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Roads Untravelled is actually my favorite song off that album.
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A game of Pop Music Would You Rather: Would you rather: Listen to a new John Mayer song Listen to a Coldplay/Chainsmokers collab Tear your ears off of your skull and eat them
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Mar 3, 2017 03:19
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loving Selfish by Virginia to Vegas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P88sWR0XN0Q
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I keep reading articles that says that Katy's new song is good and I feel like I'm being gaslight'd. It's really bad, right?
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Mar 3, 2017 21:28
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Katy Perry Magazine gives it a 10 out of 10!
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Mar 3, 2017 21:46
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New Lorde single. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMK_npDG12Q Seems alright but I'm not too into it. Hard to pin down why, but I haven't liked any of her stuff as much as her first EP.
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Mar 3, 2017 21:58
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Tired Moritz posted:I keep reading articles that says that Katy's new song is good and I feel like I'm being gaslight'd. It's really bad, right? The Rebecca Black cover turned it into a good song.
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Mar 5, 2017 11:18
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less laughter posted:The Rebecca Black cover turned it into a good song. This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7hvuTfY5XA
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Mar 5, 2017 11:56
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Looks like she still hasn't gotten any better as a singer. I can hear the auto tune on my iPhone.
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plz dont pull out posted:New Lorde single. It sounds like two or three different songs smushed together IMO. Like, 2 or 3 perfectly fine songs, but frankensteined because that's how pop music is supposed to sound this year. It's very different from her first album, especially Royals and Team, which flow very well both individually and with each other. Green Light is just a little schizoid.
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That Lorde song played four times in a row in a cafe earlier, I didn't like it much before but listening to it four times in a row made it kind of tolerable?
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Mar 6, 2017 08:11
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I just want to say I really like Green Light but I also laugh every time I remember the part of the video where she's dancing on some Uber driver's car
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Mar 6, 2017 13:09
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Scylo posted:That Lorde song played four times in a row in a cafe earlier, I didn't like it much before but listening to it four times in a row made it kind of tolerable? This is most pop songs really. It's really rare for me to hear something once and fall completely in love. Those songs are v special though, because they tend to be the ones that never get old. (see: Here, the entirety of Emotion) Speaking of songs that instantly made me go "drat": Here is the inevitable song of the summer by Calvin Harris, featuring Frank Ocean(!) and Migos(!!!)
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Mar 6, 2017 18:48
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https://youtu.be/slff3_3-ioQ Lea Michele is coming out with another album.
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plz dont pull out posted:New Lorde single. As per usual NZ has this on absolute saturation right now. I think I just don't like her voice, but maybe that's a local/regional thing. Ladyhawke is still the best NZ pop by miles anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=?855oIILQNP0
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Mar 7, 2017 02:00
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Ed Sheeran's rubbish, isn't he?
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Mar 14, 2017 16:08
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Wheat Loaf posted:Ed Sheeran's rubbish, isn't he?
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Mar 14, 2017 16:10
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Agreed, there are a few alright tracks but nothing as good as the last album.
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Mar 14, 2017 16:38
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I liked "Sing" off his last album but I think that's more because it was a pretty good Justin Timberlake song than because it was Ed Sheeran. I was listening to some of the songs off his new one and it's all "Being rich and famous is sooooo haaaaard for a nice guy like me, maaaaan!" (there's one that's basically the musical equivalent of having a Che Guevara poster as the background on the home screen of your £500 smartphone) and then there's all the lyrics about listening to some Van the Man singing "Carrickfergus" on the jukebox. Kevin Rowland can do credible Van Morrison references, Ed Sheeran can't. And just look at the British singles charts. Nine out of the top 10 songs are Ed Sheeran songs and most of them aren't even singles.
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Mar 14, 2017 17:12
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Wheat Loaf posted:And just look at the British singles charts. Nine out of the top 10 songs are Ed Sheeran songs and most of them aren't even singles. This is just the new age of streaming, whenever someone drops a new disc they try and tout this. After Starboy dropped, the Weeknd charted the entire album at one point.
