This is hilarious. Especially that it got published.
& that it cites us!This is hilarious. Especially that it got published.
i don't see myself going out and buying it but can enjoy it, even if it's only as a disposable distraction. thought the first sophie single was cool before i even knew about any of this stuff.
the comments on resident advisor are pretty brutal, lots of closed-minded folks out there in dance land.
http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=434
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2137
^ Yeah, you really fucked around and showed your age in the worst way there.
And yeah, youngsters, here I am now, entertain me!
but isn't this what every generation says at some point? it's the very nature of the older/younger dynamic. to the older group (me/us), new trends/music often sound boring or at least highly derivative and "lesser" than the originals we liked, while the younger group (kids today!), who are part of it as it rises, embrace it as the next cool thing and probably like it ever more because the old farts "don't get it."
But because they're a 'pisstake' (though they're far less revolting to me than say, a Weird Al parodist type figure who can only function by skewering the success of others by insinuating the successful single is always shit) they don't to strictly deal with what will be ACTUALLY successful. Because PC Music are actually kind of a bit dated, I don't think they accurately reflect pop in 2014 in the US, UK or anywhere. It's their own playground. (Makes sense A.C. brings up Scritti Politti).
Never seen that vid before and I'm unnerved to an amazing degree so I see your point. Admittedly I'm not from the UK, so my impressions of UK Pop from the era are at best just not comparable to anybody else's. It's definitely that idea which unnerves me about Yung Lean, which does a similar visually but is toying with aspects of US Rap culture in a really toxically distant way.
That said, I meant to say in the present day it doesn't feel what I'd perceive as being current. The descriptions you gave still implies a datedness that I feel is purposeful and distantly ties it to a hypnogogic vibe. And when I say pisstake on pop, I don't mean to say they're pisstaking youth culture in the same way that I'd apply to that video but rather a more generalized skewer. I can definitely see the Diamond parallels though, so it does me thinking.
You can't confidently say they're comprehensively deriding anything, which would be more comforting. (And to be clear, because of all that I'm a fan of most stuff linked to it - there are just a few things that I think are absolutely execrable.) They're shifting between a sincere enjoyment of a kind of bizarro, hyperreal, often nostalgically constructed pop landscape and an apparently satirical commentary on its vacuousnesses, but it's hard to be sure when they are being earnest and when they are being ironic. Anyway enough from me I think.