Listening to albums is too much of a chore

[koganbot]

Quote of the day, from skyecaptain:

Why on earth won't someone who wants to talk about Taylor Swift's "image" please listen to her album fucking ONCE before they write things about her? PLEASE.

Have only read some of the essays, but of the ones I read Chuck's was the only one I understood.

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

it infuriated me. as per ilx:

the constant "white guys in their 30s"..."adults pretending to be kids"...refrain just made me think, oh fuck the fuck OFF you tiresome dudes and your tiresome mid-privileged-life crises, just fuck OFF, these things are not interesting or worthwhile.

I've encountered this a lot more in film, but in short I AM SO BORED OF THE STRAIGHT WHITE EDUCATED MALE'S MID-LIFE CRISIS. JUST GO AWAY FOREVER.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Lex, read my comment again. The essay takes your reaction into account, says that's fine, stay well away.

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Surely this has to be closer to quarter-life -- if I'm not mistaken, Panda Bear doesn't actually have any kids yet. The only thing that infuriates me is how demonstrably stupid and earnest the lyrics are -- if they were one or the other I wouldn't mind (in the past, when I liked them, AnCo were pretty self-evidently stupid, but also quite a bit of fun lyrically, as in the gibberish of "Who Could Win a Rabbit." The trouble started when Panda Bear made the memorial album about his father -- but that one had the benefit of NO ENGLISH SPOKEN, and I quite liked it at the time).

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

As I said in the interview with Rockcritics, re: teenpop I've staked out territory on both sides of the confessional/bubblegum divide (divide is the wrong word, perhaps "sphere"?) and enjoy both for various reasons. Occasionally they overlap, but for the most part I keep my enjoyment of, e.g., A*Teens distinct from my enjoyment of Ashlee. The problem with AnCo is that they're trying for Ashlee (that is, not-humorless earnestness) and end up sounding much dumber than they would if they just said some dumb shit. Whereas I think Ashlee doesn't pull off dumb shit nearly as well as serious shit, though she pulls off dumb shit more convincingly than AnCo pull off serious shit.