M.I.A. just released a ‘new song’ off her upcoming album. After the hardcore debut song called “Born Free” contained a ginger genocide video to get mad hits / inspire viral discussion [link], the second song “XXXO” seems like it is trying to be a more mainstream pop song. It seems like it is the generic female song about ‘bein all up in the club and having ur eye on a hot guy.’ Feel like every female pop diva has written this type of song, so maybe it is just some sort of ‘rite of passage’ as she continues to go mainstream.
I think this song is supposed to be super viral, because it has the line
I don’t let it show but I think you know because you’re tweeting me on your iPhone
Ultimately feel like this song was written to be in some generic high school teen movie, like a dance scene at prom or something.
Do u think this song would sound better if Rihanna / Britney Spears / Lady Gaga / Kyle Minogue / Beyonce / Hannah Montana / Lindsay Lohan sang it? Have u lost or gained respect for M.I.A. because of this pop song? Is this a ‘failure’ as a pop song because it gets all hectic and layered?
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Wonder what M.I.A.’s goals are? Is she trying to send a message about Sri Lanka, or is she trying to ’sell mad albums’ and become a more authentic Rihanna in the eyes of mainstreamers? Is M.I.A. ’still worth covering’ or is she ‘too mainstream’? Will M.I.A.’s album chart at #1? Will M.I.A. ever write another ‘Paper Planes’? Would XXXO be ‘more successul’ if it was a Beyonce + Lady Gaga duet? Should M.I.A. have gotten Fergie / Will.I.Am to ‘guest’ on this song to increase the crossoverability factor?
The Justin BiebAlt has all of the good, wholesome looks of Justin Bieber, with a completely different, raw & edgy attitude. Instead of dressing in ‘fresh hoodies’, he was post-ironic vintage grunge gear. As opposed to using expensive shampoos, conditioners, gels and hairsprays, he lets sweat + natural oils sculpt his hair.
It’s sorta weird how ‘Bieber Fever’ took over America + Twitter for a while. It seems like he replaced the Jonas Brothers as ‘the hot tween act.’ I think ultimately the Jonas Brothers were a little bit too Christian to maintain their buzz. Justin Bieber is better because he is all about ’sex, relationships, and getting his tween pee pee hard.’ That’s something female tween fans want to hear a pop sensation sing about, so it was sweet that they got a big black man in the form of a lil white bro with swoopy hair.
From what I understand, part of Justin Bieber’s marketability is that his hair is a meme. Not only does he produce MP3s, but his smile, face, and hair provide photo memes ‘on the reg.’ He apparently was just a tween with a youtuber account, then Usher signed him because he was marginally talented and white. Little white girls buy tons of iTunes singles, so it seems like he is ‘a perfect product.’ Not sure about his shelf life, but he can probably ‘bring in mad bank’ for the next 1.5 years.
Maybe I’ll grow my hair out into a sculpted bowl of beautiful, healthy hair. I feel like I might become a ‘pussy magnet.’ Do u think it is better to be a mainstream Justin Bieber bro, or a Justin BiebAlt? Which 1 gets you more ‘hot chicks’? Which 1 gets u ‘more money’? Which 1 gets u more ‘alt cred’?
Wonder if it is ‘alt’ for men to blowdry their hair.
I feel like the Justin BiebAlt doesn’t have to blowdry his hair. He doesn’t wash it for days. He lets it get all gross and clumpy, but ‘wears it proudly’, like he’s still the shit.
Just want to go out for pizza with Justin BiebAlt, maybe pick up some ‘hot pussy’ and make out with them with pepperoni breath. Gonna wash it all down with a Dr Pepper. Do u know n e 1 with a Justin BiebAlt haircut? Did u ever have a strategically swoopy bowl cut? Should men maintain their hair? How many times a week should u shampoo? Do u regret not doing everything u could to ’score underaged sex’ when it was still legal because you were under-aged?
Is Justin Bieber the next Michael Jackson? Is Justin Bieber the most successful artist in the history of the internet? Or is it Lady Gaga / the Black Eyed Peas / David After Dentist / Tay Zonday?
