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Laura Snapes: Pop star, producer or pariah? The conflicted brilliance of Grimes (The Guardian)
Laura Snapes: Pop star, producer or pariah? The conflicted brilliance of Grimes (The Guardian)
Boucher has recently seemed at a loss to regain control over her career, and naive about her role in its dissolution. But Miss Anthropocene reveals an astute understanding – evidently well honed – of humanity’s worst impulses and how to appeal to them. […] Against all odds, Miss Anthropocene is a beautiful and emotionally complex album: Boucher’s continuing personal testament to creativity as resistance against destruction, and an unlikely optimistic gesture that still believes art can be a powerful force for social good. It also finally finds Boucher reconciled to her relationship with the public. On Miss Anthropocene, she is a mirror, inviting us to examine the source of our bad faith.
·theguardian.com·
Laura Snapes: Pop star, producer or pariah? The conflicted brilliance of Grimes (The Guardian)
Jeremy Larson: Got Me in My Feelings: Why Drake Isn't as Emotional as You Think (Pitchfork)
Jeremy Larson: Got Me in My Feelings: Why Drake Isn't as Emotional as You Think (Pitchfork)
Love is a dog from hell, as it's said, and real emotion is ugly and uncomfortable, and it’s why some people giggle when they see a man keening or screaming or crying -- but Drake knows that all this has to be tempered and digestible to be disseminated and reach as many people as possible.
·pitchfork.com·
Jeremy Larson: Got Me in My Feelings: Why Drake Isn't as Emotional as You Think (Pitchfork)
Philip Cosores: Us vs. Them (Consequence of Sound)
Philip Cosores: Us vs. Them (Consequence of Sound)
Without some sort of personal framework for approaching music, and expectations for what you think music should and shouldn’t be doing, there wouldn’t be much point in engaging it. And as pop and indie and hip-hop and R&B and metal all currently share a pretty close-knit territory, defining what you stand for might be the best preparation for the looming fallout from those who too often let us know what they are against.
·consequenceofsound.net·
Philip Cosores: Us vs. Them (Consequence of Sound)
Jody Rosen and Chris Molanphy: “Harlem Shake” is no. 1 after Billboard begins counting YouTube views: What this means for the future of the charts. (Slate)
Jody Rosen and Chris Molanphy: “Harlem Shake” is no. 1 after Billboard begins counting YouTube views: What this means for the future of the charts. (Slate)
YouTube crushing everything does seem like a concern. I love novelty songs, I ride hard for novelty songs—but if, suddenly, all our big hits are goofy YouTube-incubated one-offs, the novelty song will cease to be novel.
·slate.com·
Jody Rosen and Chris Molanphy: “Harlem Shake” is no. 1 after Billboard begins counting YouTube views: What this means for the future of the charts. (Slate)
Interconnected: This Isn't a Story I Tell Many People
Interconnected: This Isn't a Story I Tell Many People
Why privacy persists. "Along with new visibilities comes social understanding of those new visibilities." "If the end of privacy comes about, it's because we misunderstand the current changes as the end of privacy, and make the mistake of encoding this misunderstanding into technology. It's not the end of privacy because of these new visibilities, but it may be the end of privacy because it looks like the end of privacy because of these new visibilities."
·interconnected.org·
Interconnected: This Isn't a Story I Tell Many People