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Mar 14, 2017 17:46
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I think streaming has been a very mixed blessing for pop music, to be honest. It isn't about the charts - I don't really follow the charts these days - but my impression is that it becomes much more difficult for new artists to break through when streaming is the dominant thing. I've read about hip-hop artists in the American south who can become regional stars and sometimes earn about as much as some mainstream pop stars through relentless live touring on a kind of 21st century chitlin' circuit, but you'd never have heard of them.
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Oh I believe it. The way playing shows was explained to me was that you do a tour as the opener to make connections and then immediately do another tour of the same loop as the main act. Selling records and radio helps I'm sure, but if you're decent and the crowds dig you, I imagine you could make a decent living just touring even as a relatively unknown act.
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Mar 14, 2017 20:05
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I reckon it's a constant. I read a book about the origins of the aforementioned chitlin' circuit which explained how, all the way back in the 1920s and 1930s, bandleaders like Walter Barnes, who recorded relatively little and who a lot of swing fans probably haven't heard of, could pay the musicians in his band $60 a night playing out-of-the-way juke joints, nightclubs and theatres throughout the south, whereas Duke Ellington paid his orchestra $30 a night playing Carnegie Hall. That sort of pop trivia really fascinates me. It's like how gospel groups in the 1940s and 1950s had these really carefully planned out touring itineraries which involved hitting each state based on when the harvests came in, because that's when prospective audiences would likely have some money to spend on a gospel programme.
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Mar 14, 2017 22:21
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Do you remember the name of that book?
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Sure, I've got it on my shelf right now. It's called The Chitlin' Circuit and the Road to Rock 'N' Roll by a guy called Preston Lauterbach.
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Cool thank you!
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DC Murderverse posted:A game of Pop Music Would You Rather: Coldplay is great and that song is awesome so whatever.
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I don't really understand the appeal of Coldplay. They're like if you could hear the colour beige to me. I think Chris Martin is a pretty bad singer. He sounds like he has a cold. Did anyone see that godawful live tribute to Adam Yauch they did?
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Coldplay has written some phenomenal pop songs. I wouldn't say 6 (7?) whole albums' worth, but I can certainly understand their appeal.
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Mar 16, 2017 12:12
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Honestly it's almost as bad as Duran Duran's version of "911 Is A Joke".
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Mar 16, 2017 14:46
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I like that a lot actually. It's prettier than the original.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I think Chris Martin is a pretty bad singer. He sounds like he has a cold.  Seriously though, this: Sir Lemming posted:Coldplay has written some phenomenal pop songs.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:and yet he still manages to play music False. Also, they are the best live show I've ever seen.
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Do they do any other unexpected covers like that? I've never been much of a fan before but maybe I like them doing other people's music better than their own.
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The problem I have with the Coldplay / Chainsmokers song is that despite Coldplay allegedly contributing to the song, it still sounds exactly like Roses. The Chainsmokers make some catchy stuff for sure, but for me it has already gotten insanely repetitive. My wife and I sang a mashup of Closer, Paris, All We Know, and Don't Let Me Down together over the Paris track and it works far too well.
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I saw Coldplay at our theater in LA and it was really good, they do put on a great show. Second best there next to janelle monae (who ran outside and gave my camera team fits doing a show on the sidewalk)
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LionArcher posted:False. Also, they are the best live show I've ever seen. From what I remember, I tried listening to A Head Full Of Dreams and I couldn't even make it all the way through because I was just bored out of my loving skull. No part of it was interesting or even catchy in any way.
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Coldplay are dogshit
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Linkin Park tries Pop again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7ab595h0AU quote:I got a long to way to go
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I mean, they've always been pop, but this is upsettingly generic pop. Certainly an odd trajectory their career has taken.
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