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Pyroxene Stigma posted:The Darkness are taking the piss out of glam rock so hard it didn't need to pee for a month. Aye, they were having a laugh. I believe if you go on Heavy Harmonies and look up Permission To Land there's a bunch of comments from 2004 with people complaining that they're bringing the good name of hair metal into disrepute. 
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^burtle posted:Really confused how Ryan Adams can just re-do Tay's whole album and still charge for it? You don't need permission to sell a cover song/album. You just pay a mechanical license based on sales.
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PUGGERNAUT posted:I agree, those are the worst. Kind of reminds me of today's acoustic guitar covers of rap/pop songs where all the comments are about how "this version makes the song so much more meaningful!!" like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLeZ-NcjfkQ
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Sep 20, 2015 16:17
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Slightly different, but the worst example is the Pomplamoose (I know) cover of "Single Ladies" where she sings about refusing to sing the bridge because it's so beneath her.
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Sep 20, 2015 18:35
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Well, the Ryan Adams version of 1989 leaked, and it's actually pretty great. "Welcome to New York" and "Bad Blood" are now some of the better songs, and he changed the lyrics in "Style" to have a Sonic Youth reference instead of James Dean, which is pretty funny. "You've got that Daydream Nation look in your eye" is now the lyric. Edit: The worst example of covers is almost always by Pomplamoose. Those two are among my least favorite characters on the internet. Feel like Christian Camp counselors. TheIndividual fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Sep 20, 2015 |
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Yoshifan823 posted:I mean, knowing Ben Folds, I'm pretty sure it's the former. The idea of some white dude at a piano and taking a song and making it more "meaningful" or whatever is absurd on it's face, so he takes it to the logical extreme: softly, sweetly singing lines like "bitches ain't poo poo but hoes and tricks" or "rat-a-tat-tat on your dumb dumb drum, beats so fat gonna make me come" as if it's the most romantic, heartfelt, deep thought he's ever had. I guess I just don't understand what the difference is? He's not really satirizing it by doing the exact same thing.
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PUGGERNAUT posted:I guess I just don't understand what the difference is? He's not really satirizing it by doing the exact same thing. The difference would be whether the joke is at the expense of the song or at the expense of him singing it; and not being familiar with his work I could not tell you which one it is.
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Yoshifan823 posted:I mean, knowing Ben Folds, I'm pretty sure it's the former. The idea of some white dude at a piano and taking a song and making it more "meaningful" or whatever is absurd on it's face, so he takes it to the logical extreme: softly, sweetly singing lines like "bitches ain't poo poo but hoes and tricks" or "rat-a-tat-tat on your dumb dumb drum, beats so fat gonna make me come" as if it's the most romantic, heartfelt, deep thought he's ever had. I mean, it's probably unfair to put the blame entirely on Ben Folds though; acoustic covers of that form becoming popular had less to do with a single influence and more to do with the fact that Youtube launched the same year and made it much easier to host and share user-created videos.
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My least favourite off the top of my head is Coldplay covering "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)" as a tribute to Adam Yauch. Fair enough that they were doing a tribute to a departed musician, but that song's basically a parody of big stupid hair metal party anthems already, but Coldplay must be the least rocking, least partying band that's popular today. I'm pretty sure they're only classified as "rock" because they have a guitarist. It's like the time Billboard had a headline on their website proclaiming "ROCK RULES THE ALBUM CHART" and it was Mumford & Sons. Or, in one of my personal irrationally irritating moments, when I was listening to the radio (BBC Radio 2? I think it was Radio 2) and someone phoned in with a message boasting about how the previous night they'd been "rocking out to Train". Train. "HEY SOUL SISTER WOOOOO!  "
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Sep 21, 2015 00:08
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So tumblr is having some fun overreacting this weekend. If that link suddenly stops working it's someone who looks and sounds vaguely like Carly Rae Jepsen singing for nickels in a shopping centre, followed by a bunch of horrified reaction gifs and not much self-reflection from the people posting them.
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That is most definitely Carly Rae Jepsen busking in that video, not some lookalike. It does seem like Emotion didn't get as much promotion as it should have, every track is amazing and it's definitely my favourite album of the last few years. The Run Away With Me video is just so 
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bovis posted:That is most definitely Carly Rae Jepsen busking in that video, not some lookalike. Amazing if true.
