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[luka]

The Man Who Has Everything: Mark Fisher on Drake’s Nothing Was the Same | Telekom Electronic Beats

Mark Fisher—the noted blogger known as K-Punk and the author of 'Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?'—deconstructs the Drake dilemma.

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one of the reasons that essay is interesting is that it is about observing watching the shining ones work out their problems. what do we solve by ascending to that plain? probably nothing.

 

[luka]

we don't shake off the core conundrums. that's part of our fascination with these people.

 

[luka]

we all want to be famous but we also want to know what being famous is like

 

[luka]

we see them squirming on the same hooks and perhaps we are reassured by that

 

[luka]

i also think it's good in that it doesn't condescend to black men by treating them as if they were a special case. which a lot of white criticism does. its one of his best.

 

[shiels]

I liked that essay a lot.

whats he getting at here...?

When you dive into these electro-oceanic depths, Nothing Was the Same ceases to be a fascinating symptom of all the blockages of the present, and becomes a longing for something new, something strange and lovely

 

[luka]

I liked that essay a lot.

whats he getting at here...?

i assume it's about the sonic world the record is embedded in and how it differs from what went before it. it's a sonic break more than a thematic break in a way

 

[luka]

electro-oceanic depths in other words. that's what music has become about. a narcotic realm both sinister and seductive.

 

[luka]

all the swooning

 

[luka]

this becomes central. it moves away from the macho sound world of wagner rap in a quite a radical way.

 

[luka]

these zones of feeling we learn to abandon ourself to and we are hereby given permission to abandon ourself to.

 

[luka]

there are precursors in all sorts of other genres at any number of different time periods but the important thing is that it is happening here, in rap music.

 

[luka]

in my humble opinion... but im going to bed. night night.

 

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I don't think you end up with the emo rap stuff on SoundCloud and the whole being miserable in your big mansion thing without Drake.

I think it was going to happen regardless. It was going to be someone in Drakes spot, but it didn't necessarily need to be Drake..

 

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I think it was going to happen regardless. It was going to be someone in Drakes spot, but it didn't necessarily need to be Drake..

well maybe not, nevermind, disregard me

 

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this one is probably my favourite r&b of the past ten years, not even Chris Brown can ruin its lusciousness

 

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