Or is he ‘just a little wigger meant to wet the panties of lil girls who sprouted their first pubes’?
Can people with curly hair be Justin Biebalts, or does their hair turn too clumpy? Is Justin Bieber a ‘winner of the genetic lottery’ or is he gonna turn all gross after puberty, kinda like Jerry Maguire’s hit child actor Jonathan Lipnicki?
Merriweather Post Pavillion is a popular album by the popular buzz band Animal Collective, but a little known fun fact is that the name of the album was actually inspired by the name of an amphitheatre in the greater Baltimore metro area. The real MPP has a ‘brand’ that is super free-spirited, in touch with nature, and ‘perfect’ for live music.
Wonder if MGMT ‘purposely’ booked a show their to try to catch some of the positive vibes / critical acclaim that is associated with the MPP brand. It seems like MPP is probably ‘the best / most positively hyped album’ of the last 3 decades, so maybe they are just trying to do their best
Yes, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead played here! Merriweather Post Pavilion is one of the world’s most beautiful and storied amphitheatres – nestled in 40 acres of forest, smack between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. If the backstage walls could talk, they'd echo Roger Daltrey and Robert Plant trading some wicked stories about when the Who and Led Zeppelin played here in the '70s. Now Animal Collective has ensured its legendary status, by naming its genius CD "Merriweather Post Pavilion" in homage to the band's favorite venue.
A concert season at Merriweather Post Pavilion is like putting your iPod on shuffle: the calendar features the best in rock, country, rhythm and blues, pop, jazz, hip hop, alternative, electronica and classical.
Thanks to Billy Joe Armstrong, Merriweather ripped out the first 15 rows of seats to build a mosh pit for Green Day's American Idiot Tour. But it was for superstar Tom Jones that the loge sections were added, and in the early '80s, the lawn was regraded with 700 truckloads of dirt to form its current slope, allowing for great sight lines.
Originally built to be the home of the National Symphony Orchestra, Merriweather was designed by the renowned architect Frank Gehry, who is best known for defying architectural conventions. The natural outdoor setting is one that can't be matched. The fantastic sound system and large video screens make this amphitheatre a favorite for bands and fans.
Inspired by troubadour and environmentalist Jack Johnson, Merriweather implements a range of efforts to protect the environment, including installing solar panels that power the house lights, composting and building new structures using Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards.
Every year the beloved concert venue sets out to improve. Recent enhancements include building an enormous kitchen that prepares the most delectable cuisines from all over the world, a Music Pinball Arcade, award-winning sculptures and the tripling of restroom facilities.
Merriweather is music, but so much more. It's a gorgeous walk in the park.
Conveniently located in the Baltimore/Washington corridor off Route 29 in Columbia, Maryland, Merriweather is nestled within the 40 preserved acres known as Symphony Woods. The natural, outdoor concert setting is one that simply can’t be matched.
For more than 40 years, Merriweather has hosted a diverse range of artists and events, offering the area’s absolute best in contemporary entertainment. At Merriweather, we are committed to delivering a concert experience that is the top-notch in every way.
This place really seems like ‘heaven.’ Maybe it is a worm hole, and some sort of portal opens up when relevant musicians play there. It seems like so many people ‘hype up’ venues in the greater New York area, along with music festivals like Coachella. However, it seems like they don’t integrate architecture, nature and music quite like Merri Post Pavvy.
Does it seem like a progressive seating chart? Should I start a club and have a progressive architect design the building/space?
Is Merriweather Post Pavillion a ’special place’, or is it just the same as every outdoor amphitheatre that has a ‘general admission’ section in the grass where every1 smokes weed?
Feel like I need to blog from this venue in order to truly ‘connect’ with music. Have u ever been to MPP, or have u only experienced it in album format? Will MGMT turn into the next AnCo after playing at MPP? Is Merriweather Post Pavilion an architectural marvel, or just another crappy live venue? Is Merriweather Post Pavilion the greatest album of ur lifetime? Are all outdoor amphitheatres built for artists like Dave Matthews, John Mayer, and Jack Johnson? Will this move ’save’ MGMT? Should we go on a spiritual visit to MPP, kinda like how some Jewish people have 2 ‘visit the Holy Land’ in Israel?