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Pierson posted:followed by a bunch of horrified reaction gifs and not much self-reflection from the people posting them. Sounds like the internet!
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Wheat Loaf posted:Must admit, I originally had mixed feelings about Kesha because I really disliked "Tik Tok" when it came out, but I've since warmed up to her.
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Ryan Adams' 1989 is so loving good so far  I'm a big fan of the original but these alternate takes on those songs are great too. Style was probably my favorite song on the original, and here it's repurposed beautifully. Sounds like it wouldn't be out of place at all on the radio in the 80s.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mjwUz_I38U The full video. Apparently she was filming a skit for Funny or Die? Either way, CRJ needs to get a new marketing team. The fact that Run Away With Me has <10 million views on youtube after 2 months tells me that they're not doing a very good job. Anway, NPR has a stream of the new CHVRCHES album up! bowser fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Sep 21, 2015 |
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Sep 21, 2015 04:56
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bowser posted:Anway, NPR has a stream of the new CHVRCHES album up! They've stayed relatively static sonically, and I say this as a good thing.
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Holy balls the new Carly Rae Jepsen album is good. Why did they have to gently caress up the release date?
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Athletic Footjob posted:Holy balls the new Carly Rae Jepsen album is good. Why did they have to gently caress up the release date? New thread title please.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Ryan Adams' 1989 is so loving good so far I mean, it's a cool idea and all (take an 80's pop inspired album and flip it so it sounds like 80's rock), but it's pretty underwhelming. I listened to Shake It Off waiting for it to be interesting, and it never happened. Style sounded way worse. Welcome to New York was the best of the three, but even then it sounded like a dude taking Taylor Swift songs and putting a Bruce Springsteen filter on them, but it wasn't as interesting as either of those two artists. and speaking of Kesha, apparently the lawsuit she filed against Dr. Luke has basically put her career at the mercy of the courts! They have a (former) record exec from a different label saying none of the other major labels are going to touch her while she's the focus of this, and she's signed to a Sony imprint run by, surprise surprise, Dr. Luke, so she's basically not doing anything, which is a death toll for an artist these days. Her team is trying to expedite the case so she can get back to recording, hopefully away from assholes like DL. Also, Sony is being super lovely, as is their wont. Here they are, basically saying "well we can't be blamed for one of our employees (her boss) harassing her mentally, physically, and sexually and forcing her to keep quiet; She didn't tell us!" quote:She cannot claim that Gottwald [Dr. Luke] intimidated her into silence, then — as an apparent afterthought — seek to hold Sony and Kemosabe Records liable for failing to act on conduct that she did not report.
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PUGGERNAUT posted:New thread title please. "The Pop Music Thread: please let us manage you Carly Rae Jepsen"
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Athletic Footjob posted:Holy balls the new Carly Rae Jepsen album is good. Why did they have to gently caress up the release date? Seriously the release dates for 'Emotion' are completely insane.
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memories http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2538929/Carly-Rae-Jepsen-draws-crowd-just-20-fans-hosts-event-Davids-Tea-Toronto.html   Also, buy Honeymoon on red vinyl at your local record establishment http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033703g
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I love Ryan Adams version of 1989. Welcome to New York sounds like a great Springsteen song that never was.
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Mermaid Autopsy posted:memories http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2538929/Carly-Rae-Jepsen-draws-crowd-just-20-fans-hosts-event-Davids-Tea-Toronto.html I had never seen this before and it's heartbreaking. Makes you feel like Carly would be super approachable and nice though, so I guess score a win for her on a personal level 
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Her marketing team/managers are destroying her, apparently. No one I've talked to that listens to pop has heard of her new album but after I show them they all like it.
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If I remember right from something I read some time ago, she's actually just a really shy person. She loves music and she loves performing, but that she doesn't want to make a big deal out of herself at all and she just wants to do her thing and have fun with it. But nevertheless her marketing in general has sucked.
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Stalins Moustache posted:If I remember right from something I read some time ago, she's actually just a really shy person... If that's the case, then that explains a fair amount about "Call Me Maybe".
