Joanna Newsom --- "Ys"

[hmg]

a trillion leaves need fall yet

I've revised my opinion, it's time, only skin it is.

 

[Leo]

nomad hilariously brutal in this thread, until about two-thirds of the way through when she seems to begrudgingly come around to saying it's ok. I stand by my comments of trying and giving up.

Life's too short to force yourself to listen to Joanna Newsom.

 

[hmg]

If everyone liked her, I'd still like her, only a little less.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Anyone else find it weird as hell when one of these ancient threads gets resurrected and you find yourself garnering reactions for something you wrote well over a decade ago?

 

[line b]

Im finding nomadologist is right about everything, particularly vimothy

 

[sus]

nomad hilariously brutal in this thread, until about two-thirds of the way through when she seems to begrudgingly come around to saying it's ok. I stand by my comments of trying and giving up.

Life's too short to force yourself to listen to Joanna Newsom.

Life's too short to live it without her.

 

[line b]

Life's too short to live it without her.

Leo, I hear you. I just decided that if Joanna Newsom were uglier physically, no indie guys would be caught dead listening to her. It's her moderate good looks that are propelling her career. Maybe the elvin ears help. Definitely the ditzy airhead act. But not the music.

 

[sus]

The most cringe part of this thread is 2000s-era white knight bloggerboys trying to argue that not liking Newsom is somehow "feminist" of them, because she "plays into male fantasies"

 

[line b]

just last night i walked past sufjan stevens bedford ave near north 5th in williamsburg. he gave me his "do you know who i am? do my upper middle class blue eyes penetrate your soul? i'm a POET" look. i wanted to strangle him with my headphone chord.

@suspended did this ever happen to you?

 

[version]

Sufjan Stevens! Headphone cords! The 2000s!

 

[version]

white knight bloggerboys

This is what they used to call me and @linebaugh on the Pynchon sub. Our double act.

 

[catalog]

Nomadologist was pretty funny!

 

[sus]

@suspended did this ever happen to you?

Nomadologist sounds horny but sublimating it into aggression. It's cute, actually.

 

[version]

gonadologist the 3rd

 

[line b]

I think nomad is a she

 

[Leo]

I still use corded headphones.

 

[sus]

Leo, I hear you. I just decided that if Joanna Newsom were uglier physically, no indie guys would be caught dead listening to her. It's her moderate good looks that are propelling her career. Maybe the elvin ears help. Definitely the ditzy airhead act. But not the music.

Imagine thinking men are this shallow. That me and HMTGov have spent hundreds of hours of our lives listening to this woman sing because every once and a while, we catch a glimpse of her profile and are entranced.

 

[version]

I still use corded headphones.

So do I. And a corded mouse and keyboard.

 

[sus]

Imagine thinking you were advancing a feminist argument by claiming that, if one of the most talented composers/lyricists/musicians of our generation were ugly, she would never be successful.

 

[catalog]

So do I. And a corded mouse and keyboard.

I don't think anyone on here uses airpods or similar do they? Surely not