Pitchfork Media is a popular music website which as evolved into the most influential music media outlet in the modern world. The site is famous for reviewing albums. Recently, it wrote some article about Irony and the State of the Music Scene. The article kinda mentioned stuff about LCD Soundsystem and James Murphy, and talked about some other stuff, probably dropping metaphors, similies, and other journalistic tools.
Eventually, the article ‘got to the good stuff’ and started talking about HIPSTER RUNOFF, a popular weblog:
This idea of knowingness, though– our relationship with it can get complicated. Right now, one of the internet’s most successful bastions of knowingness is a blog called Hipster Runoff, a performance that’s almost nothing but knowing: It shrugs, it takes an arch, pseudo-scientific tone, it puts every other word in scare quotes. Here you go, it seems to say: Here is your weird market of hipness and cool. The end. You can take it as withering satire, if you want to, because its skewers are dead on target. Of course, if its pseudonymous author really thought the market of cool were that pointless and vacuous, why spend so much time thinking about it– why know it well enough to be savvy? It’s not so much a satire as a whole performance of knowingness. And even if I don’t often have the stomach for it, I can’t pretend the performance isn’t an immaculate one: it’s knowingness raised to the level of poetry, free of the burden of “intent” or sincerity or any point beyond what the reader reflects out of it. It goes beyond “the author is dead” and turns the author into some kind of zombie.
Not even sure what the message of the article is about, just feeling ‘incredibly culturally relevant’ after reading the HRO blog name in Pitchfork. Feel like a bro in the 1970s who got blurbed about in Rolling Stone Magazine. So many buzzbands try their best to be analyzed / reviewed / blurbed / memed by Pitchfork, but I am just a blog, dropping memes, and I ‘made it.’
Can n e 1 read this article and tell me what it is abt? Got super confused, like it might be too ‘high level’ for me, like writing that belongs in a book or magazine–not on the internet.
The article continues, then mentions HRO again in a closing paragraph:
Hipster Runoff uses the internet to make the old knowingness into performance art.
Kept scanning the page everywhere searching 4 a ‘rating.’ From what I understand, Pitchfork is famous for giving ratings, so feeling disappointed that I didn’t get a 10.0. Not even a 1.0.
Do u know what this article is about? Something about irony and knowingness? Is ‘knowingness’ a real word? Spell checker kinda freaking out on it, saying it doesn’t exist.
Is HIPSTER RUNOFF ‘performance art’? Is HIPSTER RUNOFF ‘an mp3 blog’? Is HIPSTER RUNOFF ‘another blog that is a slave to indie artists / the blogosphere’? Do u ‘get’ HRO? Has HRO ‘gone down the shitter’ recently? Is HRO ‘better than ever? Is the Alt Report better than HIPSTER RUNOFF? Is the Alt Report Robot better / more influential than Carles? Is HRO ‘in bed’ with Pitchfork Media? Is Pitchfork/HRO ‘killing’ the music blogosphere? What is the best music/mp3 blog on the internet right now? What is the worst music/mp3 blog on the internet right now?
Interpol is a former indie band that turned into some alt rock band. They had a ‘really relevant first album’, but then sorta just pooped around for a few albums, coasting on the strength of their brand.
Apparently the bro named Carlos D from Interpol quit the band and won’t be ‘going on tour’ with them. Wonder if that means he thinks the new album sucks, or if he is just tired of being in a band. Wonder if he thinks the ’ship is sinking’ and he just wants to hop off before it is too late.
Dear fans,
As some of you have surely heard, Interpol has completed it’s new album.
It was recorded at Electric Lady Studios, New York, and mixed with Alan Moulder at Assault and Battery, London.
The four of us poured our collective heart into this music and we are very proud and excited to share it.
It’s a heavy record. But we’re feeling limber; and we’re going to carry it all around the world for you.
