Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread!

[Dtknuckles]

On the topic of Rick…I listen to the Broken Record podcast occasionally. Yea this interview irks me. I was thinking about it is that he talk about all the things he is not, which kind of belittles all the people who have these skills and that is what they bring to the table. It comes across as arrogant. He could have talked more about what he dose brig to the table which is…his taste? They’d be honest we all got good taste . I’d say his experience with the creative process and dealing with people are probably what he brings. But that is just a guess.

 

[gaporter]

Am I alone in thinking The Loneliest Time might be CRJ's best work yet?

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

I’ll take abbreviations you almost have to google for $200 Alex.

Am I alone in thinking The Loneliest Time might be CRJ's best work yet?

Who is Carly Rae Jepson?

 

[Nee Lewman]

ALL YOU HOMERS BEST BACK INTO THE BUSHES NOW!!!

I like the new song by The National, but it sounds like every song by The National (well since Boxer anyhow). I fail to see why I need more of that song.

 

[Nee Lewman]

I’ll take abbreviations you almost have to google for $200 Alex.

Who is Carly Rae Jepson?

I misread this at first and thought you didn't know who CRJ was, which is probably what @nolalady and @Rip_City are reacting to.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Cowboy Style by Kylie Minogue is more successful at being a memorable Garbage song than anything on Garbage's first album.

 

[Melt Face Molly Drop]

Cowboy Style by Kylie Minogue is more successful at being a memorable Garbage song than anything on Garbage's first album.

Breathe from that album is also a banger. Reminds me of if Britney went more alternative or Madonna cared less about her image.

 

[Dtknuckles]

ALL YOU HOMERS BEST BACK INTO THE BUSHES NOW!!!

I like the new song by The National, but it sounds like every song by The National (well since Boxer anyhow). I fail to see why I need more of that song.

Most bands/musicians can be summed up in two albums…even more in just one.


I have a question about the National. I wonder what makes them gravitate to Taylor Swift so much? I’m not criticizing just curious. It seems incongruous.

 

[wokeupnew]

I have a question about the National. I wonder what makes them gravitate to Taylor Swift so much? I’m not criticizing just curious. It seems incongruous.

Aaron Dessner helped Taylor with her album Folklore and it kind of spiraled from there

Folklore (Taylor Swift album) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Swift had previously met the National on a Saturday Night Live episode in 2014, and attended one of their concerts in 2019, where she talked to Dessner and his twin brother Bryce.[19] She asked Aaron Dessner about his songwriting technique, because it is her "favorite thing to ask people who I'm a fan of", and he replied his band members live in different parts of the world, and that he would make instrumental tracks and send them to the lead singer, Matt Berninger, who would write the lyrics—this ignited Swift's idea to create music in quarantine.[13]

 

[Dtknuckles]

Aaron Dessner helped Taylor with her album Folklore and it kind of spiraled from there

Folklore (Taylor Swift album) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Yea that’s cool, and maybe I’m asking a question that people can’t really answer.

I guess what I’m asking is…what do they see in their art or personalities that motivates them to connect with each other?

 

[wokeupnew]

Yea that’s cool, and maybe I’m asking a question that people can’t really answer.

I guess what I’m asking is…what do they see in their art or personalities that motivates them to connect with each other?

that's a good question, I'm not really sure. Collaborations that the National have done with Sufjan, Bon Iver, even Phoebe Bridgers make sense. It's definitely a left-field collaboration looking at it objectively. It'd be like if Katy Perry started to collaborate with The Shins.

 

[Viking Dan]

Yea that’s cool, and maybe I’m asking a question that people can’t really answer.

I guess what I’m asking is…what do they see in their art or personalities that motivates them to connect with each other?

Hyper-famous New York City residents who work in a guitar driven musical genre whose fans are of a certain age and demographic gravitating and working together.

Seems like The NYC doing that NYC thing.

See e.g. Warhol/Basquiat; Native Tongues (TCQ, Brand Nubian, Jungle Brothers),

 

[Melt Face Molly Drop]

Yea that’s cool, and maybe I’m asking a question that people can’t really answer.

I guess what I’m asking is…what do they see in their art or personalities that motivates them to connect with each other?

The same thing Lou Reed saw in Metallica

 

[mrjoshuamccormack]

Cowboy Style by Kylie Minogue is more successful at being a memorable Garbage song than anything on Garbage's first album.

Considering "Supervixen" is one of the greatest songs of the 90s, I find this take to be straight blasphemy.

 

[Dtknuckles]

Hyper-famous New York City residents who work in a guitar driven musical genre whose fans are of a certain age and demographic gravitating and working together.

Seems like The NYC ding that NYC thing.

See e.g. Warhol/Basquiat; Native Tounges (TCQ, Brand Nubian, Jungle Brothers),

Yea that probably has a lot do to with it. But there is more to it. And as I said before we could never really know. All these collaborators had something that made them gravitate to each other. The Taylor/National connection, much like the Reed/Metallica situation just seems strange in some ways.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Considering "Supervixen" is one of the greatest songs of the 90s, I find this take to be straight blasphemy.

There’s a reason I didn’t post it in The Preach It Brother Amen thread.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

I misread this at first and thought you didn't know who CRJ was, which is probably what @nolalady and @Rip_City are reacting to.

Nah, “Call Me Maybe” is still my jam. I just didn’t know who CRJ was referencing (probably the same way others don’t know who GBV are) but before I googled it, I figured it out and was proud of myself.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

Yea that’s cool, and maybe I’m asking a question that people can’t really answer.

I guess what I’m asking is…what do they see in their art or personalities that motivates them to connect with each other?

Money. Swift is a very popular mainstream artist. While The National have boatloads of indie cred to spare. She get thought of, in certain circles; as more “legitimate” and The National gain more fans in the mainstream.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Money. Swift is a very popular mainstream artist. While The National have boatloads of indie cred to spare. She get thought of, in certain circles; as more “legitimate” and The National gain more fans in the mainstream.

Tl;dr: $$

 

[kvetcha]

Am I alone in thinking The Loneliest Time might be CRJ's best work yet?

I’m still an E*MO*TION guy but The Loneliest Time does rip.