UFO over easy
online mahjong
In the orient, yeah
wut
In the orient, yeah
unabated joy and maybe naivety.
Rustie is quite colourful.
Rustie helped cause Trap, TBH, so no matter how sparkly his synths might be I HOPE he's in emotional turmoil right now./QUOTE]
I still think people who don't like the 'BIG BASS BOOM SURROUNDED BY FLICKERING HIGH HATS' trope of trap are absolutely insane.
Also, don't quite get the tie of misery and hedonism, surely hedonism is one of pop's raison d'être-s? Though at it's best pop combines getting mashed and having a great time with, at the very least, a self-willed belief that getting mashed and having a great time can change the world.
I think the world is pretty miserable at the moment. The Tesco's horse meat thing's lead to a lot of discussion of food poverty in the UK, which is an insane thing to exist in the year 2013. Lots of articles about changes to the education system that make all the stuff Mark Fisher was chatting about in Capitalist realism even worse. Reading my local paper there was a big thing about half of a local hospital being sold off to a private company and loads of the maternity beds being axed ect, lots of stories about empty high streets. Europe's fucked, Japan's fucked, America's fucked.
Interestingly, Africa seems to be less fucked than before - insane GDP growth, spread of mobile phones and internet technology making massive changes across the continent. Maybe that's why afrobeats seems to be so genuinely optimistic?
Otherwise it seems that the question is less 'why isn't pop confronting this stuff' as much as 'why isn't anyone confronting this stuff' / 'why hasn't there been a revolution yet'.
For what it's worth, one of the things I like about Jackin is that it seems genuinely full of joy, the producers revelling in these sounds. It's like the science of making people loose their shit.
Obviously it's totally depoliticised, micro-capitalisic, 'live for the weekend' stuff though.
Rustie helped cause Trap, TBH, so no matter how sparkly his synths might be I HOPE he's in emotional turmoil right now.