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rubberdingyrapids

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baboon2004 said:
I like Dean Blunt a lot, as an artist and as an interviewee, but I'm not sure what he wanted from the other people in that room. On the one hand he's saying that marching is limited in its use (and there's definitely a strong argument for that), but on the other he ends up concluding that sitting around and talking is pointless too. Surely the latter is precisely what he wants people to be doing, to reframe the anti-racism discussion in the UK - he could have stayed and elaborated on the interesting points he made, because it's not 100% clear where he was going with it, and most people would've been interested to hear.
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hes a funny one really. i dont think he thinks hes smarter than everyone else but i think that detachment you get from a lot of his music extends to how he thinks people should be activists. 'its all just stupid'. hes too clever/haughty/self aware/depressed/easily dismayed/angered/apathetic to think anything can get results. does dean blunt make art films? i think he would be good at it.

I just feel a weird mistrust of the fact that a music paper is showcasing a rising artist having good politics.
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i mistrust novelist as i dont think he knows anything about anything apart from mcdonalds in lewisham but why would you mistrust a paper showcasing an artist having good politics?
 
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CrowleyHead

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rubberdingyrapids said:
i mistrust novelist as i dont think he knows anything about anything apart from mcdonalds in lewisham but why would you mistrust a paper showcasing an artist having good politics?
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I mean, he's only 20-ish and he doesn't know fuck all, and is just eager to do things on a reactionary basis because he knows things are 'wrong'. I don't take his politics too cynically because he tries, plus he's often encouraged in this direction by his handlers in a way that maybe he's not prepared for? The 'political' themed songs he's tried are pretty clumsy but they mean well.

I mistrust the music papers because if you wanted to report on the news, you can report on the news, you needn't somehow sneak a tie-in to artist endorsement. Better yet, have Novelist just ramble about how he doesn't like racism or whatever, I'd appreciate it! Something as cheap as the photo and a think-piece has almost an air of using the tragedy to further promo/hype Nov and things like that in turn cloud my mood about him subsequently without his doing.

Ofc. we've long-since established the exchange of you saying 'yeah I don't feel that way' and me being histrionic so I get this may be a personal peculiarity.
 
Corpsey

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Corpsey said:
Having loved your bloggariddims jazz mix, I reckon you're a bit of a jazz authority. So what do you make of the jazz on TPAB and U/U? Half-baked?
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Woebot ignoring my question is up there with Reynolds quoting me on his blog as far as geekgasm moments go in 2016.
 
luka

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Drake has at least one good song which is more tban kendrick can say. Hate both of them though they disgust me
 
line b

line b

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I think the drake thing was great. Mass mania ridiculous mix of joy and hate and childish spite and the brute forcing of it into all culture by the collective decision to keep reveling in the celebratory feeling and amplifying past the point where it seems to barely have any connection to the original victory. And it's all to call a man a nonce. Which I also think is part of it, calling someone a nonce isn't really in the American bullying lexicon and you all know it's really really fun to call someone a nonce so I think part of the mania is Americans discovering this new toy.
 
kid charlemagne

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as massive kendrick fan i will admit i was a bit disapointed by the halftime show.... i liked the new album a lot, and the performance was pretty heavy on it, which makes sense given it is promo on the biggest stage in the world, but stil doesnt make a lot of sense for actual performance reasons given the rest of his catalogue.... again i liked the album, but he has other songs better equipped for a show like this.... maybe it has to do more with rap as a genre in the super bowl.... can a rap performance be a great super bowl show? maybe something was up with the mixing but the whole thing sounded so quiet...... anyway my disapointment is mostly absolved when he did not like us.... hopefully pushing drake further to his death
 
kid charlemagne

kid charlemagne

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jeus christ luka man is really in his feelings over that lame scumbag toronto drake being publicly humiliated and scrutinized and persecuted because HE IS A FUCKING PEDO WHO MAKES THE LAMEST FUCKING MUSIC...... ENOUGH OF HIS SHIT MAN COME THE FUCKN ON!
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

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I was with some ppl who watch the superbowl so I saw this

It wasn't great although it was fun when kendrick addressed drake through the camera and the whole crowd sang 'a minor'

It was very 'conceptual' of course, like all his music tends to be

'Not like us' was almost certainly the least thought-through of the drake disses he did and that's why (along with the mustard beat) it was such a big hit, it was him dumbing down a bit
 
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