Touring begins this summer, so check here soon for announcements and show dates.
There is more: Sadly, Carlos will not be joining us.
After the completion of the album, Carlos informed the rest of us that he would be leaving the band. He has decided to follow another path, and to pursue new goals. This separation is amicable, and we whole-heartedly wish him great happiness and success. We will remain, as always, deeply respectful fans of this blazingly talented individual.
We can tell you that we have some very exciting new recruits joining us on the road. So stay tuned – we will promptly be revealing the identities of these illustrious players.
We eagerly await the opportunity to reconvene with you all - the greatest fans known to Rock.
R u gonna miss his mustache / facial hair / conceptual hair part swoop?
If u had a painting of Carlos D in ur house, would his eyes follow u around the room where ever u moved?
Is Interpol’s next album going to ‘revive’ the past? Did Carlos D ‘know something that we don’t know’? Do u think he just got bored of being on tour? Once you are a successful buzzband, what other challenges can life throw at u? Who is ur favourite member of Interpol? should Interpol change their name now that they have a new lineup? Should we throw a ‘going away party’ 4 Carlos D at Chuck E. Cheese? Is Interpol’s new album going to be better / less pretentious than the new Arcade Fire album? Do bands ever really break up on good terms?
Sorta wish I had a hipster mom, who still ’stayed young and trendy’ even though she had a couple of children. In this video, a ‘hipster mom’ explains what hipster mom is. She basically says it is a woman who ’stays young and cute’ even though she has a kid. I guess her argument that ‘being a hipster’ is a lifestyle choice, and just because you have a spawn, it doesn’t mean your life is over. You can still do things like ‘get drunk’, listen to buzzbands, and even teach alternative lessons to ur kids.
When you have a child, are you still allowed to live the same life that you had before you had a kid, or do you need to ‘man up’, ‘grow the eff up’ and start living for your child?
Do u wish ur mom did arts & crafts with you, or are you happy that u just watched TV + played video games?
Wonder how I would have turned out if I had a ‘hipster mom.’ Feel kinda relieved that I had a mainstream mom, since I was able to ‘break free’ from my cookie cutter life in suburbia, and search for something alternative and authentic. Feel like if you are raised alt, you will ‘break free’ by going mainstream, which is actually alt in your eyes. What kind of mom do u have? Mainstream mom or a hipster mom? Have you burned a CD for your mom with relevant buzzbands? What are some good indie bands that your mom appreciates? Do ‘hipster moms’ create ’spoiled ass kids’ who have ADD? Are the best parents the ones who try to be ‘alt’ or the ones who ‘fall in line’ and get a 2 story house in suburbia?
Happy Mother’s Day 2 every hipster & mainstream mom.
Some bro / designer made a parody flyer of a music festival, trying to ‘make snarky commentary’ abt how all music festivals are ‘basically the same’, and the same types of bands perform at different music festivals. Also feel like this is trying to provide commentary on the commercialization of indie bands, the mainstreamifcation of buzzbands, jam bands, white people who pretend to enjoy rap, weed culture, rave culture, drugs at music festivals, and other music festival cliches.
Do you think that festival flyers are just inauthentic marketing gimmicks? Do all festivals basically book the same lineup just to appeal to mainstreamers? Do u like to pay for bands in the bulk [via festivals] or pay for them a la carte [via solo shows]?
The meme post went on to ‘brand’ this event, providing commentary on the state of the modern music festival and the ‘hypocritical consumers’ who pay $200-500 for 3 day event passes. Seems like they are ‘making fun’ of under-prepared druggies who attend festivals. Are these memes ‘funny’ and ‘true’, or are they entry-level analysis of music festivals? Does what happens at Coachella stay at Coachella?
Are all music festivals the same because they book the same artists? Are music festivals too crowded? Are mainstream bands ruining music festivals? Are buzzbands that sound like poop live ruining music festivals? Are people attending music festivals ruining music festivals? What is the best music festival in the world? Do u know how I can get a job booking music festival lineups & designing the ultimate flyer?
