Yeah, good point. Her son certainly isn't taking it well.
I get it, it's not as fun to write words like "subpar" or "mediocre" when words like "horrible" and "awful" are right there, but a more level approach is more effective. You raise some good criticisms (I also think reviewers here have a tendency to overemphasize minor elements—they did this just recently with Arcade…
Ha, exactly! There it is: the ol' Manoeuvres. I was thinking Talk Talk, but that wasn't right.
Would "Sun God" be one of the ones thrown away? I love it, but it is their biggest departure.
Normally I'm the first one to disparage an unwanted interlude, but the ones here are pretty innocuous. The spoken word part of "(Into the Desert)," for example, is eleven seconds long! They really are viable segues that partially offset the album's sameyness by making it more like a continuous mix.
U2's "Where the Streets Have No Name," or "Crumbs from Your Table." R.E.M.'s "World Leader Pretend." Manic Street Preachers' "Motorcycle Emptiness." I mean, "We Are the World" does, in a different way. Damon Albarn does a lot. "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head." "Moroccan Peoples Revolutionary Bowls Club." Plastic…
So…zero examples of "deeply intelligent" and "shrewd observations" then?
lol and so finally I win the argument that Prince did in fact sing about sex lol. What a day lol.
Hey, whoa there! I never said there was anything wrong with fuckin! I like fun/sexy/weirdo/batshit/creepoid descriptions of sex.
This is your best post yet, but "white hipsters" or white music snobs trip over themselves to like the Exotic. Some are so paralyzed with guilt they'll do anything to prove they're not racist.
A lot of punk artists do, including popular ones such as The Dead Kennedys ("Holiday in Cambodia"). Others would be Bruce Springsteen, 2Pac, R.E.M., Pulp, Blur/Gorillaz, U2.
It's compatible if there's a self-awareness of the disconnect there, and incompatible without, but you're right, my argument got pretty muddy. What I want to say is that the global sampling is exploitative and cheap in M.I.A.'s hands.
And when will you be deleting this comment?
Peddling the opinion that Prince didn't sing about sex? I agree.
Lord Lucan, I love your posts usually, but I have to disagree here: She's not part of the Tamil Tigers. She's lived in London most of her life. She just had the fortune of being the daughter of a Tamil Tiger and so exploits that to make her music seem more incendiary, giving a false substance to her nebulous, bland…
"YOU GOT THE HORN SO WHY DON'T YOU BLOW IT"!!!!
…if it's true that she had the intention of that complicated relationship with globalization. I don't personally think she makes that connection; I think you do, but you're giving her too much credit for her having done so. I don't think her message is "Globalization is bad, but in this very song about globalization,…
Which of the following sentences is bullshit?
The best evidence, of course, is right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watc…