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DStecks posted:I guess they must have made some bank on Skyfall getting the radio play that it did, because Sam Smith on a Bond theme could not be a worse fit. It also fits the broader "trend": Fuckin called it EDIT: Writing's On The Wall wants to be Skyfall so bad it's pathetic. It's the deflating balloon version of Skyfall. Just a dreadful choice. I mean, Sam Smith probably turns in the best Bond theme he possibly could, but gently caress, what a transparently commercial call. I wonder if this wasn't a last minute thing too, what with the Ellie Goulding teasing. Could be Tomorrow Never Dies all over again.
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Honestly I really like it. I think it'll sound even better in the theater, with the credits playing.
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On the topic of Bond songs, I have a soft spot for The Living Daylights but mostly because I adore a-ha.
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I like all the Connery ones. I like the instrumental theme for On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I like most of the Moore ones (I don't like "For Your Eyes Only" or "All Time High" and I'm take it or leave it on "Moonraker" - "The Man With the Golden Gun" is a hilarious song) and he has the best single Bond theme there's been ("Nobody Does It Better"). I like both of the Dalton ones. I'm half and half on the Brosnan ones (I like "GoldenEye" and "The World Is Not Enough" and don't really like "Tomorrow Never Dies" and "Die Another Day"). Honestly, none of the Craig ones have really stood out to me so far other than "Skyfall".
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Azran posted:On the topic of Bond songs, I have a soft spot for The Living Daylights but mostly because I adore a-ha. The Living Daylights is a solid theme. Wheat Loaf posted:I like all the Connery ones. I like the instrumental theme for On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I like most of the Moore ones (I don't like "For Your Eyes Only" or "All Time High" and I'm take it or leave it on "Moonraker" - "The Man With the Golden Gun" is a hilarious song) and he has the best single Bond theme there's been ("Nobody Does It Better"). I like both of the Dalton ones. I'm half and half on the Brosnan ones (I like "GoldenEye" and "The World Is Not Enough" and don't really like "Tomorrow Never Dies" and "Die Another Day"). All good calls, though I'd probably rank You Know My Name in the top 5, myself. And Surrender would have been the best Bond theme ever if it had been the actual theme used for TND.
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I'm not blown away by Writing's On The Wall either. The orchestration is sufficiently Bond-like, and during the first verse it sounds as if it might go SOMEWHERE, but it doesn't. The chorus is just limp. Perhaps it will grow on me. Skyfall did as well, but at least that one had a chorus that stuck with me right away. Also, I'm not a fan of Sam Smith in the first place, so that might have coloured my perception.
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Sam is such a disappointment. He's been downhill since Latch.
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An issue that might be bigger than it seems is that the song is 5 minutes long, and the movie cut will be under 3. Skyfall is a much tighter song in the movie cut; but there's only so much that can fix.
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Azran posted:On the topic of Bond songs, I have a soft spot for The Living Daylights but mostly because I adore a-ha. What do you think of their new album? I think it's right about average with a few tracks that are good and a lot of tracks that are forgettable. This is probably my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-OOSsH-e0
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So is this Hailee Steinfeld song really about masturbation or what?
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Pitchfork review of Ryan Adam's 1989 posted:Ryan Adams' cover of Taylor Swift's 1989 is a lot of fun to think about and talk about, but not much fun to listen to. It is, in other words, a pure product of the Internet—a robust, cross-platform, thinkpiece-generating app that testifies mostly to Adams' ability to get attention. You have to hand it to him for knowing what he's doing: His album choice churns up some nice, irony-rich soil for culture and music critics to wriggle around in. Even though Taylor Swift has been a songwriter first and foremost throughout her career, 1989 was where she collaborated more intensely with superstar producers like Max Martin and Shellback to help her cross over from Queen of Pop Country to the center of the pop world proper. The move worked spectacularly: 1989 is among the best-selling albums of the post-Napster era. And now Ryan Adams has transformed it again, into... a run-of-the-mill Ryan Adams album. Pretty much.
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PhilippAchtel posted:Pretty much. Let's consult the lyrics! Hailee Steinfield posted:When I get chills at night I'm gonna go with yes. Also in pop cover news: Bleachers released a free album on Google Play of covers from their album. Carly Rae Jepsen, Sia, and Charli XCX and Sara Barielles are among the artists with a song on it, which proves once again that Jack Antonoff has excellent taste in pop music.
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