Music

Time Lorde

Chill Annoying, Music

Bad Songs on Great Albums.

I read this but have no real opinion on it because I do not listen to nor care about albums. But I did read it all because I love music.

This bit made me laugh:

Britney Spears’ 1998 debut album, … Baby One More Time, is a journey through the mind of a heartbroken teenage girl as imagined by a small team of male songwriters and producers, hailing largely from Sweden

That’s the whole problem, too, with Lorde’s albums after her first one. Stupid-ass Jack Antonoff and company took over songwriting and she lost her authorial voice. Lorde went from sounding like a tetchy, bratty but intelligent young woman to what an unimaginative and unexceptional 36-year-old man’s idealized version of what such a person would sound like.

And that worked about as well as you’d expect.

352

Chill Music

I listened to all or part of 352 new (to me) songs this morning.

Of those, I liked 17. This took about two hours. And to those who says there is no good new music: Of course there is. You just have to make the effort to hear it.

Music Curbed

Chill Amusing, Music

TIFU by calling my girlfriend’s music taste ”basic.”

Playing music out loud in a pricy restaurant on a phone is a huge red flag. It’s good she kicked him to the curb — for his sake.

That said, never insult anyone’s taste in music. It can only go wrong…and just, why? It’s pointless. Everyone has to start somewhere. And not everyone is going to be the kind of listener you are or care about music at all. I’ve known several people who just didn’t listen to music at all. Any kind. Ever.

Hell, all y’all can see how broad my tastes are and because I don’t listen to full albums “true” music aficionados have called me basic and unrefined in the past.

Referring to anything by Taylor Swift as “underground,” though, is pure crazy. That part made me laugh.

All Bum

Chill Music

Apple Music 100 Best Albums.

I barely have a dog in this fight as I do not listen to albums and pretty much never have. In fact, I think I have only listened to (maybe) three of those albums in their entirety, though I’ve heard songs from all of them.

Albums to me have always felt a bit outmoded; I just do not consume music that way and never have. It’s all about the song for me.