeah but like, Gaga broke in 2008, right? Her reign in pop is in full swing. We are in the midst of the Gaga Dynasty. I'm thinking of who's coming next to get her. Kanye I don't really know what to do with. He's pop because he's huge but ostensibly still a rapper of some kind. He definitely is starting to trade in nonsensical combinations of grandiose imagery which speaks to his success and his understanding of pastiche, but I dunno if he quite fits. Katy Perry's such a cartoon as to be practically blank. I couldn't tell you anything about her. Katy Perry? Who's Katy Perry? The brunette with the giant eyes and giant boobs? What tricks does she do?
Nicki, unlike Perry has fucking chops. She outshines everyone she guests for. In my head, 'Lil Freak,' 'Get It All,' 'Letting Go,' 'Bottoms Up' and 'Knockout' are all Nicki songs. Monster is different because there are so many guests. She's a great female rapper with a playful pop sensibility and American pop has been pretty fucking slim on women rappers for a while now.
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Yeah but like, listen to her record. It's not actually good at all, really. There's a couple decent tracks, and then there's messes like that will.I.am bullshit. It's not anywhere close to an interesting record, it's just more dirty-souf style rap shit, which I love, but she doesn't rep it that well. I dunno if someone else is actually more interesting as like "the next thing," although I know all y'all are still sleeping on The-Dream but he ain't new, I just don't really think you can call Minaj the next big exciting thing.
Gaga completely changed the way we think about Pop Music. Her videos, her concerts, have brought about a completely new paradigm in what pop music is allowed to do. Think about how crazy thriller was back in the day, or purple rain, and then think about the fucking Telephone video and how completely mindblowing that shit was. No one was expecting that from her, and whether or not you liked it, it was a fucking marker. Now look at Kanye's Runaway video, etc. They've taken pop music from being nothing but singles and filler tracks that you hear and forget, and made it into a spectacle again, which is exactly what it should be. I guess you can give JT some credit on this too irt the goes around comes around video from FSLS but these two, and especially Gaga, have made it an art. Regardless of whether you like her music, you gotta give her credit for making pop music interesting again.
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